BlueMoon Scrapbooking: Guest Designer Tammy Tutterow

We are so excited to have our first guest DT. Drum roll please....

Tammy Tutterow!

She has created a totally beautiful 7gypsies Library Drawer.

Here's a little background on Tammy.

"I am a lifelong artist and crafter. My mother was a professional artist for many years so I grew up surrounded by art and hobby supplies. I love all types of crafts but find my true crafting passion in papercrafts, ribbonwork, and sewing. I love to combine elements of all three into my projects.

I have been an instructor and project designer in the papercraft/scrapbook industry for more than 5 years. I have been fortunate to work for many top manufacturers including: Tim Holtz, BasicGrey, ProvoCraft/Cricut, Prima Marketing, Therm O Web, Glitz Design, and Pink Paislee. My work has been published in several books, magazines, and product catalogs and has been featured on television. My classes have been offered at stores, conventions, and online on both my own blog and at Big Picture Classes.

When I am not creating, I am a wife and mother of three who loves anyting and everything shabby, chippy, and vintage. I love to scour flea markets for old treasures. I am also a fair weather gardener so if the spring breezes are blowing, you will probably find me playing in the dirt in my flower garden."

Because I love to make "stuff" I 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.

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.

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.

The beginning of the happiness project is the Library Drawer which I covered with the text side of the 7gypsies Conservatory 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.

7gypsies Conservatory patterned paper: Butterfly, Aviary
7gypsies Conservatory Chipboard Alphas and Numerals
7gypsies Rubbings: Nomenclature (image colored with markers)
7gypsies Optical Lens
7gypsies Hardware: Gears Gems
7gypsies Mini Gypsies Ephemera Cards
Jenni Bowlin Family Tree Journaling Cards
Crafty Secrets Vintage Photos Double Sided Creative Scraps
Maya Road Vintage Trinket Pins: Green Leaf
Prima Marketing Butterflies: Papillon
Prima Marketing flowers
Making Memories Tiny Alpha Stickers
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Trimmings (colored with Glimmer Mist)
Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Walnut Stain
Tim Hotz Distress Crackle Paint: Clear Rock Candy
Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher

7gypsies Conservatory patterned paper: Flora, Magpie, Aviary
7gypsies Rubbings: Nomenclature
Crafty Secrets Vintage Photos Double Sided Creative Scraps (colored with markers)
Maya Road Vintage Trinket Pins: Green Leaf
Making Memories Tiny Alpha Stickers
Prima Marketing flowers
Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Walnut Stain

7gypsies Conservatory patterned paper: Flora, Feather, Aviary
Crafty Secrets Vintage Photos Double Sided Creative Scraps
Maya Road Vintage Trinket Pins: Green Leaf
Webster's Pages Scrapbooking Ribbon: Dusty Blue
Prima Marketing flowers
Prima Marketing Butterflies: Papillon (inked with Stormy Sky Distress Ink)
Making Memories Tiny Alpha Stickers
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Mini Pins
Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Walnut Stain
Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher

7gypsies Conservatory patterned paper: Butterfly, Aviary
Crafty Secrets Vintage Photos Double Sided Creative Scraps (colored with markers)
Maya Road Vintage Trinket Pins: Green Leaf
Prima Marketing flowers
Making Memories Tiny Alpha Stickers
Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Walnut Stain

7gypsies Conservatory patterned paper: Butterfly, Aviary
7gypsies Mini Gypsies Ephemera Cards
Jenni Bowlin Family Tree Journaling Cards
Maya Road Vintage Trinket Pins: Green Leaf
Prima Marketing flowers
Webster's Pages Scrapbooking Ribbon: Dusty Blue
Jillibean Soup Pasta Fagioli Corrugated Shapes
Making Memories Tiny Alpha Stickers
Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Walnut Stain
Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher

7gypsies Conservatory patterned paper: Butterfly, Aviary, Flora
7gypsies Rubbings: History (image colored with markers)
Crafty Secrets Vintage Photos Double Sided Creative Scraps
Maya Road Vintage Trinket Pins: Green Leaf
Prima Marketing flowers
Jillibean Soup Pasta Fagioli Corrugated Shapes
Making Memories Tiny Alpha Stickers
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Mini Clips
Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Walnut Stain
Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher

7gypsies Conservatory patterned paper: Aviary, Feather
7gypsies Mini Gypsies Ephemera Cards
Crafty Secrets Vintage Photos Double Sided Creative Scraps
Maya Road Vintage Trinket Pins: Green Leaf
Prima Marketing flowers
Making Memories Tiny Alpha Stickers
Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Walnut Stain
Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher

7gypsies Conservatory patterned paper: Butterfly, Aviary
7gypsies Hardware: Gears Gems
7gypsies Mini Gypsies Ephemera Cards
Maya Road Vintage Trinket Pins: Green Leaf
Prima Marketing flowers
Making Memories Tiny Alpha Stickers
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Trimmings (colored with Glimmer Mist)
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Mini Clips
Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Walnut Stain
Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher

7gypsies Conservatory patterned paper: Butterfly, Aviary
7gypsies Mini Gypsies Ephemera Cards
Jenni Bowlin Family Tree Journaling Cards
Prima Marketing flowers
Jillibean Soup Pasta Fagioli Corrugated Shapes
Making Memories Tiny Alpha Stickers
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Trimmings (colored with Glimmer Mist)
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Memo Pin
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Mini Clips
Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Walnut Stain

7gypsies Conservatory patterned paper: Flora, Aviary
7gypsies Mini Gypsies Ephemera Cards
Maya Road Vintage Trinket Pins: Green Leaf
Prima Marketing flowers
Jillibean Soup Pasta Fagioli Corrugated Shapes
Making Memories Tiny Alpha Stickers
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Mini Clips
Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Walnut Stain

7gypsies Conservatory patterned paper: Feather, Aviary
Jenni Bowlin Family Tree Journaling Cards
Crafty Secrets Vintage Photos Double Sided Creative Scraps (colored with markers)
Maya Road Vintage Trinket Pins: Green Leaf
Prima Marketing flowers
Jillibean Soup Pasta Fagioli Corrugated Shapes
Making Memories Tiny Alpha Stickers
Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Walnut Stain
Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher