Cherish Album

Here is another gift album I made for a friend's birthday! We went to Taiwan together.. but I decided not to use our trip photos again! I already did a photobook and I think she needs one for all the wonderful family portraits that were taken over the holidays!

I started using up my stash, so I used:
BasicGrey Lilykate patterned paper
K&Co Blue Awning chipboard and embossed stickers
Quickutz scalloped flowers die
Fancy Pants Write Now rub-ons
Fancy Pants Botanical Collection rub-ons
K&Co Amy Butler rub-ons



I love the soft colours. Blue is her favourite colour too, so I hope she'll like this mini-album.

Happy Valentine's Day!

I'm so in love with being in love and loving my kids! I know.. too much chocolate! Anyway, I joined two challenges and made these 2 LOs. One about our anniversary and the other about the consequences of marriage.

I used Making Memories papers on both of the LOs. I actually used the Paperie collection on the anniversary LO. I thought I would use it for Christmas, but then when I saw the pics, I thought a red and white colour scheme will do well in the love theme. I based this LO off of a sketch found in the Oct, 08 issue of Scrapbook Etc. I usually don't scraplift, but this challenge requires it... and I have fun doing it. It is a wonderful sketch and I made some changes to the LO. I used the Slice to make the circles and the journaling spot (got to love the Noteworthy Slice Card)! I used a Fancy Pants journaling stamp as well. In order to match the tones of this LO, I stamped the title using the beautiful Technique Tuesday Big Timber Meadow stamps. I stamped the title twice and cut and layered with foam stickers to achieve the 3-D feel.

This picture was taken on our 10th anniversary, at Cafe Deco at the Peak. There is a hidden pic with us and our kids. We have arrived at the 10th year mark with 2 wonderful gifts. :) The small pic is from our wedding.


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This other LO is also about love:
"I'm not sure why I love you, from the second you were born
And my love will only grow, even when my body is all worn
Every tear you shed, every song you sing
You tug at my heart string
And I still don't know why I love you
I just know I'll always do"

I read every book about taking care of babies, but none talks about how to start loving you both. When you were born, I realize it is NOT a conscious decision. It just happens. Just like that. Like I was just programmed to do it, without questioning.

The pictures were taken last year, and everything in the pictures, I hand made. My daughter's teacher had a special V-day party for the class and let all the moms came in a day early to decorate each kid's desk. I used my scrapping supplies, of course, and my die cut machine and stickles. :) I also made 2 cards for my kids, with the help of all family members.

I used Making Memories' Love Notes line in this LO. I had fun making my own heart embellies. I used the Slice to cut the layers, stickled them and glued them together. The title are acrylic words (Garden Party), but I painted them white.

Another Disney LO

I did another layout earlier with the Mickey ears, and I love it so much that I am doing it here again.

I chose the colours orange and blue because they remind me of Winnie the Pooh... and that's my favourite character! :) I also did this for a colour challenge.

I love using brads and I've used quite a few here to accent the Mickey ears.... I love their vibrant colours. These brads are from Queen & Co.

Queen & Co's new releases look really cool too, I think I might need to get a few of those buckets.

Laugh

This is my son's favourite expression when he was a year old. We all love it when he does that. And he knows it too.... and he'll make that face to make us laugh. The funny thing is, he couldn't help laughing when he does that ... which is what happened here! He is making the funny face AND laughing at the same time.

I'm so glad we took pictures of that to remind us what a goofy baby he was!

This is my first time using the Slice die cutter from Making Memories. I used the Basic Shapes 1 card to make the stars and the title. As for the flowers, I used the Noteworthy card. I layered them using cuts with different sizes.

I got this cute SEI Chick-A-Doo Collection pack a while back and I have always wanted to use it. I'm glad I get to use it on this fun LO. I used the tags and card stock embellishments from the collection pack.

Berry Good Together Gift Album

This is a gift album I made for my friends' two precious daughters. They are wonderful girls.. and I wanted to make a more girly album for them. I also added a page with cupcake for their birthday pictures.

For the album I used some techniques that I learned from a class taught by the Glitz Girls. The rub-ons are from various manufacturers, including Glitz Girls, K&Co. Bo Bunny. For the papers, I used two MAMBI mini album kit because the papers are very girly. The cupcakes are from one of the birthday kits. The journaling paper is from Glitz Girls also, and they are very handy for acrylic albums because they are double-sided.

Engagement Photos Clear Album

I made this album for a wonderful couple who will be getting married this month. Linda is a very sweet girl , so I picked the SEI chocolat line for this album because the pink/red colours and the butterflies remind me of her and their love for each other.

I happened to find some butterfly rub-ons from My Mind's Eyes that are perfect for the album!





I had a lot of fun making the album. I really love the acrylic album because when the pages are stacked together, they create a certain visual effect. Especially when the top page has a smaller photo and the bottom page has a larger one, the resulting effect is very dramatic!

Tags - Index/Table of Contents

I love tags. I've seen many beautiful ones, either pre-made or hand-made. I have always wanted to make some... but I'm not sure how to use them besides using them as gift tags or on cards.

One day, while I was planning the table of content/index page for the travel album, I suddenly remembered the ticket stubs I've collected from our trip. We went to a few places and collected quite a few of them. I failed to include them in the actual trip LOs.. so now I have to find a way to include them in the album.

Then I suddenly remember tags! They would make wonderful ticket stub holders! Or at least I hope.....

I picked the same Making Memories tropical patterned paper that I used on some of my travel LOs, and used that as the design for the tags. Embellishing them was fun. I even did one of them as a hidden tag for our itinerary. I tend to forget where we've been after a while....

Silver Anniversary Clear Album

Our friends just celebrated their 25th year anniversary. In honour of such a wonderful event, I made an acrylic gift album for them.

The clear album is probably an earlier product from Clear Scraps (love their shaped clear albums). Paper and embellishments are from K&Co. The ribbons are from Michael's $1 spot!

Can you tell I'm in love with the Blue Awning line? I made my dear husband's anniversary card from this line as well... it is so classy and elegant. The colours also work well for both genders. I think it'll also work really well with Basic Grey's Periphery line.. or LYB's Vita Bella. I hope I can do a project mixing those lines ...

I took a class from the Glitz girls, and had fallen in love with clear albums. I think that clear albums make the most wonderful gift albums. I made another one for my BFF for her two girls... They are fun to make and fun to display. I'm thinking if you get a small easel, the album can be easily displayed.

I love making albums that still preserve the 'clear' part. Therefore, I usually leave the edges clear of patterned paper. I also use rub-ons on over the edges and try to do it one corner per page. This way, the layered patterns will show thru without being too cluttered. As for the main design of each page, I just put a little bit of patterned paper in there as the background for the photos. And once the little pieces of ribbons are added to the rings, the album is done!