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12/13/2010

Happiness Project: 7gypsies Library Drawer Project

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I recently had the pleasure of being invited to be a guest designer for Blue Moon Scrapbooking.  I have a serious love of all things 7gypsies and think Blue Moon has one of the best 7g selections online.  I guess it won't come as a surprise that when asked what I would like to use for my project I immediately said 7gypsies Conservatory collection.

Because I love to make "stuff" I also decided I wanted to create a project featuring a 7gypsies Library Drawer.  I really love the alterable items from 7gypsies and had really been looking forward to an opportunity to create a special project with one.

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The box comes with a set of tabbed divider cards.  Last year I joined in on a One Little Word for the year.  With the new year quickly approaching I have been thinking about what my next word would be.  After a lot of thought, I finally decided it should be happiness.  With that choice I knew that I wanted to create a special project that I could use to document my focus on finding and celebrating happiness in my life.  

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I decided that throughout the year I would make little art cards on 4x6 index cards that I could file in my happiness project.  I used the tabbed index cards that were included with the box to create themed sections for my drawer.  The art cards may be fancy, they may be super simple, they may even just have some hand journaling- I think it will just depend on the moment.  The goal will be to look in my life and the world around me and capture the little things that bring me happiness.

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The beginning of the happiness project is the Library Drawer which I covered with the text side of the Mesofauna patterned paper.  Tucked in my goody box of supplies were some Wonderfall journaling cards by Websters Pages.  One of them had the phrase "All My Happiness" which was perfect to cut out and add to the top of the drawer pull.  I added Distress Ink (Walnut Stain) and Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint to give it an aged effect.

I decorated each divider card with assorted embellishments to go along the card's theme.  Each card has a small strip of patterned paper with a phrase or quote appropriate to the category.  I used a vintage typewriter that is sentimental to me to create the text.

Below are all of my tabbed index cards along with the supplies included on each one.

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Home1

Family1

Vintage1

Blooms1

Treats1

Places1

Words1

Songs1

People1

Random1 

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In the upcoming days I will sharing each card again with close up of photos and details about each card.  I hope you will check in each day to see a bit more about the different parts of this project.  I really love it and am excited to share more about it with you!

Posted at 08:00 AM in 7gypsies, copic markers, crinkled seam binding, guest designer, happiness project, jenni bowlin studio, maya road, prima marketing, ranger ink, therm o web, tim holtz: distress ink, tim holtz: idea-ology, tim holtz: tonic |

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