Rainbow Gardens: Inspired by SAF: Mini Album

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Inspired by SAF: Mini Album

Papertrey Ink held a "Stamp-a-Faire Summer Camp" event on July 21st,
highlighting many techniques, videos and tutorials and encouraging
crafters to enter cards and projects for each of the challenges. Even

though I had planned to participate, I didn't get my projects finished

in time for the challenge deadlines!! I will be highlighting lots of

projects - all inspired by the Stamp-a-Faire videos and techniques.

I invite you to join me all this week, for a look back at the challenges.

I've always wanted to make a mini album and this challenge presented the ideal opportunity. I actually finished my album in September, after I had completed several of the other SAF projects. One of the things that really inspired my 'theme' came about after making Handmade Embellishments described by Heather Nichols here. You'll see a few of my stitched felt circle badges throughout the album and later on when I post all of my projects from that challenge.

My mini album highlights pictures of Gingerbread Houses and Cookie Trees from previous Christmas celebrations. Many of these were taken before the digital camera era, so the quality isn't the best, but I decided to incorporate what I had. I used many of the elements from Heather Nichols' mini album tutorial.

I started by cutting Kraft card stock with the Tabbed Mini Book Page. Each page was outlined with faux stitching using a white gel pen. I knew my main colour scheme was going to be red and green, so I chose the gingham and bitty dot papers from the Pure Poppy Pattern Pack and Cottage Ivy ink (Memento) to stamp a green 'gingham' paper (Background Basics: Gingham).

Every layout uses an image from Postmarks with

the appropriate year (Mini Scrapbook Series: Library Ledger).

The front and back covers were cut from chipboard and covered with Pure Poppy gingham papers. Green and red accents were added: Stamping Bella Dots and Donuts and 2 strips of scallops on the top of the page (Heart Border Die)

The house (Waltzingmouse Stamps: Sewing Box Hugs) was stamped onto a variety of papers with Fresh Snow ink and then embossed with white embossing powder. I then paper pieced all of the details and mounted this onto many layers of paper and card stock. I also wanted to use elements from the Friendship Jar series, especially the Holiday Fillers. The title Homemade Gingerbread was stamped in Kraft ink.

Page 1

An outline describes the theme of the mini album on the first
page. Holly Jolly dies were used to create the embellishment.

Many of the other details were decided as I moved along in this process. If you have any questions about products used, please leave your question in the comment section and I will respond to them. Since I used so many different elements andl there are so many pictures, I will give a brief overview for each layout below.

Pages 2 & 3: 1995