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Morning everyone!

I made another mini album. This one uses envelopes, which I don't usually use as I prefer to make my own, but if you're in a rush they certainly help cut the time down spent making your album.

I've included a few photographs of the pages below, if you would like to see more pages or a video, pop across to my blog here. (If it isn't live yet I'm just waiting for YouTube to process the video, so check back in a bit).

Even though it's fairly simple I like the way it came out and you could fit quite a lot of photographs in this album.

I covered my album with some neutral card stock and then matted with the design papers on black cardstock. I matted the image (coloured with Copics) onto some black cardstock also and popped a die cut doily behind.

Some pictures of the inside.

I used the little tab die from Make a Card #3

On the inside back cover I cut a large heart with a Whimsy die and stamped the sentiment that comes with the image stamp.

Items Used

Stamping Bella Closeups - I Do

MME Lost & Found Record it - Heirloom 6 x 6 Pad

Double Scallop Heart Doily Die

Die-namites Heart Doily Die
CC Designs Make a Card #3

Walnut Stain Distress Ink

That's all from me today, have a great weekend everyone! :) xx

Vintage Wedding Album

Morning everyone, it's Linda here coming at you on a Sunday as the heat just wiped me out earlier in the week and so I wasn't quite ready to post this on Friday. Luckily for me I have wonderful teamies, and the super fabulous Faye (have you been following her work? It's amazing, I'm just a fan boy lol), stepped in for me and swapped days, isn't that sweet of her?

Anyhoo, on to my make and as you know I've recently been dabbling in some mini albums.......but now I've moved up into the next leave and so today I'm posting my first 'proper' mini album. (Well if I'm honest it it's actually the 3rd, but it's the 1st one I've shared)

I don't know about you but for me at this time of year it's all about Weddings. I've been asked to make several wedding cards and recently a work friend asked me to make a wedding album for her daughter to take as a gift for a wedding she was attending in Ireland. The bride likes vintage.

Immediately I thought of the Vintage Wedding collection by Pion Design, it fits the Vintage and Wedding theme and it has all these great cut aparts and tags etc. I used a mixture of 6 x 6 and 12 x 12 papers.

This is what I made.

I edged all of my layers (but not the pages themselves) with Walnut Stain Distress Ink. 

I hope I'm not blowing my own trumpet when I say that the pictures do not do it justice, it's so difficult to photograph these well,  and I have also made a video which you can find the link to on my blog, but it really does look lovely in real life and I'm rather chuffed with it.

The link to the tutorial I used is also on my  blog if you wish to have a go at making one of these for yourself.

Pion Design Vintage Wedding Collection

Here Comes the Bride

Photo Frame

Wedding Bells

Wedding Bells 12 x 12

Wedding Dress

Bridal Bouquet 12 x 12

Always & Forever 12 x 12

Here Comes the Bride 12 x 12

Wedding images 12 x 12

Tags 12 x 12

Wedding Day 12 x 12

White Flowers 12 x 12

Bridal Bouquet

Other Items

Bazzill Basics Kraft

Prima Say it in Pearls Swirl with Lace - Cream

Walnut Stain Distress Ink

Church Charm

Lock with Heart Charm
Prima Flowers
Prima Say it in Crystals Border Zephyr

I had an immense amount of fun making this and my work friend loves it, so I hope the bride and groom do too!

That's all from me today but I'll be back again next week in my regular Friday spot.

Happy crafting! :) xx

Skinny Mini!

Hi everyone! Linda here. I really should have posted this last Friday, but after coming back from holiday with a nasty cold virus I just lost all my mojo at the start of last week. Felt much better at the weekend so I whipped up this.

This was such a fun little project, I found the inspiration for this from Ginger at My Sisters Scrapper and she linked to a tutorial she followed from Papercrafter 45 and that's what I mostly followed to make this. However the original mini measured 8.5 inches long and I really wanted to use up some of my 6 x 6 papers, so I adjusted the length. So I guess it's a short skinny mini :)

One thing I really loved about this project is that it doesn't use chipboard. I like chipboard but I hate wrapping it, plus not everyone has chipboard to hand or wants to buy it just to try a project, so this is a nice one to try because you can just use the kind of stuff you use on your cards.

Anyway, this is what it turned out like.

It's really difficult to photograph these, so I made a short video to show you the pages a little better.

If you want to see the video and find a link to a tutorial on how to make this just visit my blog

I used Miss Teagen Sue from Bazill Basics. I've had this collection for a while and I've made a couple of cards with it so I really wanted to use it up. This project was perfect for that as it doesn't take as much as a regular mini album.  I was a little short on pages though, so I did supplement with half a 12 x 12 page of Bo Bunny Double Dot paper, but as I say I had already made 2 cards with the pack previously.

If you wanted to you could make this mini with A4 card, but you would need to cut the measurements for the width down by a smidge, (a bit more complicated then cutting the length down due to all the folds and the scoring) but I used A3 card so was able to do the full width.

I edged everything with Walnut Stain distress ink.

Miss Teagen Sue 

Memory Box Victorian Frame

La-La Land Birdcage

Prima Say it in Crystals - Corners 3

Prima Say it in Crystals Black/Grey

Shabby Ribbon Light Pink 15 mm

Walnut Stain Distress Ink

That's all from me today but I hope you feel inspired to make one of these yourself, they really are tons of fun.

Baby Boy Mini Album

Happy Friday everyone! Linda here.  If you're in the UK I hope you're looking forward the the long Bank Holiday weekend.  It's even longer for me because I have a whole week off, so there won't be much to see from me next week as I'm going away to Guernsey for a few days and then to my parents to celebrate my Dad's 85th! 

Anyway, this is my cute little mini album made with Carta Bella Baby Mine Boy....I just love these papers sooooo much!

To be honest this could as easily work for a girl where the family isn't much into pink, also.

This is the front, I went for a 3 ring binding this time. I really love the way this came out.

The inside pages.  There are photo mats on all pages and spaces for tags. There's a flip open page that closes with a small magnet and also a flip down page with a ribbon and button closure.

I used lots of fun die cuts to embellish along with some buttons and enamel dots.

It's quite late as I'm writing this and I'm half asleep, but I will post a video on my blog at the weekend, so that you can see all the removable mats, tags and flip out pages.

I used the following items:

Dies to Die for

Carta Bella Baby Mine Boy 6 x 6 pad

CC Designs Make a Card #3

Memory Box Baby Stuff Die

Taylored Expressions Baby Treat Toppers

Taylored Expressions Little Bits Buggy

Die-namics Traditional Tags STAX

La-La Land Stitched Zig Zags

MME Enamel Dots Necessities Blue

MME Enamel Dots The Sweetest Thing Tangerine Together

Silver Tone Feet Charm

Well that's all from me today, I hope you like it and that it inspires you to have a go :) xx

Vintage Wedding Mini Album

Happy Friday everyone, it's nearly the weekend...wheeee!
Linda here again for my regular Friday posting and I have something a little different for you today, it's not a card....don't faint now lol!

I've been messing about with a mini album using the new Maja collection, that's not quite ready to share yet, BUT while researching different styles of page, binding etc, I came across these really neat mini mini albums made from beer mats or drinks coasters.  Now if you don't have any of these you could just cut them from regular chipboard, but luckily for me I had a whole bunch of promotional ones sitting in a draw just waiting for me to be creative :P

As luck would have it Tracy had just sent me some of the gorgeous Vintage Wedding papers from Pion Design, so I made a sweet little wedding album. 

I've listed all the products from Dies to Die for at the end of my post.

If you want to see some more close ups of the pages, just visit my blog here.

I did want to try making a video to show you it properly, but I ran out of time to try, so hopefully I will upload the link that on my blog this weekend.

List of products used:

Pion Design, Vintage Wedding - Photo Frame

Pion Design Vintage Wedding - Rose

Pion Design Vintage Wedding - White Flowers

Pion Colour Palette  - White II

Pion Design Colour Palette - Green II

MFT Die-namics Traditional Tags STAX

Taylored Expressions Skinny Mini Borders

Joy! Crafts Around with Butterflies Die

La-La Land Steampunk Clock Die

La-Land Stitched Nested Circles Die

MFT Jumbo Fishtail Banner STAX

Prima Flowers Innoscence

Dream Key Charm

Prima Say it in Crystals - Clear with Roses

Scrapberry's Polymer Wedding 3

Walnut Stain Distress Ink

I'm really happy with the way this turned out, the photos really don't do it justice. Also it was so much FUN to make, you really should have a go, I already have the cutest baby beer mat mini nearly completed and I'm sure I'll make more because they really are easy and fun to make.

Right that's all from me today, sadly I'm stuck at work today, but it's the weekend soon and then I get to play ;)  Happy crafting! :) xx