Friday, April 17, 2009

Midnight Oil Scrapbook Designs

I have a couple of reveals for MOSD.

This is a little project I posted to the MOSD Blog last Friday. I thought y'all may want a peek at it!

We have all seen paint chips in the hardware or home improvement store, and we've all seen fabric swatches and even cardstock swatches. The other day, I was in a stamping store (Stamping Details in Poway, CA) and they had some tags which they had turned into ink swatches! What a cool idea! I am forever forgetting which inks I have and which I don't, so I thought a swatch would be a cool thing to carry in my purse. However, it needs to be small and durable.

I had a Petite (key chain) album from MOSD in my stash and thought it would make a cool swatch book for my Tim Holtz Distress Inks. The album is 2x2 and comes with two clear covers and four chipboard pages. I used some scrap chipboard left over from another MOSD project to make some extra pages for my swatch book. The chipboard was easy to cut with my Fiskars trimmer and I rounded the corners with my Round-it-All tool.


I covered each page with white cardstock (from the scrap bag!) and then stamped an image with each ink color, then labeled the pages with a Zig pen. Easy peasy! I used some black Staz-On ink to decorate the little clear acrylic covers.


When I add more ink colors, I can just add more pages! And this is small enough to stick in my purse so that when I'm in a craft store I don't have to try to remember which ink I still need!


And aren't these Hero Arts stamps to die for?! I've had these ladies in my stash for a long time and they are just too fun for words!



Here is the page I created for today, using the Easter Stacker Collections.


Thanks for looking!

2 comments:

  1. What a fantastic idea thanks for sharing :-) and that LO is SO cute!!

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  2. this is absolutely brilliant. love this idea!

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