Charli's Album 2016

This post is very picture heavy.

Each year I make an album for my grand-daughter to showcase her year. This year I saw a box that a friend had and I decided to give it a try. I searched the internet and found the original creator of the box (Laura Denison Designs) and bought the pattern from her.

It is very simple to put together. I have adjusted the size as I wanted to be able to put 6" x 4" photos in it.

I asked Charli what colour she would like her book this year and she said pink. The colours are very bright and fun for an 8 year old. I used a Sugar & Spice Studio paper pad called Neon through out this project. Charli has seen it and is very please.

I used my long neglected Cricut Expression to cut her name and the year.
The 3 layers of the banner were also cut on the Cricut.

The bird is from the Tim Holtz Angry Bird stamp set. I also used the matching  dies to cut it out. I have used distress Inks to cloud the bird and the butterflies. The name and year are cut from black cardstock which I have covered in Dimensional Magic to give it a great gloss.

The multi coloured butterfly trim came from Camelot. I have used the Martha Stewart round the page Heart punch to punch both sides of a black piece of cardstock the layered a piece pof patterned paper through the middle.

This is what you see when you open the box
I will add a 7" x 5" photo to the photo mat on the inside of the lid during the year

The sides of the box fold down to the table to reveal all of the pockets with photo mats.
The large photo mat under all of the side pockets will also take a 7" x 5" photo

There are 6 pockets on each side. The one that have the punched edges down the side like this one lift up to reveal more places for photos or journalling. The lift ups have a magnet in them to hold them in place so the don't flap about when the pages are being turned. Each pocket holds a photo mat the has room for a 6" x 4" photo plus a journalling area.

This paper clip is made using a large glider clip with a rosette made with the Tim Holtz Rosette die and a button all stuck together with a hot glue gun. The flap on the side, that will hold a photo in place, is also a Tim Holtz die

The felt flower is made using a Spell Binder  Nesting Scalloped Circle die.

The Imaginarium chipboard bicycle has been sprayed with Dylusions Ink Spry and then covered with Crystal Kindy Glitz

All of the pockets in this album have been made with Vellum

The tags were cut out with my Cricut. The chipboard arrows and heart were painted white with acrylic paint and super fine glitter added to the heart.

This bird is also from the Angry Bird collection by Tim Holtz and has been coloured using Distress Inks

What little girl doesn't like a shaker element.........

Another shaker and bird.

The silk ribbon flower used on this page was made by my mother (Charli's great grand mother)

The wooden owl received the same treatment as the chipboard bicycle. Dylusions spray and Kindy Glitz.

I made a little envelope for this page so Charli could write something about the year and put it in there.

It does not show very well in the photo but the heart is covered in Dimensional Magic so it has a nice gloss.

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Till next time
Cheers
Julie

Port Victoria Layout

I will be doing several posts today. This first post is to share a double layout I created to teach at my regular Saturday afternoon class

I had several 6.5" Kaiser paper pads that I had not used so decided to create a layout where I could use some of the papers from one of the pads. For the punched strips down the side of the layout I have joined two  pieces together to make the 12" length. I have used a stencil and spray to put the blue wavy effect on the white background and then I have added some white texture paste through a different stencil to create a bit of added texture. I have used velum through my bigshot with Kaisercraft's Scribble die and black cardstock with Kaisercraft's Circle Scribble die to layer behind the foam mounted journaling blocks. The top layer of patterned paper id embossed with an embossing folder that I can not remember the maker. It is a very simple layout but showcases 6 full sized photos.

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Till next time

Cheers

Julie

Christmas Cards

I have been busy making Christmas cards.

They are all very simple and everything I have used is from my stash. I am trying desperately to reduce the amount of stuff I have got in my craft room.

Having said that it has been some time since I did any scrapbooking or cards making, I just seem to have lost the urge to do paper crafts. I am hoping my mojo will return soon. The fact that I was away for a month in New Zealand on a great holiday might also contribute to my lack of productivity.

I printed a sheet of christmas greetings and then cut them off as I needed to use them.

This first card uses simple layers that are all matted on gold paper

For this card I embossed the white card with a Cuttlebug embossing folder, cut the banner out using Die-Namics Party Banner Die and added a brad to each banner. I cut the trees out of a patterned paper and applied Glossy Accents  to the baubles. I mounted the greeting on a piece of cardstock the same colour as the card base.

I embossed a piece of white cardstock using another Cuttlebug embossing folder the I attached 3 transparent bauble stickers to it. I matted the greeting and attached to the decorated panel. I then attached  the panel to a white card base.

This is a simple bright shiny card I made for Charli. I have made assorted sized pennants from metallic cardstock, added a gold chipboard tree and a couple of metallic starts

Once again I have embossed the white cardstock with a Cuttlebug embossing folder. I have layered a piece of red cardstock and the embossed cardstock and the greeting on gold paper. The Bauble with leaves is a sticker I stuck on some white cards and then fussy cut around before adding the brad and foam mounting it onto the panel. I then attached the panel to a white square card base.

This is a shaker card using a circle die to cut the bauble out of white cardstock. I then made the shaker section using gold angels as the fill. I attached the bakers twine and then a rectangle of gold cardstock for the top of the bauble. A piece of patterned paper with the mounted greeting was then attached to the bottom of the  shaker panel. The shaker panel was then attached to a red card base

This card was made with a Sizzix Embossing folder, a Memory box Snowflake Ornament die and a piece of ribbon wrapped around a piece of white cardstock. The Snowflake ornament was attached to a piece of red cardstock and then cut out. I applied Dimensional Magic over the whole bauble and as you can see the colour from the cardstock has run into the white. The greeting on this card is a Kaisercraft Rub-On

The santa face for this easel card is a stamp. I stamped it onto water colour paper, embossed it and then coloured it with my watercolour pencils. I then fussy cut it. The same for the greeting, I stamped it onto white cardstock and the heat embossed it with red embossing powder before cutting it out

To allow the card to stand up I attached with foam tape, a piece of white cardstock with red ribbon wrapped around it.

This card has a banner in the middle with a punch down each edge. I stuck the 2 layers together before cutting the fishtail in the banner. I cut a heart using Do Crafts Scalloped Hearts dieadded the christmas tree sticker and attached to the card with foam tape. The greeting was matted and attached with foam tape

A gatefold card with patterned paper attached to the 2 front panels. The top section was embossed with an embossing folder that came with a magazine I think. The star and greeting were added before it was matted on some co-ordinting cardstock and attached to the left hand panel of the card

I embossed a piece of white crd stock with the Cuttlebug dot embossing folder then layered a piece of patterned paper on to it. The trees are cut out of a piece of patterned papered the greeting was something I found in my stash. all of this was then mounted on a red card base

This card has a multi layered fishtail banner. The white cardstock was embossed using the Sizzix embossing folder. A piece of baker's twine and a bauble sticker were added to the banner. 3 buttons attached to the top right side of the card and the greeting is stamped with Stayz-On Ink

This card has two pieces of patterned paper matted onto red cardstock and a fussy cut patterned paper foam mounted on the smaller panel. the greeting is also matted and then foam mounted

I have also made a couple of birthday cards but have not taken photos of them yet so will be back with them another day.

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Cheers
Julie

Bird Crazy stamp with water colour pencils

Just a quick little post today to share these soon cute birds. I used the Tim Holtz Bird Crazy stamp with Momento Black ink and then I coloured them with my new Inktence water colour pencils

I am going to cut these out with the matching die when it comes in (it's on order) and use them to make cards with. There are 6 birds in the set and I love them all...so quirky.

Anyway that's it for today
Till next time
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Cheers
Julie

MBA Layout

I have a layout to share today. This layout is using a photo from my Cindy's Masters Graduation Ceremony. We are very proud of her achieving her MBA in less that 3 years while working full time. A very dedicated effort on her behalf.

I have applied some Iridescent texture paste, GlimmerMist and stamping to the background patterned paper. A couple of the patterned papers have been embossed using my Big Shot. I also embossed a piece of acetate to see how that would work and it worked just fine. You can hardly see it of course but it does add some dimension "in the flesh". The chipboard has been painted with acrylic paint. The title was cut out on my Cricut and then covered with Dimensional Magic for some more dimension. A couple of bits of Washi tape and it is done.

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Cheers
Julie

Not so Mini Album

Warning: Very picture heavy post

I know it has been a long time between posts but I seem to have been busy with "things" and my interest in scrapbooking and card making has been a little on the low side. I have been spending a lot of time working out what sort of planner I want to use and I have still not found the "one " for me so it is still a work in progress.

My niece had an engagement party on the 25th July which actually tuned out to be a wedding. I made this album for her using a pattern I bought from Laura Dennison. I have used the Mix and Match collection from Kaisercraft for this album because the invitations were on Kraft cardstock with black writing.

That is overload enough for this post.
Will be back in a few days with a layout I have just finished.

Till next time
Thanks for dropping by
Julie