Oh Baby!

Today I am a guest designer on Shesasassylady.   Since this has been a long bleak winter, and I am getting tired of the grey dark skies, I thought I would make my post today bright and cheery.  Today I am going to show you how to make a star photo album.  This type of album has been around for a long time, and I had always wanted to try one.  If you google it on youtube, you can find videos of it.

I started with cardstock cut to the following sizes:

6 @ 12x4 of one color
6@ 12x4 of a coordinating color to the above
6 @ 10x4
6 @ 10x4 of a coordinating color to the above
6 @ 8 x 4
6 @ 8x4 of a coordinating color to the above

So when you are done cutting cardstock you will have 12 @ 12x4, 12 @ 10x4, and 12 @ 8x4.  Glue all of the above back to back.  So 6 of the 12" long adhered to the other 6.  6 of the 10" long adhered to the other 6, and 6 of the 8" long adhered the other 6.  You will then have 18 sets of cardstock.  Score these in the middle.

Next cut stiff chipboard(I used the back of a note pad that I got from work).  Cut 2 pieces 6.25 x 4.25 

Cover these with cardstock that coordinates with the pages you just made. 

These become the front and back cover of the album.

Glue ribbon on the inside of the  covers on the bare chipboard.  Cut 2 pieces of  cardstock, 6x4 and glue on top of the ribbon.  This is shown as the green cardstock below.  The ribbon holds the album open or closed.

Take the scored pages you created and glue them together layering the longest, the next to the longest and the shortest.  Only glue the outer edges of the album, making the edges even. 

After you have created 6 sets of glued packets, start gluing all of the longest ones together, outside back to outside front, and then glue the front covers on so when you are done it looks like this. 

Here is the outside decorated.  I used the carts Bloom, Home Accents, and Picturesque.  I did weld the bird from Picturesque to the branch from Bloom with my Gypsy.  I also created a welded shadow with the bird and the branch.  The flower is from Bloom cut in 3 different sizes.  All cuts were inked and the flower has stickles applied.

The reason I titled this post "Oh Baby" is because I pulled out 12 pictures of my daughter when she was anywhere from 1 to 3 and put them in the album.

Here she is prior to 15 month's old.  I had a cupboard that was full of tupperware lids and she would spend everyday pulling them out and I would spend everyday putting them back in.  She couldn't hurt herself, and she had so much fun, I thought what harm is this. She would crawl so far in that only her diapered butt was sticking out.  10 minutes later she would get bored and move on to something else, leaving me with lids to put away. 

 This pic was on her 2nd birthday.

She had a head of hair from the day she was born. 

Here is the album finished, it can be displayed open on a library shelf or coffee table.

Well, I hope you can understand my garbled directions, and like I said, if you need help with the instructions you can find them on youtube under Star Album.

Thanks Sheila for allowing my to be a guest designer today, it always challenges me.

Beth....

Today I am a guest designer on She's a Sassy Lady

CUT FILE IS AVAILABLE UNDER CUT FILE TAB, ENTITLED PRESENT ALBUM

Hi again everyone, today is my day to be a guest designer on shesasassylady.  This month I am going to give you a peek at Snow Angel.  It's a patterns and shapes cartridge for the Imagine.  I am in love with this cart.  The papers and layers you can create are awesome!

This project is a mini album.  I am really happy with how it turned out.  Using my Gypsy, I started with the present from Create a Critter, and then added squares inside of it from George.  I also added a spline from George and 3 ovals from George for the binding holes.  I cut this 2x out of Fed Ex envelopes, and also 2x out of card stock.  I then flipped the image and cut 2 addnl times out of cardstock.  I ended up with 6 cuts for both the front and back covers(4 cardstock and 2 fed ex).

I took a square from George sized to 5x5.5, added the spline and the ovals to created the pages.  I just cut these out of cardstock, 8x.

To decorate the pages, I pulled out my Imagine.  I really wasn't that impressed with this machine at first, but the more I use it, the more I am thinking "WOW".  It has so much potential.  The little house below is printed and cut all in one layer at 3.5".

The Background pages below and the tag and snowman are all printed and cut from the Imagine.

Here is a close up of the snowman, he was cut in layers and pop dotted together for a 3d effect.

Here are some addnl pages.

The Pics don't do this album justice, the colors are bolder and more vivid in real life.  These pics were taken late at night(as usual).  This album is ready to go for Christmas.  I am thinking black and white photos for an old timey feel.

Here is a picture of the finished album.

I hope you like it.  I want to thank Sheila for having me as a guest designer on her blog.  I will try and add the cut file by tonight.  You just need create a critter and george.

Thanks again, Beth

Garden Tour 2010 Photo Album

I made this album using a premade album, Stickers, Chipboard, and some Cricut Cuts.

I purchased this album at a LSS because I knew I would have plenty of pics of my garden to put in it this year.  I just finished it the other night.  The album came with 6 board pages that needed covered with cardstock, but I needed more.  I traced around the last page with my exacto knife to create addnl pages, 1 for each front and back page.

I glued these together and punched holes with my big bite.  I inserted the home made pages in between the board book pages to give them stability because the were not as sturdy as the board pages.

Front Cover

"Chirp" cut with cricut and Songbird(I love that cartridge)

I was running out of room for all of my picture's, so I cut a 5.5 " by 12" card stock and scored at 3.75, and 7.5 and folded so I had 3 places for pics on the front and 2 places for pics on the back.  I was able to get 5 pics in a space that one pic would normally take up.  I attached a ribbon and tied the package shut.  I did this 4 times throughout the album, so I got 20 pics in the space of 4.

Watering can cut from Walk in  my Garden.

bloom cut from Song Bird.

The photo album had 10 double sided  pages total and held 35 pictures.

Hope you enjoyed it,  Beth.