Spring has finally arrived.......

What a glorious couple of days we have had this weekend, I have managed to finish weeding my garden and planted a few more plants ready for the summer, the theory is to just then chill depending obviously on the weather. A few weeks ago I made an album for my sister featuring the lovely stamps from Crafty Individuals, its a memory album of our family home garden, unfortunately we had to sell the house after Mum became ill so my Son took some lovely pictures throughout the year which I used for this album.

I have used the spring time book from CI for the background papers and then put a wash of gesso over the papers to soften the colours then on some of the pages I used stencils to create the raised areas and then spritzed glimmer mists to add colour in parts before adding the stamping.

I embossed the frame sprinkling on glitter and then stamping

the crackle background stamp using versafine black

Stamps used

CI..209 Winter Trees, CI...287 Birds on a wire,CI....405 Listen to the trees

CI......309 Singing Merrily, CI....116 crackle background

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Mini album.......

Afternoon to you all, what a lovely few sunny days we had at the begining of the week, I am Grand children free this week so it's lovely to have a smidge of free time for playing in my craft room, a few weeks ago I finished this album which was inspired by Dorota Kopec I used just a couple of Dylusion sprays and stamps from Heartfelt Creations and Crafty Individuals, the full list of stamps are at the bottom of the post.

Stamps used

CI-437, butterflies, CI-320 bird cage, CI-353 clock, CI-436-script background, CI-435 background, CI-453 Tree, CI-451 film strip, CI-347 butterflies CI-017 script.

Splatters and ring stamps are by Prima and the Botanical Rose stamp is from Heartfelt Creation

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Album part two......

Welcome to part two of my mini album using a 12 x 12  Heartfelt Creations Raindrops on Roses paper pad. The size of the album is 8x6 back with a covered chip board cover.

close up of the front cover

Flap on left page folds back with a mini pocket

flap lifts up on left page

double flap on right page has a mini pocket on the back of the first flap and then the another

flap folds back as well.

last pages with the flap open

Back of album

I used a Fur coat hook and eye for the album fastener

and the I put a button with diamante on the top of the hook.

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