The One with Lyndsey's Book (and a Card)

My friend Lyndsey commissioned me to make a book for her baby boy - to be born in less than 4 weeks! How exciting :) I finally sat down last Sunday and made this gem for her:





- The book is 5 x 7".
- I used different shades and varieties of blue cardstock, patterned paper, transparencies, and for the first time I tried using felt and tissue paper for the pages.
- The cover is made from blue striped seersucker fabric wrapped over binder's board.
- I used dark blue DMC embroidery floss to bind it all together.
- Total time to make: about 5 hours from start to finish.

Aaaand, just for good measure, I finally participated again in the CARDS blog post challenge that I have to make up every week. Here is my card featuring floral paper:

If Friends Were Flowers I'd Pick You
Card is 3.25" square

How to: Die cut 15 small ovals from different colors of floral paper. Trim off a little bit of one end of each oval. Fold the ovals in half then adhere them together side to side. Wrap the ovals into a circle and hot glue them onto a scrap of circle cardstock. Glue and press and arrange until the flower looks good. Hot glue the flower onto a turquoise card base. Adhere a large pink brad in the middle. Place tiny letter stickers around the flower to make a sentiment, leaving a small gap to place two leaves cut out from green cardstock.

Cardstock, patterned paper, brad, adhesive: American Crafts; Letter stickers: Making Memories; Scissors, paper cutter: Fiskars; Die cut machine: Cuttlebug by Provo Craft; Oval die: Nestabilities by Spellbinders; Other: Hot glue gun