Twas the night before Christmas waterfall album

I have another waterfall folio album to share with you today. It's a new style for me and I had so much fun putting it together. I am on a mission to use up all my older Christmas paper packs before I start buying more!
This album is using an older Graphic 45 paper line - "Twas the night before Christmas".
I have lots of pictures to share to sit back and enjoy!

This is the front cover - measures 8.5 x 11 and the spine is 3/4" x 11". It has a magnetic closure.

I used a decorative filigree from Butterbee Scraps and added the red gemstone to the center for some bling.

 

 I did not add too many embellishments to the front cover as the pattern paper is busy enough.

This is a picture of the album when opened. This album will hold up to 43 pictures!

 Starting with the left side of the opened album, the photo mats open vertically.

 I kept the embellishments to a minimum to prevent bulkiness and I wanted to make sure it would stay shut with the magnetic closure.

 Chipboard and cardstock tags and stickers were only adhered on one side, The reason for this is to be able to slide a full size picture behind the chipboard tag.

 The largest photo mat can hold a 5x7 picture!

 You can't see it in the pictures, but I added red stickles to all the holly berries.

 

 

Here is the right side where the mats are horizontal:

 

I found this style album on Arlene Cuevas' blog. Here's the link to her Snapguide tutorial.
http://snp.gd/hbruze

That is it for me. Time for me to get outside to enjoy the beautiful weather we are having in Chicagoland!

#1 Fan

I'm popping in this beautiful Sunday evening with a couple masculine cards. One is for a birthday and the other is just to have on hand!

The cardstock is a rust color - not sure who the manufacturer is but it brought out the rusty color in the pattern paper which is October Afternoon. I used the Hearth and Home framelits from Stampin Up and Happy Scenes stamp set to make the window scene. Tied some gray and white twine around the bottom with a bow and button to top it off.

 This next card uses papers and stamps from Graphic 45 Good Ole Sport line. I did copy this off of a Pinterest board. I changed it up by adding the stars and stamping directly onto the green cardstock.

This card is going to a coworker next week. He is a big sports fan of every sport out there! His dream is to be a sports announcer for a radio station!

That is it from me. It's late and time to start dinner on this Sunday evening. Enjoy the rest of your week.
N~

Turn back time

Welcome November! And with the time change, I'm up at the crack of dawn writing this post for my little blog.
I can't seem to put away the Halloween papers! Here is one last card I made using supplies from Stampin Up. I saw a very similar card on Pinterest and cased it.

I love the spider web doilies from Stampin Up.

White, black and tangerine cardstock from Stampin Up along with the Lots of Labels die and Witches' Night photopolymer stamp set. Ribbon, twine and button are from my stash.

 

And last weekend we celebrated my little nephew's 9th birthday. When it comes to making a child's birthday card, October Afternoon is one of the paper lines I turn to. It's been so long since I used their papers. I forgot how much I love them.

 

I inked the edges of my Kraft card base and layered a couple of pattern papers from the Cakewalk collection. I topped it off with a self adhesive flag I put together from the collection along with one of the shape stickers. And lastly, the cardstock sentiment from the die cut shapes.

 

Enjoy your week ahead!

N~

Enchanted

I am popping in this sunny Sunday morning to share a Halloween card I made last weekend.

I used a sheet of the 6x6 paper from Authentique Thrilling line.

I trimmed it down to fit my 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card made from black cardstock. I cut some tags out of some pattern papers from the same tablet and adhere it to the right side of my card. I then tied a sheer orange ribbon around the top, tied a double looped bow, topped it with a triple looped bow made from orange and black twine. And I topped it off with a black button.

I added a cardstock chipboard sentiment and there you have it!

One last Halloween project to share. I don't know what you would call this - a matchbook photo mini? It does look like a book of matches decorated!

 

It has a magnetic closure. Flip it open and unfold it and you get lots of photo mats,

 

 

and pockets to save little bits and bobs!

 

 

I used the Hocus Pocus paper line by Echo Park to make this cute, mini Matchbook photo album.

 

Wishing you a beautiful week ahead. Thanks for stopping in!

                                                                         N~

Halloween Night

It's been one of those lazy days. I just went outside to carry out a bag of garbage and OH MY-What a beautiful Sunday this has turned out to be!

I'm sharing the last of the Halloween themed mini albums I've made. This one uses the Doodlebug Oct 31st paper line. This album measures 6x6 with a 2 3/4" spine.

 

Front cover

 Every thing you see here is all part of the Oct 31st paper pack. Doily is from my stash.

Hand made tag using the Stampin Up tag topper punch

                                             Every page has a side pocket for a photo mat.

                                             Waterfall folio is held down magnetically.

Pocket tags

 

spots for journaling...

 

This has a button pull and folds down for 2 more photo's. Held shut by a magnet.

Top view

spine

 

That's it from me for now. Working on a few more Halloween cards before I pack it all away and pull out the Christmas goodies!

Have a wonderful week ahead.

N~