Hello! I'm Halak.

Remember we had a fun little giveway over at my post earlier this month on the Papericious blog?

It was a tutorial on a chipboard mini-album with a giveaway. The giveaway is over but the tutorial is still relevant, so if you'd like to have a look, you can check it out >>> HERE

I know, we were supposed to announce the results yesterday but hey, better late than never, what say?! ^__^

So, without further ado, here are the two lucky ladies who've won this paper assortment :

1. Karthikha Uday

2. Neelima Gady

Congratulations ladies!

To claim your prize, please send an email mentioning your complete address AND phone number before 2nd August 2016 to :

halak.shah@gmail.com

We had over 30 entries and I wanted to take a minute here and thank you all for your participation.

It means a lot to the Papericious family, thank you all so very much!

Have a lovely day dear friends!

*Hugs* 

Hello and good morning dear friends! ^__^

I'm Halak and today's project features a chipboard album that I created out of a single sheet of 12" x 12" chipboard by using the stunning GREY BLOOM paper pack by Papericious.

Yep, one single sheet.

The idea started with the paper pack actually. I saw it and went woah... it's beautiful, how did ever I miss checking out this paper pack!

I wanted to be able to show the versatility of this pack and I ended up using the whole pack (all the designs from the pack) for this project.

Before we delve into the project let me warn you that this post is LONG and picture heavy. So, sit back, relax and check this project out at leisure.
It's a tutorial, but constructed a little differently so as to enable to impart as much info as I can.

Let's get started!

Here's the chipboard sheet.

I broke down this 12" x 12" sheet into 6 parts that formed the base of my album.

After that I selected 6 designs (12 pieces in totality, 2 of each design) and cut them to chipboard size.

These are the 6 designs I selected for my base.

Now here's where the tutorial differs. Rather than teaching you how to make an album which requires the skills of cutting and gluing down papers and is pretty basic, I will teach you how to select papers and make your project.

Note the 6 papers that I selected. I deliberately chose 3 sheets that were all grey and the other 3 that had red.
I did that to maintain a design balance.
I could have taken 12 different sheets of pattern papers (one sheet on each side) instead of taking 6 designs, but I picked 6 designs for my base because out of the remaining designs I wanted to create embellishments for my album.

Let's have a look at all the 12 pages. I removed the pages out of the binder ring to be able to photograph them better.

The cover image :

Pages 2 and 3

Pages 4 and 5

Pages 6 and 7

Pages 8 and 9

Pages 10 and 11

Back cover (Page 12)

You must have wondered what are the odd bits like tags, rhinestones, die-cut pieces et al.

Well, it's a present for a crafty friend so along with designing some fun pages I added in a bunch of crafty stuff that she could use.

It's a fun idea and makes a beautiful present for your crafty friends!

Note
When you saw the album, did you notice the colors I used?

I used : Black, white and red cardstock. At some places I used a couple of pink (light and dark) rhinestones.

Why?
Because, when you look at the pack closely, you will see that apart from grey, these three colors are what you can see in the designs.

Why didn't I use grey?
Of course I could use grey too. But I decided on using the grey patterned paper from the Papericious paper pack (the one with the white leaves) because it looked a whole lot more prettier than the generic grey cardstock so I went with that and the remaining 3 colors. ^__^

Top tip
If you select  colors that are on the patterned papers it will make your album color co-ordinated and the effect will be more eye pleasing than slapping down any random color that you fancy.

What all can be done with Papericious patterned papers?

Actually, a LOT. Papericious patterned papers are very versatile. You can adhere them as-is, die-cut them, make fun tags or envelopes, the choice really is yours!

Did you know?
Papericious papers have gotten a whole lot more AWESOME!
They have upgraded in quality and are now available in 200 gsm!

Here a few of my favorite pages from the album where you can see the versatility of this gorgeous GREY BLOOM paper pack.

Made some fun tags :

Made a mini-envelope that I filled with die-cut words.

Note the die-cut words. They are... yup, red and white.
Now look at the envelope color.
Red and white.

See what I mean? Always think color co-ordinated.

I also die-cut these papers and paired them with words to create pretty pages.

This brings us to an end of this post.

For adhering paper I used red tacky tape and for small embellishments, I used generic PVA glue. (Fevicol)

I hope you are feeling inspired and will give this project a try! ^__^

GIVEAWAY

To help you start out and as a motivation to try out this project, I'm giving away a sampler pack of 6" x 6" papers from the GREY BLOOM paper pack and from the Pattern Collection Volume 1 paper pack (a total of 32 sheets, 8 designs per pack and 2 sheets of each design) to 2 lucky ladies.

Along with these beautiful papers, you'll be getting a card from me along with a little surprise! ^__^

To participate and for a chance to win, you only gotta do these 2 things :
1. Follow Papericious Blog

2. Join Papericious Facebook Group
    To join, click >> HERE

Once you are done doing the 2 things, just write "done" on this blog post via comment.

Entries close 25th July 2016 (midnight).

Winners will be announced 29th July 2016.

Till next time folks! Have a lovely day! *Hugs*