Journal Album

One of the reasons I haven't posted lately is that I have been busy making a journal album.  This was comissioned by a colleague for her Mum's 82 birthday, she wanted an album that friends and family could write in.  It started off as 15 pages, (30 sides) but increased to 25 pages, (50 sides!), quite a challange as all the pages were different.

This is what I came up with, don't worry I won't post 50 pages, I used some spring vintage dsp to cover the front and back pages then mainly used this colour theme throughout the album. So even though I used a few different stamp sets it was brought together with the same colour theme.

I used the baby blossom set, sadly retiring as is the springtime vintage dsp. For the page above I made a little card using a top note die, fastened with some seam binding ribbon so her Mum can open it and find the message in side. The followinf 2 pages also used the baby blossom set, I used a heart cut out of scrap paper as a mask for the first page.

I hope you like these pages I shall post some more using other sets.

Stampin Up! Baby blossoms

I have been playing with my new stuff, (in between listing a lot of parchment craft books and mags on ebay, I'm running out of space!).  The baby blossom set is gorgous, a 2 step set so you stamp the first image then stamp the second on top in a darker ink or you can use the same ink pad just stamp the first image on scrap before stamping on your card. I used the stamp-a-ma-jig to line the images up, I stamped all of the images in the corners of squares of thick acetate, (cut up a sheet I bought from stationers for 25p) so now have permanent index cards to keep with the set.  Have I confused you yet? I will put up a quick tutorial on 2 step and stamp-a-ma-jig as it's great.
Here's the card

I randomly stamped on very vanilla card using regal rose, melon mamba, baja breeze,marina mist,old olive and pear pizzaz markers, then cut down a bit to mount on marina mist card and a scallop edge of regal rose then mounted on crumb cake.  I used the new seam binding ribbon, the sentiment is from the kimono kids set.
I had some scraps left from cutting the very vanilla and it was a shame to waste it so I used it in the insert - waste not want not.

I love this set so watch out for some more cards.  Bye for now.