I made this paper bag album for Kelly's inspiration challenge for the VSN mini. I was going to go with the candy canes and use my Mark's Finest Papers Snowman Country set because of the candy cane, but after Lois used it I decided to go anothe way. I decided to make my album inspired by the fall leaves. The album took 10 mins to make. The longest time was unravelling the twine. I had beads, and wire already combined and sitting in my embellishment drawer. I used a pre cut frame and sentiment with matching dp. (I rarely use pre-matched items, I tend to hoard them but since Kelly was talking about getting into our stash, I decided to tonight and it really saved time. I stamped the leaves with black stazon and using markers I watercolored the leaves. I stamped the squirrel with rust colored ink and watercolored him to. It took another 10 mins to watercolore them and cut them out. I have the squirrel popped up on a piece of craft foam.
Date: Friday, October 15, 2010 GMT Views: 727
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Registered: June 29, 2004 Location: Sugar Land. Texas Posts: 79522
Fri, Oct 15, 2010 @ 5:57 PM
How adorable!! Love how you framed this out.
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Fri, Oct 15, 2010 @ 6:53 PM
What a cute little album! Your basket of leaves is colored so nicely. The leaf charm/beads up in the corner look really pretty. Didn't mean to scare you off from using the snowman! But I think you did a top-notch job on this project.
Registered: June 14, 2009 Location: Keller, Texas Posts: 8597
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 @ 10:42 AM
Beautiful album. Thanks for explaining how you managed to do all that within the time limit. Have pre-cut and pre-colored images, frames, etc. sure helps when you need to make a card or project in a hurry. I love the cute squirrel.
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Registered: November 3, 2007 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 10333
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 @ 1:40 PM
Oh MariLynn this is AWESOME! I love the layout with the diamond shape and the cute basket inside. That squirrel is colored to perfection! So glad you didn't keep all of these cute things hiding in your stash closet...that WOULD make you squirrely, giggle! Love that it's an album, too, somebody will just LOVE sharing their photos inside...AWESOME VSN project! SNUGS!
Registered: July 14, 2004 Location: Living imperfectly with great delight! AB, Canada Posts: 3325
Sun, Oct 17, 2010 @ 9:21 AM
This is fun... the basket of leaves is fantastic with that squirrel out front.
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