Mini album month at Let's Capture Our Memories! & a winner!

First of all - thanks for all your sweet comments from the Creative Scrappers blog hop - the winners are all announced on the blog for the copy of the sketch E-Book from Kristine Davidson!

BUT, I did promise a RAK... and my winner is Kerys -- so Kerys if you are out there - please email me your contact info so I can ship you out some schtuff!!

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Now, onto scrappy goodness!
All through September the Marketing Team will be sharing mini-albums with goodies from the LCOM store!

Today, I am sharing a book I made using some Basic Grey Clippings & Paper Cottage, using this cute little mini found in the store by Basically Bare:

I have to admit that I have trouble with minis... EEK! Yes, I have a hard time .. I am not sure why, but this time I took it one step at a time. I decided on a theme and used a bunch of my duplicate instagram photos from this summer and went with it!

For my cover, I cut a chevron paper from my Silhouette Cameo and used it as a mask for a paint dauber and left the cover neutral, but using the cream paint and the kraft base of the album. I added a small title and some embellishments to quickly pull the cover together: 

I did the same thing to the back of the book with a skinnier chevron:

One little tip I would have for you - when making a project like this - try to tie the album together by using one item throughout the album to unify it. It can be a colour, shape or product. 

I chose to use some droplets throughout as above with Glimmer Glaze

Here are a bunch of photos to show the album! You will see how great the 2 Basic Grey lines work together and have some great stickers, & embellies to document your photos - sorry, there are a lot of pics :

You will see that I used some of the Clippings Garlands instead of paper - I left my book bare as I love the neutral kraft background - it matches basically anything!

You will see here that I have a bit more paint masking going on. I rubbed a bit of mist over the top to make it a different texture for the background :)

One cool thing about this album is that it has acrylic tabs inside too! I just swiped some cream paint along each of them, let them dry and used some old school Heidi Swapp rub ons for little titles" 

I used a lot of these garlands throughout the book too. A fun way to add patterns and movement: 

Elle's Studio tags are PERFECT for minis - stock up! There are a good variety in the store.

 I just added a few stickers from Basic Grey to finish off the page:

a few final pages mixing up the papers from the lines:

 I picked up some Jenni Bowlin chipboard tags and added them in with more of the garland:

 ... and that's it!!!

I hope you will come back throughout the month while the rest of the MT shares some great mini album ideas for you - and other amazing creations too!

While you are waiting... why not check out all the new Echo Park that is listed and ready to go!!

Chillingsworth, For the Record 2 and So Happy Together!

Yep - it's mission time!

This week at Mission to Create, we have the super talented Jaime Warren as our GDT!! I was super stoked when she said YES to my GDT request!! We have been truly honoured to have such creative GDT's join us week after week!

Anyway, here is the page I created with this week's concepts in mind:

So - make sure you play along with us this week.. check out what the rest of the MC and Jaime did with the concepts !!

We have something fun planned.. still working on some details, but keep watching the blog for the deets!

Happy Sunday :)

Scrappy Sunday!

I couldn't believe that I had time today to scrap a page.. I mean, I even had a hard time with it! I had NO DT obligations to fulfill - and I couldn't get started at first! I love having DT "homework" as it inspires me to create.. but today - I had no plan! lol

So, I took a stop at Scrap That! and was inspired by a challenge there to use Versamark creatively.

Well, I dusted off my Versamark Ink pad, added in a few stamps from Prima, and Studio Calico, even a little clear embossing powder and my heat gun (had to dust those things off too)... and with a little spritz, and rub of my Glimmer Mists...

I came up with this:

Have to admit, I am a tad proud of how it came out. I LOVE my new Prima doily stamp, and although it took a wee bit of time to make the actual background paper, I can say - I will be doing it again soon!

I think it is missing something, but I couldn't decide what...so I just left it.

CP4U and more Happy days!!

Another prompt went up today at CP4U, from our three new Creative Crew Members..and I wanted to share my take with you today!

I used more of the February kit - Happy Days - from Scrapbook Circle to create this page.

Used lots of leftovers for this page, and even brought out paint and borrowed some foam stamps from a good friend ;)

Happy creating!