I am gearing up for holiday workshops and made this envelope album for a workshop I'm having in October. It's made of 6" x 9" manilla envelopes. I used binder rings to assemble it when the pages were completed. A friend shared with me an album she made last year and I sketched the layout and then made changes to fit with supplies I had and SU's stamps, Apple Cider DP, and ribbons. It's hard to see on the images, but I used chipboard to make the leaves with my Cuttlebug, I then used SU's papers to cover them, I stamped on them with Autumn Leaf Prints, then aged them. I made the alphabet paper using SU's Naturals Ivory paper and stamped with Speckle and Sanded BG stamps. I used my Cuttlebug (Olivia and Harmony alphabets were used throughout the album) to create the uppercase letters. I adhered them to the cardstock and stamped "Fall" around the letters. The word Autumn on the first page was made with chipboard, I adhered Old Olive paper that I had stamped with the Weathered BG stamp. Everything was aged with brown chalk throughout the album. I used the negative image from the chipboard on page 5 and covered with DP. The leaves on page 7 were first punched using chipboard, I then used a copper metal sheet and punched the leaves again and adhered them to the chipboard. All of the River Rock squares are for photographs. I plan on filling this album with pictures of my two "guys".
Date: Monday, September 17, 2007 GMT Views: 1815
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Paper: Old Olive, Black, Really Rust, White, Certainly Celery; Apple Cider DP, Pumpkin Pie, More Mustard, Close to Cocoa, Naturals White, Always Artichoke, River Rock, Bravo Burgundy, Mellow Moss, Choc. Chip
Ink: Chestnut Roan Chalk (Colorbox), Pumpkin Pie, Close to Cocoa, Choc. Chip, Certainly Celery, Creamy Caramel, Really Rust, More Mustard, Old Olive, Mellow Moss, Basic Black, Bravo Burgundy
Accessories: Cuttlebug (leaf dies, Olivia & Harmony Alphabets), Antique Silver ring binders from 7 Gypsies, plain 1 ply chipboard (purchased at art supply store), Glue Dots, Copper Metal Sheet; Computer, Sponges, Horizontal Slot Punch; 1 1/4 square punch, 1 3/8 sq
Techniques: Various Techniques were used to complete this album
Difficulty (1-Easy 5-Advanced): 2 (takes about 4/6 hours from start to finish
Registered: April 2, 2007 Location: Muskegon, MI Posts: 456
Tue, Sep 18, 2007 @ 8:10 AM
Love this layout. Every page is great. In fact my sister-in-law invited me to a scrapbooking party (my first one) and I think I might try to make one usintg your layouts. Thanks for the inspiration.
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Registered: April 20, 2006 Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula Posts: 34762
Wed, Sep 19, 2007 @ 9:31 AM
Oh my word -- this is just amazing!!! You'll have your customers do THIS at a workshop -- WOW!!! It is fabulous -- I am saving it in my FAVS so I can come back and refer to it and thoroughly go thru every page -- this is ONE FANTASTIC PROJECT!!!! Thanks so much for sharing it!!!
Registered: August 12, 2005 Location: Michigan Posts: 3833
Thu, Dec 06, 2007 @ 4:15 AM
I was just going through your gallery again Jerri and had to tell you how much I loved this album. I had saved the pages to my hard drive previously, but just looking at it again -- it is so lovely (all the pages). You are such an artist!!
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