This album was a gift for Joanna, one of my closest friends and my scrapbooking buddy.
The album was picked up for publication for by Scrapbooking.com– you can see it there in the June 2011 issue!
Photo-heavy post ahead!!
I was in St. Louis April 7-10 to visit her and so that we could go to the St. Louis Creating Keepsakes Convention together. We’d joked about going together for quite some time now, and when things worked out suddenly (cheap flights+flight voucher, etc.), I booked my ticket way back in January to make the trip!
Our birthdays are only a few days apart in April, so I decided I’d bring my gift along, even though it was a couple weeks early. As we were planning the visit, Joanna joked that she was designating me the “social coordinator” for the trip. That solidified an idea that I’d been rolling around in my head for her gift– a mini album to record the trip. This mini album is mostly a photo+journaling album, but it also contains a printout of our schedule for the CKC and an envelope to keep bits and pieces.
I’ve had the October Afternoon stickers for a while now, and I just love the color combination. I decided that since there were so many fantastic little journaling labels, I would use them and base the color scheme of the album on them. (Confession: I also used them because I had two sheets of each, and I intend to make a copy of this album for myself as soon as I get my hands on another Edgy Album!)
Of course, since I made the album before our trip, it has blank journaling labels and empty photo mats. Because the photos will overlap, I made sure to leave the overlapping corners “unstuck”… and for the overlapping stickers, I used a cool technique I learned from Lolly’s recent Live with Prima video– I brushed talcum powder on the sticky side of the stickers to cover the adhesive (nice side effect: album now has a faint perfume from the powder!)
Supplies:
chipboard album: Bo Bunny 6″x12″ Edgy Album (chocolate)
patterned paper: October Afternoon Farm Fresh (Root Cellar), October Afternoon Fly A Kite (Front Porch, Fireflies), My Mind’s Eye So Sophie (Best Thing Red Chevron), My Mind’s Eye Quite Contrary (Jack & Jill/Life is Good: Serene Spots), Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety (Bloomers), My Mind’s Eye Simply Delightful paper pad
alphas: October Afternoon Farm Fresh Letterpress Alpha, October Afternoon Mini Market Stickers (Red & Cream)
stickers: October Afternoon Farm Fresh Shape Stickers, October Afternoon Farm Fresh Label Stickers, October Afternoon Farm Fresh Word Stickers
butterflies: Making Memories Paper Reverie (Brun Antique butterflies)
brads: the Paper Studio
border punches: Martha Stewart (Bubble Bath) and Fiskars (Apron Lace)
stamps: Papertrey Ink Journaling Lines Vol. 3 No. 3
white pen: UniBall Signo
brown, baby blue pigment ink: Stampabilities
cream cardstock: the Paper Company
kraft cardstock: Recollections
crochet thread
adhesives: Ranger Glossy Accents, Therm O Web foam adhesive, Scotch double-sided tape, Zig 2-way glue pen
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