Category Archives: Scrapbooking

My Folio Album Design III: Beautiful Dreamer Version

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This week I’m sharing a reprisal of my Folio Album III design, originally called Mimosa. It was commissioned by Nora, the German lady for whom I also created the Remember Me box pocket album. Nora loves many things, among which cats, hot air balloons, old books and the color purple. For this new, elaborately decorated version of my Folio Album III therefore, I used Bo Bunny’s gorgeous 2016 collection Beautiful Dreamer, with themes of hot air balloons, bicycles, birds, books and old clocks, in nostalgic warm purples, greens and golden browns.

This folio album has a very flexible spine, sports many photo flaps and mini wallets and will hold about 65-70 pictures. Its main feature however is that you can entirely separate the book from its cover! 🙂

Check out my (written) tutorial if you want to create one yourself. It has very clear instructions and is illustrated by 255 pictures of the step-by-step process for all of you visual learners. It also comes with an bonus materials list for this Beautiful Dreamer version!

Enjoy the video of my project share and feel free to leave a comment or question below!

 

You’ve Got Tea Mail!

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This week I’m sharing another one of my tea card ideas. As you may know by now, I love to send my friends a warm and cosy hug-in-a-mug over the mail, for instance when I know they’re coming home from a long and hard road trip, late at night. Nothing says “Go ahead and elax for some Me time” like a glass filled with nice, hot tea you just got from your friend who’s thinking of you.

I try to come up with different designs every time, especially when sending it out to the same person (like my dear friend Christa 🙋🏻), and this week it is a pocket card. After all, not everything has to be complex and difficult. Just go for it, keep it simple and decorate to your heart’s desire. Pay attention to the details though, like having the color of your tea bag coordinate with your design papers 🙂

Enjoy the video and pics below! And do leave a comment, I really like to hear from you all.

 

 

In the Pocket: a Tag Briefcase Mini Album

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While Autumn has arrived and stretching its legs with some really cold temperatures here in the Netherlands, I thought I’d design and share a little Four Season’s mini album. I used Graphic 45’s calendar collection Time to Flourish, which of course automatically offers seasonal colors and themes.

The cover design makes it a cute little suit case with a magnetized closure and a ribbon grip, that will stand on its own. Each of the ten pages are pockets, holding a tag that has been decorated on both sides but still leaves room for wallet-sized pictures.

All in all a very cute little gift – think Thanksgiving, Christmas, simply Summer or basically any seasonal holiday 🙂

Like to make one yourself? Go ahead and purchase my tutorial, offering lots and lots of clear pictures, guiding you through the creative process step by step. And for people who have worked with several of my album tutorials: this time I’ve used a different binding system, so not the hidden hinge binding, but the stack the deck binding. If you don’t know how that would work, check out my tutorial.

Enjoy the video and let me know in the comments what you think!

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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! 🙂

 

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!

 

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 #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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Double Take – a Mini Album for 4×6″ pictures

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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!

 

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Life’s a Picnic Mini Album – with Pictures!

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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! 🙂

 

Folders & Pockets Mini Album: Go, See, Explore

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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 Adventure folders & 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.

 

 

 

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Free video tutorial: How to Sew a Photo Booklet

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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!

 

 

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Holiday Dreams Album – with Pictures + Printed Journalling

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A little while ago I designed and created a Double-Paged Gatefold Album that 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 large photo 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.

 

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