Every Page a Pocket/interactive Mini Album Basic Instructions

I have made 4 of these albums in the last couple of weeks.
They are super easy, and yet a tad confusing,
so hopefully these instructions will make it easy for you to recreate your own.
Note: you can order all of the paper by clicking here.

Step 1.  Create the base pages, all in the same color of cardstock
               cover                 7x7 (2 pieces glued together)
              Pg 1 A & B        7x3 (2 pieces with an envelope sandwiched in between)
              Pg 2 A & B        7x3 (2 pieces with an envelope sandwiched in between)
              Pg 3 A & B        7x3 (2 pieces with an envelope sandwiched in between)
              Pg 4 A & B        7x3 (2 pieces with an envelope sandwiched in between)
              back cover         7x7 (2 pieces glued together)

So your cutting guide would look this

Step 2.  Layout all your pages with the basic B&T paper added
            See below for examples

 

Step 3.  Glue you pages together as shown below

Step 4.  Add the Flip Up Mini  Album to page 3A

             

However you could also use small flip flaps like I did in the album below

Step. 4   Create the mini fold out album
               Basically this is a 4 1/2"  x 12"  piece of cardstock in a contrasting color to your base page of your mini album.  The pic below is from the Skylark mini.

Step 5.   Add tags, and tags and tags,
              where ever you have a pocket add a tag, or two tags
              vary the size and type of tag.  Add some stamping and distressing to your tags,
              be creative.  Below are two examples

Step 6.  Embellish, this is the fun part.  Go through your album page, by page

             adding a little bit here and there.  I love Close to my Heart's my Complements for this

             Below is a tag from the Skylark mini that I have embellished, 

Step 7.  Optional---create a mini page between each page. 

              I did this in the Skylark mini by simply using cards from the

              NEW Picture My Life program  or PML for short

              Below is an example of how everything can come together

These are the basic intructions I used for the Timbeline mini , the Skylark mini   (both of these are completed and on previous posts) and the for Balloon Ride & Lollydoodle mini that I am working on.

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CTMH Cross Canada Blog Hop--Card Boxes

Welcome to our March Blog Hop featuring card boxes.  Did you know that you can create your own card boxes using CTMH products? Whether they are the My Creations Card Boxes, Journaling Boxes or cricut cuts, there is just so much more you can use these boxes for. 

If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you want to follow us across Canada then please start at the beginning with  Michelle.

If you came from  Carol's  then you are in the right place!

Took me a while to wrap my head around this project.  But this is what I came up with.

 A "card" file

I have 4 cards in here, you could easily  fit another 4 cards in.

And you could have your cards ready to send, when you need them.

This project was quick and easy

The base is two pieces.

p. 47 on the Artiste Cartridge

I made the bottom of the box first and then wrapped the second piece around

As you can see my 12" strip doesn't quite wrap around, hence the reason for the cute little gift box on the front.

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is in St. Albert with Janet 

supplies used (click on the item to go directly to my shopping site--will open in a new window)

desert sand cardstock & ink

daisy white cardstock

1 1/2" x 12 patterned paper

slate polka dot washi tape

watercolor pencils & blending pen

Artiste Cricut cartrige

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Skylark Mini

I gave you a sneak peak a couple of days ago.
Here's the whole thing

Supplies 

1273        5 sheets desert sand cardstock

X5762     3 sheets lagoon cardstock

1385        6 sheets daisy white cardstock

X7177B   Skylark paper pack

X7177c    Skylark compliments

Z1947       Skylark Picture my Life (need half a dozen cards)

Z1476       7 envelopes

Z2118       desert sand ink

D1574      Take note stamp set from the Cricut Artbooking Bundle

I random stamped images from the retired stamp set D1452 throughout the book and fussy cut a number of these images as well.  You could use any stamp set that had images of birds in it.

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Color my Dare #83 --Skylark

This is my favorite paper pack.  I was so excited to see that is this week's Color my Dare Challenge
So without futher delay, here are a few pages in my new mini.

This is a fun interactive mini album that uses the Skylark paper, compliments and the new Picture my Life program.
I will be offering this mini album "kit" towards the middle of  March.  Just need to finalize the directions.

In the meantime why don't you join the Color my Dare #83 Challenge?
Click here for more info

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