Quick "n" Easy Mini Album

Good morning everyone, welcome to my Monday project share and just as the title says it is a quick 'n' easy mini album.  I have used one of these scalloped edged cards that I received in this months kit.

I scored a 1/4 inch spine. 

 from some cardstock I cut some inner pages.  These pages measured roughly 4"x8". 

  I folded them in half and then with some crochet cotton I sewed them to the inside of the card.

Once this was done I then matted the whole booklet or mini with some black cardstock.  I then started cutting some mats from the Graphic 45 - Raining Cats and Dogs.  I also printed out some black and white photo's of my sons dogs and cut them to size.  I have alternated each page with a photo and a pocket with tags for journalling.  I was surprised at just how quickly this mini worked up...I had it done in no time at all.  I tried really hard to not over embellish and to keep it "flat" but as you can see by the pics...I wasn't overly successful at doing that :) I have used a Creative Memories tag punch through out and fussy cut the images from the paper collection.  As usual guys here are all the pics...

I hope you have enjoyed my little mini this week. These little mini's would be perfect for holding all your instagram photo's or as a little brag book of your children or grandchildren. I do plan to take this back to the drawing board - or should I say scoring board and re-think this.  I think it needs some room to grow  .... keep an eye out for the revamped or re-thunk version in coming posts....annnnd as always....please check out the links below to see what other happenings have been going on with Mad About Scrappin.

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Creative Inspiration - Week 7 2015

A very cheery "HELLO" to everyone !!!

I hope that this post find everyone well and managing to find some to to get some craft things done. 

Here I have been busy with the kids heading back to school, getting the house back to normal and sanding back an old set of bedside tables that I was given. 

Oh.. and have managed to get some creative time in there too !!

With that in mind I am back to share what I have created this week using some more of this kit sent to me by Mad About Scrappin.

This week I have managed to get a layout created using a photo of my youngest daughter. As I mentioned last week she just turned six years old so I have a bucket load of super cute photos of her from her birthday. 

So here's this weeks layout.

This was a super quick layout I created using the same photo I printed twice. I printed one in color and the other in black and white as a bit of a contrast on the layout. I decided to stick with the navy and red colours from this paper range. I stamped the red card stock and them inked it as the red wasn't quite a match for the red in the patterned paper. By then adding in some white card stock it gave the two red a bit of a barrier so that it was less noticeable that they weren't a perfect match. 

The white card stock I felt was a little too stark so I decided to stamp away with some dove grey stazon using a kaiser number stamp from my stash. That carried on with the birthday theme I felt. 

The polaroid I jazzed up a little with a few bit of ephemera that I had in my stash. I then finished off the layout with some garden twine, some wood veneer stars, a couple of flairs, and some bling stars to add a bit of sparkle on the layout.

I had fun playing around with this paper range this week. 

Well it's going to be a hot weekend here so off to hide away and get creative, 

Till next week.

TFL, Michelle x

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Just A Few Cards

Good morning everyone, It's Monday down here on my side of the pond and I am back to share my Mad About Scrappin Project Share with you all.  I don't know about you but these Mondays seem to rockin around faster and faster these days.  Today, I just wanted share a few cards with you that I have created using those wonderful Graphic 45 Papers - A Time to Celebrate, and some embellishments from the Mad About Scrappin Store.  

I started with some card bases that I received in this months kit....

together with some paper flowers and fancy cardstock frames from previous kits.

There's not much to really tell about these, so once again I will let the pics do most of the talking for me....

 I loved using the ornate lacey frames.  Here I have cut the frame in half and placed either side of the diecut base.

 To create these flowers I have punched them out of some co-ordinating cardstock from my stash and added some tiny seed beads to the centres using Glossy Accents.

Just love these cute little paper flowers.  To co-ordinate them just a little more with the papers, I dry brushed some Tim Holtz Tattered Rose distress ink to the centres.

As you can see these cards go perfectly with my project from last week.    As always thanks for stopping by, I hope you have enjoyed my mini as much as I did creating it.  Please be sure to check out the links below to see what my other creative team mates have been up to...

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 PS:...Please come back next week as I show you how I took these card bases and created two little mini albums....

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