Everyday Memories Mini Album

I have to tell you how excited I was to come across this little book! I have been following Ginger from My Sisters Scrapper for quite a long time and love her mini albums. She has a mini album that is very similar to this one but no pages and a bit smaller. 

I've been searching for something very close to that one. I wanted something that had a few pages. I wasn't too concerned about the size. A few weeks back I found exactly what I was looking for on a Blogger friends blog. My friend Susie from Creative Cafe made the book I was searching for. Check out her blog, she makes beautiful books!

This book measures approximately 5.25 inches in width, 8 inches in height and 1.25 inches in depth. I love this book! 

I used a paper pad I've had in my stash for ages. It's by K&Company and is called Que Sera Sera. The  patterns are beautiful. I usually buy "collections" so I have embellishments, stickers and chipboard pieces to choose from when I decorate my books. I fill in with stuff from my stash. I had no embellishments for this paper. I racked my brain for ideas of how to decorate the cover. I went to a few Michael's, Joann's and even Hobby Lobby looking to see if I could find something and came up empty handed. I just didn't see anything I liked. That led me to shop in my own craft room! 

For the cover I used three different die sets for the flowers and leaves. I used Spellbinders Shapeabilities Foliage, Heartfelt Creations Ariana Blooms and Sizzix - Donna Salazar Rose Creations. I die cut the flowers/leaves from patterned paper from the collection. I added pearl bling to the flower centers. I cut the doily from a Prima die called Doilies One and then dyed it with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink. The metal corners are from Momenta. The word sentiments are from Tim Holtz Idea-ology stickers called ChitChat. I inked all the pages with vintage photo distress ink - my favorite! I used an old Creative Memories corner punch for the photo mats and flaps. On the pockets I used my We R Memory Keepers envelope punch board. 

The rest of this post are just photos of the inside pages, spine and back cover. I didn't do any embellishing on the inside. The book isn't that large and I wanted to leave plenty of room to add photos. Embellishments can always be added after the photos have been adhered to the pages. There are 6 photo mats inside pockets and two small booklets inside two pockets. In addition to the mats and booklets there is room for over 40 photos in the book. Of course some of the areas can be used for journaling too. 

I love waterfall photo pages!

This is the page with the two pockets that hold two small booklets that will hold four photos each.

I live the flaps on the page!

That's it! I've already started the pages for more books. I've gone through all my patterned paper and have decided to cut into the collections that I've been hoarding because they are too gorgeous to use.

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Sunday Morning Cards

Sharing a couple cards I made earlier today while listening to the wind howl and the rain hit the windows. 

For both of these cards I picked out some random patterned paper from my stash. Lord knows I have plenty of it! I love being able to use it with stencils. The red paper is from October Afternoon and the teal paper is from Core'dinations. I used Hero Arts Petals Stencil Pair with Ranger Texture Paste on both of these cards. The flowers on the teal card are some leftovers sitting on my craft table that I used on another card.

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CAS(E) this Sketch!: CAS(E) This Sketch #116 Challenge

Here's my submission for the CAS(E) this Sketch #116 challenge this week. I've been playing around with the Arianna Blooms and the Arianna Lace dies from Heartfelt Creations that I've had for awhile. 

One thing I've discovered is that I do like using thinner cardstock instead of more heavyweight cardstock when making these flowers. Thankfully I kept all the paper that I picked up at Archiver's through the years when they had the buy some get some for free! It seems to be the right weight will come in handy for flower making. 

I do apologize for the shadows on the photo. I just can't seem to find a decent place to take a photo. I've tried everywhere. Using the window in my craft room seems to be the best, but it's still not ideal to me. 

 

I love the dimension!

Other products used for this card were from Simon Says Stamp! I used the Thanks steel craft die style no. S202. I actually have two of these as I bought it twice! I'm trying to be careful not to do that. The sentiment is also from Simon Says Stamp! called Thanks SSS101347. I like this set because there are lots of sentiments to use with this die. It's pretty versatile because it also includes four thanks stamps that can also be used instead of the die. The card base is from PaperTrey Ink. The sentiment was stamped using Ranger Archival ink and of course I used my MISTI to stamp it!

I can see using the sketch below multiple times. I love how simple it is and can think of tons of different options for images and sentiments. I'm glad I decided to play along this week. 

CAS(E) this Sketch!

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Love Blooms

 

No challenge for this card.  I was just playing around with a older Woodland Park background stamp from October Afternoon and several colors of Tim Holtz distress ink. I also wanted to use a flower die from Heartfelt Creations that I picked up awhile ago and haven't had a chance to work with. It's called Arianna Blooms and I love it!

For the background I stamped the Woodland Park image with versamark ink and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. I then inked the watercolor paper the six colors below below.

Here's a close up of the background and the flowers. I used Graphic 45's Bohemian Bazaar patterned paper for the flowers. This Arianna Blooms die is so versatile and can make so many different variations of flowers. I can't wait to play around with it some more. 

The sentiment is from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps called Bloom & Grow. 

I've been using my new MISTI and I love it! I think this will be very helpful for me because with my Rheumatoid Arthritis sometimes I have a difficult time stamping a good image. Just from trying it out with various stamps I think the purchase of this product was well worth it!

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Mojo Monday Challenge 377

Whew...I just finished my card for the Mojo Monday Challenge! I was even able to get a half decent photo before the sun went down. I had planned to finish my card yesterday so I wouldn't feel rushed today but I got detained with other stuff. 

I used DCWV's The Old World Stack for the patterned paper and PaperTrey Ink cardstock in vintage cream for my base. The die cut is called Arianna Lace from Heartfelt Creations by Spellbinders. I used the edge punch from EK Success called dotted scallop for the edges on the the pinkish/maroon colored cardstock. The butterfly was punched with a Martha Steward punch. For the sentiment I used a Hero Arts stamp set called Find Joy. Gems are also from Hero Arts. 

I haven't played along with a Mojo Monday sketch for a long time! I used to love creating from their sketches. Hoping to be able to do them every week if I can squeeze it in!

Mojo Monday Challenge 377

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