So as usual, I am a very infrequent blogger. Guessing no one is reading anyway so it probably doesn't matter. If you are reading, please leave a comment so I know, OK? :o)
Anyway, here is my latest creation...the long-awaited Orlando Mini Album. I say that because all the pictures are from 2007! Here is the cover page. This is a very old Rusty Pickle chipboard mini that I picked up at CKC St. Paul many years ago. I used the October Afternoon Rocket Age collection Sprinklers on all the pages. I took the spray nozzle off and dripped them on from the tube. Also used here on the cover is a tag from We R Memory Keepers (Orlando - I cut off the top hangy part), a sticker from the American Crafts Amy Tangerine sticker book, some Prima flowers from my big tube and a cloud brad from Recollections.
Anyway, here is my latest creation...the long-awaited Orlando Mini Album. I say that because all the pictures are from 2007! Here is the cover page. This is a very old Rusty Pickle chipboard mini that I picked up at CKC St. Paul many years ago. I used the October Afternoon Rocket Age collection Sprinklers on all the pages. I took the spray nozzle off and dripped them on from the tube. Also used here on the cover is a tag from We R Memory Keepers (Orlando - I cut off the top hangy part), a sticker from the American Crafts Amy Tangerine sticker book, some Prima flowers from my big tube and a cloud brad from Recollections.
This second page is pictures taken on the airplane. I used the picture of the clouds in place of background paper and added some clouds stamped with my Hero Arts Studio Calico stamps and punched out with my Fiskars cloud punches. The ink is from Jenni Bowlin for Ranger. I stamped out and punched a bunch of these so I could just add them in as needed. The stickers are from the Echo Park Splash collection kit.
For this page I just cut some of the EP Splash papers into flag banners and adhered them with the ends hanging off, kind of as a photo mat. Then I added this October afternoon label sticker to the top of the picture and it was done!
Here I cut a circle with my Creative Memories circle cutter. I cut it in half and adhered it to another piece of the patterned paper. Now it looks like a sideways purse. Oh well. Then I added my photo and another EP Splash sticker.
This picture is hilarious. Here I just cut a piece of the EP Splash border paper and adhered it so it was going off the edge of the page. Then I took my craft knife and cut the excess off. More stickers from the EP Splash collection finish it off.
Here I did the same thing with the EP Splash paper across the page and a bunch of various stickers from October afternoon, Bella Blvd., EP Splash and some old ones from Scenic Route.
Here I didn't use any patterned paper, just a couple bigger stickers from EP Splash and another of my Prima flower concoctions with a Basic Grey bling in the middle. I am mad because my journaling got smeared because of the shiny sticker surface. I used a Copic multiliner figuring it would work like a Sharpie, but it didn't. Oh well, lesson learned...
EP Splash patterned paper and stickers.
EP Splash stickers, Cosmo Cricket tiny Type, Prima flower and Papertrey Ink button.
This is the back cover page. I just treated it like a regular page. Here is a picture of my Grandma smoking a cigarette. Wish I would have gotten one of her NOT smoking, but I wanted one of her in the album in the context of the pool part of the trip. Oh well... Again it's the EP Splash stickers, Hero Arts/SC/Fiskars clouds and a Bella Blvd sticker finishes it off (Life is Good).
Just to brag a little...I have been done with my Christmas cards for about a month already. It really feels good to be ahead of the game. Also, I got about a month behind on Project Life, but I sat down this week and got it all caught up so that feels good too. However, in the process I realized that I hadn't taken a single photo for one of the weeks. I decided to just completely leave that week out of the album. I doubt anyone will ever notice, especially since nothing apparently happened that week. :o)
I've got a lot of projects brewing in the craft room, so hopefully I will be back soon to report on them all.
See ya peeps!
Melissa
