Notebooks

Thinking about my Sweet Niece and wanting to give her something cool to get her excited about 6th grade, I came up with notebook covers for 3-ring binders.  You know the ones I'm talking about with the clear plastic sleeve so you can slip in your own paper to personalize the notebook? Well, I used some of the digital papers I've purchased and put something together for her. 

I liked them so much I created a few others for people - my penpal's daughter, my aunt, ME! But they are so stinkin' cute! and easy to make.  What do you think? I decided not to sell them because I just didn't know what someone would spend on this?? But I do think they are snazzy. 

Seriously EASY to make.  The colored band covers up where the two types of "papers" meet, so you don't have a random rough edge there.  Add a white circle, a text box, and you are ready to go!

Otherwise, I've been busy on a scrapbook order for a friend, then I think I'll make up a few to add to my Etsy shop for any interested buyers.  My next one may be a beach theme because I have some cute papers. :) 

Mother's Day Book - #2!

This weekend I wrapped up the second Mother's Day book and I do really like it.  As the folks in my office said - it's more sophisticated than most of my other books.  This is true, but it makes sense being that it's for a mom and not a child. :)

So, what do you think??? Mommy enough without screaming great-grammy? Fill me in on what you think of it!  And view the entire shop here.

 I have to tell you - this is one of my favorite pages EVER.  

 This is my Mom's favorite page from this book. :)

So there you have it!! :)  Any thoughts?  Leave me a comment so I can keep learning and growing from the feedback.  I'm working on a baby - 15 years right now, but then what?? Baby books, baby registries, beach book? Not sure. 

Want to see my shop? It's located here!

The Perfect Gift for Weddings/Babies

Many years ago, my mom asked if I could find a registry book that a bride-to-be could take to every shower and just keep adding to the listings with each event.  Made sense, sounded like a great idea... but it was no where to be found. So, I created it. 

These have been improved over the years and are such a huge help to the bride or mom-to-be.  Each shower has its own title page to record all those details you'd want to remember many years from now.  Each shower has pages for recording the gift and giver, with a check box to mark off when Thank You notes are mailed.  There is even a section for the gifts received outside of a shower (by mail, those who missed showers, etc)  

It is really the perfect gift for anyone having a shower. Check it out! You can order a custom registry book at my store on Etsy: Pressed Clovers!

Ghoulish Custom Order! :)

I love it when you, the customer, comes up with really cool ideas for a scrapbook.  Check out this all Halloween book, where this Mom can keep all the fun costume pics together in one album.  LOVE IT! She requested for the pages to start off kid-like and get progressively scarier as her son aged.  We also added some journal pages to record all the fun from each year.  It turned out so incredibly cute just makes me want to SQUEAL! :)

Visit the Etsy shop to see the single layouts I am now selling or submit a custom order for yourself!  Ya'll come up with the best ideas! :)  Click below!

http://pressedclovers.etsy.com

Special Order Coming Right Up!

I wanted to share this custom order request from a mom in PA.  She does a scrapbook each year for her son from the beginning of the school year to the end of the school year, with all the holidays in between.  Love it! Can't you imagine how cool it will be to look back and see how he has changed year to year?

Anyway, she wanted more than one picture per page, which really helped open my eyes to doing pages outside of the one 4x6 picture like I do now.  So it was a great learning time for me, too. Please excuse these HORRIBLE pictures, they were taken with my phone and uploaded for quick approval.  The joys of not having high speed internet out in the country where I live. :)

I just thought it turned out cute and I can see a little boy's smiling face showing up all year long in these pages. :)  Those without mats she can fit two or more photos on if she trims them down.  The layouts with mats can hold a 4x6 and a 2x3.  What are you thoughts?

Mother's Day Book

I've been busy lately, which is why I haven't been blogging *obviously a good thing* when I tell you I've been busy WITH ORDERS! Woop woop!

Pressed Clovers cracks me up sometimes because I won't hear anything for ages then get several orders in a row.  This is exactly what happened in the past few weeks.  Today, I want to share with you a Mother's Day album, which I think is particularly sweet and special.

This mother has had her photo taken every year on Mother's Day since her first child was born. I can only imagine how she's changed, grown, matured, and become a grandmother at this point. So she asked for a special book to put each year's Mother's Day photo in.  Can you imagine, 50 years down the road when her little grandchild is 54, looking back over the pictures of her cherished grandmother? I love this, think it's so special.

I just thought it was so incredibly sweet and heart-touching.  I hope she loves it. :)  I'll post photos of the others soon - if I didn't already delete them (WHAT?!) I know, sometimes I'm too efficient in cleaning out my phone of pictures. (Here are more pictures - it was a 32 page book, so this doesn't cover them all, but some. Enjoy!)

Anyway - hope ya'll are having a LOVELY week, and thanks for visiting the Pressed Clovers blog! Check out the Etsy store to see new layouts I now offer on an individual basis. :)

Giveaway at Facebook!

It's a giveaway at my Facebook page!! :)  www.facebook.com/pressedclovers! I've tried my hand at paper bag scrapbooking and please understand - It's NOT perfect!! - but it is cute! I thought, what am I going to do with these as I learn? OH... I'll just give them to you. 

It is small, about 4.5" x 4.5" and has two pocket pull outs.  One half page, just to add something a bit different.  Buttons, ribbons, bling and stickers. 

All you have to do is go to Pressed Clovers' Facebook page (www.facebook.com/pressedclovers) and comment on the post that mentions this giveaway.  You don't have to follow anything or like anything (unless that's required by Facebook?? I'm not sure, now that I think about it, but I'm not requiring it!) Just comment. And I'll track you down next Monday if you are the winner!