Friday---Hooray!!! Made it to the end of another week. Hopefully your weekend will include some time to craft. Perhaps you can join this week's
Paper Cutz challenge for
a card, layout or project using three patterend papers. This challenge gave me a chance to highlight my mini album I made for pictures of my 9th grandchild due in May. I'm always making things for someone else and rarely do anything for myself. I made this album for myself as a little brag book. It's just as exciting to have the ninth grandchild as it was the first. We will travel from Michigan to Virginia to see this baby, so a lot of family members here in Michigan won't have the opportunity to see the baby personally. I will be taking lots of pictures to bring home to share and I wanted something cute to put them in. I absolutely fell in love with this line of double-sided papers from Best Creation, Inc. called Safari Boy. I love the colors, texture, shiny glitter highlights, patterns and adorable little animals. I purchased only four sheets to mix and match into a 6 x 6 album. The first picture is of the front cover after binding it with my Bind It All. Sorry for the glare on the photo, I put an acrylic sheet on top to protect the front and back covers. I took pictures of the inside pages before binding so I could lay them flat. Below are page two and three of the album and I used three of the patterned papers together on page two...a check, a diamond and the lion heads that I fussy cut for the edge. The third page uses a polka dot for the banner. I cut the banner from Cricut's Birthday Bash cartridge and the letters for the banner from Plantin' Schoolbook. I added buttons to the corners of the journaling square and a little fussy cut lion above the banner.
For pages four and five of the album I used the checked background with the diamond border. I cut two scalloped squares from the Storybook cartridge and trimmed them with a little rick rack. The joy circle is cut from Lacy Labels and I added a journaling block in the other corner.
The striped edge I used on pages six and seven is a scrap from my bin that I thought coordinated well enough. I added a jounaling box and a sentiment then a couple more of the fussy cut lion heads. It doesn't show up in the photo but the word cuddly is glittered and there is glitter on the lions heads.
I punched a border for pages eight and nine with a Fiskars punch and added another journaling block and the adorable elephant with glitter.
For pages ten and eleven below, I used the other half of the scallop shaped paper piece that I used on the front and back covers then added the little alligator in one corner and a journaling block in the other and added a couple buttons to each.
The last two pages, thirteen and fourteen, have scalloped cirlces that I cut from Cricut's Easter 2010 cartridge and added sentiments and bows on each circle.
The last photo is the back cover. I was able to put this album together in about four hours using all the pre-made elements. I almost forgot to tell you that I used chipboard for the album pages to make it sturdy. I hope you enjoyed looking at my album. I sure enjoyed making something for myself and can't wait until I am able to see that baby and take the pictures to add to the album.
