May Blog Calendar

May 2 - Jenn Ma - tutorial [SCHEDULED]
May 9 - Jenn Mc - tips for finding digi supplies fast [SCHEDULED]
May 15 - Jenn Mc - Freebie Template Challenge READY
May 16 - San's Fav Fonts (scheduled on blog)
May 23 - Hybrid
May 30 - Pretty Pages GSO post (Karen)

I'll be ready. I'l going to work on it over the week. An alphabet stretch your stash tutorial... :)

ooo ... jenn sounds good!

jenn ... are you getting something ready for May 2nd?

This month I created an album with bright colors. I choose papers from If only and Dreams (yellow paper)
I would like a clean and simple album. I added on each photo a Word Art. It's a simple way to decorate quickly an album.

I modified each photo with photoshop in addind a WA :

WA from Blue skies|elements


WA from It's a zoo|elements

All photos for my album with its WA :

WA come from Blue skies, All eyes on you, It's a zoo, A slice of lemon, If only, What I like about you, Say cheese

I print papers and photos :


Step 1 : album pages creations
I cut 4 rectangles in white cardstock to create pages of my album


On cardstock, I glued photos. One photo per side.
For example, on the first page, I glued this photo on recto:


And this one on verso :


All photos are glued :


Then I created two dividers in white cardstock :


I glued papers on these dividers to decorate them

I used papers from Drawn to you

Step 2 : Covers album creation

To create my album cover, I cut 2 rectangles in a packaging (breakfast cereals box). I had this :


I used double face tape to glue paper on cardstock :



For covers, I used papers from Drawn to you and Forget me not

Step 3 : Album decoration
The next step was the decoration of my album, pages and covers.
I'm going to show you only two pages inside my album for examples.
I stayed on Clean and Simple decoration. I added few elements on each page, to highlight photos

For this page, I add tag from Awesome sauce on the divider :


Then, I added a WA from Spring flutters to complete the decoration. The WA is glued with 3D autoadhesive foam :



For the second divider, I glued leaves shapes (leaves are cut with my cuttlebug) :


And I added a stripe of paper and WA, again, to finish the cluster :

WA is glued with 3D autoadhesive foam. You know I love used 3D foam ^^
Tape is from HeArt and WA is from Garden party|elements

Step 4 : Binding creation

I used my "Bind-it all" to bind my album
This machine is very easy to use.
The first step is to punch holes on each pages and covers :


Next, I cut two pieces of metal binding to bind my album and I inserted binding on holes




Finally, with my machine, I closed binding.
My album is binded and finished !



Photos and details of my album :

LOVE your photo's and what a super cute album Géraldine!!! Thank you so much!