Creativity: the album.

Here is an album that I made using K&Company's Urban Rhapsody line of patterned paper.  The album base is multi-shaped chipboard with an awesome acrylic cover.

To start with, I used Staz-On ink in a shade of brown to muck up the acrylic cover.  It takes about 5 minutes to dry completely, but after that it's permanent.  Tim Holtz alcohol inks also work well on acrylic surfaces.

The album pages were covered front and back, trimmed out with a craft knife and the edges were then sanded for that shabby look that I love.  :)

I used a Making Memories distresser tool on all the photo mats (see the wrinkly edges?) before I machine stitched them.

This album is PACKED with embellishments!  I used the coordinating K&Co chipboard shapes, rub-ons and those cool circle things.  What the heck are they called???  I guess I don't even know the name of them, but they are round and spin and are just plain cool.

I also punched flowers with two nesting flower punches.  I inked the edges of each flower, then crumpled it and smoothed it back out.  It gives an awesome worn look to the flowers that was perfect for this album.

The other embellishments I used a lot of were buttons.  I hand stitched many of them to add to the hand-crafted look of the album.  It's very rustic and chic and I just love how it turned out.

The back cover was crafted just as carefully - everyone flips an album over when they hold it!  A couple yards of ribbon and trims tied to the jumbo binder rings provided the finishing touch.

This album has already been sold, but remember that I take a limited number of custom orders continuously.  Each piece is meticulously hand crafted and 100% unique!  I never duplicate my art work, but am happy to use the same paper line or similar colors or embellishments.  Simply contact me at cherishpaperart@hotmail.com to find out how to get your own album or scrapbook pages!

Shabby and Oh So Chic!

I was on such a roll last week with the two page layouts, it just kept going!  I put a few more together and just loved the results.  This page is called "I adore you" and it's both shabby and chic!

I used K&Company paper from their Margo line, hand punched the flowers, cut the leaves on my Cricut using the Zooballoo cartridge, and inked it all up!

The title is a bit of a hodge-podge.  The "adore" is straight out of the package of K&Co chipboard embellishments that match this paper line - I simply added a little bit of brown ink around the edges.  The letter "I" is from the same pack.  However, it was in a print that didn't coordinate with these particular papers.  My green chalk ink wouldn't cover the shiny print, but because it's a symmetrical letter it didn't matter which side I used.  So I flipped the letter over, wrong side up, and peeled the adhesive backing off.  Then I took my olive green ink pad and saturated the exposed chipboard and VIOLA!  A matching letter!  :)  The Y, O, and U letters are from a package of lime green letters.  I applied chalk ink directly to them and it covered the lime quite nicely.

After machine stitching my photo mats, I added some ribbon, put some olive green pearls in my flower centers, added a couple little touches and it was done.  I love the colors and think it's got a great vintage style.