Paper Bag Scrapbook Album

Hello my friends! I am so excited to share this project with you as it is another throwback to an album I used to make about 8 years ago! Way back when It was easier to find large or oversized paper bags and then our society went to full on plastic bags and I couldn’t find these paper bags anymore. Well, its a new time and we are all about paper bags again! I got this at my grocery store and asked for a few extras to craft with! I decided to create a Paper Bag Travel Album to hold mementos and postcards from our recent SU Incentive Trip to Greece (my favourite out of all the places I have been blessed to travel to with Stampin’ Up!). I am a collector, so when I do go on trips I always buy postcards, and keep tickets and receipts and stuff so all of this was perfect to add into this album!

I used the Tropical Oasis and Ornate Gardens DSP as they have complimentary tones and colors as the basis for my album. And then I blended in embellishments from both suites. Some of the stamps are old favorites and some are new additions to the SU lineup.

This album came together pretty easily, as you can tell its not that complicated! I think they would also make great school memory albums (which was what I was making them into 8 years ago!), or gifts of friendship or family memories! The storage pockets are a great way to add in memorabilia without needing a lot of 'pages’.

This is one of my favourite pictures of us in Santorini

You will have to use Tear and Tape or Tombow to glue the bottom of the bag flat as seen on the left side page. I then created a pocket to store memorabilia such as train tickets, a few pictures, a bag with a postcard in it etc. I added in a book mark I had picked up along the front of the pocket too! The right side features some fun pictures of us.

Because this is an oversized paper bag it has an option for a pull out page (or more!) as you can see here with the Pretty Peacock pull out page poking out. Say that six times, hahaha!

I decided to add another pocket at the bottom of this pull out page for more storage. I included one of my favourite pictures I took on this trip of the iconic blue roofs of Santorini, I still have to pinch myself that I was actually there! The storage pocket allows me to add more postcards collected on this trip.

Ornate Garden Mini Album

When cleaning and reorganizing my craft room lately, I came across a mini album I had made a few years back and was inspired to recreate it with some new supplies. I used the Copper Dotted Treat Bags as the base. I love using a bag or envelope as a mini album base because it comes with built in storage for pull outs so to speak. I decided to use the Ornate Gardens Specialty DSP and colour palette to embellish my album. Of course you can use any DSP and coordinating colors.

To make this album you will need 5 Copper Dotted Treat Bags. This will allow you to have 8 pictures in your album as the cover bag does not hold any photos.

The spine to wrap around your album is a 4 3/4 x 4 piece of card stock scored @ 2 on the short side. I then ran each edge through the Ornate Layers die to give it a bit of detail. You can use a punch or any die to add a decorative edge. I stacked all of the bags together and used Tombow adhesive to glue the spine to the front and back bags. I then secured each inside bag with Tombow. The ribbon died around the spine is purely decorative, it does not hold anything together. It is the new Ornate Garden ribbon from the Ornate Garden Suite. It comes in a two pack with Old Olive and Terracotta Tile.

The outside photo mats are 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 so you can add a 4 x 4 photo to them. I always try and keep my measurements simple for my stampers. I then embellished each page with pieces of DSP and some floral images and sentiments that spoke to the pictures. The Gilded Gems are awesome and I couldn’t resist adding a few into the album. Overall, the album is very flat, I did not want a lot of bulk.

The pullout pages are 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 and I trimmed the photos to fit. I added tabs using the Circle Tab punch in Whisper White so they blended into the album. And I kept all of the embellishments flat (no dimensional, a real challenge for me!) so they could slide in and out of the album easily.

I chose a sentiment for the front that was neutral for whatever photos I wanted to add to the inside. It is from the Capture the Good stamp set in the Idea Book & Catalogue. I layered it with some circle punches and the Label Me Lovely Punch (from the Occasions Catty).

This album features photos from our Nelson Family camping trip each summer to Greenwater Lake, Saskatchewan

This image shows the pullout pages that are tucked inside the Copper Dotted treat bags

I used a mini stapler to secure the tab punches to the base so there was no risk of them tearing free

Joy of Sets Blog Hop--April!

Welcome to the Joy of Sets Blog Hop for April! Thank you so much for hopping on over to see what we are all up to this month—the theme is BIRTHDAY! Now I could have made a birthday card, but instead I decided to create a scrapbook page of my most recent birthday in January. I had a fun girls night in playing games, eating and drinking Prosecco!

The color pallet for this page was inspired by my birthday cake, however I knew that I also needed to keep it neutral to coordinate with what we are all wearing. And YES, I design my pages around my photos. I typically do not create a page without a photo and I use the subject matter and colors to dictate my color pallet choices. stamps and embellishments.

On this page I have used some current popular product, the Poppy Moments Dies, along with a stamp set from the Annual Idea Book & Catalogue—Seaside Notions. I used some up and coming new products too—the DSP strip right below the bottom photo is the new Ornate Gardens Specialty Designer Paper and I added in some Gilded Gems from this product suite as well.

One fun tip for when using the Poppy Moments Dies is to keep them tone on tone. I ran the base of the flowers through the Subtles Embossing Folder (found in the Idea Book & Catalogue) and it gives it just the right amount of texture.

The colors I used on this page are Crumb Cake, Petal Pink, Grapefruit Grove and Terracotta Tile with gold accents.

This page didn’t not take long to put together and can easily be recreated using different DSP and even different flower dies! I hope it inspires you!

Happy 44th birthday to me!

In this photo you can see the detail the Subtles Embossing folder gives to the flowers, I think is perfect! And those new Gilded Gems—on point!

Please visit Sue Allen’s blog next on the hop!

From this...to that!

Sometimes it takes a lot of mental energy to come up with a brand new, fresh, scrapbook page layout. Well today I decided to created a layout based on another layout I had previously designed. I thought by sharing this with you, you might be inspired to look back at some of your own creations and recreate the page using updated and fresh products and embellishments.

I used Pool Party as my page layout base and I found a strip of the Perennial Essence DSP in my scrap pin. I added a strip of the So Very Vellum Specialty Paper (which was a free Sale-a-bration reward) at the bottom as it added some unique texture. I used the DSP to dictate the rest of the color pallet and decided to pull out the Highland Heather and Pretty Peacock accents.

The border at the top is from the Wild Rose dies and layered behind in Pretty Peacock is the Label Me Lovely Punch. I decided to keep the florals ‘light’ by stamping and embossing them in white onto some vellum. Both of the florals are from the Timeless Tropical stamp set. Hello Sunshine is from the Under My Umbrella stamp set. You will find Enjoy the Little Things from the Friend Like You stamp set and Time for a New Adventure from Well Said stamp set, which can both be found in the Idea Book & Catalogue. I do believe it is important to design projects that feature at least one item from the Idea Book & Catalogue as we do always want our stampers going back to our main stampin’ resource.

There are a few retired items on this page too—-can you spot them? And the little strip of DSP under the largest flower is from the Best Dressed DSP.

I absolutely love how the page turned out! I kept the layout the same and just freshened it up with new products from the 2019/2020 Idea Book & Catalogue and the Occasions Catalogue!

Spring Flowers Scrapbook Page

I was going through some old photos the other day, you know because we have THE TIME, and I came across this one of me, Reese and Summer. Reese would have been around 4 and Summer under 1. I used her cute hat (I loved hats with big flowers on them because she was bald!) and tutu as the color palette for this scrapbook page. I would also say that Petal Pink might be my favourite color at the moment. I am so happy Stampin’ Up! added it to their color lineup when they did the Color Refresh!

I did a simple color wash with my Aqua Painter in the background with Petal Pink and then I layered some Calypso Coral on top and did a bit of flicking with the Aqua Painter. And then I just started digging out flower stamp sets and dies from my collection. I used the Forever Blossoms stamp set and Cherry Blossoms dies, To a Wild Rose stamp set (I used Calypso coral as the outline, the solid fill in stamp is in Petal Pink and third detailed layer is in Grapefruit Grove) and Wild Rose dies, Magnolia Memories Dies, and the Frosted Bouquet dies. The Your Amazing sentiment is from the new Ornate Thanks stamp set coming out in the new Idea Book & Catalogue. The grey accent is Grey Granite as it had the same undertone to it and worked well with this color palette.

I love everything about this page, the softness of the colors, the simple phrases on the page and of course the two little people in the photo with me

This is a terrific ink color combo for spring!