Hello!
Valerie here with you today with one of the Lost & Found Record It Sn@p Albums. I'm so excited about this collaboration between My Mind's Eye and Simple Stories! I love the size, versatility, and endless customization opportunities of these albums. I get to share with you how I customized (or fancied up) one of the albums.
Supplies: Lost and Found Record It Antique Collection—Sn@p Album and alpha & word stickers. Mistletoe Magic Collection— "Trees" paper, chipboard elements, enamel dots, and decorative brads. Vintage Christmas Collection—decorative buttons and faceted gems. The Sweetest Thing Collection— Bluebell "Smile" enamel dots. Other—embroidery floss and Prima Chalk In
I've been tossing around the idea of tackling an album to document our December this year. I haven't done this since 2009, for our son's first Christmas. I love that album and am so glad I did it, but the three years following 2009 I just made some layouts about December and Christmas and that was good enough for me. No regrets about not having an entire mini-album devoted to December. Now that we have a little one in house again and will be celebrating another first Christmas, I think it's time for another album. I'm ready and looking forward to it! So here we go, a couple days before December and I'm off to a great start (first time around I made the cover last).
I decided on the
Record It-Antique album for my base. The embossed pattern is so lovely. To bring the pattern out a little more I lightly rubbed some white chalk ink over it. I didn't want to do too much because I'm a fan of raw chipboard and wanted that natural color to show through. After the ink dried, I sealed it with a layer of matte gel medium just to add a little protection.
I picked a striped patterned paper from the
Mistletoe Magic collection and cut it to size to fit the window. I slid the paper into the slot and traced around the window onto the patterned paper with pencil. Next I removed that paper from the slot and filled in the square I just traced with various circle shaped embellishments from the Vintage Christmas collection and Mistletoe Magic collection. The "Merry Christmas" chipboard piece is from the Mistletoe Magic Decorative Buttons embellishment pack. I attached it with a bit of hot glue then used my paper piercer to carefully punch holes for the thread. I like to keep my album covers simple with very few layers. I feel like less layers=more durable. There's less to fall off and get damaged.
For the spine I added a little tag, trading out the brad for an enamel dot because I didn't want to punch a hole in the spine. Last but not least, I added the date with the Record It-Antique alpha and word stickers. ...And now I have an album ready to be filled with our memories, traditions, and activities from December 2013. I'll be back next month to share some of the inside progress with you. Can't wait! Until then, how will you customize your Lost and Found Sn@p albums? We'd love to see them!
