Project Life Insert

Hi everyone,

It is Timi here today, and I am bringing you and idea on Project Life inserts. I have recently made my first trip overseas, we visited a friend in Toronto. I wanted to document this in my PL album. I decided to use a 8.5 x 11″ page protector and I was inspired by all the square shaped Instagram photos.

What you will need:

• photos printed in 4×4″, 2×2″
• patterned paper
• cardstock
• PL cards
• embellishments

 

Step 1

Print and cut out all the photos you want to use.

Step 2

The first page of the insert is the title page. Arrange the photos into a grid composition on a lightly patterned paper. Cut a 3×4 PL card down to 3×3 to match the square shapes.

Step 3

Add embellishment and stamp the date.

Step 4

Do the same to the back of the insert. Arrange all the photos on a cardstock and add a PL card that was cut to 3×3″ size. Use this card as the journalling spot. To connect the two pages together add a strip of patterned paper to the edge of the cardstock.

 

I didn’t want to over embellish these pages, because there is a lot going on them anyway. For some more visual interest I used two pictures of two high buildings and cut the photos into two 2×2″ pieces. I added them to my pages like this.

This was a very quick way to document a whole trip, so it is well fitted to the Project Life ethos.

I hope you try something similar in your albums,

Happy Crafting,

Crafting Ireland Team

 

Fun Mini Album – Aideen Fallon

Hello everyone!

Aideen here today to show you this fun mini and embellies from Scrapfellow.

I have quite a nice supply of scrapfellow chip embellies in my stash but this was my first time using one of their mini albums. I decided to work with their insta album and all you instagram users will recognise the camera shape as that used for the app. This is such a cute idea for an album shape and I really enjoyed doing it up.

So first I covered all the pages with Dear Lizzy for American crafts polka dot party! These cute pastel papers have gorgeous prints-I got my 6×6 pad from CardznScrapz.

Then I painted the edges of the pages with my Gold acrylic paint dabber by Ranger. The front page of the album is the die cut camera shape and using my dabber I stippled on the gold to give it a nice thick textured finish-it almost gives a gold leaf effect!

For the binding I used some Tim Holtz swivel clasps just to add a different fun element to the album. On the cover I have more chipboard embellies by Scrapfellow (love these!!!). So the speech bubble, the little heart and the arrow are all scrapfellow. I used some of my juniper paint dabber on the bubble and arrow. The small flower cluster is from a recent flower haul (see my YouTube channel for more flowery goodness).

Thanks for looking at my album and stop by scrapfellow to check out all their yummy chipboard goodies as well as a whole bunch of other goodies,

Aideen 🙂 x