Paper Bag Scrapbook Album

Hello my friends! I am so excited to share this project with you as it is another throwback to an album I used to make about 8 years ago! Way back when It was easier to find large or oversized paper bags and then our society went to full on plastic bags and I couldn’t find these paper bags anymore. Well, its a new time and we are all about paper bags again! I got this at my grocery store and asked for a few extras to craft with! I decided to create a Paper Bag Travel Album to hold mementos and postcards from our recent SU Incentive Trip to Greece (my favourite out of all the places I have been blessed to travel to with Stampin’ Up!). I am a collector, so when I do go on trips I always buy postcards, and keep tickets and receipts and stuff so all of this was perfect to add into this album!

I used the Tropical Oasis and Ornate Gardens DSP as they have complimentary tones and colors as the basis for my album. And then I blended in embellishments from both suites. Some of the stamps are old favorites and some are new additions to the SU lineup.

This album came together pretty easily, as you can tell its not that complicated! I think they would also make great school memory albums (which was what I was making them into 8 years ago!), or gifts of friendship or family memories! The storage pockets are a great way to add in memorabilia without needing a lot of 'pages’.

This is one of my favourite pictures of us in Santorini

You will have to use Tear and Tape or Tombow to glue the bottom of the bag flat as seen on the left side page. I then created a pocket to store memorabilia such as train tickets, a few pictures, a bag with a postcard in it etc. I added in a book mark I had picked up along the front of the pocket too! The right side features some fun pictures of us.

Because this is an oversized paper bag it has an option for a pull out page (or more!) as you can see here with the Pretty Peacock pull out page poking out. Say that six times, hahaha!

I decided to add another pocket at the bottom of this pull out page for more storage. I included one of my favourite pictures I took on this trip of the iconic blue roofs of Santorini, I still have to pinch myself that I was actually there! The storage pocket allows me to add more postcards collected on this trip.

From this...to that!

Sometimes it takes a lot of mental energy to come up with a brand new, fresh, scrapbook page layout. Well today I decided to created a layout based on another layout I had previously designed. I thought by sharing this with you, you might be inspired to look back at some of your own creations and recreate the page using updated and fresh products and embellishments.

I used Pool Party as my page layout base and I found a strip of the Perennial Essence DSP in my scrap pin. I added a strip of the So Very Vellum Specialty Paper (which was a free Sale-a-bration reward) at the bottom as it added some unique texture. I used the DSP to dictate the rest of the color pallet and decided to pull out the Highland Heather and Pretty Peacock accents.

The border at the top is from the Wild Rose dies and layered behind in Pretty Peacock is the Label Me Lovely Punch. I decided to keep the florals ‘light’ by stamping and embossing them in white onto some vellum. Both of the florals are from the Timeless Tropical stamp set. Hello Sunshine is from the Under My Umbrella stamp set. You will find Enjoy the Little Things from the Friend Like You stamp set and Time for a New Adventure from Well Said stamp set, which can both be found in the Idea Book & Catalogue. I do believe it is important to design projects that feature at least one item from the Idea Book & Catalogue as we do always want our stampers going back to our main stampin’ resource.

There are a few retired items on this page too—-can you spot them? And the little strip of DSP under the largest flower is from the Best Dressed DSP.

I absolutely love how the page turned out! I kept the layout the same and just freshened it up with new products from the 2019/2020 Idea Book & Catalogue and the Occasions Catalogue!

Joy of Sets March Blog Hop--Easter Fun!

I am so happy to be participating in another Joy of Sets Blog Hop for March! The theme this month was Easter so I knew immediately that I wanted to use the Welcome Easter stamp set in the Occasions catalogue. And I couldn’t resist using the Pleased as Punch DSP for the color inspiration for my page. The hearts are a part of the DSP and are designed to work with the Heart Punch Pack. The Happy Easter sentiment is from the Word Wishes dies in the Idea Book & Catalogue.

The images were stamped in Sahara Sand and coloured with the Water-colour Pencil crayons and an old school Blender Pen! I love the soft look it gives. A few little embellishments like the Rose Gold thread and the In Color faceted dots finished off the page!

Scrapbook pages can easily be inspired by cards—-or in this case, a card can be inspired by a page! I loved colouring these cute easter critters so much I needed to make a second project!

Click on the link below to visit the amazing Jill Chapman in the UK to see her crafty creations!

Parisian Blossoms for the Win!

Back in November I shared how I had been asked to present at On Stage (in Edmonton) the Parisian Blossoms suite! It was such a great experience, however, because I was so immersed in creating content for that event I was, I dare to say, a little over the Parisian Blossoms suite. Well I am back on it! Hahahaha! Have you ever felt that way before?

Luckily for me, my monthly scrapbook group requested that I create a layout for them using that suite, so I used a couple pages I had already designed as a springboard to create these pages. I used as many elements as possible from the suite on these pages and let the Parisian Blossoms DSP dictate the color pallet.

I have never been to Paris, but I liked using the Eiffel Tower as think it does represent doing something magnificent like the sentiment suggests! I added in some white flowers to keep a light tone on tone feel to the pages. I like to add texture to a scrapbook page that way.

If you look to the left side of the layout you can also see how I used the Label Me Fancy punch in a bit of a different way. I always like to incorporate a different way to visualize using a punch to my customers. Sometimes it might seem simple to us as creators to but to them its like a lightbulb moment!

I think my favourite thing on this page though are the panels of white card stock that I ran through the Parisian Flourish 3D folder. It is just the perfect folder! It has so much depth and detail after you run it though the Big Shot!

Hello Friend!

A recently hosted a get together of a group of girl friends who had formed one of my first scrapbooking groups back about 12-13 years ago. One of the girls had moved away and was back in Edmonton for a night so I gathered everyone together to make this awesome scrapbook page. I want to give some credit to Angela Meiritz-Reid who had shared a card on Instagram that featured this color palette. I love it immediately as it was not a combo I would have put together myself. I used this color combo as the creating start to making this page. I absolutely LOVE how it turned out. I combined the Be Mine Stitched Framelits, Poppy Moments and Painted Labels Dies along with the Thanks for the Laughs and Seriously the Best stamp sets plus a few select embellishments to create this page. I love the crispness of the white with the softness of the Petal Pink, Daffodil Delight and the contrast of the Call Me Clover. The Honeybee DSP added in a nice metallic touch.

I love this page so much that I have created another project with this same elements. I will be sharing it on my blog next week so stayed tuned!

If you look close you can see that the base of the poppies was run through the Subtles embossing folder (found in the main catalogue). This is a great way to add texture and interest when using tone on tone to create these flowers. I used the Frosted Flowers embellishments, Metallic Pearls, Perennial Essence Floral Centers, and the Petal Pink 1/4 Metallic-Edge Ribbon to add detail. I have been heard to say, “It’s all the details” and this page is a great example of that. I hope you are inspired!