A Travel Album For Country View Crafts

 Good morning and a very happy Monday, I hope you had a lovely weekend. Today I'm back at Country View Towers with the second of my travel projects. This time I'm sharing the inside of my travel album.

Again I've used the lovely Stamperia Around The World papers for my waterfalls.

I sketched out my page maps with all my measurements, and I'm really glad with how it turned out.

I really love the Stamperia images! There's enough room for 32 6x4 photos, so I've no excuse not to get some printed out.

I've even managed to use up some washi tape, so that's a win!

I keep flipping between which of these two is my favourite side.

  

And just in case you've forgotten, this is what the front of the album looks like.

All things Stamperia can be found here in the store.

Have a very happy day, and thanks so much for looking x

It's Travel Time For Country View Crafts

 Good morning and a very happy Friday! As always, the 1st of the month is a new challenge day at Country View Crafts, and today the lovely Craftyfield has chosen Travel.

I don't know about you, but I always take lots of photos on holiday, and then they sit on my phone forever. To combat this, I've made myself a travel photo album all ready for our return. There are lots of apps to have photos printed and sent from your phone, so I've no excuse lol.

I've had these beautiful Stamperia Around The World papers in my stash for ages. I got them when I first started to make mini albums, and I thought a 10-page pad would make a project with pages to spare! Mmmn that didn't quite work out lol.

Anyway, this measures 8.25 x 7.25 so is just right for 6x4 photos.

And this is the back. There's an envelope from the cut-apart page which I've used as a pocket to hold a couple of the tags.

I've turned the whole front page into a shaker. I know- I'm such a child lol.

All things Stamperia can be found here 

I hope you join in with our fun challenge. Please remember to check out the rules on the challenge site.

I'll be back later in the month with the inside of my album so I hope to see you then

Have a lovely weekend, and thanks so much for looking x

Cosmos Album Part 2 For Country View Crafts

 Good morning and a very happy Friday. Today I'm sharing a couple of pages from my Cosmos Album for our latest Seeing Stars challenge at Country View Crafts. I followed a brilliant tutorial from the Scrap Queen, who is one of my very favourite mini-album makers. Please note that anything good about my pages is totally down to her, and all the mistakes are purely my own! They say you learn by your mistakes - I'll be a #**##* genius by the time I've finished this!

All of the pages are built out of the book and then added at the end. I really like this way as there's less chance of messing the whole thing up!

This is page one. It's made mostly with Cosmos papers, and there's also a little bit of First Edition North Star.

The page opens up for photo mats. They are all a little over 6x4 so just right for photos.

Then opens up again for more photo mats and a large pocket.

And this is page 2, using one of my favourite pages. Do you remember those mistakes that I was talking about? The inside was done first and then the pocket was added. In a moment of madness I didn't triple check the inside layout, and I added the bottom of the pocket to the top DOH! To be honest, I don't think it matters and it kind of takes the pressure off. It doesn't have to be perfect now.

This is the page opened up (and highlighting mistake no.2. I've put the small waterfalls in back to front - they start from the last picture rather than the first one!) Ok, swiftly moving on....

There's another 6x4 waterfall at the top, using one of my favourite pages again. There are also 2 photo mats that fit in the pockets.

The waterfall pictures have been mounted with acetate so that none of the lovely paper has been covered up.

All things Stamporia can be found here.

Also check out Scrap Queen's fabulous tutorials here.

There are 8 pages in the album, so only another 6 to go lol. I'm really enjoying making it but I want to take my time and (try to) get it right. 

I hope you like my pages and join in with our challenge. Please remember that stars or astronomy must be the main focus of your pieces.

I hope you have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend, and thanks so much for looking x

A Cosmos Album For Country View Crafts

 Good morning and a very happy Wednesday. It's a new challenge day over at Country View Crafts, and this month I'm hosting!

My challenge is Seeing Stars, and that can mean images, shapes, or in my case astronomy.

This is my Cosmos album. I've been following a fabulous. Scrap Queen tutorial. It's a large album measuring 10x8 and it uses 3 12x12 pads.

This is the inside cover. Aren't these papers beautiful?

My lovely wolf is from the Cosmos die cuts.

All things Stamporia can be found here in the store.

And the Scrap Queen here.

I hope you join in with our challenge, please remember that stars/astronomy must be the main focus. One tiny star in a sky will not count lol.

I'll be back in a couple of days with my second piece.

Have a very happy June, and thanks so much for looking x

BIG Cats for Country View Crafts

 Good morning and a very happy Wednesday. Today I'm sharing my second card for the Country View Crafts 'Cats & Dogs' challenge. No one said that the cats needed to be little ones, so I've gone for the Stamporia Savana big cats!

Aren't these papers just gorgeous!

This is the inside with more of the lovely cats. The zebra are also a favourite of mine.

I've used a Katzelkraft stamp to add the Happy Birthday sentiment.

And somewhere to add the sentiment at the back.

There's a great range of Stamperia products here, and Katzelkraft here.

I hope that you like it, and that you join in with our challenge. Take care and have a very happy week whatever you are doing x

Bleeding My Own Blood For Country View Crafts

 Good morning and a very happy Thursday. Today I'm over at Country View Towers with my second project for our Mother's Day challenge. 

I really thought that I'd cracked it with this style of card, but pride goes before a fall so they say. It also goes before my card falling to pieces, and me sewing through my own finger as I tried to join it all together again!

I started by choosing my lovely papers. These are Stamperia Imagine in both 12x12 and 8x8.

This is how the card looks when it's closed.

And my trusty Mother's Day stamp has been stamped on a leftover scrap.

This is my favourite part. My lovely lady has been cut from the 12x12 pad, and the frame is a Tonic die. I even made a little charm!

I'm really happy with how this one turned out (eventually) and that I didn't bleed all over it!

Have a lovely day whatever you are doing, and thanks so much for looking x

The Birds And The Bees

 Good morning and a very happy Saturday, welcome to the weekend!. For my second Birds and the Bees piece for Country View Crafts I made an 80th birthday card for my Mum's birthday last month. We thought that she would be the only one not to have a lockdown birthday as she just managed to scrape in her celebrations in 2020 - who would have thought that lockdown would still be here in 2021!

This card was made using a Paul Ford tutorial, for which I am eternally grateful 'cos I had no idea what I was going to make until I saw it.

Aren't these Stamperia papers beautiful! I have a few pads that I got to make an album, so I can just about spare a few sheets lol.

I had to do quite a bit of cutting to get everything in the right place, but I'm really happy with how it turned out.

This is the front.

And the inside.

And the inside opened out.

I do love the colours on this pad, it's made me want to make the album now. 

Please join in with our challenge and show us your birds and/or bees.

Take care and have a crafty weekend x