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Welcome! Today is the last of the Scrapbooking series. Hope you have been enjoying some of the new ideas I've come up with. I really enjoyed working on these two albums. I used some of the "Neutrals Designer Series Pack Stack" (138435) in this album. I love the new DSP stacks from this year. You can the page on the left below, where I used the Smoky Slate paper. On the right, the large 7 x 5 photo is attached to the narrow flap, so that when you lift it there are more photos revealed behind it. (the grasses you see at the bottom were stamped with the grass from "Wetlands" (126697) in alternating colours.
In the photo below, the right page has two bows tied with double "Linen Thread". When you untie these and lift up the tag end (one on the bottom & one at the top), more photos are revealed. I used the "Layered Letters Alphabet" (138692) on the right, popped up with dimensionals. I'm sure I will be using that technique again.
The page on the I used the beautiful "Bordering Blooms" set (133660) again, and on the right, below, is an accordion page.
You can see here how I made a larger photo spread across the fold of the page. I also used scrap strips on the right of the photo. Faux stitching always looks wonderful in albums as well as on cards.
On the inside of the accordion page, the left has the word "Smile" stamped on from a retired stamp set and is a flap that lifts up to reveal more photos. On the right you see the word 'Joy". this was die cut using the"wonderful Wreath Framelits" set.
If you have two very different colours being used from one page to another, I like to try and find a way to connect them. On this occasion I used stars. On the left are stars stamped from a retired stamp set, and on the right I used the "Star Framelits" (133723). I took a sheet of regular paper and die cut stars from it to use as a stencil and stamped text into the star shape.
Below, on the left, you see overlapping tabs created with the Envelope Punch Board (133774) with a heart stamped with "Groovy Love" (134246) and punched out with the "Sweetheart Punch" (133786). Behind the heart is a magnet to help keep the overlapping tab closed. And it looks like I didn't get a photo of them opened. Wonder how I missed that? I guess I was in a hurry...
On the right I used the "Chevron Border Punch" (132154) on a strip from the "Sweet Li'l Things DSP" (138447) and used some of the punched out bits on the cardstock flap pointing to the month stamped on using "Project Life Day to Day" (135785). The letters are from the same alphabet stamp mentioned earlier, and are the initials of the two in the hidden photo.
You might be wondering why I stopped at the month of August. Well I didn't. I just was unable to get photos of the rest before leaving for Phoenix. I did complete it up through November except for the US Thanksgiving celebrations. And, since December hadn't happened yet, that too is missing from the album. My plan is to complete those pages and send them off later.
So there you have some different scrapbooking ideas that combine scrapbooking and mini-album techniques. Thanks for joining me in viewing this series.
Happy creating & stamping!
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OK, this is part 4 of the series, but today I'm showing you an 8 x 8 album that I made for my eldest son's family in Phoenix. In Part One of this series I explained how I got these retired Stampin' Up! 2013 Christmas 8 x 8 albums. I wish Stampin' Up! made this size regularly, but as you saw in Part one through three, you can still make larger pages for the current albums.
So this is how I made most of the pages for this sized album.
Each page consists of using an entire 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of cardstock .
- Punched three holes to line up with the rings along one of the 8 1/2" sides.
- If you
want the flap on the right (front), flip to the back side with holes on
right, 11" across top, and score at 8 3/4". If you want the flap on the
left (or back) place with holes on the left, 11" across top, and score at 2 1/4".
- I didn't use much DSP (Designer Series Paper) on these pages and opted instead to do more stamping. With this size of page you would go through a Lot of DSP. But when you do use it, keep in mind your paper pattern.
- Using scraps of cardstock and DSP works very well. Even narrow strip work great and can be stamped on with little sentiments.
On many of the narrow flaps I added additional parts to it for more photos, etc., as you see in the next two photos below.
As in my previous album, I also added photo flaps on the page itself as you see in the next photo. I used the Envelope Punch Board to create the tab.
The next two photos show a much larger addition to the side flap.
I love adding stamps onto the photos. It adds a little something...
A few different ideas on this next page layout, and I used some DSP here. See the little booklet on the left...
...it opens up to reveal a couple of photos. After all these years I still love the look of the faux stitching.
I also created a pocket using DSP, placed a photo on it, and three more photos on the tag inside. Two smaller photos on the front of the tag, and a large on the back, that I did not take a photo of.
I used DSP leftover strips on this tag.
It seems that I forgot to take a picture of the page on the left below as it opens up to the left revealing a 16" spread. Don't know why I forgot to do that? Oh well.
I love the Black & White photo of the page on the right. Working with black and white photos makes creating pages of an album so much easier since you can use the same colours throughout the entire album without worries of matching up colours that go well with colour photos. That might be something to consider...doing an entire album using just black & white photos.
Tomorrow I will continue with the rest of this album. See you then! You can see what I used for this entire album below, excluding colour of cardstock and inks. I did use some retired stamp sets as well which do not appear below.
Happy Stamping!
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Hello everyone! I'm back from visiting family in Phoenix and had an absolutely wonderful time.
Today, and over the next few days, I will be focusing on scrapbooking. I created a couple of scrapbooks for my eldest son's family and for my youngest daughter. These are Christmas gifts that I brought with me and they opened on US Thanksgiving day. I wanted to see their reactions rather than have them wait for Christmas when I wouldn't be there.
I have been searching for the last year or so for a better way to scrapbook. The 12 x 12 format I am finding too large for my liking these days. Besides I was getting too elaborate with these pages and they were so thick that I couldn't get many pages into the 12 x 12 albums. The scrapbooks end up so heavy as well. I went to pocket scrapbooking (Project Life) and while I like that, it just wasn't me. So I looked into 8 x 8 scrapbooking.
When I first signed up with Stampin' Up! just over a year ago, I was able to purchase two retired 2013 Christmas albums. One I created using the pocket scrapbooking sleeves and of which was unable to get photos of before leaving. I had to combine the pocket pages from two into one, plus purchase additional sleeves elsewhere, which left one album without page sleeves.
I also Purchased two Stampin' Up! Project Life Kraft Albums (139655), which I love! I also love Mini-Albums, but the one disadvantage is the time it takes to create the album cover, and you can't add pages to it.
I finally came up with an idea that might work better for me. So over the next few days I will be showing you what I have done, and perhaps this is something you would like as well.
Let's begin with the pages I created for the Stampin' Up! Project Life Kraft Albums (139655).
Each page consists of using an entire 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of cardstock trimmed down slightly.
- Trim cardstock down to 8 1/4" x 11.
- I then punched two holes (at 2" & 6 1/4").
- If you want the flap on the right (front), flip to the back side with holes on right, 11" across top, and score at 4 1/4". If you want the flap on the left (or back) place with holes on the left, 11" across top, and score at 6 3/4".
- Take your choice of 12 x 12 DSP (designer series paper) and cut off 6" keeping in mind your paper pattern.
- Cut that same piece with 12'' across, at 8". This gives you two pieces. (one at 4 x 8, and one at 4 x 4)
- With the remainder piece (8 x 12) cut with 12" across at 6". This gives you two pieces at 6" x 8".
This is what your pages will look like.
Now let me show you what I did with my youngest daughter's photos from her trip to Hawaii with her dad January 2015. As there are several pages, I will be showing them to you over the next few days. Let's begin with the first few.
For the title page I chose a beautiful photo my daughter took of one of the beaches. This one happens to have been used in the movie "100 First Dates". I like to have an 1/8" white border around my photos which adds a pop to them whether I mat them or not.
I used a "Window Sheet" cut down to 6 3/4" x 8 1/4" and the "Layered Letters Alphabet" (138692) and Project Life "Day to Day" (135785), for the year numbers, with White StazOn Ink (106960).
I decided to use my Stampin' Up! Stamping Sponges (101610) to add colour to each of the page edges.
On the left I create a space where my daughter could write a basic itinerary of the day to day activities while there. That writing space is created with two Project Life "Grid Cards" (136528) and a few different Project life stamp sets.
As this is the first page, with the a flap, I didn't put photos on it but rather decorated it with a number of stamps on a "Note Tag Punch" and a narrow strip.
Let's open that flap, shall we...
It was great fun using all those stamp sets in the scrapbooking style! I highly recommend the use of your stamps! Here are some of the rest of the pages. (Remember, I will be showing you more another day.) You will have excuse some of the photos as some are not clear. I had to take the photos very quickly, just hours before leaving, and didn't realize that the settings had somehow changed on my camera. And since I'm uploading and posting after having given the albums away, I can't retake the photos.
Well, I hope you enjoyed the album so far and are looking forward to more pages to be shared with you.
Thank you for stopping by to have a look, and Happy Stamping! See you soon with More!
Here is what I used throughout the entire album (except for the colours of ink pads and coloured cardstock used. You will be choosing your own colours.
Find out which 2015 Holiday Catalogue items will soon be gone! You have until January 4th to purchase RETIRING products while supplies last!
Here is the link to the Holiday Retiring List.
A friend of mine asked me to make an Anniversary card to give his dear wife for their 47th Wedding Anniversary. I know she likes blue, and I wanted to stay away from autumn colours but still wanted to use the "Lighthearted Leaves" stamp set.
As you can see I did do a fair bit of fussy cutting (I don't have the "Leaflets" Framelits yet). I'm kind of wishing I had arranged the leaves a little differently now, but.... In the photo below you can see that the only thing popped up is the gold oval frame over/around the sentiment. The sequins add a bit of shine and accents in hearts and circles.
And, of course the inside... more fussy cut leaves that were trimmed once adhered.
For this card, I decided to decorate the envelope a bit, since it would be given directly to the recipient.
The sentiments on the front of the card were taken from two different "Hostess Stamp Sets". (Photos seen here and only available if you host a party/workshop)
Hope you found some inspiration from this card creation.
Happy stamping & creating!
