here it comes....

... the most wonderful time of the year....

It's October, it's time for Halloween!

I've been working on this mini for a few days now and I love the final effect.  I challenged myself to make each page different and this is the end result. 
This album as well as a few kits to recreate this entire album are available now in my etsy store
The front Cover is shaped like a "haunted house" with a little fence that extends past the edge of the house.  Behind the house is a round "moon" page that can be seen peeking out from behind the house.

The first page has a photo mat and a fence, flowers and branches, followed by the paper bag page that has a large "moon" chipboard circle with a black glittery witch flying by.  This page also holds a large tag the fits inside the paper bag.

The tag that fits into the paper bag and some details from the other side of the paper bag page.  

 Tags that fit into the pocket created by the "moon" and the transparency page with the chipboard skull and tulle bowtie

The back of the transparency page and the tag shaped chipboard page.  Shallow pocket made with fence edge punch.  It holds three stamped tags and is embellished with some bats. The pumpkin page had a photo mat and some halloween themed stamped images as well as a pumpkin stem made from corrugated cardboard and some vine flourishes.

 The back of the pumpkin page has a large flourish the holds three more tags.

 the last page made from corrugated cardboard, painted and glittered, with some more stamped images.

TWS September Swap mini

Had lots of fun with this mini for the TWS swap.  Irene and I decided to do a "words and moments" theme.
I made this one just like the paper bag albums but I used 6x9 envelopes instead.  It's a little thinner but still has lots of room for photos and tags. The cover is collaged with images of writing pen and typewriter (words) and clock (moments) as well as paper flower, some bling that was colored with copic markers.  The spine has a D ring with fibers and ribbon and charms.

I added a piece of printed transparency to the half page to create a full page

Oh Boy!

There are so many fabulous scrapbooking paper lines out there for boys these days.  I remember when I first started back in the early 90's. There wasn't much product especially masculine stuff appropriate for boys. I recently found this fun line from WRMK It has a retro feel with rocket ships, gears, cars and helicopters and nice gold foil detail.  Of course I had to turn it into another one of my favorite paper bag minis.  Check it out!

Summer Time Is Here!

Today is officially the last day of school which means the first day of Summer for us! I've been working on some more paper bag mini albums (I just love making these) and here is one I just finished, just in time for....well SUMMER

This mini was made the same way as my Boy's Life, so it has lots of space for pictures and lots of pull out tags.  I had fun making the stamped flower embellishments, coloring them with copic markers and twinkle h2o paints.  I also hand painted the die cut flourishes to coordinate with the background paper. The rest of the stickers are dimensional chipboard from K and Co. Tell me what you think.

New Videos (thanks Tanya)

Yes I've been a slacker lately... but I did make a cute little mini for the TWS March swap at Life on the Scrapbeach.  And luckily for everyone, my sweet trade partner made a video of the mini I sent.  




Here's the video she made of the adorable mini book the she made for me
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More Video

I made another video!  

This one describes in more detail the heart book

Forgive my repetitiveness but I'm having too much fun fooling around with different ways of showing my work, plus it gives me an excuse to use my imovie software hee hee.

Moving pictures

I finally finished my swap album for the TWS Jan swap at thescrapbeach.ning.com  and videotaped.  It was my first video with my voice on it.  I was kind of nervous talking on tape, I even blanked out about one of the products I used in the book (the waxed linen thread) but all in all it came out OK