Two out of many (2)

I managed to finish another album this month before I leave for warmer weather. It was a last minute kind of deal. I have started a Valentine's day album, just so I can feel up to date with my work, when this tutorial showed up on my Facebook wall. I had about 10 pages of scrapbook paper left from DCWV Butterfly Garden collection and I decided they will be perfect for this experiment. The project took me more time to finish because I got a little carried away with the inking and the fussy cutting and other small details. It was all worth it in the end. I was so happy with the album that I might buy another Butterfly Garden paper pack.
Take a look and let me know what you think.

The covers are held together by a piece of Christmas wrapping paper that I saved from one of my presents from Tracy. She knew I would keep it and re-purpose it so she chose wisely.

One of my favorite pages. I like the high contrast colors and the large design. I do not know how it will look after I add some photos. Maybe black and white photos for this page.

Thank you Ioana for the butterflies. I saved the white ones for a special album, except for this one who got some green ink treatment and a little of the pearl white ink.

Trying to cover up the missing corner of the butterfly paper with fussy cut images from leftover paper. Except for the top green butterfly and the small pink flower on the left all others have missing parts.

Last page trying to use every little bit of paper left. Looks a little missed-matched for my style, but is the last page so it is OK.

Not sure when I will be back with more projects hope is sooner because I received two very special paper collections; one had some printed burlap pages and the other one is the New Lodge Stack from DCWV, both out of my style and comfort zone.

And that is it for a while. Stay scrappy!

Two out of many

At the end of this month I will be traveling south for a while. There will be little time for crafting so I decided to finish some, if not all of my many projects in progress.
I started with an album/cardholder. I keep all of the cards and notes that our family receives so I have a lot of them. I want to look at them from time to time, but digging through a shopping bag does not seem very appealing to me. So I started by sorting them out. I had a pile for the ones I received from my husband, a pile for birthday cards, and a large pile of Christmas cards. I will further make smaller groups, maybe by year, or some other idea that may cross my mind. For example, I have so many cards and thank you notes from one very good friend of ours, that I will make them one album. That should be sweet.

And now some proof of this ongoing project. I started with the cards I got from my husband, because it was around Valentine's day, and because I had the Pinkpaislee' s Pen Pals 12 by 12 paper collection.

 

The covers and the spine are made with chipboard that I first covered with white cardstock. I inked the edges with some pink ink. I like the inked look but it is very time consuming, I was considering using only black cardstock but some projects look better in light colors.

These are some of the pages. I made each page into a large pocket by bending in half a 12in by 7 1/2in paper. I glued the bottom of the pocket and I glued the side to the binding.
Here is a good tutorial of the binding I used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUtkJ9u6M6w.
I added the larger cards inside the pockets, and I glued smaller pockets on each page for the smaller cards. I also added some tags just in case I find some photos from the time I got my card.

This particular card had a nice ribbon to it that would not have fit nicely in the pocket page. So I glued the top and bottom of the page and cut the outer edge to hold the back of the card.

I have another album to show you, so check out my next post.