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Remember Me – a Box Pocket Album DeLuxe

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Last year I designed and created what I call a Box Pocket Mini Album, by which I mean a mini album that holds a special kind of pocket, large enough to hold a notebook, a personal planner, a mini folio or a large stack of pictures.

This week I’m sharing a variation on that album: this time the actual box pocket is in the back of the album instead of the front, and this album has a gatefold magnetic closure. It also has a different ‘do up’ of the inside front cover. Most of these different elements I borrowed from another design of mine, the Springtime Dreams Keepsake Album Deluxe.

I designed this second version of the Box Pocket album for Nora, a lovely lady from Munich (Germany), who commissioned the album as a way to keep her most important memories. You’ll find more details about her story and why she wanted the album in the video below. You’ll also understand why I’m calling this version Remember Me.

Since there already is a tutorial for the original Box Pocket album in my webshop (#33), I decided to add a free bonus cutting guide to that, containing the measurements for the different elements of this new Remember Me version. Anyone who already owns Tutorial #33 can simply go back to their Etsy purchases page and download the bonus cutting guide for free! (It’s just a cutting guide mind you, if you want actual instructions, please check out my Tutorial #10 for the Springtime Dreams album.)

Anyway, thank you for watching and feel free to leave a comment below, in the comment section! 🙂

 

Shabby Chic Tea Card

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As you may have noticed, I like to send tea bags over the mail by way of sending someone sort of a ‘warm hug’. I’ve done several of these cards before, and I try to come up with new designs once in a while.

This week is such a time. I designed a way to tuck your customized tea bag envelope onto the front of your card so that it remains easily removable, yet fixed in place.

The papers used are Shabby Chic 6×6″ pad by Studiolight, and a sheet from the Wonderland collection by Stamperia.

I hope to have inspired you to send someone such a fun hug-in-a-mug yourself after watching this week’s video 🙂

See you next week and let me know what you think!

 

Free video tutorial: Working with a step card die & How to mat

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This week I’m sharing a free video tutorial with you all. Sometimes when working with a card shape die, like a die for a step card, it’s not always easy figuring out how to mat it. Which is why I’m sharing that specific technique in this week’s video.

Both the step card die and the little sentiment stamp Proficiat (Congratulations) are by Crealies. The paper collection is the stunning An Eerie Tale by Graphic 45, which has dreamy images and wondrously lovely autumn colors.

Enjoy the video & pics below and leave a comment to let me know what you think!

 

Vintage Notelet: a Printable Step Card

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This week I’m very excited to share Vintage Notelet, my latest patterned paper template. My patterned paper templates are my printable templates from which to create the most intricate of cards with hardly any effort on your side. You do need a color printer of course, and preferably some matte photo paper. You can purchase all of my printables in the Printables section of my shop.

This particular template is based on a step card die by Crealies, who sell internationally, but if this die is no longer available you can also cut and fold a step card yourself, there are plenty of tutorials on the internet.

For this particular step card die, I did a free video tutorial a while back, which I’ll embed at the end of this post for your convenience.

With the printable template comes a cutapart sheet, from which you can fussy-cut your own decorations. It’s fun to find new places for each of them every time you print the template! I created two step cards myself, and did each of them up differently, using only the template and the cutapart sheet! You can see how they each look below.

Enjoy the video(s)!

 

 

Two Cards with Spring Market

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This year’s fun, colorful and on-trend Spring Market collection by Cartabella caught my eye, so I was very happy that Wendy, with the Scrapwereld (or Scrapworld) papercraft store (selling internationally as well!) very generously offered to sponsor my work with this lovely collection. I ended up creating four projects with it: my Double Take Mini Album, my Double Take Micro Album, and the two cards I’m sharing with you this week.

One is a lavishly decorated double card, the other an elegant tri-panel card, showcasing the lovely colors & patterns of the collection. For the second one I mainly used die-cuts and labels from the collection, but of course you could also add one or more pictures or personal sentiments instead.

Enjoy the video and find some inspiration! And please don’t forget to click the like & share buttons underneath this post 🙂

New Design: a Two-Page Brag Book

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On the brink between Summer and Autumn, I’m proud to present my new, summery-autumny Two-Paged Bragbook 🙂

This time I used not one but three paper collections, which for me is the absolute exception, definitely not the rule. And I also threw in some digital scrapbooking again. Not only did I use my own graphically designed paper for the binding system, but I also enhanced the background of one of the pictures and did some digital collaging. And lastly, I dolled-up my own picture… well, what can I say, I just couldn’t help myself 😉

Above: Text die by Crealies

It was commissioned by a group of my co-workers as a gift to one or our retiring colleagues. So I designed it to hold as many pictures as there were co-workers who joined the gift giving, and had them all write on a unique tag.

As you’ll see in the video, this is another great group gift!

Of course I wrote a tutorial for all of you who’d like to create such a great mini album yourselves. It’s fun to make and it really makes for such a great gift. As an added bonus, you don’t need the usual ‘thousands’ of patterned paper sheets, as it only has two page assemblies!

Oh, and I also threw in a card, made with the leftover papers 🙂

So, enjoy the last weeks of summer and hopefully your autumn will be as colorful as this album 🙂 See you next week – don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a comment!

 

Creative Card Tip (for when you want a break from papercrafting but… not)

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I don’t know about you, but sometimes I’d like to do some creative work, just not actual papercrafting. Then here’s a new card making tip for you: try digital scrapbooking. Granted, you’ll need at least a little bit of affinity for working with some kind of photo app, and you’ll have to gather at least like 100 digital elements to work with. But once you’re there, you’re good to go.

You can of course create nice scrapbooking layouts like you would with your normal 12×12″ paper, like this one:

Now imagine printing that, but as a 6×6 sized picture. Now you can either mat a piece of folded cardstock to create a card, or print it on a 6×12″ piece of white paper and fold that in half.

You don’t have to use photos of course, you can also go ‘all digital scrapbooking’, like these cards:

And last but not least, you can print them yourself, but you can also have them professionally printed.

Check out the video for show & tells of all of these examples!

Several of the cards in the video are available for you as professionally printed cards, plus envelopes!

So, have you got any experience with digital scrapbooking – and if not, would you ever consider trying it? Let me know in the comment section! 🙂

 

Scrap with me tutorial #4: Matting

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Hello everyone,

As this beautiful summer is slowly preparing itself for the transition into autumn, I’m sharing what will be the last of my series of four video tutorials on basic papercrafting techniques. Today’s topic is matting: how to determine your measurements, taking into account the width of the margins you would like all around. Of course I’m incorporating both centimeters and inches into my explanation, to cater to all of you 🙂 .

In the video I’m also referring to an earlier tutorial of mine, concerning the matting of a wooden box (outside and inside), which I of course also shared on this blog, with that specific video tutorial embedded.

Hopefully all of this is helpful for you – if you still have any questions, let me know by leaving a comment! If you know anyone else who might find this useful, please share this on your social media. And please like & subscribe to never miss any of my posts again 🙂

 

Scrap With Me Tutorial #3: Converting from cm to inches and v.v.

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Different people use different measurement systems, which can sometimes be a bit of a hassle, for instance if you want to follow a tutorial in centimeters whereas you are used to inches, or vice versa.

If I may shill for myself for a moment, all of my tutorials are in both centimeters AND in inches 🙂

Be that as it may, wouldn’t it be nice if you knew some easy ways to convert from one metric system to the other? Well, search no more, for that is what I’m offering you in my tutorial this week!

Let me know in the comment section if this was helpful at all, and if so, please click the like button 🙂

 

 

Teeny Tiny Micro Album ‘Double Take’

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My first Double Take album was a mini album especially designed to hold about 70 pictures, all 4×6″ (10×15 cm). I dubbed it Double Take because it had two page designs that repeated, doubling the original two pages. Well, being a sucker for everything miniature, of course I had to do a micro version! Which is what I’m sharing this week.

This is the smallest micro album I have made yet, measuring only 2 3/4 x 3 1/8 (6×8 cm). It has two repeating sets of two pages (again… Double Take), featuring tiny pockets with even tinier tags.

The paper collection I used was, again, Spring Market by Carta Bella, sponsored by Scrapworld, an internationally selling papercraft supply store located in the Netherlands.

These micro albums are so much fun to make, and they’re really affordable too! In fact it only requires some leftover chipboard and some leftover paper scraps. Perfect!
The tutorial is already waiting for you in my shop, with 57 full color picture pages and explanations.

Enjoy!

 

Scrap With Me Tutorial #2: Tape & Glue Strips

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In my second summer tutorial I’ll be talking about how to put tape on a glue strip, and secondly how to fit a piece of cardstock to your tape, for instance when creating a belly band.

Hope this helps, let me know in the comment section below. Enjoy the video!

 

 

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Scrap With Me Tutorial #1: Scoring and Folding

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As I announced last week, this summer I’l be offering four tutorials on basic papercrafting techniques! This week is the first, on Scoring & Folding, in which I’m demonstrating three scoring techniques.

I kept it as short as I could, so you can spend most of your precious spare time basking in the sun 🙂

Hope you’ll enjoy all of them, let me know if this was helpful!

 

 

 

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