Today it’s time for some papercrafting again – with actual design papers I mean 🙂 I fell in love with one of StudioLight’s recent collections, Jenine’s Mindful Art. I took two double-sided 12×12” sheets (plus a sheet of cardstock) and created a deconstructed envelope card.
And because it’s summer and we’re still suffering from various lockdown measures, I’m offering you a free video tutorial to take your mind off things.
Hope you like it, leave a comment to let me know!
My Lucky Dog mini album is a wire-bound mini album with a page size that perfectly fits your 8×8″ paperpads. Since it has been a while since I created it, I thought about a way to revisit it – without being too repetitive. So, I thought of some fresh new page designs for this album, keeping its basic design the same – but making it slightly different at the same time.
Sneak preview: among other things, I did some acetate pockets this time! 🙂
And since it’s the same album, I’m also offering you all of these new page designs as a free add-on with the original tutorial (so everyone who purchased this in the past: congratulations, you now own a free bonus tutorial! 🙂 )
I used one of Graphic 45‘s more recent collections: Fruit and Flora. I just love that color palette and the overall theme, which reminds me of a lush summer garden.
Enjoy the video!
Recently my mother asked me to fill the Treasured Memories Mini Album DeLuxe I designed for her when my father passed away, with their wedding pictures from 1968. The black & white pictures truly look amazing in this album!
This album design is very luxurious and offers room for many pictures, large and small. You can play with any possible album theme of course, especially if you have many pictures you want to keep in it. Just choose papers suitable to your taste and the occasion you have in mind.
To give you an example of how this album would look with different papers, check out my Joyful Reminiscing version. There’s also a tutorial available so you can create your own beautiful tome! 🙂
My latest gatefold mini album isn’t as large as all of my previous ones; in fact it’s a very decent carry-on size of 14.5 x 15.3 cm (5¾ x 6”). I chose Bo Bunny’s summer-colored Serendipity collection, which is full of birds, feathers & nests, but with kind of a twist.
Also, this time I didn’t just mat the pages; I worked with lots of photo mats, which I blended with design papers while creating my own page mosaics. Use repositional tape for the photo templates, so you can easily remove them and replace them with pictures of exactly the same shape and size.
This one is a fun one again: it only takes three page assemblies to make it, but with lots and lots of page flaps, pockets and tuck spots! Of course there’s a tutorial for all of you who’d like to create and customize your own. Bonus: you get a free cutting guide with all of the photo templates and mats I used, so if you want you can completely imitate my photo mosaics – though of course you can design your own too! (or create more than one and utilize both techniques 🙂 ).
If you’re in the mood for a larger project, I’ve got just the thing for you! 🙂 For here’s my latest design, a gatefold mini album with a small box pocket and a bonus project, a mini folio!
If you’re going to work many hours you should choose the loveliest papers you can find, for you’ll be looking at them for quite some time 😉 My choice this time was the Dear Diary collection by Mintay Papers. Very lovely indeed.
So, enjoy the show & tell video, and of course some pictures below. Tutorial available!
Back in February I shared one of my Mailable Mini Album designs, and invited you to let me know if you’d like me to do a tutorial. Well, you guys let me know 🙂
So, here it is, enjoy!
Hi all!
I’m very happy to be able to share my latest design in one of my favorite categories, the Micro Album. This one I’m calling a Harmonica Micro, by which I mean that each of its four page assemblies consists of harmonica-style panels, held together with a cute and practical belly band.
You only need two 12×12″ sheets of double-sided design paper to decorate, which makes it a very frugal little project. 🙂
So check out the video for all of the details, and if you’d like to make it yourself, an elaborate tutorial is available for you in my shop.
Have fun!
In these times, when we’re all spending much more time at home than usual, we’re perhaps in need of some extra inspiration for our papercraft projects. So I thought I’d offer you all a free video tutorial on how to create beautiful printed tags, meant especially for people who aren’t very tech-savvy but do wish they knew how to do these things.
And the good news is, this is relatively simple! The only things you need are a computer, a printer, and some kind of word processor software, like Microsoft Word, Apple Pages or other kinds (though if you even know of the other kinds, you probably don’t need this tutorial anyway 😉 )
Let me know if you want me to do more of these “digital basics” tutorials, for instance, on how to find nice pictures and sentiments to print.
Be well, see you next time!
Back in 2015 I came up with a cute little micro album in a box. That was years before I made tutorials, and at the time I got many requests to do one. It took some time, but I finally came around to it and this week I’m sharing the end result.
The box that holds the gatefold micro album opens like an explosion box, so there’s a bonus for you. The album itself sports four updated page designs, since I’ve learned a lot since then 🙂
You can of course choose any theme for your project; mine is romantic vintage, with Rose Fields papers by 13@rts.
So enjoy the video and if you’d like to make this yourself, now you can for you can find the tutorial in my shop.
Why send a birthday card when you can send a Mailable Birthday Mini? 🙂
This week I’m sharing my latest design in this Mailable Mini category, created with Prima Marketing’s beautiful Amelia Rose collection. It sports two pocket pages held together by a photo booklet-in-a-booklet and offers room for 10 pictures – or 9 plus a journalling spot like mine.
If you’d like to see more where this came from, check out my other mailables: the Mini Folio version, the 6-Panel Fold-Out version and the Actual Booklet version! Still can’t get enough? Go ahead and browse through my entire Booklets & Wallets section.
Christmas is nearing ever more, so this week I’m sharing two great interactive wallet cards decorated in a truly Woodland Winter atmosphere. You can find the tutorial here.
You can of course use embellishments as elaborate as you like with these cards, as I did with previous iterations of this design, like the Time Machine version:
This time I used only paper decorations, some came with the collection and others I added myself, by way of decorative borders and die-cuts.
This is a pretty elaborate design, which makes it a great group gift or group card (to give as a group, with each individual adding their own wishes). It can also hold at least 5 pictures, which makes it kind of a mini album card 🙂
Have a great December month!
Recently I finished creating and editing my latest video course, on how to create a micro album! It’s based on my original Fresh & Bright micro album, but with Moda Scrap’s very cute The Color of Puppies paper pad.
With the purchase of your video course you get the original PDF-tutorial as a free bonus. You can of course watch the video lessons as often as you like, no limits there!
This baby boy version is actually kind of a sequel, for 2 years ago his granny commissioned a baby girl version for his (then expected) sister. Needless to say that these are the cutest of projects, both because they are tiny and because the paperlines are all so darned adorable 🙂
So, enjoy this demo video, and check out my shop for either the PDF tutorial (#18a) or the video course (#18b)!
