Sharing.

This album appeared in the April issue of Creating Keepsakes in my Studio A column - cool outside, but the inside is really the heart of this project. I got the album back from CK yesterday and took some pics so you could see a bit deeper into the album.

The exterior is covered in fabric, which was wrapped around onto the inside. The seams are covered with a layered image I created in Photoshop featuring two different letters from my Mom. The black chipboard letters are Heidi Swapp and the black gaffer tape is 7gypsies. The small circle accents are KI Memories and the button is from one of those awesome bags from Autumn Leaves.

The idea behind the album was to create a home for a bunch of letters
my Mom has sent me. She is a great letter writer. I actually have tons
and this album is just a showcase for some of my favorites - some are
emails but most are handwritten. For the structure of the album I chose
a 7gypsies
envelope album that allowed me to store the actual letters inside each
pocket. This was one of those things I bought just beacuse I thought it
was cool...not sure what I would use it for at the time...it all workout out just right.

One of the design elements I knew I wanted to include on the exterior
of the envelopes was my Mom's handwriting. I didn't want to make it
super complicated, but I wanted it to express the emotion and
personality of her writing. I decided to scan the actual letters and
enlarge them so that the writing was large enough to cover the
envelope. I printed out the enlarged writing and wrapped it around each
envelope (the exterior of each envelope demonstrates a look at what is
inside) - on the back of the envelope I covered the seam with a
rectangle section of patterned paper.

After covering the envelopes with the enlarged handwriting samples/emails I felt like it need a bit of color so I added some stamping. Year stamp is from Stampin Up. Large butterfly stamp is from My Sentiments Exactly.

"Be Happy Everyday" stamp is from Hero Arts.

I think that dot stamp is also from Hero Arts.

Circle stamp is from Savvy Stamps. "Creat Joy" is from Wordsworth.

The buttons are adhered with large glue dots  - it makes it a bit sticky with the string but it works just fine and the glue dot seems to give it enough lift.

And another share...this is for The Red Lily's monthly kit for May - all the products were included in the kit. Additional stuff I created for them should be up later today.