Hello sweet visitors and welcome to Megs Garden Blog. So nice to have you here and hope your day is going well.
I'm here to share another Mini Album with you. This one is made with the 'Gather Your Dreams' Book Kit. This is a lovely kit with purples and pinks and greens and lots of gorgeous floral images.
This is just a small Album with a waterfall and an accordion booklet as well. I do have to warn you though, there are a lot of photos and I mean a LOT of photos. So, maybe grab yourself a cuppa and a comfy chair and .. here we go. Hope you like it.
The Cover.
Added a strip of dry wall tape on the cover and then did some stenciling with Tim Holtz's Flourish stencil and texture paste. Sprayed in the center with watered down acrylic paints and created some splatters around the edges.
I used some of the labels from the kit to add the layers.
The cameo and frame were made with air dry clay and some moulds. They were both painted with acrylic paint and then glued together and sealed with matte medium. The small roses were coloured with acrylic paint as well (watered down of course, so I could spray it) and I tucked some small pieces of lace into the cluster.
This lovely leaf chippie is the 'Mini Branches' from 2Crafty Chipboard. It was coloured with Versa Color stamp pads in two shades of green and then covered in Clear Rock Candy crackle paint. Once everything was assembled and glued down I dry-brushed the flowers with a bit of gesso and added a few stick-on pearls in and around the cluster.
Opening the book.
I tore the edges of the small labels in the kit, edged them with 'Gathered Twigs' Distress Ink and layered them on the inside front cover. Added a Tim Holtz Chit Chat Sticker and one of the lovely butterflies from the Butterfly Transparency sheet.
This is the right hand side of the cover .. the part that folds in underneath. I'm not quite sure what to call it but it was stenciled the same as the main part of the cover and then it was sprayed with 'Afraid of the Dark' Glimmer Mist. I used another of the labels from the kit as the base for the Title which is also part of the Kit.
Open the right side (that pesky bit that I can't put a name to LOL!!) and you can see the waterfall section of the book.
I used one of the lined pages from the 'Sherlock Book' for this journal page and fussy cut some floral images from a scrap piece to decorate the edges.
The Waterfall Booklet.
I love the pretty floral images on these papers, don't you?? So gorgeous.
There is room for 7 wallet sized photos in this little booklet. I have left this first page blank ..
.. and here I've added another vintage image from the Kit to give you some idea of how it looks with a photo. Of course, you could add another photo on the bottom page, or you could use it for your journalling.
I have simply placed some washi tape in the small bit of space between the pages.
Open the right side again and you can see the Accordion Booklet and the inside back cover.
Here I have fussy cut some of the floral images to create a little pocket.
The tag is one of the images from the 'Cut & Create' pages of the Book Kit. There are a number of these lovely vintage images and I have used some of them in this book.
The Accordion Booklet.
I don't embellish my mini albums a great deal because I don't like too much bulk in my books but I do like to use stencils to add a bit of interest to the pages. Here I've used my fave stencil, Tim Holtz's Latticework with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.
Before I show you the inside pages of the Accordion Book I thought I would show you this view so you could see how it all works.
Opening the booklet to the right you can see another lovely vintage image from the 'Cut & Create' pages. I've simply framed the photo with some die-cuts and added some micro beads and a few seed beads as well as a Chit Chat Sticker.
Similar embellishment here with a die-cut, micro beads and a Chit Chat Sticker ..
.. and the same again here. I haven't filled all the pages with images .. just enough to give you an idea of how it would look once photos are added.
Opening the booklet to the left, I haven't added any pictures on these pages. Just did a little stenciling and added some more die-cuts.
The back of the Album where I've just added a small metal trinket. Done!! I did warn you that there were a lot of photos didn't I?? I do hope you were able to stick it out to the end and, of course, I also hope that you enjoyed your visit.
Megs Garden Products used.
Mini Rose Buds
Small White Roses
Filigree Strip
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Thank you so much for visiting the Garden. Why not take a further stroll around and take a look at the wonderful creations by my Team Mates, you will love them.
I hope you enjoy the rest of your day.
Take care and God Bless.
oxox Marg
