Mixed-Media Travel Journal {Michael’s Scrapbook Challenge}

As promised, here’s the mixed-media travel journal I created for the Make Every Moment Count Scrapbook Challenge sponsored by Michael’s. I had so much fun playing with the Heidi Swapp Color Shine collection! I was very impressed with the Color shine sprays. The colors are so saturated and very glitzy. Lots of glimmer and sparkle with just a few quick spritzes. The bottles never clogged, which I’ve found to be an issue with other similar products, and I was even able to layer the colors easily. I love the subtle hint of gold on the chevron resist cardstock and I think the flowers are gorgeous! I added a bit of gold sequin trim for an extra bit of sparkle, and a Polaroid-style frame from Heidi Swapp is the perfect finishing touch.

I discovered these fun canvas stickers at Michael’s and thought they would be perfect to spritz with some Color Shine! I used the gold for the banner under the photo on the travel journal. I have a feeling I will be spritzing everything in sight with this fun product! Many thanks to Michael’s for sponsoring this challenge! Be sure to check out michaels.com for more inspiration and ideas!

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I have a complicated relationship with my embroidery needles. Which is a fancy way of saying I don’t really take care of my needles at all. Even though I know I have embroidery needles to use for cross stitch and sewing, needles that are certainly still in their packages, I can rarely find them when I need them.

So when I saw this post from Crewel Ghoul about how to store your embroidery needles, it hit close to home for me.

It doesn’t really say anything I didn’t already know, but it is good advice that might also serve as a reminder for you to take better care of your needles when you cross stitch or do other hand-sewing projects so that you’ll be able to find your needles again when you need them.

It would help me a lot if I had a dedicated place to keep needles I’m not using, including the needles that are still in their packages from when I bought them. You’d think I would keep them with my embroidery floss but apparently you would be mistaken about that.

Another good idea for me is to have a place to put needles I’ve been using when I am done with them. Because goodness knows I’m not going to put them back in the package. (Which may actually be a good thing because then I know which one I’ve been using and which ones are fresh. Not that I replace my needles regularly, but still.) I own pincushions but I don’t really use them for anything, which is silly.

Check out the post at Crewel Ghoul to see all the options available for storing your embroidery needles properly. I’d love to hear what you do, especially if you have a better system than I do (which, honestly, would be any system at all).

[Photo: Crewel Ghoul]

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