June SOTM Blog Hop

You should have arrived here from  Carol's Blog  http://carolloftus.blogspot.ca/2012/05/stamp-of-month-blog-hop-june.html unless you are just joining the hop,
 and if that is the case,
 you can begin the hop right here with me. 
To move forward to the next blog in the hop,  just click on the link at the end of the post.

Do you ever get those days (weeks)

when you bite off more than you can chew.

This is one of those weeks

So my card is quick & simple

Hope you like it.

Looking at it, I wish I had a couple of buttons to add in the bottom corner,

but my stash is getting kinda low

so this is all there is.

Now hop on over to Faye's  blog
http://judyfaye.blogspot.ca/2012/05/stamp-of-month-blog-hop-june.html

Another dotty card

I am nearing the end of my dotty trail,
hope you like this one.

Not sure what I am going to tackle next month....guess it will have to be a surprise.

the complete all sorts/dotty album

the cover

Page flips open to reveal space for 2 pictures.

page 3                                             page 4

page 5                                       page 6

page 7                                  page 8

not sure what I'm doing for the back cover

Dotty card

I can't believe I've finally finished that dotty mini.
Here's a quick & easy card.

All Sorts/Dotty Mini pg 10

page 10

And that is all she wrote.

Hope you like this little mini

Heading to Toronto

Well here's a little personal tidbit.  I am heading to the big city of Toronto.  Flying out bright and early on Sunday morning with 25 teenagers.  My daughter is part of a band exchange program sponsored through SEVEC.  In April we hosted a group of students from Thornhill Secondary School for a week--took the city kids to the farm.  And now it's our turn.
Us poor country folks' is board'n one of them big metal birds and heading to the big city lights.
Not sure which group of kids will experience the greater cultural shock.

I am going to pack a wee bit of craft'in stuff and hopefully I will be able to post the odd item.
Then again, I might be too busy staring up at the CN tower.

All Sorts/Dotty Mini pg 9

All Sorts/Dotty pg 8

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I also used 3D foam tape to "pop" the flower up above the photo mat

page 7                                        page 8



All Sorts/Dotty pg 7

On this page, I used a huge flourish to ground my photo mat.

All Sorts/Dotty pg 6

I added some Glitz Glitter to the center of the flowers

 & some clear sparkles to the dragon fly

having your embellishment span both pages

gives your layout a sense of continuity

click here to see previous post



All Sorts/Dotty pg 5

 So on this page (please excuse the color, not sure why I can't get it true to form today)

I covered the white area with just a strip of lagoon cardstock

(see below)

 I am not going to walk you through this assembly step, by step

(it's just too nice outside to spend too much time on the computer)

Suffice to say above are the pieces I cut for page 5

I did end up cutting more flowers than I have shown.

 I glued a white cardstock rectangle to each side of the tags,

and added some baker's twine

the finished page

to link back to the previous post in this series click here

All Sorts/Dotty Mini pg 4

page 4 is ready for pictures or journaling

Click here to see the previous post in this series

All Sorts/Dotty mini pg 3

Once again, when I started to put the pieces together,

I found I was missing one.

Here I added a stem

 (luckily I cut a bunch of them at the beginning)

This page is now ready for your photo or journaling

I decided not to add a mat to this page

so I would not be confined to one  size of picture.

click here to see previous post in this series

All Sorts/Dotty pg 2

Mat the white onto the green

and then onto the black

to veiw the previous post in this series click here



All Sorts/Dotty Mini pg1

Page 1 has a flip-up/pocket

below are the cutting dimensions

for the rest of the pocket/page

Another thing I like to do when I start a project like this

 is to cut muliples of certain images on my cricut

I cut a few of the #8 flowers (p 50)  at 1 3/4" and some branches at 2"

 (all from the exclusive Close to my Heart, Art Philosophy cartridge)

Okay,  you probably notice that the flowers have a dotted backing,

but I didn't have those pieces on the cutting dimension photo.

Well, when I started to put the page together,

I didn't like the way the flowers looked as just a silouette

 so I cut out some flowers out of the lagoon dotted paper

I matted the patterned strip onto the green and then on to the black.

Here I just used the silouette flower, and then added a pearl in the center.

and that is the end of page 1.

click here to see the previous post in this series.

All Sorts Dotty/Mini --basic page layout

I am trying something new with the album....

I am going to try to stretch my favorite papers as far a I can.

So, this is what I did.

then I cut 3-- 4" wide (12" long) stips of the grey and of the green dotted paper.

Note: I cut all the strips 12" long

I did this for all the pages,

and alternated the pages----grey/green/grey etc. 

to see the cover of the album click here

my next post will cover embellishing  page 1



All Sorts/Dotty Mini--front cover

I am doing this a bit slower this time,
and posting page by page as I build this album.
so....on with the show

 cut pieces as shown above

plus one strip of black cardstock 3/4" x 7"

I also stamped some flourishes from

(you guessed it) D1482--Love Life

 I wasn't quite happy with this

 so ..



I added a flower

Dotty meets journaling spots & 10 things pt#2

In part #1 I showed you the mini and how  to cut everything for the front cover

now please,

don't follow my example and assemble the cover.

It is much easier to do this at the end.

So, on with the show

Here is how to make the actual album

 cut a piece of grey cardstock 6" x 9" and score as shown above

 Adhere ribbon to both covers as shown

 I added some tacky tape (in red) to make sure the album stuck together

I cut 2 pieces of grey cardstock (4 3/4 x 6 1/4) and

 glued them to the inside of both covers (see below)

If you want to embellish or stamp on the inside of the covers

do it before you glue it down.

It will be much, much easier.

 I used a combination of journaling spot & cardstock (2 1/4 x 4 1/4)

for the pages.

 A couple of view of the finished album

for a complete list of supplies used visit part 1
click here ( to open part 1 in a new window)