This week I’m happy to introduce you to another one of my patterned paper templates! This time the templates are for a so-called napkin fold card, or origami fold card. I’ve created several of these cards before, which you can all see in the video below, and I also did a free video tutorial on the technique – which you find embedded below as well.
It’s so fun designing my own papers! This time you can create three different sizes of napkin fold cards, for I designed papers sized 6×6″, 7×7″ and 8×8″, all three are available as one – very affordable! – set in my shop, for you to print as many times as you like, provided it’s for personal use only. I’ve come up with two patterns, one I dubbed Hydrangea, the other Bougainvillea. Hope you enjoy these, let me know in the comment section below!
This week I’m sharing my latest mini album with you all. It’s designed specifically to hold 4×6″ (10×15 cm) pictures, without it being too large or bulky. I always like my albums nice and ready to take with me 🙂
The design collection I used was the lovely Spring Market by Carta Bella, sponsored by Scrapworld, an internationally selling papercraft supply store located in the Netherlands.
This is a fun little album, I really enjoyed creating it, and despite of its moderate size it will hold at least 65 pictures, probably even more!
So check out your purchase options, either the tutorial only, available in my Etsy shop, or the complete kit, which is all the materials PLUS the tutorial, over at Photographs & Memories (available very soon!).
Enjoy the video and leave a comment if you have any questions or remarks to share!
Napkin fold cards or origami fold cards are always the perfect creative card if you don’t have a lot of time. You can make this within the hour, which adds it to my quick scrap category 🙂
This week I’m sharing three tips with you for this type of card, variations you may not have tried yourself yet and which I hope will inspire you. So check out the video for those tips. Below that you’ll find my free video tutorial for napkin fold cards, which I hope will come in handy 😉
My Life’s a Picnic mini album was the first of several 6×6(ish) mini albums I created, back in 2015. And I finally got around to filling it up with pictures! 🙂
For those of you who are curious: my mother and I went to Madurodam last year, a park with miniature scaled copies of well-known Dutch buildings & streets. So if you look closely at the pictures I’m showing you in the video, you can see people taller than the buildings they’re standing next to 🙂
As for the album, I think I managed to fit around 65 pictures in there. Each of the 14 page designs (including the two inside covers) is unique and you can mix them up, use different papers, or create variations with less page assemblies – like I have done with my To my Sweetheart mini album.
All in all I’m convinced the extensive tutorial will offer you many hours of crafting fun! 🙂
The other day I bought new bed linens – very colorful ones of course, as I generally tend to feel attracted to colorful things. They were packaged in plastic with a cardboard wrapper which displayed a picture of what the linens would look like once unpacked. And it was that cardboard picture I used to create this card!
The colors were simply amazing and I embellished only a little here and there. Did have to mat the inside and backside of the card of course, and for this I used some Studio Light papers.
In the video you can see the actual linens by the way 🙂
So anyway, this week my tip is to look beyond your design paper pads and check out other options – like cardboard wrappers of bed linens 🙂
This week I’m sharing the wonder of repeating a previous design with different decorative papers. What a huge difference! And it’s really the very same album design. The original album was my Zoo Adventurefolders & pockets mini album, created with an ever colorful Graphic 45 collection called Safari Adventure. This new iteration is a travel version with masculine overtones, using Echo Park’s Go, See, Explore collection. I created it at the request of Scrapworld / Scrapwereld, who also sponsored the materials.
Hope to have inspired you to play around with different design paper collections for you’ll get completely different albums from your one album design! 🙂
Check out the album tutorial available in my shop. Plus, below you’ll find embedded the free video tutorial on the sewed booklets.
Well, the title is already teasing it: I’ll be expanding on my creative adventures – by designing my own patterned paper templates and offering them as downloadable printables! 🙂
What that means is that I’m experimenting with digital scrapbooking and graphic design, to come up with my own project templates. And I’m starting off with not one but two Box card Printables!
Now these are not templates in the sense of having visible cutting & scoring lines or some such. The reason I’m calling it a box card patterned paper template is that you will not need any (!) cardstock to create your box card, because I came up with a double-sided design paper that will work perfectly with the cuts and folds of any box card.
Note that it will take at least medium level paper crafters for the printable to work without a tutorial. Therefore I have added a bonus tutorial and a bonus cutting guide to my regular Box Card Tutorial (#26), specifically for these printable patterned paper templates. Those of you who have already purchased this tutorial are in luck, for they will be able to download the extra guides at no additional cost! 🙂
I’m calling my new box card patterned paper template Flowers & Wine. It’s an original design and available in my shop now, for a very small price. You can print it as many times as you like, provided you do so for your own personal use or gift giving. AND as a bonus, you’ll get a freebie!* For there’s a second printable available with the first, enabling you to make TWO beautiful box cards for the price of ONE!
Simply check out the Printablessection in my shop.
So, check out the video below and please do let me know what you think! Is this something you would like to see more of?
* I created the freebie printable with elements from the Bring on Summer digital collection by Savi by Design.
Here’s how to create these super practical booklets, by creating a signature and simply sewing it together with some colored string 🙂
You can make it a photo booklet by using double-sided design paper, or a note booklet by using white printer paper or lined writing paper on the inside, instead of decorative paper.
These are also great mini album inserts by the way, as you’ll see a little while from now, when I’ll be posting the Travel version of my Folders & Pockets album.
Hope this was helpful and you enjoyed the tutorial, let me know in the comment section what you think and if you have any questions!
Sometimes it’s nice to be able to send some great pictures of you and your friend along with a birthday card for said friend. This card design is perfect for showcasing 2-4 pictures, together with a nice birthday wish!
It’s based on my wallet card design that’s explained in tutorial #22, so check that out of you’d like to create it yourself. It’s easy and fun!
This time I worked with Bo Bunny’s Rose Cafe collection, to coordinate with the color scheme automatically dictated by the pictures that I used 🙂
A little while ago I designed and created a Double-Paged Gatefold Albumthat I called Holiday Dreams – or for clarity’s sake, Vacation Dreams. I had some sunny and exotic photos in mind when I created it, and this week I’m happy to be able to share it with you again, but this time with pictures! 🙂
I’m also sharing a great tip for your largephoto mats: leave them unmatted and turn them into printed journalling – so cool! You can check it all out in the video & pictures below.
If you’d like to create this album yourself with your own materials, you can purchase my very elaborate & clear (written) tutorial – with a huge amount of helpful pictures! – in my shop. Now with a 10% discount for International Scrapbook day (discount offer will end Sunday May 6th, 10PM CET) – just like every other tutorial in my shop!
If you’d like to purchase a kit with the Ubud Dreams paper collection that I used, plus lots of embellishments, check out the Photographs & Memories webshop, which offers a complete kit INCLUDING my tutorial! 🎉 It is US based so will hopefully be very convenient for people in the North Americas, shipping-wise.
I’m very happy and honored to be a Guest Designer for Crealies this month! 🎉
For my first guest designer project I designed a completely new variation on my own micro album designs, and I’m calling it a Tea Bag Micro Album! This title says it all, for it literally is that: a micro album (3 x 2¾“) with tea bags for pages. Which of course makes it a great and original gift, plus it’s stinking cute because it’s so very small! 💛
It was very fun to make and super affordable for it only takes one sheet of 12×12” design paper for the bulk of what you need! Sweetness 👍🏼😃
You can find all dies and the stamp set at Crealies’s (internationally oriented) website.
Enjoy the video and pictures below, and don’t forget to check out my tutorial, which is suitable for anyone, regardless of whether you are a beginner or an advanced paper crafter.
See you next week, and let me know what you think by leaving a comment and sharing this post on all of your social media!
Filled up with tea bags! / Gevuld met theezakjes!
Ik ben blij en vereerd dat ik deze maand een van de guest designers ben voor Crealies. 🎉
Voor mijn eerste guest designer project heb ik iets nieuws ontworpen, d.w.z. een nieuwe variatie op mijn eigen microalbum ontwerpen, en ik noem het een Theezakjes Microalbum!
Die titel zegt in principe alles, want dat is precies wat het is: een piepklein albumpje (7.5 x 7 cm) met theezakjes als bladzijden. Die Crealies-theezakjes stelen echt de show vind ik, door de prachtige details, die het geheel een authentiek gevoel meegeven. 💛
Dit microalbum is natuurlijk een hartstikke leuk en origineel kadootje, en het is superschattig doordat het zo klein is! Het was erg leuk om te ontwerpen en te maken en het is nog betaalbaar ook omdat je feitelijk maar 1 vel dubbelzijdig designpapier nodig hebt van 30.5 x 30.5 cm. 👍🏼😃
Geniet van het filmpje en de foto’s, en kijk gerust in mijn webshop voor de rijk geïllustreerde werkinstructie (tutorial) voor dit kleine albumpje. En je vindt de gebruikte Crealies-producten in het lijstje hierboven. Je kunt ze uiteraard allemaal krijgen bij www.crealies.nl.
Laat het me weten als je dit een leuk projectidee vindt door een comment achter te laten, en natuurlijk door deze post te delen op al je social media!
You may have come across these press-out chipboard micro or mini albums, usually with some metal binding rings. In case you have wondered what to do with these, here’s an example!
It’s my second one actually, my first one was a bit larger and held pictures of my mom walking a fashion catwalk for elderly people – if you’re not curious about that, then by all means don’t check out that blog post 🙂
This time around I bought a really tiny one – I like tiny stuff! – and printed little tiny pictures of my three guinea pigs Todah, Rizpah and Yarden (who recently passed away alas 🙁 ). Let me know if you’d like a little video tutorial on one or two apps with which you can easily print these smaller sized pictures. If there’s more than one of you then I’ll see what I can do.
Anyway, enjoy the video and pictures below! And see you next week! ☀️
This week I’m happy to introduce you to another one of my patterned paper templates! This time the templates are for a so-called napkin fold card, or origami fold card. I’ve created several of these cards before, which you can all see in the video below, and I also did a free video tutorial on the technique – which you find embedded below as well.
(Nederlandse tekst + video hieronder!)
