Wednesday, June 24, 2015

It's "Hawt" Out There!

Howdy Blog Hoppers and welcome to the June Club Scrap National Parks Blog Hop...
If you want to be sure you checked out all of the great projects this month just hop on back to the Club Scrap Blog!

So I don't know about ya'll but here in the Northern Metro Atlanta area it's HOT!  I know summers in the South are usually pretty warm but for the time of the year it's been downright HOT for the last couple weeks.  Highs in the mid 90's with high humidity.  My poor Mom in Phoenix is facing temps of 114 for the next few days!!  So I made up a new word for this unbearable sticky hotness.  For those times when your undergarments are stuck to your sweaty body and sweat is running into your eyes...that's called being "HAWT".

HAWWWWWWWWWWWWWT.  You have to say it in a southern drawn out kind of whiny tone to get the full effect.  So you might be wondering what this has to do with the Blog Hop today...Well my craft room is here...
That my friends is a loft space.  Do you know the number one issue with loft spaces?  They are HAWT!  So when I need to whip up a crafty project it needs to be done with great haste!  So I grabbed some materials and set out to create.

(AJ helped to pick out today project.)

So today we are making a copy cat (ha I just said cat) of the Altered Composition Notebook from Retreat 2013.  The full directions can be found at the Club Scrap site here along with a handy video!

I gathered my notebook, 4 pieces of 8 1/2 x 11 paper and a length of ribbon from a grab bag pack and I was ready to go.

I used a piece of the National Parks 8 1/2" by 11" for the front cover and then coordinating grab bag papers for the other three sheets (I mean of course did you expect me to use all my new papers?)  All you need is a little bookbinding glue and a craft knife and you can cover your book in a jiff!

After gluing and burnishing you can flip the book over to cut carefully around the cover to remove the excess paper.

After doing this to all four sides (front and back, inside and out) I added a pocket to the inside back cover.
(This may or may not be exactly how you were supposed to make the pocket but it worked so...)

After just about 20 minutes and a little decorating you end up with this!!  Adorableness! 

(We are headed to an eco-resort on the Georgia Coast at the end of July and I plan to take it along to do a little journaling.) 

So this month I'm offering a random prize to someone who replies to my blog.  Club Scrap accidentally sent me someone elses GHM order in my box this month and said I could keep it so I'm going to turn around and give it to one of you lucky readers.  It includes 1 Irresistible Stencil, 2 Blues Lite Suede Papers, 1 Blues Treble Clef Pins, 1 Double Sided Stamp Scrubber, and 1 pack of ink applicators.  Pretty nifty huh?  I'll have the cats draw a random number to pick a winner.  All replies entered before Sunday June 28th at 8pm will be entered to win.

Finally here is a little farewell from MaryAnne who lays in this position because she's HAAAWWWT! (She's cooling her lady parts)
Stay cool my crafty friends and hop across the pond to Hetty's Blog!





 

27 comments:

  1. What a fun idea! Quick, easy and useable. Thanks for sharing

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  2. Love your altered composition book and of course your helpful fur child.

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  3. Love your book and always love your writing!!

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  4. Sorry that your part of the country is soooo HAAAWT, hopefully it will cool down soon. Love the quick to do project, especially when it is so HAWT in our craft spaces at this time of the year. :)

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  5. That project is HAAAAWT. AJ is HAWWWWT. You are HAAAWT! Thanks for the inspiration and giggles, as always!

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  6. LOL Janet I love your posts! This altered comp book came out great and as always your helpers are too cute! Stay cool my friend.

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  7. What a great journal to capture thoughts and memories from a national park trip. Thanks for sharing.

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  8. Great job! I will recuse myself from your drawing because "members of the immediate family are not eligible to participate and win." But I love your comp book!
    Beth (aka Mom)

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  9. You are so kind to gift the items you received, I am sending your cat vibes to pick me! Lovely journal and don;t you just love how you can pick from so many kits to add to the newest one?

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  10. What a COOL idea for a COOL project. You are one COOL cat! Think COOL thoughts and enjoy your eco-resort vacay. I can't wait to read about it in your COOL journal!

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  12. I can't imagine the humidity (thank God!)! Great notebook, Janet.

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  13. Girl, it's HAWT here too! Louisiana is purty steamy. Love that 20 min project!

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  14. Great project, Janet and in a juffy! Thanks AJ for picking this.

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  15. Great project!!! I understand HAWT! Although I now live in Idaho I am a transplant who grew up in Louisiana and then after marriage several states on the east coast and south!!! I am totally happy not to be HAWT anymore!!! We use to say "that's how the ladies make the money" when out bassette hound would lay like that!!

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  16. Cute! Cute! Cute! Your project is cute too! I love that project too. It looks so great using National Parks!

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  17. What a nifty project! I love it :) Have fun on your trip!

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  18. Cute Journal, the pocket is a great addition! I love journals now I know how to make and customize my own. I love reading your blog. It cracks me up and I need a good chuckle every now and again.

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    1. Hi Retta, you were the winner of my blog hop prize pack! Could you send me your shipping info at janetmojo at gmail dot com?

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  19. Wonderful project that looks great with these papers.

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  20. Perfect project for your vacation journaling! Poor kitty -- hope it cools off for her soon! Have a great day!

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  21. I SO empathize with the HAWT you are experiencing. And I don't even need the outside temps to be up to experience my personal summers :)
    I love your journal and wish you a happy, restful and COOL vacation. TFS!
    Melanie

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  22. I live in the Pacific NW (not normally known as the bed of America) but we've had unseasonably hot weather the last few weeks and the heat index for this weekend is 120 degrees!!!! I was foresighted enough to check the weather forecast a couple of weeks ago and got us 2 nights at the beach. Everything is full now. I will be taking this project with us to keep the kids occupied in the evening. It will be a good get-ready-for-school project, one that's simple enough for even the youngest to do. Thanks for the great idea.
    PS: I was able to whine when I typed and wrote
    HAWWWWWWWWWWWWWT, but couldn't pull off the Southern whine to go with it.

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  23. What a wonderful journal! Will work perfect for your costal getaway.

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  24. very nice project. 49 years ago yesterday it was 103 or so in Washington DC and I gave birth to my first child.After being home a day my husband decided we needed an air conditioner in our third story apartment. Up tp that point he could not understand why he came home to a cranky wife. Men!

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  25. What a great project - I am always trying to repurpose partially used composition books, and covering them with Club Scrap paper is an excellent idea. Thanks for the chance to win!

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  26. How rich that journal now looks!!! Definely great idea to do with teenagers and adults alike which might inspire people to use the composition books!

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