Envelope Mini Album

Ezme recently made this gorgeous mini album using Webster's Pages patterned paper and a combination of Prima Alphabet stickers and stamps.

Each of the envelopes were made from scratch and then decorated.

There is space for a photo and journaling cards in each of the envelopes. This specific album contains 7 envelopes - one for each day of the week. Perfect to document the events of any random (or special!) week in your life.

The album can just as easily be adapted to contain an envelope for each month of the year, so you can use it to showcase the highlight of every month for a whole year!

Beautiful Prima paper!

A recent misunderstanding between my left foot and a staircase meant that I've had to spend a bit of time in hospital, so there has been quite a while of "nothing new" here... I'm back at home now, so here is a mini album that I made for a dear friend's 40th birthday earlier this year.

She is such a gorgeous woman, and has the two most beautiful girls, that I could only really have considered Prima paper for this project!

All the pictures are black and white, which creates a beautiful contrast to the soft colours of the paper and the feminine embellishments.

 

 

 

 

I've used punched butterflies, which I covered with Glossy Accents, ribbon, beads and rub-ons throughout the album.

PnT Scrap Challenge

We recently held a sketch scrap challenge at one of our crop sessions. Quite a few of the ladies participated, and posted some of the results on the Pics 'n Tales Facebook page.  This is the sketch that we used:

And this is my take on the challenge:

I used little bits of paper left over from many different projects, mixing and matching paper from different manufacturers. The photos were taken at Fairview farm back in 2010. I love how the red and green  (typical Christmas colours...), pics up the colours in the photos. The chevrons and buttons add a bit of fun - something every layout should have!

January class - unexpected treasures

When I found a stash of vintage books in a bookstore in Cape Town recently, I just had to have them... Ever found yourself in that situation? Regularly, I hear some say...

Anyway, what to do with a whole stack of small books, published in 1887? Create a class project, of course!!

At first, some of the girls were quite taken aback by the instruction to tear most of the pages out of the book, and then to procede with scrapping directly onto the book pages. But they soon got over that and started getting quite creative!

The idea was to scrap photos that were rather random - not taken specifically for a project. The result: a fun mini album with a vintage twist. Here are a few of the pages from my book:

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are about 20 more little double pages...

 

 

 

Inspiration from the animal kingdom

I found myself suddenly bored with a mini album project recently and decided that I needed a quick layout "fix". Not having a lot of time on my hands, I reached for a Pagemaps sketch for some inspiration.

After finding some long lost paper in my stash, I added a few embellishments to the growing pile of goodies on my desk, and started to feel quite inspired and motivated. Until I realised I did not have a photograph that said "scrap me now!"...

And then I remembered the awesome photographs posted by an American photographer, Junelle Jacobson, on her blog. I used one of her stunning photographs of the cutest little lamb.

My journalling reads:

I love how this picture seems to capture all of life's innocence in one small, new pair of eyes.

Finally completed...

I can't even remember at which Scrapbook Convention we started this project. The album was awesome, and something a bit different. The paper and embellishments we got with it, was a bit far outside my "box", so I really struggled with it. But I finally got my head around it, and created an album about my grandparents in their youth. And I must admit, I quite like how it turned out, even though it is not my usual style!

There was an added bonus to creating this album: I got to learn a great deal of my family history in the process!

 

Cute mini album

Here's another little mini album I made using my now "go to" design for quick and easy projects. This folded album is so versatile and quick to make, you can't help but use the idea over and over again.

I used an adorable range from Fabscraps, that went perfectly with photos of my son and his cousins on the beach. I cut up a Fabscraps chipboard title so I had two titles to use, and combined it with letters created on the Cuttlebug with a Heidi Swapp font.

 

The inside of the album is decorated with banners and a variety of stamped images.