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My Book Stack Project – Filled up!

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Hey guys! It’s been a while, but I’m still here 😎. In fact, I’m working on a brand new steampunk-themed mini album – sneak peek in the video below!

Meanwhile, I’m sharing this book stack project of mine, which I filled up with some pictures but mostly pieces of journalling, that I edited and then printed myself.

Hopefully this gives you some new ideas, or at least inspires you to keep trying new things! 🙂 If you’d like to create this particular project yourself, check out Tutorial #43 in my shop. It consists of a 3-part tutorial set, namely a separate tutorial for each part of the project: the boxes, the folio album and the booklets.

Enjoy your summer (it’s raining here 🙄) – and the video!

Dear Diary Gatefold Album + Bonus Project

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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!

Guest designer project: Gift Card Mini Folio

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Hello everyone,

Today I’m very happy to share another Guest Designer project for Crealies again!

This time I designed a completely new Mini Photo Folio which also functions as a gift card holder. This mini folio will hold at least 12 pictures so it’s a great little gift for anyone! I decorated with several awesome Crealies products, like layered flower die-cuts, a mini envelope holding a mini message card and their latest small-yet-detailed mini leaves stamps.

I used a mediterranean-themed paper collection, which would be great for your vacation pictures. Of course you can make one for any occasion imaginable, especially if you add an actual gift card to Crealies’s cool gift card slider diecut. Think wedding, birthday, new baby, masculine, Easter, back to school, heritage, etc. etc.

The folio is an exerpt from a more elaborate new mini album design of mine, which I already showed you in my previous blog post. For a complete list of the Crealies products I used, click here.

So, enjoy the video and pictures below! Feel free to leave comments and tips or ask any questions.

As always, it has been a pleasure to design with Crealies products. 

Enjoy the video and pics below and feel free to leave a comment!


Bella Rouge Mini Album Book Stack

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This week I’m sharing a new design, consisting of three parts. It’s a little book stack, consisting not of books but of two handmade chipboard boxes, filled with a mini folio and three mini booklets respectively. The technique I used to create the boxes is different from my usual way of making them, so there’s something new there as well for everyone who already purchased my other box tutorial.

And since I just had my birthday, I’m offering all three of these projects as one tutorial set, so a buy-3-pay-only-1 kind of thing! 🙂

The papers and flowers I worked with are from Prima Marketing’s Bella Rouge collection. I wanted to design a project specifically suited for 4×6″ journalling cards / project life cards, to offer you all a somewhat more affordable option since these cards tend to be not as expensive as actual paper pads. And I succeeded wonderfully well!

So enjoy the video and pictures below, and go for the tutorial set if you’d like to make it yourself.

If you’d like an idea of how this would look when filled with pictures and journalling, check out this post!

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! 🙂

 


Three All Occasions Folios

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As I promised you last week, I have now made the tutorials available for the three photo folios I shared with you in my previous blog posts. Two of them were part of a pre-made collection folio – you can check out last week’s video to refresh your memory. And the third and smallest one went with my Box Pocket Mini Album, which you can find in last year’s Christmas album post.

I’ve actually listed a tutorial set in my shop, for your convenience. It contains two tutorials plus a cutting guide with some different measurements & extra instructions – so three downloadable files, one for each of the folios in the picture above!

Please let me know if you like these kinds of projects, for like you, I too am always looking for some inspiration 🙂

 

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How to Gift an E-book as a Paper Craft Project

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Have you ever tried gifting an e-book to someone? If so then you know there’s not much fun to be had. You either give the person money or a gift card to buy it himself, or perhaps you email them a gift code. Or if you’re really making an effort, you find an online e-book vendor which allows you to buy a specific e-book for someone else. Which requires you to register at said vendor, which you may find very annoying.

Your purchase will then result in an email of the vendor to the recipient, or maybe a voucher will be mailed to you so you can email or print it. Pfff. Like I said, not much fun to be had. No gift wrapping, no happy anticipation before unwrapping the surprise gift, no happy squeals when the present is finally revealed. Welcome to the Digital Age.

Though we cannot change the digital nature of the e-book, we can make it more fun to gift an e-book to someone! The only thing you have to buy is a (physical) gift card that will allow the recipient to buy e-books. You’ll probably be able to buy those in several brick & mortar shops – so no registration required, no annoying emails received.

And then you’ll craft a very festive Mini File Folio like the one I’m sharing with you today, in which you’ll put your gift card and a nicely printed title & summary of the e-book(s) you have in mind for your recipient. And voila, there’s your Very Presentable present.

As an added bonus you’ll probable be able to gift them two e-books for the price of one physical book!

To whom are you going to gift an e-book this way? 🙂

 

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Really Mini File Folio! (Kaisercraft Exchange)

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Not too long ago I participated in Kaisercraft’s brand new international snail mail project called Kaisercraft Exchange, which I really enjoyed. You send out anything you created with Kaisercraft products to someone around the world you don’t know, and likewise you receive something – from someone else entirely. Kaisercraft functions as the trustworthy middleman to swap all of the addresses.

It was so, so much fun to participate the first time! So when they announced their second run of this worldwide surprise swap, I was game!

This time I used the Lush design papers, a Kaisercraft paper collection from 2010, of which I had also miraculously still been able to find the rubons. I designed something completely new (well, to me at least): a Mini File Folder, or Mini Collection Folio if you will. I was absolutely engrossed in designing and creating this project, it really scratched all of the right itches for me, especially after finishing a larger project (coming up soon…) 🙂

So without much further ado, here’s the video. Enjoy, let me know what you think, and do participate in Kaisercraft Exchange next time! Who knows, maybe I’ll be sending you something! 🙂