Good morning everyone,

Here's a few individual photos of the drop side box album using the fabulous Graphic 45 French Country collection.
The previous blog has a short video showing a drop side album using the amazing Sunkissed papers from Graphic 45; you may see both of these albums featured on Leonie's shows at 11am & 2pm tomorrow during her "Let Leonie Loose" shows on Hochanda; she's also going to be using some of the lovely stamps from Stampendous.....can't wait to see what she does!

Drop side album using the French Country paper collection by Graphic 45.
Page 1 - I kept the pattern and picture and cut a lift up flap in the decorative paper

 

Page 2 -  I used the fancy brackets dies (LaLaLand) to create  a fancy edge on the flap and the pocket.

 




Page 3 - Here I used the fancy bracket dies to cut directly into the paper to create pockets

Page 4 - Here I have created a complete lift up page with horizontal pockets.

I did the same for page 5, just reversed them so it was a complete lift down page flap,again with horizontal pockets.

For page  6, I created vertical pockets

For page 7, I used the stitched slot dies (LaLaLAnd) on the left side and created a flap on the right hand side, hidden underneath the flap is a corner pocket when you open the flap.

For page 8, I chose a well patterned paper and cut around some of the flowers to create a pocket

For page 9, I made a supportive strip backed with black foam tape to provide a "ridge" to hold a page tab in place - I also added a chipboard embellishment to help secure the page tab.

For page 10, a very simple and quick page, using a stitched slot die diagonally to create a corner pocket.

For page 11, I created a double flap, so when you open the flap, you then have to open it again.

All the pockets along the bottom of the page and the flaps are the same size and match, helping to provide continuity.

For page 12, 

I created 2 vertical pockets and also used the stitched slot dies to create different pockets.

I hope this has given you a few ideas, thanks for dropping by,
If you would like the measurements, please contact me, as there is too much to post on here.
If you go back to previous posts in April there should still be a short video showing this album.

Maggie

Hello everyone,

Here's a short video of my latest drop side box album using papers from the Sunkissed collection by Graphic 45.

The papers are beautiful and the turtles are lovely.

Good morning everyone,

Tomorrow we're on Hochanda with a mixture of goodies.

The new release of stamps from Wild Rose Studio giving us some lovely Christmas images and also some fun llamas, a really sweet baby bunny and a mermaid. We also have some more fabulous cover a card background stamps from Impression Obsession; this time a crackle effect (craquelure), a random dotty/bubble effect (fizz) and gingham- these all make brilliant backgrounds, perfect to stamp for paper piecing, on to ribbons etc, and also for mixed media effects.

The I.O monkey stamps with matching dies are returning as are some of the WRS paper pads which also have coordinating glitter card with them.

If you're into your album/journal making we have the set of the large stitched frame dies by LaLaLand and a set of stitched ribbon dies.

Here's a few photos of some of the fab cards made by the crafty gang.

Fabulous card by Yvonne using the WRS
 Santa Champagne

WRS Owl family stamp

       

WRS lovely mermaid birthday stamp which
also has a small seahorse and fish stamp in the set

The outside background is using the craquelure
background, with a WRS Christmas robin

WRS Penguin heart stamp with the I.O fizz background
giving the snowy effect.

WRS baby bunny stamp on a beautiful card
by Rosemary

WRS Llama birthday stamp
with I.O gingham background stamp

WRS Penguin heart on a fabulous card
created by Anita.

One of the monkeys from the I.O
monkey business stamp & Die set

One of the two floral stamps from I.O,

 There are more lovely samples to see on the show and wait until you see what Rosemary has done with the owl family........it's great fun.
Thanks for dropping by,
Maggie