Monday, June 18, 2012

a little fairy...

sometimes I do manage to scrap for myself - a book just for our family's eyes - not a sample to put in the store:-)  I love to create so much for the store and inspire many people - however, samples get picked up, held and often dropped on the floor (yes they do!!)
this book is for Aubrey - using Graphic45 Once upon a Springtime paper, a Magenta mini album with flaps, and adorable pictures of my gorgeous girl - this is a book just for her - it was done in celebration of turning 5.

Have a peek:-)
 the front cover - the book is about 7x7 and I tied on an INSANE amount of ribbon!!
 page 1 & 2

 close up of fussy cutting on the cover


 simple layered scallop circle - charm is by Bo-Bunny  "Gabrielle" line
 page 3 & 4

 another scallop circle - border punch is by Martha Stewart (modern garland) rhinestones from Prima
 the flap when closed - jump rings hold it on - I used Tim Holtz
 flap when open
 page 5 & 6 - metal flower is used like a little knob to lift up...
 and reveal more photos underneath - lacey rhinestones from Prima

 Page 7 and 8
 close-up of the flap
 inside of flap




The back of the book:-)

my gorgeous girl!!

and yes - I did dress my girl up like a fairy just to take these pics - I had this idea in my head for this book for a little while!

I hope you feel inspired!
S

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Disney album...in the making!

working on a Disney scrapbook - I did not even scrapbook our last trip...and we went again, now I bet that sounds familiar!! So following my own Mantra - Scrapbook the current photos in your life...I am starting my Disney book.
First off I thought I would scrapbook it a little differently - so I started a mini smash book on the trip- in it I did some journaling, I kept all our receipts, leftover fast passes, tickets, wristbands and all sorts of collectibles from our trip - the smash stick journal pen with the glue stick end is sooo fabulous for this purpose, the other reason I love just using a glue stick is that you can "lightly tack" things in, making them easy to pull out when you are ready to transfer to your pages. I lose paper, so this method of tacking items into something, even temporarily really works for me!!
I then choose my album for the trip!



SMASH FOLIO POCKETS - 13.5" X 11.75" - FITS 8.5 X 11 PAPER


  this book is HUGE - what I love about it is the little bags, folders, pockets etc that are attached right to the spiral binding!

Now when doing a Mini album (as that is kind of what this is, even though it is not mini in size) I generally organize my stack of photos 1st


 so I started to plan my album pages - chronologically according to date and event - and started with just tucking the photos into the pages, one after another. Once I planned photos for about 4 pages, I went back to page 1 and trimmed photos as necessary, and then started to adhere them to the pages.

 I thought this "What UP?" page was the perfect beginning as the photos are from the airport and on the plane when we are "up" in the air.

I will show you a few more pics of photo placement - now keeping in mind that at this point I am just organizing the photos, adding a little patterned paper on some pages, and sticking down those photos...when I work on any sort of mini album, I leave my embellishments until the end - so these pages will all look different when I do my finishing touches, which I will show off in a future post.



the next page is a pocket page - so I thought I would use this for all my Blizzard beach photos - so I first added a little bit of tropical paper from the Summer Soul line from Fancy Pants 
the pocket itself looked nice and "beachy" already...
I decided to lay out the photos and then figure out how to get them all into 2 pages and a folder,
the folder pocket holds 8.5x11 paper, so I will do some layouts with my extra photos,
here is the photo with the folder

ok - more to come & I will get working to show it to you!!

I hope you feel inspired!
S

Monday, June 4, 2012

KOTM for June

is called "My Story" - the lovely Nicole played with the kit this month, you can find her over here on her blog
http://justnicks.blogspot.ca/
she made some lovely layouts with our Kit...

 Love those photo booth pics!! Check out all that layering!!


June KOTM "My Story"

Each kit includes:

Cardstock:
4 pieces Bazzill Basics (Artichoke, Painted Desert, Kraft, Whirlpool)
2 pieces of Bazzill Basics Two Scoops (Tin Roof, Fudge Ripple)

Patterned Paper:
7 pieces of brand new Studio Calico and Crate Paper

Embellishments:
1 Tim Holtz Distress marker - various colors in kits
1 My Mind's Eye Veneer die cut shape
1 Simple Stories Pocket
1 Studio Calico alphabet - various colors in kits
1 Jenni Bowlin sheet hexagon cardstock stickers
2 Pink Paislee cardstock border stickers
3 Studio Calio chipboard clouds
3 Maya Road chipboard swirls
2 Studio Calico paper clips
2 Studio Calico clothes pins
1 meter Maya Road lace
1 meter hemp

I will post some more ideas later on this month!!! Pick up your kit in either store, or by going to our online store! www.thescrapbookcottage.ca

I hope you feel inspired!
S