Binder Album - Schoolhouse - Page 6 & 7

Continuing on with the Schoolhouse DSP Album pages, we are looking at pages 6 & 7 today.

First off, the 'life is good' flap, if you look closely you will see that it is embossed with the "Elegant Dots" folder giving a tactile texture to this page layout. the other panels & flaps you see have a faux stitch around the edge. On these you may place your photos, or if you wish, add embellishing elements.

Upon opening the magnetic flap there is a place for a photo to cover the magnet, a little journaling spot, and another magnet to cover with another photo.

That gray flap opens and is spaced for a larger photo that would need to be cut in half to fit within the folded space. When doing this, you must leave close to 1/8" space so that the flap can close and lay properly.

When we have a look at page 7, and open the flap on the right, there are three photo mats for 3 x 4 or wallet sized photos. On the inside of the flap overhanging mat, I took the smallest Clear Block (A), inked it, and stamped a pattern.

Here you see it close up.

To see pages 1 through 3, click here; pages 4 & 5, click here.
Hope you are getting some ideas for creating your album layouts. Thank you for stopping by to have a look.

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Binder Album - Schoolhouse - Page 4 & 5

Last Wednesday, I showed you pages 1, 2 & 3 of this album. Today you'll see pages 4 & 5. You'll remember that I mentioned using the "Schoolhouse" DSP.

If you take a close look on the right page, on the tab that has "sweet moments" stamped on it, you can barely see the circles that are stamped in the background. I'm bringing your attention to it now, because you won't see it again.

Let's talk about the left page now, and the flaps that you see. The circle is attached in a way that photos can be tucked under it if wished, or left as is.

When you lift the flaps you can add more photos on the inside with a large portrait one in the center. Notice that the stamped "L" is in the correct position for reading when the flap is opened, upside down from the one on the front. It also has a magnet in between the circle layers.

With the right page flap open, there is a nice stamped card made for journaling.

In between the left and right flap, another flap can be opened for more photos. The photo that is on the base, is larger than the ones that are on the two sides of the flap. This will be quite effective when the photos are on it. This larger one will have a strip cur off to position on the other side of the fold on the right flap.

Close up of the journaling flap.

If you have any questions about these two pages, email me and I'll answer them as best as I can for you.

Some of the stamps used are current, and others are retired.

Happy Scrapbooking!

Binder Album - Schoolhouse - Page 1, 2 & 3

For last Saturday's Album class, I made another album to show the class more photo matting variations for that size of album. Rather than showing you the entire album, I will be showing you a double page layout at a time. Today's post also include the single first page of the album.

The first page flap can be used for the album title. or it could include a photo on the Pool Party mat with the title added below.

Opening the front flap reveals a 4 5/8"w x 6"h mat that actually opens to more space for photos. It has a magnet closure and the magnet seen will be covered with a photo.

When the first page is turned over the 2nd and 3rd page spread is revealed. The 2 x 2 photo is the star for this layout, and you can see that each mat can be flipped open for more space.

There are even some journaling spots.

When that flap is flipped open there are now mats for wallet sized photos, and a  journaling place on the inside of the flap.

To create these pages for the Stampin' Up! Project Life 6 x 8 Albums:

• Trim down your 8 1/2" x 11" cardstock to 8 1/4" x 11".
• With the length across the top of your score board, score at 5/8" & 7 1/4"
• Fold using your bone folder.
• Using double sided adhesive tape, attach the 5/8" to the main part of the page.
• Measure where you need to have your holes within that 5/8" strip and punch.

If you wish to attach DSP:

• Take your 12 x 12 DSP and turn the top of the pattern/page to the left and trim at 8"
• That same piece, turn the pattern/top again to the top and trim at 6". That should give you two pieces that measure 6'w x 8"h.
• The remaining 4" piece trim down to 3 7/8" 0r 3 3/4" (your choice).
• Next, with the length cross ways, trim at 8". This gives one piece at 3 7/8" (or 3 3/4") x 8", and one piece at 3 7/8" (or 3 3/4") x 4".

Then there are a variety of ways to showcase your photos.

I will be showing you more page layouts over the next month.

Thank you for stopping by today, and happy creating!

Sneak Peek - Going Places DSP & Going Global Series - Part 5

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For this last card that I made with the "Going Places DSP" and "Going Global" stamp set I was able to get five scrapbooking cards. Four are just the DSP, and the 5th is pieced. I also decided to see if I could create a 9 1/4" x 4" long card using the 6 x 6 DSP stack. I of course had to piece it and it wasn't a perfect job.

You can see better in this close up that I wasn't careful enough, because once that Tear & Tape is down, it's hard to peal back and reposition.  I focused more on the Tip Top Taupe colour for this one..

TIP: For those of you that have never tried to have a cut shape within a shape, the best way to get the inner shape to line up or center within another, is to die cut or punch the inner shape first and then line up the outer shape around the inner one. The next photo is a close up of the main card features. The same applies to a stamp within a shape.

Because of having to piece together DSP to fit a larger area than the size of the DSP, I used Linen Thread to hide/disguise the seam in the paper.

And next you see the side view with the popped up layers.

Stamping, punched shapes, and banners, are used for the inside of this card.   

Well this is the last Sneak Peek for the "Going Places DSP" and "Going Global" stamp set for the 2016 Occasions catalogue. Tomorrow will be a new item from the catalogue for Sneak Peeks!

In the mean time, below is a list of things used to create this card, with the exception of the DSP and stamp set that will be available January 5th in the 2016 Occasions Catalogue!

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Trying Something New For Scrapbooking - Part 5

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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Trying Something New For Scrapbooking - Part 4

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 .

1.  Punched three holes to line up with the rings along one of the 8 1/2" sides.
2. 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". 
3. 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.
4. 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.

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