Mei Li Paperie: lucia barabas

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Tutorial ~ A quick & easy mini album...

Mini Album by Lucia Barabas for Mei Li Paperie

Hey everyone! Lucia here again – with my last guest post for Mei Li Paperie, and this time I’m gonna share with you a tutorial about how to make a quick and easy mini album.

This month, I spent few days in Sardinia, Italy. It was a lovely but really short holiday (just 4 days!), so I thought that a little mini about these days would be just right.

BONUS – I’ve finally tried one thing that I was thinking about for about a year!!! And it worked. Read on to find out what it is : )

Step 1: Gather your supplies – 12x12 patterned papers, white tissue/ vellum paper and a few embellishments, like thickers or journaling tags. You’ll also need a sewing machine, a crop-a-dile or hole punch and a hair tie or fun elastic: )

Step 2: Cut the 12x12 papers in half and mark the center.

Step 3: Sew over the line that you’ve just drawn to bind the pages together.

Step 4: Now fold the pages – and the base for your minialbum is done! I know, it’s not a big deal but quite handy when you need a quick mini such as a notebook or mini album. The fun part is about to come.

Step 5: Cut the hair tie or elastic like in the picture.

Step 6: We are going to attach the hearband to thelast page. In order to do this, I've made that part of the page stronger by adding a stripe of paper and sewed over it few times.

Step 7: Now punch two holes at the top and bottom of the back page, insert the eyelet and one end of the hairband – like on the picture – and bind together.

Step 8: Do the same with the other hole. It’s important that the hair tie goes in the same direction as i have shown in the picture:

I've always wanted to try this, because I like when my notebooks or agenda closes like this and holds everything together – so even if your pages are rich in embellishment, the hair tie will hold everything together : )

Step 9: To keep it simple (and easy), I've only used white tissue/copy paper and white thread for embellishing or to create layers under the photos. There are also some tags from Websters Pages Ocean Melody’s Paper (Storyteller Card Sheet II) and gold glitter alphas from AC on the front page. And finally – I’ve used a pocket with a card from Fancy Pants – Library Cards to write a simple journaling.

And here’s my finished mini album.

Have fun creating!

Lucia

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Monday, August 18, 2014

August Inspired by... Challenge

Our Inspired by... challenge is really about finding inspiration from so many different things, and in choosing what we will post as the next challenges inspiration I always consider all different sources. In light of last weeks sad news of Robin Williams passing I knew finding inspiration from him and all that he was and did was the perfect source. This past week has really shone light on how loved and inspiring he was to so many people. I chose a fun photo of him that has a lot of feeling and fun graphics. I also included one of his many inspiring quotes from him. You can take inspiration from the elements of the photo itself or find inspiration in something he did or said. Our August guest designer Lucia Barbas was beautifully inspired...

Hey everyone! Here's my page for the "Inspired by... challenge". I love EVERYTHING about it. The fact that we can remember Robin Williams even like this, the photo of him :), the quote, the black and white collage.

I got inspiration from the overall look of the collage - B&W photo and the quote written in big capital letters. So I've decided to do the same for my page. I stamped one of my favourite quotes of his (I've used clear stamp set from Amy Buttler) on a piece of paper, cut every word out and glued them on my page. I then machine stitched the words and added a photo I took this past spring when we went for a walk in a forest with my brothers - and added some layering. Pretty simple, yet quite inspiring :)

So shows us how Robin Williams inspired you! Link your layout here by August 31st and you could win an American Crafts Shimelle prize pack!

Here is how to play along:

- You can submit ANY kind of project that you were inspired to create such as layouts, cards, project life fillers

- The winner of the prize will be randomly drawn and our 3 favourite layouts be featured on the blog.

- Our challenge will run until August 31st at 11:55pm Hong Kong time.

- Link your creation below by entering a link to your blog post or online gallery sharing your work. Our InLinkz now has the ability to link your project from Instagram! so you can just snap a photo of your project and link while you share it on instagram.. so cool!

- Please no back-linking. This is for newly created projects only. Any back-links will be be disqualified.

- If you don't have a blog or online gallery, alternatively you can post a photo of your work on our facebook page. Please make sure you include " Mei Li July Inspired by... Challenge" somewhere in the post.

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Saturday, August 9, 2014

Mood Board inspiration with Lucia Barabas

Mood board created by Lucia Barabas for Mei Li Paperie

Hello girls : ) Lucia here today to share an idea about how to reuse the lovely packaging from Mei Li
Paperie – and create an inspiring (and at the same time quite handy) moodboard for your wall. When I opened the box with my goodies, I knew immediately that I HAD to reuse that paper bag! The aqua color is actually one of my favourite colors and I had quite a few ideas on what to do with it. Finally, I went for a “multifunctional moodboard” : ) Moodboard – because its purpose is to inspire you to craft. Multifunctional – because it’s not only an inspiration but also a decoration AND a mini storage space.

Here’s what I did:

I machine stitched the edges of the bag to secure it. I then placed the vellum envelopes all over the bag, added some clips, wooden mini pegs and stripes of a washi tape. All these are gonna allow me to change my moodboard whenever I want.

I positioned the envelopes and glued them down (I’ve used a wide double sided tape). I left some

space for the embellishment and started to fill the envelopes. I am SO in love with the Websters Pages Ocean Melody Paper Storyteller Card Sheet that I’ve cut all of the cards and filled the envelopes with them (that’s the storage part ; ) ). I’ve added some wood veneer and lace – lovely combination.

And finally – the embellishing!! Alphas, paper flowers, sequins, stamps ... Add whatever you want to

make it pretty and inspiring.

Have fun creating your own mood board!

Lucia

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Monday, August 4, 2014

August colour challenge

Jen here.. I just wanted to post a quick apology for this going up a day late. We have been having intermittent internet and issues with our blogging platform the past few days and couldn't get our post to go live.... so without further ado here is the colour challenge with Lucia!

Hello girls! Lucia here today to share a page I made using the August color palette and some pretty

goodies from Mei Li Paperie store.

Hello life- created by Lucia barabas for Mei Li Paperie

I think this is the second time in my scrapbooking “career” (lol) that I’m scrapping a picture of mine.

Life is amazingly awesome and I sometimes feel like scrapping an emotion or feeling. This picture

was taken on a Sunday afternoon, when me and a friend of mine went for a walk outside the city –

nothing but fresh air, wild flowers, berries and herbs, beautiful mountain in the background and a

silence of the forest. Perfect!

This page is a perfect example of my work : ) White background, sewn banners, tissue paper, layers.

Another thing I LOVE to use when crafting are things you usually throw away, like the bottom stripes

from a 12x12 pages or packaging. I think it makes a page look really original : )

So shows us how this inspired you! Link your layout here by August 17th and you could win an Websters Ocean Melody prize pack!

Here is how to play along:

- You can submit ANY kind of project that you were inspired to create such as layouts, cards, project life fillers

- The winner of the prize will be randomly drawn and our 3 favourite layouts be featured on the blog.

- Our challenge will run until August 17th at 11:55pm Hong Kong time.

- Please no back-linking. This is for newly created projects only. Any back-links will be be disqualified.

- If you don't have a blog or online gallery, alternatively you can post a photo of your work on our facebook page. Please make sure you include " Mei Li August Colour Challenge" somewhere in the post.

( We are currently experiencing some issue with our project linking system.. as of right now I just wanted to get this posted. This issue will be fixed in the next 24 hrs and probably before you are finished your project for this... please come back and link your project)

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