Tuesday Tutorial with Tara

Good morning friends! I hope your week is starting off fantastic. It's Tara here today sharing a mini album tutorial I made with July's GraceBox kit. I wanted to make a mini album that was a little book of God's truths. It's easy to get caught up with the everyday busyness, that we forget God's grace and mercies. This mini album is going to a friend to help encourage her in the happy and tough days.

I'm making the exact style of accordion album as I did here. Thanks to the original creator, Stephanie Bryan, I recreated it once more. This is one of my favourite stash busters - I used a lot of papers, embellishments, stamps, and washi tape I already owned.

The first step is to pick a 12x12 piece of patterned paper and cut it into 3 4 inch high strips. Next, score your 4x12 piece of paper every 3 inches. I'm using one of the older exclusive Citrus Twist Kits paper from a main kit.

I decided to only use 2 strips of paper for this mini album. Finally, attach the ends together! Then comes the fun part - decorate to your heart's desire.

Here is the finished cover:

Here are a few of the accordion pages.

 

Some up close shots of each page:

 I wanted to make this mini album interactive. I tucked this bible verse into some layered papers.

Flip up the paper cluster to reveal two more verses.

I cut down one of the bible journaling cards down as a tip in.

I added a small little sentiment on the bottom.

Pull out the yellow piece of paper and find the "amen" sentiment from the Scripture Doodles stamp.

This was a cute die cut from a past GraceBox kit.

I added the small glassine bag from the kit layered on top of patterned paper. I'm going to add a special note inside.

Here is the back half of the accordion mini album.

Thank you for stopping by today. I hope this mini album inspires you to make one for documenting life, writing down bible verses, or other fun things you would like to remember.

Xxo, Tara

3 to Inspire with Brenda

Good morning and welcome to this weeks 3 to inspire.

(Don't forget that your take on this challenge can be a layout or a PL spread and you must include all 3 prompts on your project.)

For this week I decided to keep it kinda simple.
1. 1 photo
2. handcut paper shapes
3. a large title using multiple alphas or words

Here is my layout with those 3 prompts.
All of my triangles were cut by hand with no template. I used a wood veneer word, puffy stickers, letters cut from a word sticker and an alpha to make my title.

I LOVE simple pages with large catchy titles and wonky cut papers. I cannot wait to see what you all make!

Now it is your turn. Use my three prompts to create a project. Then share it with us in the CTK Gallery and/or the fan page.


Have a fantabulous day!


Brenda

Playing with Pocket Life ~ Guest Designer Rachel

Hello, hello! This is Rachel here, your July Guest Designer. In this blog post, I’ll be sharing with you my second PL spread using July Pocket Life kit – Sunkissed and PL Embellishment kit – Hello Sun. This week’s spread is loaded with tons of big photos – one of the many weeks where we got to have family outing, being out and about and catching up with friends. Well hey, it was the mid year school holiday after all! Here’s the full spread of my week 24 – lots of greens and colors from the photos. Hence I used mostly white cardstock for the pockets and embellished individual cards with the alphabets stickers, overlay stickers and the oh-so adorable puffy stickers.

On the left hand side of the PL spread, I decided to use a big photo as my title card which is something Ihave never tried before and I love the effect. The pastel color journal tags are so versatile and go well with the rest of the supplies. And oh yes, I heart this month’s stamp set that is included in the PL kit! I had the words ‘You are funny’ stamped on the right bottom corner photo of my boys being silly with the fruits while we were at a supermarket.

Here is a close up of the left side:

Here is a close up of the right side:

Below are 3 simple sketches to share with you this week for your Pocket Life pages. Here you go!

Thanks for visiting me on the blog today. I hope you enjoy the layouts!