Riley's 1st Birthday Party Mini Album

I made this mini album completely from scratch (yay me LOL). I used scraps of cardboard, cereal boxes etc. The paper range I've used is Kaisercraft 'Save The Date'. It is such a fun & bright collection - perfect for a party! I love the look of mis-matched albums, I find them more interactive & cool to look at LOL. It also allows you to get away with minimal embellishments, because essentially the pages are embellishments themselves :) The first thing I do when making a mini, is cut all my cardboard/chipboard to the sizes/shapes I want & work out order they will go in. I then go through & cover all the pages, before binding them. I purchased a Bind-It-All, solely for my love of mini albums. Then I went in with my photos, embellishments, washi tape, bling & pens to finish it off.

I love how it turned out. Such a great little memento from a great day. Below are some of the internal pages... 

 

 

 

Also, here is my YouTube video I did on this project :) 

 

Thanks for stopping by :)

 

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I have caught the Pinterest bug - big time!!! I love my electronic hoarding LOL!

Below is the link to my Pinterest page, so follow me & have fun stashing pins too :)

 

http://pinterest.com/neet83/

 

Tri-Fold Birthday Card

 

This is a birthday card I created for my Nan. It was pretty much constructed out of scraps.

I firstly folded the cardstock into 3 equal parts & then decided on the heights & cut.

I add some paperbag pockets, resin flower, chipboard clock face, shipping tag, washi tape, photo cut outs, twine, alphabets etc. This was a really fun & quick project to make.

 

 

Because it wasn't a standard sized card, I had an oversized envelope lying around from a birthday that was the right size. I carefully pulled the envelope apart & then traced it onto some pretty D/S paper to create a new envelope.

So make someone important a card today :)

'December Daily 2012'

Hi Scrappers

I've have followed the herd & I have made a 'December Daily' mini for 2012!!!! I must say, I was keen to go out & by a mountain of the new christmas papers - but I restrained myself & you'd the stash of christmas papers I have hoarded for ages LOL!! Pretty much the only this I brought new for this album was a pack of the Kaisercraft 'Mint Twist' collectables & the photo print that I did to create the front cover! Bargin!! Here is the link to my Youtube channel & this project :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zaf1wl6Jfgg

'Daddy & Me' Page Layout

Here's a page I created this week. I used things like:

-Kraft Cardstock

- Kaisercraft 'Pickled Pear' Willow paper

- old book page

- washi tape

- Kaisercraft timber frame

- Kaisercraft Polaroid cut-out

- Green dot paper was scraps so I have no idea LOL

- Pink Paislee ticket

- Calico material

- photo cut-outs

- scrap paper

- String

-TH Tiny Attacher

- Flair button from 'scrapandcreate' Esty Store (& the glassine bag they came in)

http://www.etsy.com/shop/scrapandcreate

Pop over & check out the other designs Jayne has - they are super cute!!!

Thanks for stopping by :)

'Always Dream Big' page layout

I had so much fun making this one! I've always admired Finnabear's scrapbooking style - but I've never attempted to try it. Well I bit the bullet! I brought her 12x12 'Dreamer Collection' (from 7 Dots Studio) ages ago, so I decided to use some of it LOL!!! 

I've collected alot of metal trinkety things to use over the last couple of years. Things like washers, buttons, sprockets, studs, paper clips, safety pins, mini bottle caps, metal flowers etc.

What I did was I glued them all down with clear tacky craft glue, & then painted over with a light coat of gesso. Once that dried, I sprayed with homemade glimmer mist & Mr Huey's spray.

REMEMBER - to put a piece of paper or something over your photo to stop it from getting sprayed!!!

My Version of Project Life :)

If been looking at purchasing / making a Project Life album for sometime, I keep putting it off for  a few reasons. I have read a few blogs, & found that after awhile it becomes a chore to keep it up to date & I wasn't keen on purchasing a whole new scrapbooking kit / style. So, to scratch my creative itch to do something like PL, I came up with this double layout. I found some really cute free printables from 'Miss Tina' & I used some of her elements to personalize my own cards.

I did these in photoshop & printed them as photos. I used kraft cardstock & using a template of the cards, I traced around them with a pencil to work out my placing. I then used a sewing machine to stitch in my grid first & then rubbed out my pencil lines. Once I'd done that I started sticking down my photos, elements & did my journalling :)