Matchbook Box With Mini Album

I've been on a mini

album kick lately... just can't seem to want to make anything else. After watching this video by Arlene, I decided to try making one to fit into the Graphic 45 Matchbook Box that I had bought awhile back. She used the French Country collection by G45, and since it's one of my new favorites, I made mine with the same.

Other than the Graphic 45 

items, I used I AM Roses flowers, two buttons from my stash, two My Mind's Eye brads, crinkled seam binding, a Momenta metal key, an Idea-ology metal Label Pull. I also used a Spellbinder's Floral Motifs die.

Here are the individual

pages of the mini album. I cut them from medium weight black chipboard. I punched the holes with my Crop-A-Dile and added two We Are Memory Keepers wide eyelets on the cover, leaving the others plain for less bulk.

Not being sure what

I'm going to do with this project, I just inserted copy paper rectangles where the photos will go.

I left the label pull

empty as well, with the thought of adding a title or someone's name when the time comes to either use it in my home or give it away.

I started out by

giving the box a few coats of Tattered Leather Glimmer Mist... brushing it on instead of spraying. I then heat set it, and at this point... my heat tool shot out sparks and died. Hummm... now what? I use this gun more than any other tool.

The only solution...

quick place an order with BlueMoon Scrapbooking for another. Might as well add on a few other things to make the over fifty dollars free shipping... right? (Can you believe, it came in four days!)

I put down the 

papers with Tombow Multi glue, inking the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink first, then added my embellishments.

Here it all is...

a VERY Happy Place!

I think I need to make some cards next, but after those, there are three other albums I want to try.

I'm linking up at:

Anything Goes - Heavy Metal

Crafting by Designs - Spring Flowers

Crafting For All Seasons - Floral Delight

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by!

Linda

75 Cents Easel Card

No this isn't

a sale price. This new collection from Kaiser Craft is called 75 Cents, and I bought it because I thought it would coordinate well with Prima's Engraver, which is at the top of my list right now. Here I used it as a solo, and did an easel card...

With it sitting here

on my desk, I'm realizing it has an extremely large number of layers. No wonder it took me so long to make. While I'm creating something I'm having fun with, I don't usually notice how much is going into it until it's completed.

The base is Recollections 

kraft cardstock. I also used some in white and black... everything else is 75 Cents.

The flowers are

from I Am Roses, cheesecloth and black lace from my stash, the pearls are by Queen & Co.

Dies: 

Alterations - Vintage Cabinet Card, Vintage Cabinet Card Mini, Brackets

Die-namics - Layered Label

Spellbinders - Floral Doily Motifs, Classic Ovals

The other die cuts are 75 Cents Collectables by Kaiser Craft. 

Inks: 

Jet Black Archival, Antique Linen and Walnut Stain Distress

I'm linking up at:
Crafting by Designs - Anything Goes with a Twist

Sentimental Sundays - Shaped Cards
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by!

Linda