Stamps & Scraps ~ Mini Album Fun!

Hey everyone!  The leaves have turned their bright yellow here on the prairies and most have blown away.  The nights are cold and we've officially had our first frost here.  It's truly Autumn!

So with Autumn upon us, I decided to make an Autumn inspired mini album to share with you today and incorporate some stamping into it!  I mean... it wouldn't be an Ally creation if it didn't involve stamping!!!  Right?!?

So I started off decorating my mini album cover using the gorgeous stamps from the "Sunflowers" collection.  I coloured them using Copic Markers and then fussy cut them out and adhered to the cover.

Here's a close up of my flowers.  I used an ornate die from Spellbinders to use as a back drop for my focal flowers.  It's die cut from Flourishes Classic Ivory Cardstock.

Inside of my front cover, I die cut a circle and stamped my cute little rooster weather vein from the "Country Road" stamp collection.  Below that I added a Copic coloured swag of flowers from the "Autumn Blossoms" stamp set.

I created numerous pockets and pull outs in my album, including this simple tag where I stamped the sunflower images (one coloured at the bottom of the pocket too) using the "Sunflowers" stamp collection.

Here's another tag I created using the gorgeous floral swags form the "Autumn Blossoms" stamp set.

This is one of my favourite places in my mini!  I stamped the large sunflower image onto Flourishes Classic Ivory Cardstock using Memento's "Tuxedo Black" ink and then...

I fussy cut only the part of the tag showing out of the pocket!  I coloured the remaining hidden tag using Copic Markers...

I added some cute image to the flaps of my removable tags too, like this farm image stamped in Memento "Desert Sand" ink from the "Country Road" stamp collection.

Another image from the "Country Road" stamp collection stamped onto patterned paper...

I even stamped image at the bottom of some of my larger tag pull outs...

And for my final page and pull tag, I used the "Autumn Blossoms" and "Sunflowers" stamp sets to stamp an image at the bottoms.

I hope you have enjoyed my little Autumn inspired mini album project today.  So the next time you create a fun altered art project, don't forget to include your stamps!  It's fun!

~ Ally ~

Sponsored by:  Flourishes LLC

Supplies:
stamps: Flourishes (Autumn Blessings (not shown), Autumn Blossoms, Country Road, Sunflowers)
cardstock: Flourishes Classic Black, Ivory & White, Bazzill
patterned papers: Graphic45
die cut shapes: Spellbinders
ink: Memento, Ranger, Copic Markers
ribbon:  American Crafts
other: thread.

Introducing... Simply Charming!

It's our last day of May Releases at Flourishes! We know you've enjoyed all the Sneak Peeks this week of these fabulous new sets! And we've enjoying showing them to you! All our May Release are now LIVE HERE! Now how about showing you one more?

A very popular trend in jewelry right now are charm-bracelets, and today we've made it possible in stylish paper-crafting form. Here's...

Use this set when nothing but a "Simply Charming" card will do! With more than a dozen mix-and-match sentiments and six charms that you can mask and add to the "Tiffany's" style charm bracelet, this set is one of a kind! The options are endless and the uses are downright fun! Let's see what kind of "charming" cards you can whip up with this one! Plus, with a Sihouette Cut File there's no problem combining the bracelet links and charms. All of our Silhouette Files are available now HERE.

Come and be inspired by the Design Team's creativity with this set on their blogs,

And today is your last chance to find the...

Hidden amoung the Design Team is one person who's today's Mystery Blogger, comment on her blog and you could win today's set! How easy and wonderful is that?!
Allison Cope
Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
Danielle Kennedy
Heather Jensen
Julie Koerber
Maki Jones
Silke Ledlow
Stacy Morgan

The first time I laid my eyes on this stamp set I was thrilled!  I knew exactly what I was going to do with it... make a mini album... about "my charming life"... LOL!!...

I grabbed my package of patterned papers from the new 123 Create Kit - "Prairie Chic" and some white cardstock and started designing my album.     

My So Called Charmed Life 

Mini Album - 5" x 5 3/4 "

First I pieced together my front cover and added some stitching and a simple title. I stamped my 2 charms on to Flourishes Classic White Cardstock using Memento "Tuxedo Black" ink. Then I coloured them using a variety of Copic markers. A list of the colours I used can be seen at the bottom of this post.

For my second page, I first stamped the solid heart charm and then masked it off and stamped the ornate heart charm beside it to create a layered effect.  I once again used Flourishes Classic White Cardstock with Memento "Tuxedo Black" ink.  I stamped the "Love" sentiment using Memento "Lady Bug" ink that I had stamped off first to get a lighter pink hue.

For my third page I chose to use the solid heart charm again but paired with the cute little key charm.  For each page, I used some Metallic Silver String to "hang" my charms on.

For my fourth page, I chose the sweet star charm.  I coloured it a bright yellow and added some matching adhesive stars to my page.

For my fifth and final page, I chose to use the circular charm and the cute little shamrock charm together!  I had fun using some pointillism to colour in my charm!

For all of the colouring of my charms, I used the follow Copic Collections:

I hope you've enjoyed my little "Simply Charming" project today!  Don't forget to comment on all the Designer's blogs for your chance to WIN the entire May stamp release!  Don't forget about the other ways you can win this week, you still have time to play in our Colorful Creations Challenge - the deadline for entries is tonight at 5 PM Eastern.

This week's Timeless Tuesday Challenge is another way to win. Click HERE to find out more.

And all our winner's will be announced tomorrow on the Flourishes Blog. Be sure to tune in to see if your name is chosen!

Thanks for joining us in a fun and creative week Flourishes Fans!

~ Ally ~

Supplies:
stamps: Flourishes (Simply Charming)
cardstock:  Flourishes Classic White, Bazzill
patterned papers: 123 Create Kit - Prairie Chic
ink: Memento, Copic
binding:  Zutter 
string: Flourishes (Metallic Silver)
tools:  Klic N'Kut
stars: BasicGrey
other: thread.

Never a Cloudy Day!

Come and check out the myStamp BOX blog today.  I'm sharing a mini album project where I take one of the newest mSB products, a Chipboard "Cloud" album, shown below from blank state to altered state to completed state.

Here's one of the pages I first altered using gesso, stamps from the "Wishing You Sunshine" stamp set and some simple inks...

And then I turn it into a finished mini album page using some mini faux Polaroid photos, some patterned papers and some stickers...

Come on out to the mSB blog and check out all of my mini album details!

Happy stampin'!
 

Just the Facts Please!

Happy Tuesday!

Today's my day to share a project on the myStamp BOX blog and I have chosen to showcase a super quick easy project... a tag mini album!

Come on out and see what my mini album is all about!!! Click here!

Love... With Pockets!

It's my turn today to share a fun project on the myStamp BOX blog. I'm taking this cute little "love" chipboard mini album...

And making it "purdy"!

Supplies: stamps, myStamp BOX (Repeat After Me, Snapshots, Abundant Blossoms, She Says - He Says); mini album base, "Love Word" album by Maya Road; cardstock, Bazzill, Gina K. Designs; patterned papers, Crate Paper; inks, Ranger, Memento, Copic; die cut shapes, Spellbinders; gems, Crystal Stickers, Kaisercraft; ribbon, Kaisercraft; chain, Tim Holtz; tools, Klic N'Kut machine; paint, DecoArt; thread, Mettler.

Come and check out my tutorial on how I made this simple mini album with an added dimension to it! Click here to check out my blog post today!

On the Road Again!

Just can't wait to get on the road again....

It's that time of June... to share my myStampBOX blog creation with you! Above you can see a little sneak peek of my project today.

HOP on over to the myStampBOX blog today and leave me a comment and tell me what you think of my little summer project! It turned a 100 times better than I ever expected and I can't wait to use it!

Lovin the Mini Albums!

I am one lucky girl this past week or so! I have another project that I created featured on a blog!

This time, it's my coffee sleeve mini album project on the Creative Mini Albums blog, right here.

I loved creating this project. A simple binding of the coffee sleeves, some fun die cuts using some beautiful Graphic45 papers, some small wallet sized photos and some simple journaling strips and a few embellishments and VOILA! A finished mini album!

Thanks Kristine for allowing me to share this super fun project with your readers!

Don't forget about my AUGUST BLOG CANDY! Click the banner just below my blog header or use this link to read all the details. Good luck everyone!

Wanna Cuppa Joe?

Today I have a fun project up on the SCT blog. It's a mini album using..... COFFEE CUP SLEEVES! Yup... I found this sweet little album by Jessica Acs in a magazine and knew it was a quick and easy little project to use of some of my favourite papers right now; Graphic45.

Here's a picture of the front and back covers....

Make sure you take a quick peek at my entire project and step by step instructions on the Scrapbook and Cards Today blog here.