As mentioned earlier, have been working on Jared's beach album. Its slowly coming along ... have completed about 12 pages. The pages are not exactly completed - there's still the journally aspects add in. But I'd quite happy at the moment with the 12 pages I've made so far. Reckon that makes a fairly decent home bound mini scrap book album.
However, as i write - there's a part of me that's churning out more ideas for additional pages - mentally adding more photos to the portfolio ... I don't think one ever does complete an album until one runs out of decent photos to display!
The pages of 8.5x8.5inches (home sized and cut) are made out of fawn/tan card stock-like paper sheets and blue manila card that are easily found at any decent stationary stores. These 'alternatives' - ranging from RM0.90 to RM1.50 for a 24x24 inches piece these cardstock-like papers are relatively inexpensive compared to what one pays for those beautiful 12x12 Bazzill card stock ( that's selling between the range of RM3.50-RM5.00 per piece!)
Chose blue and fawn mainly because i wanted to depict the beach-like ambience of clear blue skies and soft sandy beaches - plus the fact the colours complemented J's swim outfit.
Matched these card-stocklike base with my collection of wrapping/present paper - that's been cut out to one's designs. Depending on type and textures of coloured wrapping paper - these various papers are about RM1.50 to RM4.50 for approximately 22x24inches per piece.
Page embellishments are made out of various elements :-
a) Coloured buttons. Some sewn. Some glued. These buttons can be found cheaply and abundantly from materials, flowers (!) and sewing shops that seem to be rather popular in the city
b) Paper flowers recently acquired from 'Pick and Pack' the local nearly 'scrap booking' shop
c) Brads and Eyelets (that came in the mail last week)
d) Home made tags - cut out from the scraps of papers leftover from photo pages.
e) Ribbons
f) Fonts from Queen & co.
f) A smatter of mix and match of textured papers - from corrugated to complementary hues and shades of selected 'wrapping papers'
g) Home made 'stickers'
I daresay, not having readily access to all those beautiful designer papers and tools that i constantly admire and dream about (but dare not order for exhorbitant shipping charges) from the shops online is really a 'blessing in diguise'. In a way, knowing my tendency to splurge (i have a soft spot for nifty looking stationary gadgets!), not having access to them just saves me alot of unnecessary (but oh so delightful) shopping and spending!
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