I am so excited to be a Gyptian and also to be a Guest Designer today at The Bug Bytes. Pam is so great at figuring out all the little bugs our Gypsy updates may pick up and showing us how to work around them. She’s also a fabulous designer and has a great team of designers. Today is my first posting on her blog as a Guest Designer.
And I do have something to share!!! It is photo heavy, so be patient, but I think it will be worth it. This month’s featured cartridge at The Bug Bytes is Sentimentals. I used the envelopes with coordinating liners to create a fun mini album. So sit back and have a cup of tea or coffee and look at all the little pages.
The first thing I did was to size my envelopes to the desired size. I found it easier to start on a 12 x 24 mat. On my file, this is called the Layout tab. I did this because I wanted to size two envelopes with matching liners making sure that one envelope liner set would fit on a 12 x 12 page to cut, but I wanted to alternate different liners with different envelopes for cutting purposes and to save paper. I didn’t want the matching envelopes and liners to be from the same piece of paper.
I would copy one set of envie/liner to another tab and then the other set. You’ll see that I’ve named these envieAB, envieBA, envieCD, etc. Envelope A is on AB and it’s liner is on BA. Does this make sense to you? AB will cut out of one piece of paper and BA will cut out of another. I’m sure many out there could come up with a quicker wayto do this, but this was what worked for my brain. After laying out my different sets on the left half of the 12 x 24 mat, I then changed size back to 12 x 12 mat.
After creating all my envelope sets, I cut them all out using this yummy paper collection from My Minds Eye called Sundress Laundry Collection. I had a whole paper pack stocked with chipboard pieces and lots of rubons.
You’ll also notice on my Gypsy file that I hid all the score marks. I don’t particularly like these score marks when cutting. I like to see where they belong, but I don’t like the way my cards and envelopes look when I score them here. If you want to cut the score marks, just unhide these marks on your Gypsy.
Now, I also found that there was still enough paper left over from this piece to cut out a piece 5.25 x 5.25. This became a separate page inside my mini album. I could have added this square to my cut file, but I decided this after creating and cutting my designs. You could easily add a square inside your template if you decide to do this also.
Another element I created was to take one of the shaped cards and duplicate it. I then overlapped two sides in the center to create this 3 sided card. This was then scored, Z-folded and added to one of the envelope pages.
I created a layered frame for the front of my album and welded a swirl to one side. I did not weld the very top layer and swirl because I wanted to use different papers for these two pieces. I matched the top swirl with the shadow background.
After cutting this out, I layered it with the top ornate frame popped up with dimensionals. I left the top open so that I can later slide in a photo or journaling block. I used mini dimensionals and cut some in half to fit on back of thinner frame pieces. Notice how I don’t have any on the top to your left.
While putting the album together, I also decided to cut different corners on my inside square pages. I LOVE LOVE these Corner Chompers and use these quite often.
Here is another great tip I’ve learned. Those chipboard sticker borders that you get in paper packs are so great to cut and add to border of mini album pages. I have learned that, unfortunately, they do not stick so well, especially to glitter paper or each other, so I use a little extra glue to adhere them together.
I adhered the liners to the corresponding envelopes and then scored, folded and taped my envelopes. I just lined up the edge flaps on my Martha Steward score-board to score where needed. However, I did not score, fold, or seal the top edge flap. I left this open to create our pocket for our tags. Make sure to use a good glue or red tape with glitter paper.
Here is a page with the Z-fold card attached.
What a great album and thanks for the file. I can’t wait to make one.
I want to let you know that I made my own version of this album. Thanks for the inspiration.
You can see my album here
http://scraplijn.blogspot.com/2011/10/sarahs-jaaroverzicht-2011.html
if you like.
Greetings from Holland.
Marjolijn.
I found this project on you tube and loved it. Thanks for providing this step by step tutorial and the cut files. I hope to give this a try. So clever and cute! It looks like a lot of fun to try!
Thanks for sharing your file. I will try to make one soon. Be Blessed
Awesome job !!!
this book is BEAUTIFUL…i totally love it!
You did a fabulous job on the mini album! Thanks for sharing it with us.
Cheryl this is an awesome book and I like that I can see more detail now. While on vacation I was using my phone so I couldn’t appreciate all the wonderful detail! WOWSERS!!!
I left you a little something special on my blog…. Just follow this URL:
http://shesasassylady.blogspot.com/2010/07/wow-while-on-vacation-i-received-2-blog.html
Hi, Cheryl! Your album is fabulous!!! You did a great job on it and I love it!
What a wonderful album. I love it! Thank you for sharing your file. I will be making this one very soon.
I love this mini album I wish it was in cds I can’t figure out how to change a gyspy file to cds if you have it in cds i’d love it
kermetta3167@yahoo.com
I absolutely love this little album!! I love minis!! I will be downloading this file! Thank you so much for sharing it!
Too cool! I’ve just started making mini albums. Haven’t figured out how to do the pockets yet. Thanks for the freebie.
Wow, just gorgeous mini album! I can’t however download the file. It says it is unavailable. Bummer!
This is beautiful. Thanks so much for sharing it.
This is just wonderful, such great details. Thank you so much for sharing with all of us.
Cheryl, Beautiful mini! I love all the detail you put into it. Shari (cricutrookie)
Beautiful job. I love your details and all of your colors. Thanks for sharing.
Veronica
This is awesome work! And you are an enabler!! i watched your videos and just ordered the distrezzitall and now I have to make this album by getting that kit. I love the 2 flowers – blinged and layered. can yo share where you got it from? id you bling it yourself
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 1 post on Jul. 13, 2010. Thanks again.
This is so cute, I love the colors!
Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave in the Cutting category today [13 Jul 12:00pm GMT]. Thanks, Maria
this is stunning Cheryl, you put a lot of work into this but well worth it, gorgeous.
Christine x
This is amazing! I just love all the details you have added using your Gypsy. You really are one talented gal!