Floral Fantasy-Mini Album

Hello everyone
Today I am posting one of my most ambitious projects..... Its a Mini Album I made on a special request in a very short amount of time.....yes you heard it rite....I made this Mini album by working straight for 12 hrs on the first day and after 6 hrs sleep....I worked for 8 hours straight to complete this album. I am sure tired and want to go to bed....but only after I finish this post.

Since, I was working on a deadline I do not have a tutorial for this album but I will make one surely when I make one this month. I a posting a video which will show you the entire album with all tags and flip pages and other embellishments.

Supplies:

1. White cardstock ( 5 pages for 5 album pages, 12 x 12)
2. Color cardstock for tags, photo mats
3. Dark Rose cardstock to cover the Album
4. Eno greeting Pattern Paper
5. Eno greeting 3d stickers
6. Resin embellishments
7. Rhinestones
8. Pearls
9. Mulberry flowers
10. Velvet Leaves
11. Pollen
12. Satin ribbons, Paper twine
13. Metal charms
14. Other embellishments
15. Glue tape ( Red Double sided), white adhesive
16. Score board
17. Cutters, Scissors

I have mentioned all the supplies I have used. I Used white cardstock to make 5 pages for the Mini Album. $ pages are flip pages and the center page is single page with a bellyband. Some pages have diagonal pockets while some have just the photo mats. Most of the flip pages have 4 pockets on one side, so 8 pockets per page.

In all the Mini album will take more than 20 pictures though its a random count and more than 10 tags. I have used the gusset binding method with gusset width 1/2" but next time I will do 3/4" gusset. Front and back cover measure 6" while the spine is 3" and the  pages measure 5.5" x  6 ".

Enough talking......I will add page photos for you all to see. Thank you and have a good day....

Cover page and Page 1 with Flip page and tags

Page 1 back and Page 2 with the Flip Page and tags

Page 2 back and Page 3 with belly-band page and all tags

Page 3 back pockets and page 4 flip page with all tags

Page 4 back and Page 5 with flip page and tags

Page 5 back and back cover with all tags

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Thanks!

Hello everyone

Today I have made a card for Paper smooches May challenge and A Blog Named Hero challenge for this month.The May challenge for Paper Smooches requires us to do a Rainbow themed card while the May challenge for A Blog Named Hero requires us to a Tone on Tone card. So I have clubbed these challenges and done a Rainbow themed tone on tone card.

 On a piece of watercolor cardstock, I stamped 4 different flowers from the Fiskars Petals from scratch stamp set with 4 different Distress Inks- Shaded Lilac, Spun Sugar, Peacock Feathers and Squeezed Lemonade. I then went ahead and water colored the flowers using the same distress inks. Now I stamped on the same image using Ranger dye inks in Pink Gumball, Grape soda, Lemon Twist and Peacock feathers distress inks to give them crisp outlines.

I fussy cut all the flowers and curled them a little at ends. I also added colors to the edges so no white is shown. I went ahead and took a 4 . 25" x 5 . 5" white heavyweight cardstock and did a little ink blending on them using Spun sugar, Shaded Lilac and Peacock Feathers. I misted the cardstock with water and let it be for 60 secs. Then I removed the excess with a tissue paper.

I trimmed the card front by 1/4" from all sides and mounted it on the card base which is 4.25" x 5.5" white cardstock (220gsm).On this I added all the cut flowers on their respective colored areas. I then did ink blending on a piece of white cardstock using Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink. On this I stamped Thanks! sentiment which is from Inkadinkado Expressions And Frames Clear Stamp Set, I cut banner ends and then mounted this sentiment on the card using foam squares such that the sentiment is a bit curved and looks raised. On the sentiment too I added the flowers. I also stamped little circles on the card with the respective colors for a tone on tone stamping effect. If you look closely, it will be seen.

To finish the card I added a few sequins which are of same color tone as the colors on the card. For the inside, I just added a simple stamp that says " for making my day special"

Thank you for reading my blog post and I hope you all liked my card. Have a great day and keep smiling.....