My Birthday Mini Album Part 2

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday. Today I'm back with the second part of my mini album that I made with the Relatively Thoughtful Happy Birthday and Magic of Childhood collections. It's for my granddaughter's first birthday party next month, but I've added some recent photographs of her just to show how it will look.

This is the inside of the folio. Last time I showed the left side, so today it's the turn of the right. I've followed a tutorial by Paul Lang-Ford of Papercrafting With Paul, and I've added a link at the end of this post.

If you would like to see the first side please click here.

I also made lots of embellishments! There are tags, journalling strips, buttons, and lots of elements from the Magic of Childhood collection which goes perfectly with the Happy Birthday papers.

The top and bottom flaps open up.

Then when you close them the pages swing to the left. Then they open up. 

And up....

And up...

And up! It's 5 sides long when it's all open but unfortunately, I can't show them all open together. Try to imagine the two photos above joined together lol. I love how the rocking horses tie everything together

In the middle there is a pouch. I've made some tags and added white card to the back to write some details on.

This folio really does keep on giving! Just when you think you've finished you find another flap and more photos lol.

This lovely collection can be found here in Sally's store.

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Together with this one.

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I hope you like my album. I can't wait to fill it with photos of Hallie's first birthday party.

Take care, have a wonderful day, and thanks so much for looking x

Happy First Birthday

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday. Next month my granddaughter turns one. Where has the last year gone! She's having a birthday party, so in anticipation of the hundreds of photos that I will be taking, I've made a mini album. I've used the fabulous Happy Birthday collection from Relatively Thoughtful, together with embellishments made from the Magic of Childhood collection.

Again I've used a Paul Lang-Ford tutorial (Papercrafting With Paul). It's the basic 8x8 album and I'll put a link at the end of this post.

Whenever you use one of Paul's tutorials you know that he will use every scrap of designer paper, and, the most important point to me - it will take lots of 6x4 photographs. I don't print my own photos so I need an album that will take the standard 6x4 format.

This is the bare album. The covers are made of chipboard, and as it's a folio the pages are built onto the base. It doesn't look much here does it, but the papers will make all the difference!

And this is how it looks with the Happy Birthday papers. The left-hand side is a waterfall, and both sides are held in place with magnets.

I've added some photos just to show how it looks, but I will be filling it with the ones from her birthday party.

The waterfall lifts up to reveal this double-page spread. The embellishments have just been laid in place. They'll be stuck down when the other photographs go in.

These are the photo matts. They are 4.25 x 6.25, so just ready for the photos. The album holds 23 photos in both landscape and portrait.

I cut a double matt for my shaker for the front cover.

Here's my gorgeous girl!

This lovely collection can be found here in Sally's store.

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As always there is new inspiration every day on our social pages.

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And Paul's Facebook group Papercrafting With Paul can be found here.

I'll be back later this month with the second side of my album, so I hope you'll join me then.

Take care and have a very happy week x

Going All Manly For Stampotique

This challenge this week has been picked by the lovely Maria and she has chosen a masculine theme. Here's what she says.

''How many masculine cards did you make in the last month? I personaly made zero cards. Masculine creations can be a real challenge. I challenge you to create something using the masculine theme. Keep the cuteness and blings away this time. Lock them in your drawer. Let's make men feel special at least once in a while with,  something made only for them''.

 So here's my big butch manly card lol.

No bling, but plenty of cuteness with the wonderful Gentleman Fox. He always reminds me of Rufus Hound - what do you think?

Foxy is stood on France's Stacked Suitcases. He's been stamped a few times and paper pieced. 

I bit the bullet and stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment straight onto the card.

Thank you Maria for making me make a man card, this won't be in the drawer for long :-)

Please try and join in with our challenge - you know you need to make more mens cards.

Hope you like mine, and thanks very much for looking x

Perfect Pairs

Hi, it's the lovely Kathi's turn to play hostess this week at Stampotique towers, and she has chosen 'pairs'. Here's what she has to say.

It's almost Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day makes me think of couples, so my challenge is called Perfect Pairs.

Use two (2) of an item so that things are in pairs. This can be two stamped images, two embellishments, two layers of patterned paper, two colors, etc.

See how many pairs you can use in your project. Just be sure to use at least one perfect pair and have fun!

Considering the fact that I have more cardstock and paper than you could shake a stick at, I don't make many cards, and when I do it's last minute, and just the one I need. I did try batch making once, but that was just boring. I've often though I could make two cards as quickly as one as it's the thinking about what to do that takes up the time (plus the getting out and putting away) rather than the actual 'making' of a card. So when I saw this challenge I though 'right, I'll make a pair of cards the same but different' :-)

So here we are, the same, but different lol.

Ok, hands up who loves these gorgeous new (to me) stamps.

I was very brave and stamped Happy Birthday straight onto the card. Give The Dog A Bone has been coloured with Prisma pencils. I had to Google how to make his tail wag that's how bad I am a drawing!

Tulip has also been coloured the same way. You know when they say in crafting you can have a 'happy accident' (it usually means file it in the bin under the desk and start again) I'd just coloured the doily with distress inks and was sticking foam pads onto Tulip when I realised I'd splodged him on the same bit of craft sheet as the wet yellow ink. It was like a scene from a movie, I shouted 'NOOOOoooooo' in slow motion, picked it up, turned it over and though 'that's quite nice' so I splodged it a bit more - you can see it just along the bottom :-)

So thanks to Kathi I now have two cards ready to go - I even put insert in how good am I! They may not be perfect, but they are a pair.

I hope you'll join in with our challenge but don't forget the rules. 1) no digi's and 2) please put the number of the challenge you are entering when you link up, for instance this is SDC 134. And that's it, simples.

Hope you like my cards, and thanks very much for looking x