Cocoa and Cookies Recipe Book

Hi everyone, it's Teresa here to share with all of you a book that I designed to keep all the recipes that I am getting for my Christmas Eve party this year.  I found lots of recipes for fun things to do, a hot chocolate bar with lots of cookies and I needed something special to put them in right?

To make the book, I started with a pre-made one by Want2Scrap and then I decorated it with lots of stickers and other goodies by Basic Grey.  I love this adorable little snowman and his little hat. For the edges on the book, I chalked it up with a little white chalk ink to make it look like snow.  To give

it more dimension be sure and use lots of foam dots under the stickers.

And the best part was getting lots of ribbons from my Winter Wonderland set and tying them up on the rings on the outside to match.  I have lots of them on the inside too and it looks really, really cute.

There is lots more to do like getting all the recipes in that I want to use but that is half the fun of it.

Here is one of the inside pages that I did so that you can get the idea of how I did it.  

Thanks for stopping over and don't forget to leave a comment to let us know how you like the ribbons this month and share what you did with us on the challenge this month!!

Grungy Jute Rope and Burlap Flower Tutorials by Tracey Sabella

It's Tracey here to share a double tutorial for you. I love coming up with grungy masculine flowers I can use on my guy pages and want to share a couple with you today featuring natural fibers from the Really Reasonable Ribbon Store seen on this layout I recently created for Donna Salazar Designs.

"My Hero"

Really Reasonable Ribbon Products:

Burlap Woven Ribbon - Natural
Jute Rope - Natural
Jute Ribbon - Natural 1.5 inches

Grungy Jute Rope and Burlap Flower Tutorials

I created two similar flowers made from two different natural fiber products from RRR.

Supplies

Supplies:

Burlap Woven Ribbon - Natural

Jute Rope - Natural

Circle punches

Cardstock coordinating with fiber of choice

Helmar Fabric Glue

Mix'd Media Inx CHOX Midnight (Not pictured)

Vintage screws, washers, and hex nuts (Not pictured)

Grungy Coiled Jute Rope Flower Tutorial

Step 1. Punch one circle for each flower from coordinating cardstock. For this natural color jute rope, I used kraft cardstock. For the jute rope flower I used a 1 inch circle.

Step 2. Apply Fabric Glue to top of cardstock circle.

Step 3. Coil the jute rope in your fingers until it is approximately the same diameter as your 1 inch circle.

Step 4. Lay the coil on the glue covered cardstock circle.

Step 5. Wrap the end to the back and glue in place.

Step 6. Add small screw or other embellishment to center of flower. 

Step 7. Apply black ink to flower.

Completed flower

Grungy Rolled Burlap Flower Tutorial

Step 1. Punch one circle for each flower from coordinating cardstock. For this natural color 
Burlap Woven Ribbon, I used kraft cardstock punched with a 1.5 inch circle.

Step 2. Glue the end of the Burlap Woven Ribbon to the center of the cardstock circle.

Step 3. Twist the burlap ribbon and coil around the center, gluing down as you go.

Step 4. Continue to twist, coil and glue until the entire cardstock circle is covered.

Step 5. Wrap the end to the back and glue in place.

Step 6. Add small vintage nuts and washers or other embellishments to center of flower. 

Step 7. Apply black ink to flower.

Completed Flower

Thanks for stopping by for my tutorial!! I hope you'll give these grungy guy flowers a try. For more details and close-ups for "My Hero" including a tutorial for the Grungy Gear Flowers you can go here. 

~ Blessings ~

Tracey