Suitcase and Album Project

Hello lovelies,

Mandy here with my first project for May.  I created this little mini suitcase and album with the lovely goodies we received.

I started by making my suitcase with a template of a box I recycled off a cable.  I drew around the box onto the lovely paper from Tim Holtz, Advantas and cut this out and scored.  All edges were then inked with brown ink.  I added washi tape to reinforce folds and added lace to decorate.  I created the handle from grunge paper.  The outside of the suitcase, started with a layer of texture paste and brick wall effect stencil to create a base.  The rest of the front was decorated with rectangles of paper cut from the paper pack, Tim Holtz grunge board hinges, Prima canvas leaves, Prima flowers, Prima resin cherub and grid chipboard, sprayed with glimmer mist.

The album was made with chipboard pieces I cut out.  The cover and back piece measured 5 1/4" x 2 3/4", the middle measures 3/4" x 2 3/4".  I covered the album covers with paper and decorated with the chipboard grid, wooden clock face, metal embellishments and I had a play with different embossing powders to achieve the metal effect on the clock face.

The inserts for the album are strips of cardstock covered in the patterned paper.  These strips measure 2 1/2" x 10", scored in the middle at 5" on the long side to give it's fold.  I made 3 signatures of two pages pages each and attached to the album with twine and a needle.  The twine ends are finished with metal effect buttons, by Papermania.

I have created a video here so that you see more detail of this project and see how it opens and looks.

I enjoyed creating this for you, I hope it inspires.  I am looking forward to sharing more projects with you this month too!  Take care, hugs Mandyxx

The beautiful kit

Ingredients:  12" x 12" Advantas Paper Pad by Tim Holtz, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Caper Green, Prima Resin Embellishment, Chipboard Grid, Prima Chalk Ink, Distress Ink Pad in Gathered Twigs, Prima Wooden Pieces, Embossing Powders, Papermania Faux Metal Buttons, Tim Holtz Embellishments, Prima Flowers, Lace and Green Twine.

Hidden Treasure - Mini Album

Hi everyone!! It's Sandie here today with the first project for the new Cardz 'n' Scrapz design team. This month we received the most fabulous Nautical themed kit to work with and I couldn't help but make a mini album from it. I also altered a wooden box to make a treasure chest to store the album in. 

The Supplies I've used are 

Mini Album:

Papers - Graphic 45 By the Sea 8x8 Collection

Cardstock - White, Blue, Yellow, Kraft & Dark Red

Stamps: Graphic 45 By The Sea #1

Decorative Shells

Decorative Fish Net

Blue & Natural Twine

Wooden Anchor

Tim Holtz Word Bands

Chest: 

Wood Chest

Grunge Paper

Frayed Burlap Distress Ink

Clear Embossing Powder

Brads

Decorative Shells

Decorative Fish Net

I cut the album pages from heavy cardstock, and sized them @ 5.5" x 4" to fit inside the chest. On the top left corner I punched a hole, using the large side of the crop-a-dile, and added wide eyelets for the binder ring to feed through. 

The front cover has loads of dimension and texture. I cut the postage stamps from one of the papers, inked the edges and mounted them onto 3D foam dots. The Kaisercraft anchor is also popped up on foam. 

Inside there are pockets and pull out tags for extra photos and/or to journal on. 

I added some extra nautical metal charms. Love the fish net with the shells. 

On each of the tags I also punched a hole, with small side of the crop-a-dile, and added eyelets to thread the twine through

With these pages I wanted to show all of the papers so I left them pretty clean and simple. 

Here are some close-ups shots....

I stamped the starfish out with Mustard Seed distress ink and then heat embossed it with clear embossing ink.

Thanks for dropping by today. I hope you enjoyed it. 

Sandie

xXx

Part 2 of Aideens March mini

Hey everyone!

First of all-thanks for visiting :) this is my last post as a DT member, so I must say thank you to everyone who has followed along and anyone who has left lovely comments... I always read them and appreciate them. Also a huge thanks to everyone at CardznScrapz, I have had so much fun being on this great team. My team mates have been awesome and welcome to the new team.

Here is part two of my mini album using my beautiful prima kit. This part of the video shows how I made the inside pages for my mini.

Here's a peep

Also I show how to make some fun easy interactive pages for your minis

So here's the video-please stop by and subscribe to my little channel.

Signing off for now...

Aideen x

Part 1 of Aideens March mini

Hey guys so I'm coming to you today with part 1 of a mini album I am making using the yummy Prima goodies we got in our DT kit. So for Part 1 I will be doing the kit reveal and working on the covers of the album which is a maya road canvas and chipboard album from my stash.

I really like how the cover turned out and I love everything I got in my kit-in the video I talk through the process of working on the canvas covers-the spraying and then the decorating so please check it out..

Heres the video:

Thanks so much for visiting and see you soon for part 2 which will be decorating the pages and making some interactive pages...

Aideen x

Baggage Mini Album ! Joanne's DT Project for March !

Hi there - Joanne here showing you how to make this 'Baggage Case' Mini Album !

For this month's project I was given the beautiful new 'Cartographer' Collection from Prima ! There is such versatility with these papers and embellishments - you are spoiled with the number of projects and LO's you can make with them.

To assemble the 'case' I cut a thick piece of chipboard (A4 size) into two pieces - 5" and  7" approx.

 To attach them together I took a sheet of white card stock, cut it to match the size of my chipboard and scored it in the middle to make an accordion - this will hold my insert sheets when I am assembling it at the end. I covered the album with white card stock and papers from the Cartographer collection - stamping it here and there with the Cartographer Stamp!

To add more interest and dimension to my project  - I painted some bits of old chip board pieces I had lying around with Gesso and stamped it with a stamp from the Cartographer Collection. The effect is amazing and it is so simple to do !

Next using the different papers from the Cartographer Collection - I made several inserts pages for my album.  On each page I made pockets for extra photos and tabs to attach personal items. To secure them,  I attached them into the accordion section of the album.

To cover the front of the album I had tons of fun sticking loads of embellishments onto it - prima flowers, prima chipboard, brads, Tim Holtz Ideology, Resin frames etc 

To finish it off, I attached a piece of Grunge Board, inked black and held in place with two brads to form the handle of the case.

 

 Thank you so much for looking - hope you enjoyed it !

Happy Crafting !!!!

Joanne x

Design Team Member

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Products used:

Prima - Cartographer Collection 6 x 6 pad;

White Card Stock - Bazzil

Prima Cartographer - Crystals

Prima Cartographer - Clear Stamp

Prima Cartographer - Flowers

Prima Cartographer - Chipboard elements

Prima Cartograher - Shabby Chic Treasures

Tim Holtz - ideology - grungeboard;

Ranger - Archival Black Ink

Chipboard

Gesso

(Extra sheet of paper from Authentique -  just found it in my stash!)

December Daily Album to Christmas ! DT

December Daily Albums! Design Team

Hi there Joanne here -

Ever since 2006 I have been making a December Daily Album - I got the idea from Ali Edwards blog way back then ! Last year I took a small SMASH Book, painted it white and used it to document the 24 days leading up to Christmas. In other years I have simply cut up any sheets of Christmas paper I had - put a chipboard front and back cover on it - punched two holes in it - slipped in two metal rings to hold it together - and it worked perfectly as a mini album !

This was last years project:

Haven't started on this year's one yet - but I will in the next few days !!!  I will keep you posted - if you haven't tried it before - give it a go - they are wonderful to look back on !

Joanne x