Festive Favorites

One theme workin' here at MOSD this month is

"Holiday Traditions."

When I think of any holiday,

I think of FOOD!  Oh yea!

I have favorite recipes of certain family members

that make the holidays "the holidays,"

especially when it comes to eating. he he he.

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Following this theme, I decided to create a little keepsake

of all of our favorite festive recipes.

I used the Mini Flip Cover 2 Cover album by MOSD.

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The red binding rings, also by MOSD, worked wonderfully

with this festive patterned paper!

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For each and every page of this treasured keepsake,

visit my blog here...

http://dancingwithstamps.blogspot.com/2009/12/festive-favorites-mini-album-of-recipes.html

You will also read more on how

I created the fun pages my album.

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The acrylic covers to this album

make it so fun to use all sorts of colors

and decorative elements.

I love how each show through "clearly!"

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On behalf of the fabulous MOD Squad,

Merry Christmas

and blessings for the new year!

The True Meaning of Christmas

The girls at Faith Sisters had a 9-day challenge going on in October. You were to make a page about each of the Christmas symbols, based on a story they had posted. I finally got around to printing the story and making my project, using a MOSD album, of course!


I used a MOSD Cover to Cover Tabbed Album, which has two clear covers and six tabbed chipboard pages. I did have to trace two extra pages from some scrap chipboard in order to finish my album. But, I had some chipboard left over from an Expressions Build-a-Book project, so I was in good shape!

I painted the edges of my covers with Cranberry alcohol ink (Tim Holtz) and white acrylic paint (Tim Holtz paint dabber). The star is Cosmo Cricket naked chipboard that I sprayed with "Gloria Glimmer Mist." (To see a tutorial on how to make your own glimmer mist, go here.) I also used a red MOSD Twirly Gig Stick-On and cut some circles with my Spellbinders Nestabilities dies.

The rest of the book contains the printed story from Faith Sisters (I used the Ali's Handwriting font downloaded for free from the CK site). I used a lot of different papers again for this project. For each Christmas symbol, I tried to find an embellishment or a stock photo to match.

Here is the inside of the front cover.

And a close-up shot of page 1.

And here are the rest of the pages.

And the back cover. Do you love that Bo Bunny Christmas tag?! I stamped the Christmas phrase on it with cranberry ink.

And a top view:

I hope you enjoyed your Christmas Holiday (or other celebration) this past week. This is my last post for 2008, so I will see you again in 2009! Have a Happy and Blessed New Year!

- Gloria

(side note - the two photos I used in this project were downloaded from the Getty Images site.)

Gift Tags

As we've seen here on the blog lately, MOSD products are VERY versatile! You are about to see more!

I had a Cover to Cover Mini Flip album in my stash and was wondering what to make with it. This album is approx. 4x3 inches, has two clear covers, and 6 chipboard pages. All the pages are 3-hole punched to accommodate three rings on the 4 inch side. Hmmmm what to make what to make what to make?

I ended up with 8 gift tags! Check them out! This first one has a stamped and embossed tree (Stampin' Up) and a Bo Bunny embellishment.

This next tag is very simple - just some Daisy D's paper, a Creative Cafe felt flower, some rick rack, a button, and some charms.

This tag looks complicated, but it's not. The paper is "pre-collaged" Daisy D's paper, some lace ribbon, a K&Company tag, some rick rack and gold cord, and a fancy flower from Walmart!

This one required a bit more product, but is still pretty simple. The paper is K&Company, and comes with the script already printed on it! The tag is also from K&Company. The tree is a Cosmo Cricket chipboard piece, covered with a scrap of Basic Grey paper, then sprayed with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist. The swirl is a Bo Bunny cardstock sticker and the stamp is from Inkadinkado. And then I tied on a bit of Stampin' Up ribbon.

And because I love the Glimmer Mist, I sprayed this gold cardstock with it! The chipboard stocking and paper is Cosmo Cricket, embellished with a gold pen and a glitter pen.

This next tag is my favorite of the bunch! The papers were out of my scrap bin. To match the purple (in real life the colors match better than here!) I sprayed the chipboard key and the paper flower with Glimmer Mist. It's very sparkly and rich looking! Love it.

Here is a closeup of the sparkle.

Then again, this one is also my favorite! This tag is one of the clear covers, edged with white paint. The paper and die cut are K&Company. The pink paper was edged with a Martha Stewart punch. The snowflakes are MOSD Stick-Ons, embellished with Stickles glitter glue. The jewel brad is from Creative Imaginations.

Here is a closeup.

This last tag is the other clear cover, edged with white paint. The Basic Grey paper is just a tad smaller than the tag. The snowflakes are MOSD Stick-Ons, again embellished with Stickles. I added a Bo Bunny tag, some silver cord, and a scrap of ribbon.

Here is a closeup.

Thanks for looking!

- Gloria

Are you a Digital Scrapbooker? Do you love MOSD Products?

Great news for all you avid Digi scrappers! BWscrapbooking has created (with permission of course!) Digital Templates for many of your favorite MOSD products... Expressions Word Books, Cover to Cover stepin' out, the Take Along and MORE! And right now all the digi templates on the site are ON SALE 50% off! How cool is that! You can get all your favorite MOSD albums AND some really cool digital elements all at the same shop! Check out what BW scrapbooking has to offer, and tell them Christy Sent ya!

Here is an Expressions Wordbook designed by te Creative Team at BW Scrapbooking! There is a lot you can do digitally that you can't do with paper so the ability to digi scrap and then print out pages for your books seems like a great marriage!