Graphic 45 Artisan Style Album in a Box

 

Mandy Gilbert has made this special box and album completely from scratch using mainly Graphic 45 Artisan Style paper pads , chipboard and black card.

The design of the box is unique and works beautifully with the papers.

 4 Claw feet by Graphic 45 are used on the base of the box

and a set of two Graphic 45 Door knockers are used on the sides of the box lid.

Black card is used through out which really brings the colours of the papers out.

 

On the first pages mandy has used a pocket and tag from the Artisan Style

Tags and Pockets sheet.

Mandy has also made some tags using Thinlits die set - Banners Fancy.  And created the pocket fronts using the negative part of the die cut from Spellbinders Belly Band One.

 

At the top of the photo above, you can see the box base and lid.

On these pages we have more tags and a belly band.

 

Mandy has created two pockets with the beautiful papers on the left hand page above

and a fold out page on the right page.

 

Lots more pockets and flaps to explore again on these pages

and each back to back page as a pull out large tag placed inside,

great for the large photos or a bit of journalling. All these pull out large tags have been edged with the lovely Spellbinders Bracket Borders #1 die.

 

All of the papers in the Artisan Style Graphic 45 pads match perfectly and some pages have 

bits that you can cut out to use for tags and pockets.  I like the way Mandy has also created special tags using Thinlits - Pocket Card and Geo Tags and the Thinlits set - Basics by Rachael Bright.

Mandy has used a corner punch on some of the black bases for photos

and added a tab using a the Ek succcess punch 'for sale'.

 

Throughout the album Mandy has used small magnets and made lots of 

pockets and flaps to explore that would be perfect for photos and journalling.

Also used in the album are cards from the coordinating ephemera pack, this is a pack of 32 cards 

with images on that match perfectly with all the Artisan Style papers.

 There is so much more to each page than I can describe to you

 and this album would make a stunning gift for someone special,

 that's if you could part with it after you had made it :)

Once Upon a Springtime Album by Lisa

We have another instore weekend retreat lined up for November this year and repeated in January 2016. Lisa will be teaching this amazing ‘album in a box’ which features another of the limited edition collector's packs from Graphic 45 - Once Upon a Springtime.

The album is actually part of a box. And the top of the box is just beautiful. Lisa likes her fussy cutting and you can tell by the amount of delicately cut out animals, flower and foliage she’s incorporated.

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The inside of the box then opens out to reveal lots of pretty pages. All with the same format and all using the gorgeous papers from the Once Upon a Springtime deluxe collector’s edition pack. There are magnets and flaps and pockets and all the cool album techniques Lisa loves to feature when creating her albums.

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The album is also on the counter in the Sir Stampalot, Peterborough shop for you to look at when next visiting :)

Absolutely beautiful. Thanks Lisa.

- Janice

Times Nouveau

Don’t the weeks pass so quickly? Well another “weekender” session at Sir Stampalot is nearly upon us :)

Lisa will be teaching here this weekend. She’s created this amazing album using the deluxe edition pack from Graphic 45 – Times Nouveau. Lisa has already taught this class once but due to the interest she’s running it again this weekend. I was so busy last time I didn’t get to see the girls putting the album together so I hope to be able to take several sneaky peeks at what they are doing over the course of the weekend.


Here's a couple of pictures of the front cover:

Lisa has used one of the Hobby House drawer knobs and the Tim Holtz elastic band to create the closure for the album. A lone hitch fastener is attached to the clock on the front cover to create a hidden spot behind if you open it :)


The inside front cover has a little open pocket to slide in a tag or notes, along with some 3/4 sized pockets for tags 'n things:

Lisa has created a little waterfall on the next page with a closure using one of the designs from the paper.

Plenty of flaps and pull out sections with chipboard closures using the chipboard pieces from the Times Nouveau kit.

Lovin' the big dotty paper:

you've guessed it, more flaps and flippy bits!

and then finishing off on the back inside pages with a grid area for multiple mini photos.

And finally the back cover. A drawer ring holding the elasic in place and a border edge punch on the spine cover:

Amazing, classy and elegant :)

Another album made completely from scratch. It makes you feel so good as you go throughout the day just using G45 papers, some Bazzill and chipboard and suddenly you have an album forming – a real satisfying feeling :)

Happy Crafting Always
Janice
Sir Stampalot