Mini Album Mania

Welcome to July 1 and its time for another Mini Album Mania Challenge!!!

I have a cool album for you today. But IMHO my project is more like a book.

I can see this as a book of recipes, a journal of sorts, a spot to record memories or whatever you can dream up. Can you picture a book of your fav recipes to give to your BFF. What a great gift. I'm sure you can come up with other great ideas for this book/album

 I had some press images laying around so I used them in this book, but as I said before this book has many possibilities. OK OK Let me share with you some pics of my project!!

Book Front

Page 1

Book Page 2 and page 3

Book Page 4 and 5

Book Page 6 and 7

Book page 12 and 13

Book page 18 and 19

Here is the spine of this book

There are many more pages in my book/album but they are not decorated yet so I didn't include them here on my blog, who wants to look at a bunch of blank pages. LOL

As you noticed I skipped some pages as well. Those are blank and I felt you would not be interested in those blank pages.

The smaller dark pages are the center of each folded page that helps hold the pages and ultimately the book together. (I know..... clear as mud - LOL)

I found this book design online and after I watched the video a few times I thought this design was really cool. It's called Accordion Hinge Album and the video is about 13 minutes long. Tutorial is done very well. Click on the link if you like albums, books. And the great thing about it is, this takes very little time to make.

I added chipboard to the front and back and covered it with that embossed cardstock and added a decorative BetterPress pressed image to the front for added interest.

For the front and back covers, I used watercolor paper and lightly spritzed it with water and then placed it in the embossing folder and ran it thru my Big Shot. I think that made the embossed image really stand out.  

Products used:

Paper/CS -Card stock, Chip board, Watercolor paper

Dies - Spellbinders - Ovals

Spellbinders BetterPress Letterpress die images - Diamond Avery, Rose Bouquet, Corner Sunflowers, Pressed Bouquet, Flutter Into Spring

Ink - Spellbinder -BetterPress Black Ink

Watercolors  and Water Brush to color

Embossing folder

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you enjoyed my project and gives you some ideas. I'll be back soon

Merry Christmas

 WOW July 1 is already here and we are halfway thru the year!!! Well it's time for the next Merry Little Christmas Challenge. This challenge runs July 1 thru August 31. 

This challenge is a great place you to get ideas and enter the challenge and share your designs with others.

My project for this challenge is kind of simple. Just a corrugated piece from a box, some die cuts - pine trees a deer and a stamped sentiment. Pretty quick and easy. Hope you like this one

The card is a 5X7, 1st layer is using gold CS 4 3/4" X 6 3/4" The 2nd layer is 5 1/2" X 6 1/2" using that white/cream CS. Next is the corrugated piece and I placed the pine tree die cuts on top of that corrugated piece. Added a gold deer die cut. The sentiment is gold heat embossed on an oval white/cream CS and layered on a slightly larger oval using gold CS

Products used:

Paper/CS - Corrugated piece from a box lid, Gold CS, Cream/White CS

Dies - Creek Bank Creations - Woodland Animals Die; Sizzix Thinlits Tim Holtz Alterations -Woodlands; Spellbinders - Ovals

Stamp - Hero Arts - Christmas Messages Clear

Versa Mark - Clear

Embossing Powder - Gold

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you enjoyed my project and gives you some ideas. I'll be back soon

MEOW

Welcome to July and the new challenge over at Love To Scrap. The challenge runs from July 1 thru August 31

Love To Scrap is a fun challenge, welcoming all types of scrapped projects - cards, scrapbook layouts, ATCs, mixed media, altered items, 3-D projects, etc. - using bits of leftover items in your stash or new stuff!

Well that leaves it wide open as far as what you can use. 

Some of you that know me, know I love cats. I only have 3, but I love all cats, wish I could have more but......3 is enough for now. (LOL) Anyway, I saw this cat stamp and it begged me to buy it so I did (HAHAHA). I have finally got around to using it and I hope you enjoy my project.

The card is a 5X7 on cream/white CS and I used a DP scrap piece for my layer.  Added a piece of corrugated box lid for interest. Next I stamped that cute kitty and cut around the cat and the fur and whiskers to make sure those elements stayed. I have an old paw print stamp so I added it as a border and the sentiment came last but not least. I also have a peg stamp that adds some dots and used that to finish this cutie!!

Products I used.

Stamp (Cat and sentiment) - Pink Ink Designs - Fabulous Feline; Paw - Old & unknown

Paper/CS - Cream/White CS,  DP; Cardboard corrugated from a box

Ink - VersaFine CLAIR - Nocturne & Morning Mist

Fine watercolor brush to stroke the Morning Mist onto the body of cat

Dotted Peg Stamp - Stamps by Judith

Oval Shape - Spellbinders Die

3M Foam dots

Well my cats have meowed their approval on this one. Hope you enjoyed my project and I'd love to see your project submitted in the challenge.

Thanks for stopping in and I will be back soon.

Thank You

Welcome to July and it's time for a new challenge over at the Birthstone Challenge for the July/August months. The colors for this challenge are Ruby Red and/or Peridot with an option of Thank You.

I decided to use a pretty peridot color for the main card layer on my 5X7 card. I have a new embossing folder from Spellbinders and since it has a leaf design I felt it was a good fit for the stamped flower image. Next I added 2 rectangles to accent the flower, which is the main focal point of the card. Those rectangles have some green and  pink color brushed on just to add some further interest.

Products used: Cream/White CS, Peridot Colored CS, Spellbinders embossing folder - Scattered Tropics, Rectangle Layers - White /Cream CS with Memento Angel Pink and Pistachio inks brushed on, The flower is Impression Obsession  Dot Flowers. I stamped additional blossoms and shaped and layered them on top of the base flowers with pop dots. Sentiment is Simple Sayings -Tim Holtz/ Stampers Anonymous, stamped using VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne

Hope you like this sweet card and we'd love to see your submission for this challenge.

Thanks for dropping in and I will see you next time