Pen and Ink Mini Album

Hello friends - welcome and thanks so much for stopping by.  Once again I am trying to make the most of  a quiet moment or two and play a little catch up with posts and projects.  Today I am sharing a Mini Album I created for a dear friends birthday.

I have used an older Kaisercraft Collection Pen and Ink for the album, love the crispness of the black and white - it is always so easy to mix and match with a Collection, it certainly takes the guesswork out of it!  I have used Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L E-Z Adhesive Runner to adhere the papers to the album pages.

I love this gorgeous little girl image and have never been too sure how to use it - but she fits perfectly into the frame with her body popped up using Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L 3D Foam Squares.The sentiments are from a mix of Kaisercraft Collections 

The beautiful flowers are from Little Birdie Crafts - I love the variety and dimension without being too bulky!  Some of  the sentiments have been adhered to Spellbinders Dies and tucked into pockets.  Wooden embellishments, lace and other miscellaneous elements have been added.  

This project is linked to the following challenges:

Crafty Creations - Always Anything Goes 

Creative Moments - Anything Goes 

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - New Goodies/Old favorites or Both

Scrapy Land Challenges - Always Anything Goes with Die Brand SL sells (Spellbinders)

Sisterhood of Crafters - Thinking of You

The Paper Funday - Anything Goes/Optional Twist Friendship

Word Art Wednesdays - Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiment Designs - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread - Always Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes

 Tuesday Throwdown - Something New (flowers)

Get Creative Challenges - SOMETHING NEW (flowers)

Use Your Stuff - ANYTHING GOES

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes w/Optional Twist: Shiny

Dragonfly Dreams - Anything Goes

International Art & Soul - Monochromatic 

The Corrosive Challenges - Always Anything Goes

We Love 2 Create  - Always Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

Incy Wincy Designs - Anything Goes

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

                                                          {{{hugs}}} and happy creating

Baby Album

Hello friends - welcome and thanks so much for stopping by.  I am trying to make the most of  a quiet moment and play a little catch up with posts and projects.  Today I am sharing a Baby Album I created for my niece who is expecting a beautiful baby girl in March - I have t be honest and say I really tried to tone it back a little - girl albums are so easy to go crazy on - I think I reached a good compromise -needless to say my niece loved it and I look forward to seeing photos in it once my great-niece arrives.

I have used older Authentique Paper patterned papers for the album, love the soft pastels - it is so easy to mix and match with a Collection, it certainly takes the guesswork out of it!  I have used Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L E-Z Adhesive Runner to adhere the papers to the album pages.

The sentiments are from a Kaisercraft Collection - obviously a baby girl collection, along with the Authentique Papers sentiments. 

The beautiful flowers are from Little Birdie Crafts - I love the variety and dimension without being too bulky!  Some of  the sentiments have been adhered to Spellbinders Dies and tucked into pockets.

Wooden butterflies and miscellaneous embellishments have been added.  Every embellishment that is overlapping onto white card stock for photos has been left with that portion free of adhesive to allow the photo to be popped in.

This project is linked to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - New Goodies/Old favorites or Both

Crafty Sentiments Challenge - Anything Goes

Paper Shelter - New Beginnings

Arty Divas Challenge - Anything Goes

The Three Muses - Pink

Paper Fun Days - Anything Goes - Optional Friendship

Lemon Shortbread - Always Anything Goes

Simon Says Wednesday - Fun with Florals

Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes 

Creative Moments - Anything Goes

Always Fun Challenges - SOMETHING NEW

Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

Get Creative Challenges - SOMETHING NEW

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes w/Optional Twist: Shiny

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

                                                          {{{hugs}}} and happy creating

Imagine Craft and ClearScrap Blog Hop

 

 IMAGINE Crafts is proud to feature projects created by our Artists In Residence this week using products from ClearScraps. We hope you enjoy the creativity our team shares with you this week!  

I have used a lot of gorgeous product on this fabulous Clear Scrap Album, I could not stop myself!!

Supplies:

• IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko:  Craft Mat; StazOn® Solvent Inks in Fuschia Pink, Teal Zeal,  Opaque - Cotton White Reinker ;Sponge Dauber; irResistible Texture Spray in Pink, Blue and White
• Clear Scraps - All Mixed Up Chip Album 
• Spellbinders - Hearts One Bezel; Premium Foil - Pastels; Standard Circles LG Nestabilities;  Stately Circles Decorative Elements Nestabilities ; A2 Floral Ribbon Threader Spellbinders® Nestabilities® Card Creator; Gold Majesty Circles Imperial Gold die template
• Authentique Paper: Flourishes Collection 12×12
• Want2Scrap: pearl embellishments
• Maya Road: paper flowers
• Prima Marketing - Wood Embellishments; Stamp Set
• Scrappy Chats Designs - flower
• May Arts - Ribbon
• Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L: E-Z Runner, 3D Foam Squares
• Miscellaneous: crochet lace, brayer, Large Brad, Button, Kindy Glitz, Paper Roses; Metal Corners, Lace, paper embellishments

Step 1. Cover Album using Authentique Paper.

Step 2. Sponge around the page edges using Stazon Opaque - Cotton White Reinker and a Sponge Dauber

Step 3. Decorate pages using stamps, photos, lace, Spellbinder Dies and StazOn® Solvent Inks .

Step 4. The photos have also been cut/embossed using Spellbinders Dies and lightly on the raised edge.

Step 5. Add photos, embellish, making sure to sponge sentiment and edges using StazOn® Solvent Inks.

Step 6.  The Monogram has been coloured using StazOn® Solvent Inks in Fushia Pink and soften with a top layer of Cotton White.

Step 6. Sponge the edges of A2 Floral Ribbon Threader using Cotton White and a Sponge Dauber.

Step 7. Add Metal Embellishments and Want2Scrap bling, along with a sentiment from Authentique Papers.

Step 8. Colour Wooden Embellishments using inks and adhere to edge of the photo.

Step 9. Adhere recycles sentiment to the image.

Step 10. Add 'splatter' to the page and lightly on the photo using irRESISTibles Texture Spray.

Step 11. Colour stamped image using Inked Sponge Dauber.

Step 12. Add 'splatter' to the page and lightly on the photo using irRESISTibles Texture Spray.

Step 13. Cut/emboss Gold Majesty Circles sponging the embossed areas with inked dauber. 

Step 14. Add cut/embossed and sanded photo. 

Step 15. Add embellishments, sentiment and ribbon.

Here is today's other project:

Maureen Cronin

If you've missed the other projects this week please visit the IMAGINE Crafts Blog.

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

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Mini Album Tutorial

I am sharing the @Step by Step Tutorial on the Spellbinders Blog today and the theme is "Mini Albums or Journal Covers" - it is a personal favourite of mine - I love Mini Albums and cannot resist adding lots of Dies and embellishments to them - I have tried to exercise some self control with this Album - but...well, you will see.

Thank you for stopping by today, I hope you have been inspired by my Mini Album, you can CLICK HERE to see tall of the details - you are only limited by your imagination!

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