Altered Notebook - Marion Smith Designs Nirvana Collection

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Wow - It has already been a week since I was appointed on Marion's Design team, and I'm still pinching myself.  Our first challenge was to alter a notebook, book, or binder in honor of back to school.  I was so excited to use her New Nirvana printed lines that will be shipping to retailers in just a few weeks. 

 

For my project I decided to alter a three ring notebook.  I'm a total list maker, so I thought this would be a great tool to have around.  I really wanted my cover to stay kind of flat so that it didn't take up too much shelf space, but I wanted it to be PRETTY!  Nirvana certainly helped there! 

 

 

 

 

I started with one of these notebooks from Target.

 

I gessoed the edges of the notebook, and painted it gold.  Then lined the notebook inside and out with the Nirvana Bliss & Documented papers.   I love how easy the cover came together with the Nirvana ephemera pages. 

 

 

 

Visit the blog to see what the other ladies did for their challenge.  So much inspiration!

 

Want Nirvana? -  Click here to pre-order it!

 

Thanks for stopping in today,

 

Tonya A. Gibbs

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Bare Metals and Tim Holtz Oh My

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So I paid a visit to my good friend Suzanne at FlamingoScraps.com yesterday and she gave me a set of the New Tattered Angels Bare Metal Sprays for my birthday.  I was ITCHING to play with them yesterday.  So I pulled out some Tim Holtz Tags from Ranger and started playing.

 

 

Here is a photo of the tag prior to decorating so you can see all the luscious details in the colors. I love the texture, and the vibrant tones that mixing all these colors brings. When you heat set the Gold and Pewter sprays they bubble and crack which causes the ridged texture that you would find in rust.  LOVE IT!

 

I was so excited that I had to finish the tag - "Tim Style" by using my new mover's and shapers Typewriter die.  The dressform was inspired by Marion Smith's latest Live with Prima where she shared how to make Christmas Ornaments.  I used her technique for the book pages on the mover's and shapers mini dressform die.  

 

 

 

 

I hope you try out these sprays. They are so much fun.  Thanks for stopping in today! 

 

Happy New Year,

 

Tonya

 

Resources:

 

• Tattered Angels:  Bare Metal - Rusty Metal Sprays
• Ranger:  Tag, Rusty Hinge Distress Ink, Distress Markers Barn Door, and Black Soot, Black Soot Distress Stain, Utee 
• Sizzix:  Tim Holtz Mover's and Shapers - Mini Typewriter, Mini Dress form.
• Ideaology:  Tim Holtz Pen Nib, Dictionary Tissue Tape
• Misc:  Book pages, Beaded trim, Seam Binding, Tulle, and tensil
• Prima: Bling

 

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