Clearly Festive

There's something about the holidays that make me want to create. I love working with the color pallettes and adding touches of glitter where I can. My project today is a quick and easy one that can add a bit of festive flair to your home.




Here's what you'll need:
3 pages from a Clearly Designed Acrylic Easel Album
MOSD Snowflake Stick Ons in pink and blue
Large chipboard letters (I used Making Memories)
Zip Dry adhesive
Mica flakes
Ribbon / ric rac of your choice

1. Begin by randomly placing the snowflake Stick Ons to the backs of the 3 acrylic pages.
2. Glue the large chipboard letters to the front side of the acrylic.
3. Outline 3 edges of the pages with adhesive. Add mica flakes over adhesive. Shake off the excess.
4. Tie bow on center hole of each page with coordinating ribbon.
5. Thread banner using remaining ribbon and hang where desired. I like how the frosty effect works with my tree.

Wishing you and your family the happiest of holidays!

Visit with Santa

We had our visit with Santa! My little one and my nephew had a great time and the Santa was a fantastic Santa. I was totally inspired to create the Acrylic Mini album of their special time with Santa!

I used the gorgeous Teresa Collins Tis The Season Tag Paper and Teresa Collins 12x12 checklist paper,Making Memories Ledger Mini Alphas,Chatterbox Rhinestone Flowers, some mini candy canes, silver poinsettias from the Craft Store, along with some buttons and ribbon from my stash. The cool thing about the Teresa Collins Tag paper is that it fits PERFECTLY on the Easel album--the "tags" are awesome because they are double sided and really make putting the album together really easy!




















Thanks for looking!
Veronica

Good Morning Everyone! My name is Maryfrances Fabbri and I am the Midnight Oil Guest Designer for the month of December. Before I get to the good stuff and show you a really neat project I created using some super cool MOSD products I would like to tell you a little bit about me.

I live in Shrewsbury, MA with my husband Gregg and our three wonderful kids, Gail, Grant and Grady. And of course our sweet boy Ace, the sock eating dog. When I am not attending events like theater production, karate, baseball, soccer, school functions, etc. you will find me scrapping all these events and more. I enjoy teaching scrapbook classes at conventions and to adults and children, and each day you will find me on line at Scrapbooker Online.com Since I was a young girl I have always been interested in arts and crafts such as scrapbooking, book arts and quilting. Although I pretty much gave up quilting a few years back to make a go at scrapbooking. And yes, my mother the quilter, does not let me forget it.

I have had my work published in various trade magazines and currently design for a number of manufactures. I am very excited to be working with the MOSD team and look forward to showing you my work that I have done with all the creative and inspiring products MOSD has to offer.

Alright so on to the good stuff....My FIRST PROJECT!

I used the MOSD Clearly Designed Easel and the Pink Pictogram Sick Ons to create this album commemorating our trip to the Jonas Brothers Concert this past summer. If anyone has a 10 year old little girl in their house you know what I mean when I say JoBro!! We thought it only fitting that we all go to see the concert as a family so Daddy surprise all the kiddos with tickets to the event.

When I saw the Clearly Designed Easel I thought of my photos right away. I used a little KI Elsie papers and soft embellishments and I was on my way to creating this fun keepsake for Gail.


















I started out by making some chipboard inner pages and covered them with patterned paper, sanded and inked the edges. I took the MOSD Sick Ons and the Pictogram Butterfly and attached them to the acrylic cover, they go on like butter for sure...so easy. I then took some Stickles glitter glue and embellished the butterfly to give it some sparkle. (you can see a close up of the butterfly below) I then took the acrylic cover and poked holes down the side using my Crop-a-dile. What I love about the MOSD acrylic is that it is thin enough to poke holes through and you don't worry about it cracking or chipping. It is very pliable, and I really like that. I then attached black eyelets in each hole and tied ribbons down the side...I love how this came out.


















This next page was really fun. I took some of the Stick Ons and cut them up into pieces. I then attached them down the side of another acrylic page. I used the acrylic pages as overlays for each of my chipboard pages. I love the effect you get by seeing through to the next page.


















Here is the page without the overlay over it. I used more Black Journaling Sick Ons for journaling lines and added some cute embellishments and a title "Tailgating". What a fun and easy page.


















Here is another overlay using the Crown Stick On. I cut out the cirlce around it and used this alone for a simple effect.


















Here is a nice example of the Stick Ons being cut into pieces to show another use.

And a close up.

I hope you like this little book and have gotten some new ideas on using the MOSD Sick Ons and the Clearly Designed Easel. I could see someone creating a calendar or an ABC book with this album. It is the perfect size for little hands and would make a great gift for a new baby or a grandparent.

I have listed the supplies I have used below just in case you want to take a stab at making this. Feel free to email me at mfabbri@scrapbookeronline.com if you have any questions. Check back during December when I will share more of my work using MOSD products.

Jonas Brothers Clearly Designed Easel
Products Used...

MOSD Clearly Designed Easel
MOSD Pictogram Stick Ons (Butterfly, Heart, Crown)
MOSD Stick Ons (Black Journaling)
EK Success Rebecca Sower Bookworm Assorted Words (on the cover)
MM Felt Alphas
Elsie Zoe Papers
Elsie Zoe Soft Embellishements
Pink WorldWin Cardstock
May Arts Ribbon (pink chiffon)
Stickles (forget the color but I think it is crystal)
Misc. Pop Dots, Diamond Glaze, Letter Stickers

Thanks for looking...Enjoy

Snow Time Album!

As I was sitting here at my kitchen table watching some fat snowflakes fall to the ground, I was reminded of a snow album I had done for MOSD using the easel album. This was one of my very favorite albums! I loved the way the glittery snowflakes, gems, transparencies, and snow photos all worked so well against the acrylic pages. It was just a perfect match! So be sure to take some snow photos this season and use an acrylic album to showcase them.

Arrg Matey! Pirate Fun!

I love MOSD clear albums, and the Clearly Designed Easel Album is just pure fun! I love how subsequent pages peek through the clear pages. I love that you can treat the clear pages as if they were mini windows. I love that you can ADD pages to the album!

The Easel Album comes with 3 rings for binding, two 5 X 7 clear covers/stands, and four 4 X 6 clear inner pages. (Additional pages sold separately.) I added some chipboard pages in various sizes to my album, to make it unique! (I also used metal rings for my album, since I added extra pages the rings that came with the album were too small. )

This album highlights an adventure my kids had last September at our local harbor. They even got to sail out on the ocean on the ship! How fun is that?! Oh, and check out the "found" items I used on my cover - keys, coins, beads, leather cording, etc.












I used some of the new Teresa Collins travel line, plus some old K&Company papers I had in my stash. I also found some of the Making Memories metal trim hiding in a bin in my scrap room, which I distressed with ink and paint. This was such a fun project, going back to my vintage/collage roots as a scrapbooker, but with a NEW twist - acrylic pages!

Photography credit for this album goes to my very best girlfriend, Sandy Conroy. As well as props for taking my kids on this adventure while I was in Europe with my husband!

- Gloria