4" x 5" album

With a small Stamperia paper pad of winter foliage to hand and very little double sided tape and glue left, I embarked on making this next album. At 4" by 5" it really is small.

Its size prevents many of the different hidden pockets found in the larger albums, but it still has its surprises.







I love this little pad and really wanted to showcase some of the brilliant pictures in it. It's like a little biology book, haha.

The pockets and tags are small but not unworkable.

I really do like this and hope you do too.




Thanks for stopping by
Karen

Dreamland mini album

Having finished my Dreamland album, I found I had two full sheets of Graphic 45 paper left along with some sizeable off cuts and plenty of stickers.
I knew there wasn't enough to make another album but then thought , what about a mini album?
And Dreamland mini was born. I used two of the stickers on the spine and the back of the album.

This album is roughly 5 inch by 5 inch square. It feels just like a hardback from the book store and I love it.

I kept the centre pages to four due to its size and also the limited amount of papers available.
I still have the large pull up tabs for between the pages to do, but I definitely have sufficient paper for these.

I can't wait to have another go at a mini one.

I hope you like it as much as I do and thanks for stopping by.

Karen.

Dreamland

Another album no less. I'm definitely improving with these, thanks to You Tube tutorials, some great papers and a bit of imagination.

This album uses Graphic 45 Dreamland pad.

Another spine and the pages within this one mimic each other, so no individual pictures of each one.

I believe I said in my last album that I was getting low on card but the pad is a recent on-line purchase. I found a stack of pale blue card that was useful for the internal pages but not enough to cover the album chipboard.

I had a fat quarter of cotton cloth in my stash which I'd thought of using to bind with at some point but it wasn't suitable for this. I decided to raid my wardrobe and came across an old pair of cropped denim jeans and thought 'Bingo'!

One leg used and the rest put away for another album in the future. Really pleased with this. Added some lace from my stash, a Tim Holtz ring brad with a key charm from my stash and voila.

Isolation is making me me more imaginative with the things I do have rather than buying more all the time. Very chuffed with my little self.

I do like it and I hope you do too.

Thanks for stopping by and do come again.

Karen

Piggies album

Well with a dearth of papers and card to use at the moment, I turned to some freebie papers I had stored away in my stash. Knew they'd come in useful one day.
As soon as I saw the piggies I knew exactly who to give this album to. A friend of mine loves pigs in all shape and sizes. I've made her pig cards, crocheted her a pig and so now she can have an album.

I tried a new style of album. Still using a spine but with an overlapping front. Still haven't decided how to close it yet. Might use a metal closure as soon as I can get some. No rush.

I am really quite pleased with how this turned out. I used some old Stampin' Up! papers for the cover along with some ready made paper flowers to decorate. The magazine papers I used on the inside. Although these are not the best quality papers I've used, they have worked brilliantly.

The piggies, I've added glued on just two sides so a photograph can be positioned in it.

I've also used less magnets with this album and tried some alternative closures. The picture above shows a metal coin in the top right corner. Attached by a brad it can be moved out of the way and I really like this idea. I saw a young girl on You Tube (Alagaina Scrap) do this style and had to have a go. 

I love the finished result and hope my friend does too.

Thanks for stopping by

Karen

Flowers galore

The latest trend in hand crafted flowers is foamiran. YouTube is full of tutorials. So decided to have a go after seeing so many. I actually boat my foamiran last year but never got round to using it.
So I plucked up courage, got out my dies, stamens, heated up the iron and ....
... what a flop. 😒 This is one thing I need to practice again and again.
Not to be downhearted though. And I was set on making some flowers, so I continued to cut out different flower shapes in paper and form them using my McGill flower forming tools, foam and different types of paper.

I used some patterned vellum which didn't turn out as good as I liked, so next time I shall use a smaller flower shape.
I had some blue and purple tartan which I also cut out and layered and I love these.
Another whimsy is the white with blue dots rose.
The asters are another favourite as are the gerberas.
A simple flower to make uses plain circles either die cut or punched, wet, scrunch up and leave to dry. When dry, unfold and layer. They're like little carnations.
Overall though, my absolute favourites from this bundle are the single cream blossom flowers tinged with pink and covered with glossy accents. Perfect for adorning cards or albums.
And finally, let's not forget the foliage. No flower is perfect without a leaf or two to set it off.

I do hope you like them. They certainly took long enough to make. And the foamiran flower is front right alongside the spotted rose. Horrid and shapeless. Ah well. It wasn't a total wash out. 😁

album number 2

This album just flew together using the Stamperia Old Lace 12" x 12" paper pad. It's pretty pricey at £13 for just 10 sheets plus the cover sheet, which also is patterned on the reverse, but it is so cleverly designed and put together, every single piece of paper is utilised.

It is sturdy, using chipboard to create the base, as did my previous Happy You album.
With this I created a spine for the pages to sit on and I do like this technique very much.

The internal front base page uses one of the beautiful corset dress images to cover the pocket. The page inserted into this pocket opens up to showcase another one of these beautiful images.

The page on the right has six flip pages all held in place by magnets and a patterned strip. The end opens up to house a larger tag.

These next pictures showcase page 3, A magnetised strip covers a double pocket housing more cards and tags Page 4 is also visible in this picture with its pocket for more cards.

page 4 also opens at the end to house another large card.

page 5 has a small tag pocket on the left and a strip of four opening out to house pictures both back and front.

page 6 also has a six flip panel held in place with the patterned strip. Under the strip is also another one of the pockets shown above, On this page, the opening is at the top to house another larger card.

page 7 has another pull out panel of four to showcase pictures on both sides. You can also see the final back page pocket on the right.

Can you see that gorgeous patterned lace moth on one of the squares? So delicate and pretty. I've taken a close up and shown that below.

page 8, the final back page shows a pocket of tags and an envelope.

The envelope is a brilliant example of how well this pad has been put together, I hope you'll agree.

Such beautiful paper has brought this album to life and made the design of it so easy to do.

Please note the link at the beginning is the cheapest I could locate and showcases some of the papers in this amazing pad.

I hope you like it as much as I do.
Thanks for stopping by
Karen

Covid 19 album no 1

Well this took hardly any time at all. Only kidding. So much time on our hands at the moment. Only worry is running out of paper and glue.
Finished off my Happy You pad from Trimcraft on this one. Love it.
For the spine cover I tried to get a leather look with embossing powder and a bone folder but it didn't quite work on such a large piece. May add some embellishments or other to hide where it is dull and matt. Hey, I never said I was perfect haha.

The rest of it though came together so well and I'm immensely pleased with it.
Hope you like it and I'll be back soon with album no 2 using some shabby chic style papers from Stamperia.

Keep well, stay safe
Karen