A Magic Memory Keeping Organizer by Dianna

Hi Everyone, Dianna here with Gina's Designs Memory Keeping Organizer turned Magic Card Holder.  I started out making this for myself and then after I finished my son said "Mom that is cool!  Love the way it looks and it will fit my Magic Cards!"  "Thanks Mom".  The same son then took it upstairs and filled it with his cards.  I had to steal it back for photos and got the look only teenagers will give you.  I gave it right back.  

I suggest doing a dry run assembly prior to gluing.  This way you know which piece goes where prior to the commitment of glue.  I used Beacon 3-n-1 to assemble the organizer because I had thought to use this as an example selling at crops with Gina but of course plans change.  If you are not planning to travel with your storage piece then Scotch Quick Dry works just fine.  After assembly, I spray painted the organizer bronze.    

I found way awesome tissue paper at Marshall's and have been saving it to paper my storage pieces.  I first traced each side of the box on the tissue paper then cut out the sections.  I used Beacon's Fast Drying Decoupage first on each section of the box and then on the back of the paper.  The great thing about tissue paper is that if you tear it, it becomes "distressed" and no one can tell that you did not tear it on purpose, which of course that was the look that I was going for.  

Thank you for looking!

Items Used

Gina's Designs

Memory Keeping Organizer

Other Items

Beacon's 3-n-1

Beacon's Fast Drying Decoupage

Tissue paper from Marshalls

Guest Designer Tamiko McCurry

Hey there good people! I am Tamiko and I am totally honored to be the guest designer for July! Woot Woot! My personal style is kinda urban and brightly colored in ANY and EVERYTHING I do as far my art goes.  I am a mixed media artist and I love to play in my art journal and do other types of paper crafting.  When I first received this, I asked myself am I making this for me or for what other might enjoy and well.. I won, but I hope you enjoy this.  While it might be a memory keeper organizer, for me, for a little while, it will be my pocket letter pal go to!!  I just love the many compartments that will hold all my stuff!! 

I  put my units together and went over all the slots and grooves with some craft glue. I let it dry overnight although it was fine after 20 minutes. Coated the units with gesso and once they were dry, my fingers were used to apply the paint. I love getting into my work and how best can you do it, when you use you hands as a brush. As I waited, gesso was brushed on all the rest of the chipboard pieces.  While gesso is not necessary, it did help prime the chipboard for my bright color palette. I also painted all the divider inserts.

Went back to the units and I added layers of stencils (three kinds) and paint with the sponges.  I painted the flowers pieces and stacked them creating my perfect blooms.  Adhered the flowers to the caddy and the organizer and doodles with my black paint marker.  Decided to keep my dividers white and will decorate them periodically with washi tape, maybe!

Let me share a few more pictures with you.

The slots in the caddy are not only perfect for brushes,

my bottles of glue fit perfect!  I can even place a dixie cup or

condiments cup and use that as a catch all under the upside down glue bottles!  How cool is that?

The slots in the organizer are perfect for my small embellishments!

I can prep my slots to contain twine bundles, washi on a card, sticker bundles, stamped images, my tea, coffee or chocolate! Artist trading card (ATC) bases fit perfectly in here! All the goodies I need to prepare a load of pocket letters or quickie ATCs will be right at my fingertips! I have so many ideas and I am so ready to fill both of these fabulous units up!

Ha. YOU and I both can store our stash of Gina's Design Chippies!!

I hope you enjoyed stopping over at the blog today as much I enjoyed creating this project to share with you all.  Again I am so super excited to be here for the month of July 2015 and I can't wait to show you all the possibilities for creating fabulous one of a kind projects featuring Gina's Designs  Laser Cuts.  Have a fabulous week and don't forget to stop by and see what design team is up to!

Gina's Designs Products:

Memory Keeper Organizer

Brush Caddy

Flower Stackers

4x6 Memory Keeper Dividers

4x3 Memory Keeper Dividers

Other:

Helmar Craft Glue

Deco Art Media Gesso (white)

Dylusions Paints (variety of colors)

Deco Art Acryclics and Paint Marker (variety of colors)

Artistcellar Pocket Stencils

Cosmetic Sponges

Brush

Washi Tape

Memory Keeping Organizer with Dividers

I had so much fun putting together this great organization station for my Project Life goodies! I used lots of items from Gina's Designs so I will list them now:

Memory Keeping Organizer

Memory Keeping Organizer Large Dividers

Memory Keeping Organizer Small Dividers

Word Elements

Word Elements 2

Arrows Shape Set

Talk Bubbles

Camera Clips

Word Frames- Hello

Word Frames- Live

Word Frames- Moment

This storage piece is a great size: 13x11.5 and 4 inches high. The final picture is listed first so that you can see the finished product:

As you can see, the back slot perfectly holds Pocket Letter Pages,

The middle slots hold 4x6 dividers and papers, and

The smaller slots hold 3x4 dividers, papers and embellishments

Here are the contents of the kit:

 Align everything without glue first to make sure the placement is right.

HINT: If it doesn't easily slide in place, flip it around or try the other identical piece.

Gina's Designs are made to fit together perfectly:-)

 Once you've figured out where the pieces are supposed to go,

glue the inner structure together first.

 Next, glue the side and back pieces, pressing firmly in place.

You're final result will look like this:

Now all you have to do is spray paint it and add some dividers:

Add fun embellishments:

 

And you're done!!!

Enjoy making this fun organizer

and personalize it with your favorite Gina's Designs Embellishments:-)

Carla

Art Journal cover by Angela and an organizer by Heidi

Today we have two unique and different projects to share.  First up is Angela with a peek at her new art journal.

Hi everyone, its Angela here and today I have the front of my Art Journal to show you. I have been taking part in a group on Facebook called Journal 52. Each week we get a prompt and make an art journal page using that prompt as inspiration. I have been thinking about art journaling for a wee while now and this kind of gave me a shove in the right direction.

 Gina's Designs oroducts used : 

Steampunk Lady
 Gears shape set
 String alongs -Steampunk

Oher Products:

Martha Stewart Paper clay
Prima Flowers
Vintage Taupe and Shabby Blue Frantage embossing enamel
Verdigris WOW embossing powder

For more details on how I created this please check out my blog


Next up is Heidi with a great way to organize your Project Life supplies, or perhaps a way to organize other types of embellishments.  I know I'm more apt to use my supplies if they are organized and stored in something pretty!

Hello Everyone!  Heidi here with a little different project for today. 

 

I have been working on some project life pages for my son and I needed to find some type of organization for my cards that I had started to collect.  So of course my first thought was to reach out to Gina for some assistance- and this is what she came up with!  Isn't it beautiful!  

 It was very easy to put together just like all of Gina's organizers and home decor, I have included some photos at the end of the post with directions.  Remember that items like this come with detailed instructions on assembling them.   But quite honestly, my favorite part of these projects is decorating.  For this one I just covered the entire organizer in newsprint to give it a vintage feeling.  Then I added some of the little photo frames with some memory words.  

As you can see- the divided sections are perfect for the different size of cards.  And then there are the dividers that come with the box and you can purchase additional dividers as needed.  

Gina's Designs Product

Memory Keeping Organizer

Memory Keeping Organizers Dividers
Postage Frames

Putting your Organizer Together
Did I tell you that it was easy to put together ?
Did I tell you that you will get detailed instructions?
Well here is a little tutorial on putting it together:
1.  Lay your parts out on the table and always start with the center piece.
2. Start sliding all the part together and once they are together add a little glue to the slots.
3. Once all the center pieces are together set them onto the bottom and slide together and glue.
4. Finally- add the 4 outside pieces, glue and then you are ready to alter!

Now go and have a good time decorating your organizer!