Graphic 45 "Voyage Beneath the Sea" Mini Album

Lovin' this album created by Mandy Gilbert using one of the latest collections from Graphic 45 - Voyage Beneath the Sea.  The album has been made from scratch using the gorgeous G45 collection, a couple of sheets of 2mm chipboard (for the covers) and cream cardstock (for the base pages).

Here's a look at the cover:

Mandy has kept it clean and simple.  She's used Kraft Tex embossed with a snakeskin design embossing folder for the closure wrap and a Tim Holtz hitch fastener to secure.

Mandy has covered the spine of the album so that the mermaid riding the fish, signature page design is prominent:

The Tags and Pockets from the Voyage Beneath the Sea collection is dotted about all through this album so there's plenty of nooks and crannies that have been created to house them all. 

And the ephemera cards are also dotted throughout the album with cream photo mats and tabs made from the EK success punch "real estate sign"

INSIDE FRONT COVER

Here's the inside front cover:

Mandy has created a belly band going down the page, on the left hand side and a pocket page on the right hand page.  The same EK success punch "real estate sign" that was used for the photo mat tabs (folded in half), has been used to cut a decorative notch for the pocket page.

PAGE 1

Page 1 double spread uses a horizontal belly band with one of the tags used as a stopper. And on the right hand side, Mandy has included another pocket page.

A lovely feature Mandy has used throughout the album, is a secret photo mat between the pages.  You can just see it here where the tab of the secret page is a punch out of the main page and inked around the edges - can you see it on the top left hand part of this page?  Once you look at the photo mat and then pop it back in the album, it aligns with the main page and becomes camouflaged - something different and very cool, isn't it?

PAGE 2

For the next double page, Mandy has gone with a little slit pocket on the left hand side and a corner pocket feature using one of the tags on the right hand side:

PAGE 3

Page 3 features a corner pocket using one of the tags and the right hand page features a beautiful waterfall feature.  The holding point is one of the ephemera cards with a ribbon pull and magnet to keep it all closed up.

The designs on the waterfall sections have been created using the smaller patterns from the 6x6 paper pad.

PAGE 4

The fourth double page spread includes a horizontal belly band on the left, and also a slit pocket on the right.

PAGE 5

The left hand side of the fifth double page spread features a stacked double pocket.  The right hand page has a small pocket using the spellbinders die labels seventeen and cut in half - it's a great way to use your dies in a different way and get the most out of them.

INSIDE BACK COVER

The final double page spread on the inside back cover features another horizontal belly band with tag stopper.  On the right hand side, is an additional pull out section to hold at least 8 photos and also acts as a pocket to hold more tags :)

This is just an amazing album and is on the counter in the Sir Stampalot, Peterborough shop for you to look at when next visiting :)

Mandy is teaching this project as one of our fabulous “weekender” sessions, here at Sir Stampalot this weekend and repeating the project later in June :) 

Absolutely beautiful. Thanks Mandy.

Enjoy!

Until next time....

janicex

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 :)