guest tutorial from made by heidi- quiet book

Have I told you that my favorite part about doing So You Think You're Crafty and Project Run and Play was getting to know the other contestants? After a few weeks of emailing back and forth with today's guest from Made by Heidi about blog design, project stress and helping our hubbies through grad school, she is now one of our best blog buddies. Not only is she a great friend, the girl has fabulous ideas (like her blog design 101 series, her printable Dr. Seuss cards, or her ipad case tutorial)- we just love her. And you will too!


Today, she's here to share a way to help all of us DeStash by using up some of our paper supply!

Hi! I'm 

     

from Sew.Craft.Create. and I'm a self-proclaimed "stuff-purger"... 

{unless an object has significant emotional value it won't last long at my house. I'm constantly re-organizing/throwing away any unneeded (and maybe even some needed ones -lol) items.}

I like clean closets...well... all but one...

...to the unaware this looks like a perfectly normal closet. Little do they know... it hides a dark, shameful secret...

I hoard all things crafty! 

This closet is filled top to bottom with paper, stamps, ribbon, material (all kinds: silk, cotton, denim, laminated cotton, etc.), buttons, glue, mod podge, paint, chalk, glitter, velcro, velum, tulle, batting, self lamination, snaps, unfinished projects, finished projects, wreaths, etc, etc, etc.... get the picture? ;)

so when Kirstin and Jordan asked me to participate in a little "destashing" I was all over it!! I grabbed my humongous stack of paper and created this little pretty (p.s. can you tell I have two little girls?)

 

What you need:

12 sheets of white 5.5 X 8 1/2 paper for the inside pages
2 sheets of hard cardstock (5.5 X 8 1/2 inches) for the front/back cover

Hole puncher

Three rings to hold book together

Glue/tape

Sticky velcro dots
Hot glue gun

Self Laminating paper

My free template

4 inch piece of ribbon (with burned edges) 

and a bunch of scrapbook paper!

This project is pretty self-explanatory. It can be explained in 7 easy steps:

1. Glue all of the main objects to the white paper and make all of the corresponding pieces. 

2. Laminate everything.

3. Cut out the separate pieces and trim the edges of the main pages.

4. Add sticky velcro dots to everything that needs them.

5. Three-hole punch all of the pages.

6. Add rings.

7. Hot glue the ribbon to the back of the book, wrap it around front and add a velcro dot to keep closed!

Voila! Now go to your own closets (I assume I'm not the only one?) and get to "destashing"!!

-Heidi

I can't say this enough, we love, love, love, love this girl... take a minute to go say hi at Made by Heidi!