This month the Creative Team were challenged to incorporate hidden journaling onto a layout so as there were already lots of fab ideas for doing that I thought I would do something different and show how you can add it into a mini album....
To make the mini album I cut patterned paper from the lovely Pinkfresh Studio's 'Home for the Holidays' collection into 6" x 4" pieces and stitched round the edges with sparkly gold thread. I added my photos mounted onto vellum and then decorated each page with the matching ephemera, puffy stickers and enamel dots.
To create my pockets I stitched two of the patterned papers together leaving a gap at the end so that my tag could slide in. I then stitched vellum to the tag and filled it with some sequins to make it a little shaker pocket.
The rest of my pages were finished in the same way...
I added my journaling to the back of each of the three tags that I included in the mini album.
I also added three of the cut apart cards from one of the patterned papers at different places through the mini album. These were also decorated on the back...
Don't forget to check out all of the inspiration from the rest of the Creative Team this month! Why don't you give 'hidden journaling' a go and share your layouts (or mini album!) over on the UK Scrap Addicts Facebook group....
Today i am bringing you a mini book with mixed media pages. Its a slight cheat as i had a pre-made scrapbook in a tin which i bought from everycraftsapound.com at the Farnborough Craft Show.
There is also a process video linked below for you :)
I'm using this minibook to document my recent trip to the Gogo getaway retreat that i went on with a few of my friends. I thought it would be a great way to document the trip! I have also used some bits from my left over kit for the mini book as another reminder of the weekend.
I used a Heidi Swapp Colour shine in Teal for the back grounds, my technique was spraying it onto a damp piece of plastic, smooshing it around and then pressing it onto the paper.
I then mixed up some Shimmerz Dazzlerz paste in Spun Sugar, with some Shimmerz paint in the colour Going Peach Side. Once this was mixed i pushed it through a Bramble Fox stencil which has a mixture of little Stars, which i used on the pages, also has circles and stripes etc.
You can see that i also added sequins for some extra texture, the sequins used were from Spiegelmom scraps. I had a pack called Tweaky Teal, and a pack called Bursting Sunrays. I love how they add extra sparkle to my book.
On a few pages i used the Shimmerz texture paste that you can see below, it was so easy to mix up to make a coloured texture paste, i think i am going to be addicted to using texture paste to all my layouts now!
I hope that this mini book gives you some inspiration to use mix media on some layouts in the future!
Hey there, Niki here with you today and I'm sharing my take on 'Festive Scrapbooking'. I make a December Daily style album each year. I've done the same format for a few years now and this year is no exception. I use a 6x8" album and I complete all my base pages before December and then just add my photos and journalling as I go along in December.
Today I'm sharing four of my December Album pages, Days 21 - 24 and have made a proces video that you can see below.
My numbers are wood veneer shapes by Freckled Fawn and I've used these three times now to make my numbers. I did something different last year but this year I've gone back to these. However this is my last packet so I'll have to do something different next year! They come a numbers 1 - 31 and I simply back them with patterned paper or glitter paper.
When creating my base pages I create clusters and leave myself lots of space for adding photos and journaling.
Here are my pages for Christmas Day. While I only dedicate one single page to each other day, I always do two for Christmas day, with the page on the left being for a whole 6x8 printed photo. I've added the chipboard sticker 'Merry Christmas' and the theory is that this will sit on the photo itself - whether this will actually work ok or not will depend on the photo I take on the day.
Now onto the second part of today's blog post...I did the base pages above by mid-end of November (I like to be all done nice and early). The pages below however, were completed on the 11th December. The base pages had been done in November but on 11th December I sat down to add all my photos and to write in my journaling. I've prepared a process video which includes the making of the base pages above and the adding of photos and journaling on the pages below. You can view it below.
Adding my photos and journaling is a really quick process. I have done all the hard work already by creating the base pages so it is simply a matter of sticking my photos down and adding my writing!
This little page here is an added bonus. I had that gorgeous green tree acetate that you can just see a little bit of, in a 5x7 page protector but I had to put a piece of white card behind it as it didn't look right otherwise. So I have decorated the reverse of the white card and made it into an extra bonus page!
Here I have another bonus page. The page on the right is a piece of 6x6 paper from the FaLaLa Paper pad. I've made it double sided and added hole reinforcers and it sits directly within the book rings of the album rather than in a page protector. These can be added anywhere in my album but this works particularly well here as I have some additional photos for day 9.
And here is the reverse of this page. This brings me right up to date at the date of writing this/filming the video. Hurrah. And it didn't take very long at all.
I absolutely LOVE creating a December Album each year, it is my favourite project of the whole year and I'm alway delighted when it's finished, which is alway very early on in the new year. I find this way of working works so well for me and always results in a finished album.
Thanks so much for joining me today for this epic blog post and video!
Happy December everyone! This has got to be my favourite month of the year. I love all the festivities running up to Christmas. Last year I did my first December Daily album but I wasn't very organised and it still needs finishing, oops! So I've decided to be more organised this year so I wanted to share with you what I had done up to the end of November in preparation.
I'm using a mix of collections but mostly the Crate Paper Falala collection and colour scheme, with a few other bits thrown in from my stash. I am using a Simple Stories 'Snap' Album which I have decorated simply as I want it to hold up over time. I'm super happy with how my bow turned out.
One key thing I learnt from doing Shimelle's 'Journal your Christmas' class a few years ago is to create co-ordinating numbers to add to your pages and you are already part way there. I didn't want them all to be identical so I've used different patterned papers and alphabets. The '25' is extra special and is a perspextive number from Bramble Fox.
This year I bought a mini kit from Ali Edwards and have used that mixed in throughout the album. I love the transparencies and have added a sequin mix then sealed the top with my fuse tool.
So here are my first three days of the album. I've not added journalling yet but I plan to sit down later on with a glass of wine and finish it off.
I've gone with a mix of 6x8 and pocket pages this year. The photo of me putting the tree up is not the best but I altered it using picmonkey and added a filter to improve it.
I thought I would finally share a couple of foundation pages that are ready for me to add photos, journalling and a few embellishments. I already know what stories will go on these pages as tomorrow I'm going to Chatsworth House and doing a wreath making class so that will fill up these days.
We would love to see your Festive scrapbooking so don't forget to tag us on Instagram.
