Two Girls at Play: Mini Album

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Monday, December 22, 2014

Have A Nice Trip!

Greetings craft friends! I'm back with one last sample for Craft Hoarders Anonymous. Many thanks again to Gloria and her fab team for allowing me to join them this month! This time around, the challenge is all about Travel! I love to travel and when I go places I collect little things that I can put into my craft projects - whether they are to go specifically into a scrapbook or be used in a project in some other way.

Many of us travel around the holidays, so let's celebrate our adventures!

I am also in love with creating mini-albums of all sizes and shapes and so my project this time around is a mini travel album. I used Tim Holtz's Destinations papers, Chipboard, and kraft cardstock along with a few tags I've picked up along the way. It's always a fun challenge to figure out proportions and how to make everything work.

My mini this time around is inside of a tri-fold album.

the album is held in place with a ribbon that is glued under the gusseted pocket inside the center back.

here you can see the pocket. On the left cover are 3 pockets and the right cover has 9 photo flaps held down by a strip of paper.

and a couple of shots of the inside pages.

Now it's your turn! Dig into your hoard and find some items that are vacation or travel themed. Do you have a hoard of cruise ship ephemera? Do you have a box of transportation stamps? Do you have a stash of camping themed papers? Or piles of Disney embellishments? Show them off! Create a vacation or travel themed project for us!

Whatever it is, create it and then link up on the Craft Hoarders Anonymous for your chance to win a great prize from this month's sponsor - Spellbinders!

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Dr Who? Tardis with Journal

Dr. Who anyone? I hang out with a lot of Sci-Fi fans (probably because I am one) and a friend challenged me to make the Tardis...here it is!

The top of the Tardis is removable and has a Tardis journal inside.

Summer Garden Fairy House

Hi All! I've been busily creating in my new craft room and wanted to share my latest projects with you!

First up - a Summer Garden Fairy House a-la Laura Denison. I fell in love with her fairy houses the moment I saw them and this is my first attempt at creating one of my own. The piece features a windowed tower and a mini album inside (of course). I used Graphic 45's Once Upon A Springtime collection to decorate this one. Enjoy!

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Mini Albums

Hey bloggers, thanks for dropping in today! I have a couple of mini albums that I've been meaning to get up here for you to see...the first one is made from a pattern I found on Gloria Stengel's site Scraps of Life. It's such a fun and easy to make mini album I'm sure I'll use the pattern over and over.

I used Graphic 45 Christmas papers to complete this album. I can't say enough about how much I love their lines...

The large flower was made using the McGill Paper Blossoms Rose Punch, the rest are from Wild Orchid. The lacey circle is actually a spellbinders die and the numbers were cut from red mirror paper using a Tim Holtz movers and shapers die.

Now for the inside...

Lots of cool folds and flaps with plenty of space for photos and journaling. I used a velcro dot to secure the inner "doors" closed.

Gloria's instructions said to use heavy cardstock, I actually used watercolor paper (the heavy weight kind) so this album is super sturdy.

The next mini is also made from Graphic 45 papers. For this one I used the new line "Place In Time." I love working in miniature - this little book is just 3" x 3".

Blessings,

Monday, August 20, 2012

Olde Curiosity Shoppe Mini Album & Box

For those of you who have been listening to me complain about the project that has overtaken my craft table for the past week - IT'S FINALLY DONE!!!! Many thanks to Anne whose tutorial I followed to create this project. I have been absolutely in love with Graphic 45's Olde Curiosity Shoppe since it was introduced and when I saw this great mini I just couldn't resist making one myself.

Ready for the pix? Here's the box....