Jacking the Jacker

This afternoon I finally had time to play with the October Q-Tea kit, My Highland Fling
I decided that I wanted to play like Lou Nelson plays and decided to Jack the Jacker, Australian that is, and scrap like Lou Nelson does :) I just love her ‘fresh’ approach and am in awe of how she creates
So here is what I made

and some close ups of the Q-Tea goodness!

When I opened the kit and saw the contents I knew I wanted to used the Jute Trim and some of the Tartan fabric to make a Coffee Cozy
So today I did just that :)

Sadly, ha!, I have no takeaway coffee cup to put it on to show you, so you will just have to imagine
And if it doesn’t fit properly I will just move the button :)

I then used some more of the kit and made this page

Made the paper flower with some book page and atlas page, with a Sassafras Lass brad

Journaling with some Cosmo Cricket “Earth Love” chipboard :)

and some Such Sweet Tierney Buttons :)

Rainy asked how I made the pocket in our Holiday album

So here’s how to make a pocket :)
Cut the paper so you have about 1-2 inches more on 3 sides

Then score an inch in on each of those 3 sides

I use my cutter to score, it makes it really easy because there is an indentation for you to run your scorer along, easy!

I then scored another line along the bottom side, about an inch up from the first line, making it run only to the edges of the other scored lines

I then folded up the sides, at the scored lines

and then folded in the corners so there was a lip on the bottom

This lip makes it easier to hold bulky items in the pocket, so you could, of course, not add this line if you want a flatter pocket or if you wanted an even bulkier pocket add a second score line to the sides and fold these in for lips on the pocket sides.

I thought I would also show you a way of decorating the pocket. I used some Jenni Bowlin buttons, the excess chipboard from the pushed button holes and some foam dots, using the space left from the dots.

I then sprayed over them with Glimmer Mist

added some doodles and viola :)

You then just add some double sided tape/glue to the fold and adhere to your page
I hope all that makes sense :)

And Chris, in answer to your dying the lace with glimmer mist question, yes I soaked it in the glimmer mist. Will take some photos and do a little ‘walk through’ on that one soon too :)

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