Massive project...

This is the project I have been busy on after doing an amazing workshop with Toni Darroch at Stamps by Me.  It's nowhere near finished, but I'm having such fun working on it.  We made the bare bones of the book at the two day workshop and then brought the book home to add our photos and all the fun extras.  You can see an amazing you tube video of Toni's book HERE and if you can't make it to one of her workshops you can buy the instructions from her too.
The photo above shows the first page of the book which is fastened to the inside front cover with a flap and magnetic closure.
Opening the flap reveals this part of the book...

a double page spread with original photos from my grandparents wedding in the 1920s.  Two of the photos are held in place by belly bands and I've attached tabs to the top of the photos to prevent too much handling.  The photo corners are taken from an old album and reused.
Here are close ups of both pages...

Closing the page carefully - must admit I have made this all very bulky - good job the magnets are really strong ones takes us back to the photo from the top of this post.
To include all the photos I wanted to on this page I added a concertina effect attached by a hinge to the back of the first page.  It opens out like this on one side...

and like this on the other side.  

The cream paper is not attached fully as I need to add the journalling - trying to decide whether to handwrite or print on computer.

Hope you like what I have achieved so far - tons of pages still to do and will be adding to my blog as I go along.

Challenges...

• Craft My Life - anything but a card
• Crafting from the Heart - anything goes
• Craft your Passion - anything goes
• Not just Cards - anything goes

Annie xxx

Magical Birthdays...

It's Saturday and that means it's time for a new challenge at My Time to Craft and this week our theme is FAIRIES - ooooooooooooh time to get out your magical stamps such as Stunning Sweet Pea stamps (as used on my card), Luscious Lavinia and not forgetting Lovely Lilli of the Valley plus so many others.
Come on show us what you have.  We all love fairies.
To create my card I made myself a background using a Craft Artist digi kit and as the gorgeous Sweet Pea fairy is also a digi I was able to play around with the positioning and size before printing it out on white card ready to be coloured with my Promarkers.  I also used Craft Artist to plan the position of the sentiment before printing it onto a sheet of acetate.
The acetate was attached to the background and then the fairy positioned on top using foam pads to give a little depth.  The whole thing was mounted onto card and then attached to the front of a small scalloped edge card.  I added a ribbon down the side and a made with love charm.

Other Challenge...

• Card Mania - use a metal embellishment ( charm)

Have a fantastic weekend everyone.  I'm hoping to do some more crafting on an amazing book I started on a two day course by Tony Darrock.  I will be posting photos eventually, but in the meantime if you want to see her stunning design check out this video on you tube - she is such a clever lady.  

Annie xxx

I love gardening...

This is card order made for one of my daughter's workmates.  I had to make it really fast as it had to be delivered today - eeeeeeeeeeeek!
Thankfully my printer worked and my new Joanna Sheen CD Rom bought as a bargain offer recently came good and I found a gardening image just bursting with flowers.  A little bit of mat and layering and biff bash bosh jobs a good un or at least a reasonable card anyway.
I took all the images into Craft Artist software to plan the design and only printed the images I needed.  Using the punch feature I was able to punch out matching paper for the sentiments and using the cut out studio I was able to create decoupage layers in the right size.  Without Craft Artist I would be really like a crafter with a hand tied behind her back.

Challenges...

• Allsorts - Flowers
• OLLCB - Here comes Summer
• Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes

Annie xxx