Mini Boudoir

This month

Gina's Designs is our partner.

She has sent the designers a wonderful

selections of products to use with 

The Robin's Nest Products.

I decided to use one of the boxes that she

sent as my project. The box is a way to create a 3 dimensional
mini room, or mini scene of what your imagination desires.

The original box packet has sewing supplies to go with it.

I decided as I went through all the goodies

she sent to us, to make a room.

As the room started developing, it became

a Boudoir.

The kit came as a box that you put together,

it was simple and I had it glued together in less than 5 minutes.

I then selected my papers that I wanted to use for the

room, and as I was working on the room,

and I selected laser cuts from the packets that 

Gina's Designs sent to us.

Robin's Nest Papers used:

Glitter French Vanilla Fleur (fleur on front of box)

Cathedral Paper (Background wall paper)

Valentine Stripe (Chair)

Baroque Paper (Picture on wall)

Glitter Write (dress form) retired paper

Here are close ups of the room.

I covered the Chair.

Glittered the Chandelier

Covered the dress form

Wallpapered the inside of the box

Made a picture frame

Cut out the fleur on the front of the box

Painted the fleur de li

Cut a frame for the outside of the box this is the french vanilla fleur back side.

The urn came from an old sticker called France.

I added mini pearl dew drops on the dress form and the chandelier.

I added Amber Diamond drops, and green diamond drops to the urn.

I added gold mini dew drops on the fleurs.

And added the daffodil original dew drops around the outside of the frame.

Close up of the fleur, and dress form.

Here is the Boudoir again,

I'm not sure where this is going yet,

I have always wanted to create a little mini room. like this,

 this is one of my bucket list items.

Enjoy!

Robin

Snowflakes

When we are visiting

our grandchildren, I love to 

do a little activity or project with them

so they have fond 

memories of our time together.

Last year in December we went

to visit Jer and Tara for the new year

celebration, they had their older

boys with them for the Christmas break

for a few days while we were there.

I had been pinning these cute 

Star Wars Snowflake patterns

and we decided to spend a morning

working on cutting snowflakes.

It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be,

we needed exacto knives and mini, mini scissors

to accomplish this task of

making snowflakes look like 

Star Wars characters.

This was a fun day

with our grand sons,

and Porter was so excited

he also made some of his own

designs of snowflakes.

It is still winter here in Utah

so I thought it would be fun to share a project

with you that maybe

you can do with your kids

during this winter season!

Robin's Nest products used:

Christmas Collection (North Pole)

Snow Covered Trees CS (back side)

Red Snowflakes CS

Partners Product

Ecstacy Crafts (Snowflake stickers)

Find these printed cardstock sheets

on our website

www.robinsnest-scrap.com

You can download the patterns

for free off the internet

for these cute snowflake patterns.

Have a great day,

hugs from

our winter home.

Ciao,

Robin

Beautiful Grand daughters

I love our

3 little grand daughters, Jake

and Britney's girls.

Last summer we had a photo shoot,

I have posted pages from our photo shoot 

before, today is my page 

of all the girls together.

I had all these cute papers

layed out on my

scrapbook desk, trying to decide

which paper would these

cute girls look best on.

This Girl Swirl Glitter Cardstock

just jumped out at me!

Robin's Nest Products used:

Girl Swirl Glitter CS

Glitter Pink Journaling Tags

Brown Herringbone CS

Girl Roses Sticker (retired)

Teen Girl Stickers

Rose Original Dew Drops

From our partners

Gina's Designs (die cuts)

Timeless Twine

Love our little girls!

Lots of Hugs!

Robin

Winter Wonderland Mini Book Inside Pages

Hello!

Are you ready to see the inside of the

Winter Wonderland Book?

I can't wait to share.

The pictures in this book come from our Alaska Trip

last year in November for Thanksgiving

Our son Josh and his wife Robyn

with their 3 kids live in Wasilla.

All pages are cut to 8x8 size.

I also used the extra 4" that were cut off later in the post.

This page comes from the 

Christmas Collection (North Pole)

White Classic glitter swirl

Black glitter letters

Brown glitter rope CS

Black and White Glitter Pine Tree

Snow Fun Rub on

Instead of rubbing this rub on on to the paper, 

I just cut around the shape, not exact, and laid it on the paper

This way, the rub on is perfect, no cracks, nor is it hard to get on the  page

and it looks wonderful, I did this with the snowflakes also.

The brown rectangles are from the back of our other rub ons.

The white tag is from Bella Creationz

one of our partners this year.

This is Ally, Gabe and Lucas in the pictures here.

I so love the mountains here in Alaska!  

The kids call it Morder,

it is so fun to be here and experience the feel of

all these majestic mountains.

Robin's Nest Products

I used the Russian Winter Collection

Glitter Winter Snow Trees CS

Glitter Chipboard Snowflakes

Winter Sticker/ tag kit

White and pearl dew drops.

From our Partners,

 Gina's Designs (doily)

Timeless Twine

I love this layout,

just simple white, black, and silver.

Robin's Nest Products

Glitter White Snow CS

Classified CS

Silver Glitter Chipboard

Black Glitter Letters

Crimson Sticker

From our partners:

Gina's Designs (Doily)

Ecstasy Crafts (Iridescent snowflake stickers)

 On Thanksgiving day we traveled for a few hours

to see this beautiful glacier and mountains

The river was close to the road most of the 

trip through Alaska, full of frozen water

and ice everywhere.

Such a beautiful morning and ride.

Robin's Nest Products

Glitter Pinetrees (Calgary Stampede)

Snow Cut out sheet

The title sheet at the top of the page was from 

a group swap.  They did a great job.

I also used the 4" cut from the 12x12 to create a insert 

page between the 8x8 sheets.

This is where I have journaled also on the page layout.

Again I have used the RN Black and White Glitter Pine trees CS

I so love the feel of this paper,

especially when your pictures are full of snow

and ice.  I also again used the 4" cut off section from the

12x12 sheet for the insert between these pages.

On the top of the insert page is a pocket made from  the

Glitter Snow Covered trees CS

Crimson Sticker

Glitter White Chipboard

White and Pearl dew drops

All from the Robin's Nest

Josh has a friend who owns and plane 

in Alaska, so we were able to see Alaska from the 

sky.  It was a bit intimidating for me to do this.

Just different for sure, but it turned out to be one of the

highlights of the trip.

Robin's Nest Products

Glitter Vellum Snowflake (retired)

Dew drops

From our partners:

Ecstasy Crafts (iridescent snowflakes)

Gina's Designs (doily)

Just some photos from the plane trip on the left side of the

page, and on the right side a photo from our 

Thanksgiving day drive.

Title is from a group swap.

Robin's Nest Products

Glitter Winter Retreat Swirl CS

From our Partners

Timeless Twine

More photos from the air!

Robin's Nest Products

Russian Winter Collection

Glitter Snow Stripe CS

Winter Sticker

These are the inserts that I put in the book between the 2 pages 

above.  They are made from the 4" cut off from my 12x12 cs

Robin's Nest Products

Boy Dot/stripe CS

Glitter Winter Retreat Swirl

Winter Snowflake Sticker

From our Partners

Ecstasy Crafts (iridescent snowflakes)

You know you are in Alaska when in the middle of the

day it is this dark.

Lucas and Gabe are sledding, and really it is daytime!

I created my snowflakes from dew drops, tear drops, and diamond drops

Robin's Nest Products 

Russian Winter Collection

Glitter Winter Snowflakes (both sides)

Snow fun Sticker (retired)

Pearl mini dew drops

Pearl diamond drops

White dew drop 6mm

White tear drops

I found this saying on pintrest,

and made my own to fit this book.

I will include this file free for you to print out 

I always wanted my kids to look this cute

in the winter, Red coat, and 

maybe some days they did.

This is just for my shear pleasure,

and what make winter fun for me.

Robin's Nest Products

Christmas Collection (North Pole)

Glitter Snow Covered Trees CS

Snowflake Vellum Retired

Crimson Sticker

From our Partner

Ecstasy Crafts (iridescent snowflakes)

Last page!

We had been to Alaska twice before

this time and the only moose we had seen by then

were stuffed!  The second evening we were there

we had already gone to bed, in our

jammies, and Robyn comes knocking on the door

of the bed room and said "Mom, Dad!

you need to come right now!"

So we came down the stairs to the kitchen

sliding glass door, and there

she/he was. Out by the back porch.

So I ran and got the camera,

we needed pictures of this for sure!

Robin's Nest Products

Christmas Collection (North Pole)

Glitter Black/White Holly CS

Red Snowflakes CS

(I also made a rosette out of this cs)

Snowmen

Sled Clippie

Tree Straws (coming soon from our Lodge 2014 collection)

I made my own titles and they will be free to  download at the end of this

post also.

From our Partners

Gina's Designs (doily)

So this is 12 8x8 double page layouts 

all from my Winter Wonderland Mini Book

Hope you have enjoyed these ideas!

This was one of the most enjoyable books I have 

ever made.

Again the outside cover.

Enjoy the winter season!

You can find all these products on our website

www.robinsnest-scrap.com 

Ciao,  Robin

Winter Wonderland Mini Book

I have been wanting to make a "Snow" book

for a while.  About a month ago I just took a "lot of

rocks out of my backpack" our vacation to Germany

from 2 years ago is finally finished!  Whew,

I wondered if I was ever going to get it done,

so in the mean time, I have worked on and finished our 

Egypt trip, which only took me 2 weeks, of an on in the scrapbook 

room. (I will be sharing some of the Egypt pages later)

 The best part of those projects finished is 

my list of mini books I have been wanting to create,

is now on the top of the create list.

So my snow book is now finished. and I cannot be more

excited on how it turned out!  

Such fun to be able to design!

I started out with 2 acrylic pieces of plexiglass.

Dana, my husband cut them with a glass cutter to 9x9 size.

He then drilled 4 holes to fit  8x8 sheet protectors.

I then started designing the outside of the book.

I just had a stack of "snow" items on my scrapbook

desk that I pulled out of my files in my stash of scrapbook items,

 and started laying things on top of the acrylic book

just layering items until I started liking how it looked.

I used the North Pole Sticker

for the title on the book.

I also used the Classified Cardstock

white and pearl dew drops

Winter Ribbon (pompom ribbon)

Glitter Snowflake chipboard shapes

Snow Paper Clips

From our Partners last year:

Connies Crystals

 (there are about 15 crystals on this book cover)

I used a felt deer that I purchased at the Christmas

Markets in Germany, but with our new 2014

Lodge line, there will be one similar to this in one of our packets 

Everything else are just items from my

scrapbook stash.

Here is a top view of the book.

Close up of the snowflakes and dew drops and Connies Crystals

Here is the side view of the pages,

I will post the pages next week on Wednesday.

I did used sheet protectors to put them in

but have lots of fun items that come

out from the edges of the sheet protectors.

I am so excited about this book!

Happy New Year!

Robin

Distressing Painted Pillars

I decided to work on our

family room.  It seemed so dark

and I know I chose a paint color

that was just took dark for the room.

So after months of paint chips

attached to the pictures on the wall

I chose a color and started to paint.

Well, of course it was too pink, 

or it looked that way after it was on the 

walls, and there was no way it

was staying.

So back to the paint store for the shade darker, 

which turned out to be perfect.

Then on the same paint chip,

I chose the next color darker to paint

the pillars and the crown molding.

This was a great choice,

and I simply love my room again.

I decided to antique the pillars

and here is how they turned out.

I left the original darker color on the wall that has the Come follow me, 

that way I didn't have to find a way to paint around the

saying.  I painted the pillars the same color as the crown molding.

Dana built the pillars for me many, many years ago,

and I had painted them a dark grey, then I was going to faux marble

them.  Well, I never got them marbled, it was always a

thought in the wind I guess.

But I went to a web site called Secrets of Segreto,

and loved how the designers were faux painting and decorating 

the rooms they designed.  So I decided to learn

from their beautiful work and change my pillars.

Dana put molding on the pillars to create the rectangles.

I then painted them to match the new color,

then distress them.

I read blog after blog, trying to figure out how to distress

 the pillars how I wanted them.

I was a bit daunting, and intimidating, even though

I have done tons of painting over the years.

I also decided to keep the intentions of the crown molding

the original grey color, with just a touch of new paint. 

So I began.

I used Ralph Lauren glaze in sienna shade.

And I used a sea foam sponge.

This sea foam sponge has large holes in it, so it isn't quite so 

even when distressing as regular sponge.

I then put the glaze on with the sponge  LIGHTLY.

This is the look it creates, and just a light rub around the top

crown molding and even lighter on the flat section of the  pillar.

Here is my first finished pillar.  

Yea!!! I did it!

The other pillars became less intimidating,

and I got all the way around the room, 4 pillars in all.

These are the 2 pillars that stand at the bottom of our staircase.

Here it is stairs and all.

The long wall of the family room to the 

kitchen, with the finished pillar at the end of the wall.

And a close up of the finished pillar.

I made it through this project,

and oh, boy do I ever love it!

This is a great way to add depth to your room,

and to add and upgrade to your home.

Ciao,

Robin

Let it Snow Wreath

Let it Snow

Let it Snow

Let it Snow

We have plenty of it here in Utah!

I decided to redo an old wreath

that I have had for a while.

Here is what it looked like originally.

When we were going through my moms 

Christmas boxes, I found the white leaves 

and a sign that says Let it Snow.

I also decided to used the Snowflake and Snowmen

Styrofoam ornaments

from our blog hop.

Here is my finished wreath.

On my back door,

snow and all!

Here are the snowmen,

wrapped in book page sheets

 and wool ribbon 

I bought in the 

Germany Christmas Markets.

I added the white leaf picks

the snowflakes, which I glittered

with white glitter, and 

White Classic Swirl glitter cardstock rosettes.

Close up on the Snowflakes.

Welcome to my home in this

very cold snowy January!

Ciao,

Robin