{Feburaury Main kit} - "Happiness is"

Supplies needed:

Basic tool kit

Xacto knife

Sanding block

Mini glue dots

Hole punch

Light green ink or paint

Ok..lets get started….{ at the end of the project…you will have a TON of extras…that was my main goal for this kit club…to be able to do a project and then have leftovers for other things like layouts cards….anther mini book. and so-on…}

Prep Work:

You have 6 pages, 12 total front and back…you will need 10 photos that are 5x5 that is your happiness…You will need to pick 12 pattern papers and then trim them to 6 x 6 ½ .  Take the album apart and set your rings aside. Adhere your pattern papers to the front side and the back side of the pages. You can sand or ink your edges (I am a sander). Remember though when you adhere one side….you have to punch the holes and then adhere the other side…and then punch the holes it is a repeat process. Also Take your 4 large tags and cover them with a pattern paper of your choice front and back. Sand or ink the edges. Now we are ready to get started….

Cover and back cover:

Supplies needed: Covered cover, jenni bowlin frame, orange alpha stickers, bird paper, fabric and felt circles, large white brad, fancy pants rub-ons, and pattern paper.

1. Take your large JB frame and cover it with pattern paper. Trim with a xacto knife. Sand or ink edges.  Adhere to the cover using some pop dots.
2. Using the orange alpha stickers adhere your title to the cover.
3. Take the bird paper and hand cut one of the birds out. I used mod podge and coated my bird cut out.  Adhere the bird to the lower portion of the cover.
4. Take the fabric and felt circles and create a layered flower. Place brad through the flower to hold it all together. Adhere one of the rub-ons to the brad. Adhere the flower to the tail of the bird.
5. Back cover: make sure that the back page paper matches the front.

Page 1 (backside of cover)

Supplies needed: covered insert, polka dot flower, and white leaves, ink and scroll stamp, covered tag.

1. Adhere photo to the covered insert.
2. Take the white leaves and stamp the scroll images onto them. Adhere them at the top of the left hand corner and adhere the flower in the center.
3. Take your covered tag and adhere your title using the alpha stickers. Tear a piece of the note paper and adhere it to the tag. JOURNAL …tie a snippet of ribbon or fabric through the tag.

Page 2:

Supplies needed: Covered insert, scroll chipboard, ink, mini glue dots, glitter, back side of the tag, alpha stickers.

1. Adhere photo to the covered insert.
2. Take the scroll and cover it with the robins egg ink. (Let it dry a little bit) once it is dry adhere some mini glue dots to the scroll. Dip the scroll into the glitter. This makes perfect polka dots. ( one of my favorite tricks)
3. Take the backside of the large tag from page 1. Adhere your title and journal.

Page 3: backside of 2

Supplies needed: covered insert, felt piece, chipboard button, fabric circle, felt circle and large sequence, covered tag)

1. Adhere photo to the covered insert.
2. Take your felt piece of your choice. (They will all vary) and create the circle embellishment using the button and fabric and felt. Adhere it all together and place the whole piece onto he left side of the page.
3. Take your covered tag and adhere your title. Use some of your doo-dahs to embellish it.
4. Take a piece of the note paper and tear it and adhere it to the tag. Adhere a label sticker to the tag.
5. Tie a snippet of ribbon or fabric to the tag.

Page4:

Supplies needed: covered insert, large plastic flower, fabric circle, glitter, orange flower, alpha stickers, and backside of previous tag.

1. Adhere photo to the covered insert.
2. Take the large plastic flower and adhere it to the upper right side. Take the fabric circle and put some glue around the edge and dip it into the glitter.  Adhere the fabric circle to the center of the plastic flower.
3. Take the orange flower and adhere it to the center of the plastic flower.  You can embellish the edges of the flower with your doo-dahs or glitter.
4. Take the backside of the covered tag and adhere your title. JOURNAL

Page 5: backside of 4

Supplies needed: covered insert, small JB frame, rub-ons, ribbon, small sequence flower, mini glue dot, glitter, covered tag.

1. Adhere your photo to the covered insert.
2. Take the small JB frame and adhere the rub-ons to the frame. (as seen in the photo)
3. Tie some ribbon to the frame. Adhere the flower to the center of the ribbon and adhere the mini glue dot to the center of the flower. Sprinkle some glitter onto the glue dot.
4. Adhere your frame over the photo.
5. Take the covered tag and adhere your title. Like before just tear some not paper and adhere it to the tag for your journaling.
6. Take the fabric circles and create a flower to place on the tag. Tie a snippet of ribbon or fabric through the tag.
7. You can also take the stick pin and adhere some beads to and stick it through the knotted part of the tie.

Page 6:

Supplies needed: covered insert, back side of tag, any alpha set stamp that you have, label sticker, sweet charity rub-ons.

1. Adhere your photo to the covered insert.
2. Adhere a label to the lower right side of photo. Adhere a rub-on to the label.
3. Take the covered tag and adhere the shaped paper to the tag. Using an alpha stamp or your stickers adhere a title. And then JOURNAL!

Page 7: backside of 6

Supplies needed: covered insert, felt, chipboard button, rub-ons, ribbon, alpha stickers, and covered tag.

1. Adhere photo to the covered insert.
2. Place your felt on the page. (Everyone has different felt pieces) adhere your title to the page.
3. Take the chipboard button and ink the edges. Adhere a rub-on to the button. Tie a snippet of ribbon to the button. Adhere onto the felt.
4. Take covered tag and tear and adhere some note paper. Tie a snippet of fabric or ribbon through the tag.

Page 8.

Supplies needed: covered insert, chipboard flower, stem, felt piece, plastic flower, rain drop flower, note paper, alpha stickers.

1. Adhere photo to the covered insert.
2. Take the chipboard flower and either ink or paint it green. Adhere one of the sweet charity rub-ons to the flower. Adhere the pink flower to the center of the chipboard flower.  Adhere the flower to the right side of the page.
3. Adhere the stem to the flower. ( as seen in photo)
4. adhere your title to the page
5. Take a piece of note paper and adhere it to the backside of the tag. Embellish the tag with a felt piece and the plastic orange flower.

Page 9: backside of 8

Supplies needed: covered insert, chipboard swirl, felt piece, JB journal card.

1. Adhere your photo to the covered insert.
2. Ink your chipboard scroll using brown ink. Adhere the scroll o the left side of the page.
3. Take a felt piece and adhere some rub-ons to it. Adhere the felt piece to the scroll.
4. Take the JB note card and journal.

**inserts in-between page 9 & 10**

 TRANSPARENCY: this is just a cut piece of transparency mostly just for fun. You can totally add a photo to the piece though.

FILE FOLDER: anther little something to add into the book. This can be used for multiple photos or to journal about all the things that make you happy. I just took the large chip flower and covered it with pattern paper and adhere a rub-on to it. The placed it in the center of the folder.

Page 10:

Supplies needed: covered insert, alpha stickers, backside of file folder.

1. Adhere your photo to the insert.
2. Adhere your title to the photo using the alpha stickers.
3. Take a piece of note paper and adhere it to the backside of the file folder.
4. Adhere a rub-on of your choice to the paper. I cut the little bird out of one of the note papers and added a pop dot to it. SO cute….

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