Life Time Mini Album

Everybody knows I love making albums ... could not resist to make a quick one with the awesome Life Time Papers. The album I made is perfect for a family album.  Lets take a look..

This album is so quick to make anyone can make it within a few hours...it is based on the tutorial of Steff with a grin".  The covers are chipboard and uses two 12x12 sheets inside.  What I love about this album is you can "grow" it.  I could take another two sheets, use bigger ring binders and I could add so much more photographs. See the width..how slim.  You could create as many pages as you wish...

The inside pages are also fun to make!  I added more texture and colour on some of the pages

It was difficult for me not to add lace everywhere but I managed "smile".  I adhered either a whole or half a doily to most of the pages. On this mini I used mod podge as my adhesive.  The burlap under the flower also matches well with the Life Time collection.  

The pages of this collection is absolutely amazing.  If you are uncomfortable working with mixed media this collection has already done it for you - all you have to do is cut and embellish.  Most of the embellishments in this mini album are from the Life Time collection but all of them are Prima!

Play around with some Prima masks and stencils...add some glimmer mists, distress inks, Prima flowers and Life Time stickers and cutouts and you have a awesome page. I have cropped the right hand bottom corner - see image below to provide a few more details 

I used half a doily and half of a Starbucks coffee sleeve to act as a pocket.  The flowers are all Prima (various collections).  The typewriter wooden piece and the wooden X are all part of the Life Time Collection. I used Victorian velvet distress ink to colour the X and white washed the typewriter with white acrylic paint. See ladies, the possibilities are endless... 

The back of the album has a strip of lace down the center (can't help myself "grin") and a lightly stamped pattern - the beautiful papers from this collection do not need much help!!

Because this album is so easy to make I am thinking of creating a kit (any collection) and PDF instructions.  All you have to do is purchase it!  Let Paper Lane know if you are interested...it is easy ladies...you will be glad you made one for yourself!

Take care and happy crafting...Janine

Dubai Word Book

Hey hey scrappy friends...here is a fun project I wish to share with you!

This DUBAI word book with awesome matching themed papers is designed and sold by Paper Lane. The decorative matching 12x12 papers depict watermarks of all the famous landmarks and tourist attractions of Dubai.  They are pretty awesome with tones of blue, gold, red and greens; double sided and lovely to work with.  

So without further blabber, let me show you how I decorated the word book:

The image above shows the book at a glance. I mostly chose blue as my base colour to decorate the chipboard pages. Dubai is always summery and what better way to decorate than to depict that. Sunflowers throughout reflect the sun and lots of colour in flowers to portray summer and fun in the sun!

On the cover and D of Dubai I coloured a chipboard palm tree and camel with distress inks; added some bright sunny flowers, ribbons, fibres, charms and edged the chipboard with gold glitter.

On the reverse side I made a little envelope held together with a green mini peg; it opens up to reveal a journaling spot.  The mini envelope is only glued down a the top so trip paraphernalia can be inserted under the envelope.

I love this page! On the page I stenciled a sun with glimmer mist. before decorating.  The red paper on the die cut is also from the Dubai paper collection. What is Dubai without a palm tree!!

This is my favourite page! I fussy cut the camels from a page in the collection, highlighted the gold on the camels with glitter and only glued down the sides so it is easy to slide photos behind the camels. The dark reddish scalloped shape helps to reflect the night in a desert sky. I could not resist the silver moon in the corner. I bought 3 decorative camels at a tourist kiosk and ladies...how cute are they!!

The image above shows all the fibres and ribbons I knotted around the binding rings. I chose colours that are scattered throughout the book and added the green and red ribbon to reflect the national colours of Dubai. Of course who can resist adding the Burj Al Arab keyring found all over!.

Ladies this makes an awesome gift for family and friends who come to visit. I will be using this book to record photo's of my sister's visit last year. So pop into the store, buy the book and the papers and do it...it is easy! Scrapbooking is such fun. See you all soon...

Life Stories Paperbag Album

Hey crafty people, how are things your side?!  Hope all is well and that you are creating beautiful keepsakes to store you previous memories...I know I am!

For now I will be sharing my Life Stories album with you.  This album is created using the Life Stories Paper Collection by MME - I cannot begin to express how awesome these papers are!  By now you know that I love kraft paper and this range is all about that.  The quality and thickness of this paper is fantastic - right now I am trying to get my hands on the same paper stack but in a shade of green - love this paper people!

This album was inspired by Suzie from creative cafe; I loved loved making this album because it has so many different places for photographs and it has secret envelopes and nooks and crannies if you know what I mean.  Of course photographs do not always do justice to such a album and who knows I might just make a video!

Anyway on with the album...

The cover is pretty simple - the gorgeous paper, some stickers and a workable photo frame.  The binding is an old scarf and I added some brown doodads on the tassel's of the scarf - loved how it turned out!

I used the make of the paper range to name this album - "life stories" and hot glued it onto the bottom part of the binding.  The fastener is brown striped ribbon and a clip.  I punched a hole on the back album, inserted a brad and secured the ribbon at the same time.  Super simple people!

The page below can house over 7 photographs and most also have journaling spots.  See the round circle at the top of the page...it pulls out to reveal a long photo mat!  A few more photographs can be inserted into the pocket to make maximum use of this page!

The green dotted paper on the next page is not from the collection - I added it to compliment the kraft coloured and toned paper collection.  The lace lends it a softness I think and of course who does not love flowers and brads! The flap opens and the green tab is a pullout for another photo. Lots of tiny tags and journaling spots.

The next page again features the green dotted paper - a photo can slide under the circle that also acts as a journal spot. The flap opens and there is also a secret envelope behind the numbered journaling spot.

I love the page below and it has my favourite brown checkered envelopes that I so love using in my projects.  Lots of tiny tags again and can house over 5 photographs.

The next page is awesome - the flap opens to reveal a more photo mats and journaling spots - see the additional images for detail.

The above page is my favourite - I just love how it opens to reveal mats for 3+ photographs.  Superb!

The next page also has a green tabbed pullout for a note or date, the flap lifts up and down and can house so many photographs and notes.

The image above is the final page at a glance.  The flap lifts up to reveal more space for photographs - plenty of real estate in this album.  The image below shows the flap open.  Did I mention I love tiny tags??!!

This paper collection is fabulous people!  I don't know if its still stocked but I loved the texture, the thickness and the quality - perfect! 

The back of the album - simple!

Hope you felt inspired....please leave a comment!

Thanks for stopping by...

Baby Boy Chipboard Mini Album

Hey crafty people, today I am sharing with you a baby boy mini album I created.  I used pre-cut chipboard; each cut into a different shape.  I bought this chipboard album at Paperlane, a local scrapbook store I design for - they have a super store and an on-line option!  This mini book, along with other varieties, can be bought at Paperlane and it is perfect for a quick project or gift. The papers are a Baby Boy kit by Deja Views and the non kit embellishments are by Jolees Boutique all available at Paperlane

I loved making this album - it was super easy!  Its hard to believe that a 4 page chipboard mini book can house so many precious memories; and that is exactly what a baby is...precious!  We cannot take enough pics of that beautiful face!

The cover is so simple; I glued down my paper, sanded the edges and added the bottle sticker from Jolees Boutique - super easy people!!  I bound the album with blue hair elastic bands and added blue and brown checkered ribbon, some beads and a blue pacifier and bottle as charms!  A pastel blue star shaped button and et voila!!

In such a mini i.e.  4 chipboard pages, one becomes very creative with inserts and tags.  Take a look...

Page with tags

Page without tags

On this page (above) you can adhere a nice size photo to the page itself and with all the tags that insert into the pocket, you can add so many photos of your precious baby

I remember taking so many photos of my dauhghters' faces only especially when they slept; and for this reason I made a mini insert that can house 6 photos like that!  I popped a car paperclip through a hole in the round mini tag to hold it in place - super cute people!!  Lots of real estate on this page!

The above images are the back and front of the tags that insert into the pocket.  The blue and red scalloped shapes serves as journalling spots. 

The 2nd chipboard shape is shown above with a nice size scalloped circle for a photograph.  The circle with the dragonfly image is a journalling spot - comes with the collection.

Page without the tags

Above images are back and front of tags

I love the 10 things I love about my baby boy pocket as shown in the image above.  This paper collection is so cute and adorable.  Makes things so easy people - buy a shaped chipboard album, a collection and design - eazy peazy!

Page without tags

Tags

I love making these mini onesie's for baby albums; they are so cute especially when you adhere a bit of lace on the sleeves.  I love this page; it has so many tags to hold all those precious moments!

Page without tags

 

Created acetate pocket to accommodate tags

Onesie on a photo mat

The next page is my most favourite in this album!  The centre panel iso cute and has place for 8 photographs.

I halfed the image and they serve as photo mats; it is easy to slide a tag under the cute bee image to record details.  The flaps lift open from the left hand side.

The flaps are secured with velkro

Photo mat can hold 6 photographs

The final page has a workable frame and shows off a cute envelope with inserts that can either be used for photographs or for recording the birth experience or baby's first day home or first bath, etc. 

And finally the back of the album - quite simple really; just displaying the awesome papers.

When I created this album I had the idea to sell it but since then people it has found a home - I hope you enjoy the  album Nina and may you and your baby be blessed!!!