I Love Lucy Blog Hop

Happy Weekend! Welcome to the I Love Lucy Blog Hop hosted by Abby over at Scrapbookaholic By Abby! If you have just come by to see me, thank you! You can go here to start the hop and see all the fantastic I Love Lucy projects! If you have been hopping along than you have just come from Jess' Blog... I am the last stop on your journey... You have, no doubt, seen from fabulous work during your hop, and I am hoping that my project ends your hop with a BANG! I had fun working on it and it just came together so well... So without further ado... my project:

We all were assigned an episode from the I Love Lucy show to use as inspiration for our project. The episode I had was, "The Charm School". It was quite humorous with such a great moral of the story... being that Ricky & Fred loved their wives just the way they were...

I decided to make a fun little mini book for our coffee table that shows my relationship with my husband and how he truly loves me for me...

I used Echo Park's Be Mine Collection... I antiqued all my papers using Distress Ink, Vintage Photo, and a fun little trick with my Multi-Medium from the Claudine Hellmuth Studio Line. I used my Multi-Medium to adhere all my paper to my chipboard book. What I did to get such a great aged look is that I tinted my Multi-Medium with some of my Studio Paints by Claudine Hellmuth. Here is how you can use your Multi-Medium for mini albums... I warn you, once you start playing with Multi-Medium... you never turn back!

I get to say now that I know someone who took a class from Tim Holtz... I got the above idea from his tag creations! Taking the Bird Cage Alterations die and cutting of the sides to make a skirt... just brilliant!

This is a fun spinner that I got a long time ago... It is made my Cosmo Cricket. I thought it was perfect for my book because know matter how I am at times... my husband loves me for me!

As I was creating my project I started to think about how a scrapbooker could really learn tried & true lessons from watching the I Love Lucy show... they are:

As Ricky Ricardo says, "Lucy, Splain Yourself!"

To a Scrapbooker this translates to...

You have got to journal!

When a mistake has been made call out"Ai Yi Yi Yi Yi!:

and when all else fails, through your hands to your side and cry out like Lucille Ball does so many times throughout the shows! lol...

I hope you have had fun hoping along... and have left a comment on everyone's blogs in order to be in the running for Abby's giveaways! Have a happy and fun filled weekend!