Hello and welcome to another Inspire.Create Stamping Challenge. I am Karen Farquhar from Australia. This week we have a CASE the design challenge for you. Our designer is member of our design team the extremely talented Jo Blackman.
There are so many details you could CASE from Jo's creation. You could choose to embellish a journal, replicate her beautiful paper piecing technique or choose the beautiful shading Jo has used in her gorgeous floral design. Jo has used Stampin' Up!'s Sending Smiles Stamp Set but you could choose any stamp set you wish.
I decided to make a Granny Brag Book for a dear friend of mine who became a Grandmother for the very first time.
I have created a mini accordion album in a box. Using the beautiful Abigail Rose Designer Series Paper. I gathered a number of stamp sets off my shelf but I have mainly used the Splendid Thoughts Bundle to embellish my pages.
The album is a concertina style which I have adhered to the inside of a 4" x 4" box and wrapped a decorated cover around. Held closed with a tied ribbon bow.
The album starts with the 'Hello There' page and then concertinas out with a double page per month. Each page has the month number encircled by the wreath from the Cottage Wreaths Stamp Set. To add the gold numbers I have stamped and embossed the set of numbers from the Alphabest Stamp Set and cut them out with my Scan & Cut machine. What I didn't realise is Stampin' Up! have a whole set of number dies in their Design a Treat Box set that would have worked well. I should study my catalogue closer. 😳
I have embellished each facing page so the pages aren't left bear while my friend is working her way through a year of baby photographs. All she has to do is add her photographs the embellishments will frame the sides of the photographs.
For the page below I have Cased Jo's paper piecing technique.
The page below is my favourite maybe she could fit a little photograph on this page.I have added some tags she could use to record some of her baby Granddaughter's milestones
To create the album I have used 3 sheets 12"x12" Very Vanilla cardstock. The cardstock was cut into 4" strips which I scored the long side at 4"and 8". Folding in an accordion fashion I then adhered each 3rd square of the strips back to face until I had 13 x 4" squares. One for each month and one for the front page. Months 1-6 will be one side of the accordion squares and 7-2 months on the other sides.
To make the box I cut a piece of the sturdy cardboard (that comes in the packets of Designer Series Paper) at 5" x 5" scored all 4 sides at 3/4". Trimmed to the score line at each corner, folded and adhered the sides to form a box.
The cover was created by placing the prepared box on a piece of 12" x 4 5/8" cardstock and wrapping it around the box, marking the box edges where they match up on the cardstock. I then scored on these mark lines to form the wrap around cover. Extra cardstock was trimmed off.
The album was adhered to the inside of the box and the cover was adhered to the bottom of the box.
Attach ribbon around the box to hold the album cover closed.
We really would love to see your creations. Note we need your projects submitted here by 10am. (UK time) here . Below are the products I have used for today's projects.
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