Saguaro National Park Mini Album - Therm O Web

I am up on the blog over at Therm O Web with a mini album from a day trip to Saguaro National Park.

You'll find all of the details there!  Here are all the pages :

Hope you'll join me there!

Slim Mini Album and Therm O Web

I'm up on the blog over at Therm O Web with a mini album!  I hope you'll join me there for all of the details! Thanks so much for stopping!  I've got lots of photos below!

I used pics from my phone printed with a Sprocket printer and a cool Mini Album Box die set from Studio Light that I picked up over in the Frantic Stamper Shop!  Actually she doesn't have the die in the shop, but I emailed her and she ordered it for me!  Frantic Stamper is a great place to get those products from overseas shops and love that she'll special order if she can.

I've got tons of Deco Foil touches added with all kinds of techniques.

You'll find all of the details on the TOW Blog.

Be sure to head on over there to check it out.

I filled both sides of this accordian album and layered it using the dies in the set.

And it fits beautifully right inside the box.

I used cutouts from Toner Card Fronts, Easy Cut Adhesive and Foil....

Toner Card Fronts as Layers, Adhesive Transfers, Glitz Glitter Gel

I mean, you name it... I used it!

Thanks for stopping here!

Hope you'll come again soon... 

I'm gonna be away for a couple days but I have lots of stuff scheduled for you here.

Happy Friday!

Come again soon!

 

Winnie The Pooh and Ryan Too! - Therm O Web

I'm up on the blog over at Therm O Web with a mini scrapbook!

Hop on over there for details about all of the gold, shiny, and sparkly embellishments I added to this one!

I'm also sharing how I deconstructed one of the Winnie The Pooh books I own and then created the album and pages with it.

I've got lots of tips and tricks of how I added foils to this project!

Distressed can also include sparkle and shine!

I hope you'll join me over there for all of the details!

 

Mini Album Makers Challenge June 2018

I have a quick post for you today!  I was asked by a co-worker to make her a card for her granddaughter who had just gotten engaged... and then this happened!

I'm linking it up to the June Challenge over at the Mini Album Makers Challenge Blog!  You can check that out here!

I've always loved making these Accordion Albums and they are really so quick to make and aside from a few challenges, pretty easy!  The papers I chose were from a couple old CTMH packs and then various flowers and embellishments... Prima, CTMH, die cuts.  And of course used some beautiful crinkly seam binding that I bought at an antique store near me.  It's not antique ribbon, but one of the booths has a selection of beautiful crafting supplies like the ribbon, bags of buttons and spools and such... LOVE going there!  Luckily I have a big stash.  All I had to do was print the pics and I had everything else I needed in my home!

You only need limited supplies and a few pics.  I've made them before as birthday cards and so I asked her to get me a few pics and told her I'd make one of these... she really had no clue what it was and agreed.  It's basically made with two square pieces of cardboard, three square sheets of paper and whatever embellishments and paper you want to use.  

As I'm getting ready to go on vacation right now, I don't have time to go into details on measurements and such.. and to be honest it had been so long since I made one, I used an older one I'd made and made it up as I went along, but I promise I'll post another in the future, keep better track of what I'm doing and include a photo tutorial with measurements for those interested.  I can tell you each space is around 4 1/4 x 4 1/4... the three sheets I folded were about 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 and the two cardboard pieces (to create the cover and back) were about 4 1/4 x 4 1/4.  Again, these measurements are approximate, but it's made to fit 4x4 pics... I'm positive you could do whatever sizes you want and create different sized albums...maybe I'll do that for my next one and change it up!

One of my favorite "pages" in this album is this one...lol!  This is the song for their wedding and I googled the lyrics, typed them up in Pic Monkey and added a couple pretty overlays.  Then I printed it on my laser and foiled it with some Gina K foil and my Minc.. Love it!

The hardest part of this album is that there are only four spaces that you can use a whole, uncut picture.  The rest must be cut diagonally, so you want to find pics that you can trim to 4x4 and that will lend themselves to being cut diagonally without say going through someone's face.. 'cause that would be just weird..lol!

I was quite challenging for this one because I didn't have a large choice of pics and they were all pictures my co-worker had taken from her granddaughter's facebook page so not the best quality... but I made most black and white or muted colors in picmonkey and I think I made it work!

The other challenge here is decorating without too much bulk on the inside... I loves me some layers and bumpy stuff, so I struggled a bit with that as well, but in the end it all came together. Hoping this will be a keepsake for them.  She delivered it this past weekend and they went dress shopping.. I got to see the pics and I'm already thinking maybe I'll get to make another one after the wedding!...lol!  But now I better start thinking about what my next one will be.. my fur babies.. my furless babies?  Maybe the flowers from the cacti in my garden... ooh... yes... I think that might be it!

Thanks to all of the girls over at the Mini Album Makers Challenge for all of the inspiration!  I so enjoyed making one of these again!  Now I have to finish packing!  Flying off tomorrow for a crafty weekend!  Come back tomorrow for an announcement regarding Three Amigos for July and a cute birthday card for my son!

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #240

Welcome to this week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge!  You're finally there!  My last layout for my mini album!  I'll be posting pics of the whole thing in a while if you're interested.. but for now, here it is!

I flipped the sketch and swapped out some shapes... gear and compass for flowers and diamond shape for the oval.

Thanks for going on this ride with me and my mini album and hanging in there with me!  It was a lot of fun and made putting this album together pretty easy since the layouts were already set for me!

Here's the sketch and hope you'll play along with us this week!

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #239

Welcome to this week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge!  You still have a couple days left to play along with this sketch!  I used it for another page in my mini album and guess what!  Only one more page left to finish it up!

Here's the sketch and hope you'll play along this week!