Be Mine with 13@rts

Hello friends!

Today I'm up on the 13@rts blog with a little card to share with you. I was inspired by the colors I saw on a piece of kitchen towel that I used to clean up my mess while crafting, and it was a nice blend of lavender and blue. So I made this card with these two colors in mind.

Here it the card:

I've layered Matt Paint Lavender with Metallic Paint Blue on top. Then I wiped off with a baby wipe to reveal the colors underneath.

Some close-ups:

Creating my paper layers with some of the scrap from my paper collection Mental Vacation.

The chipboard from Blue Fern Studios which I altered using a paste made from Matt Paint Lavender, Magic powder and some iridescent medium. Then I finished off with some Splash acrylic ink.

That's all I have for you today. Thanks for dropping by!

love, 

Baby's First Year Album with Maja Design and a Giveaway!

Hello friends!

By the time you're reading this, we would be up in the air on our way to Australia for a family holiday. I'm looking forward to a good time of rest and bonding with the kids, as well as catching up with family and friends there.

But first, a jumbo post for Maja Design today. I have a video tutorial to share with you, and it's a baby girl's first year album I made for our little girl who would be arriving in September. The Vintage Baby collection by Maja Design couldn't have come at a better time!

Here's the cover and some of the inside pages:

I made an accordion fold for the inside pages, with one side using lots of die cuts from the papers and the other with ample space for photos and journaling. The idea is to keep the whole album as simple as possible so that I have plenty of space for her photos and recording of her milestones.

And some of the details:

And here's the video tutorial:

And before I go, here's the other part of the jumbo post. I'm hosting the giveaway for April at Maja Design and this month's prize is the gorgeous Coffee in the Arbor collection!



To win this, simply carry out the following steps:

1) Become my blog follower
2) Subscribe to my Youtube channel
3) Follow the Maja Design blog
4) Share on your social media platform
5) Leave a comment here to say you have done so

That's it! I will pick a winner on 14th May when I return from my trip. And that's all I have for today. Thanks for dropping by!

love,

Sailing the Seas mini album with Off the Rails Scrapbooking

Good day friends!

Today I'm bringing you a short tutorial on a different way of putting your mini-album pages together. Unfortunately, this will also be my last post for OTRS as I prepare for my new baby's arrival, so I will be missing everyone!

Step 1

Here are my starting materials: a chipboard album base and my 6x6 paper pad. You can see that there is a ring and piece of twine for securing the album pages together and that is usually what most people would use. But my pages tend to be very dimensional so using these will make my album look overly chunky and stuffed. So I changed the way of securing these pages together so that the finished album look just nicely filled out.

Step 2

After trimming out the papers for each piece of chipboard, I trimmed out 3 more small pieces of patterned paper (0.75" x 1.5") and scored them at 0.25" and 0.5". The two ends of the fold goes under the patterned paper, with a nice margin of 0.25" in the centre for the desired thickness between each page.

This is what the spine should look like after assembling all the papers.

Step 3

I measured and trimmed out another sheet of pattered paper to glue over the spine. This does two things: (1) to reinforce the spine and (2) cover up the bare chipboard.

Step 4

Further reinforcement of the spine using fabric tape.

And this is the finished album with photos of the inside pages. 

And that is all I have for you today. 

love,