I love mini-albums! I think its so fun to collect a few pictures together into a tiny theme, with all sorts of coordinated bits and bobs and do-dads. Unfortunately, I usually give them away before I take pictures of them. I made this album for my coffee table though, so I thought I'd share it (or at least the cover!) The entire album is from the Little Yellow Bicycle Lucky Me! Collection, which I particularly admire for the combination of colors and the overall message that love is a lucky business. I used the decorative edged tablet, coordinating chipboard album, and several different sticker sheets. I filled the album with pictures of the most important people in my life, engaged in a variety of activities.
I'm most proud of the cover in the album and I wanted to share it specifically because it employs several different crafting techniques. First, notice how the embelishments are clustered together on the cover. It may be difficult to tell from photographs, but I used a combination of transparencies, card stock stickers, and patterned papers, intermixed with flowers, gemstones, and epoxy buttons, to create a very layered, textured effect. I also used pop-dots to help me lift different areas up off the page. I colored the blue rose on the cover using Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Moonlight and distressed the olive-colored flower just above it using glimmer mist in copper. Then I used my new embellishment making tool from Epiphany Crafts to make the epoxy "JOY" button on the lower right side. Expect more of these in the future!
I also want to point out the ribbons on the rings. To achieve these custom colors, I used a white ribbon that I colored using Distress Stains...one of my first attempts at using this awesome new product. I used Peeled Paint, Walnut, and Broken CHina to color the ribbon and then I cut it into smaller bits. The texture and vibrancy of the color this yields doesn't really photograph well, but suffice it to say: I'm very impressed.
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