A mini album for someone special - part 1 of 4

Hi ya!

I have a very very special young lady in my life. She is the daughter I never gave birth to myself, but who has blessed my entire life by being in it.

Many evenings and many nights were spent putting together a gift for her, a mini album with photos of the people who are dearest to her. Each page has little symbolic messages that only she can decipher. 

I made the album pages myself from thick watercolour paper. A left over single album page was used to draw the outline before cutting out 2 sheets for each page. They were glued together with gel medium, and then dressed in 2 layers of form-cut paper on each side before the edges were chalked and dry-gessoed. Only this prep work took 10 hours to do. So each page has 3 layers of paper even before I started adding more paper layers and embellies to them. 

As the main focus is the album itself, I simply tied a bunch of 3 Tilda ribbons from my stash around one of the binder rings.

The album is very dimensional, so it had to be split into 2 albums. Extra large binder rings make it easy to flip the bulky pages. I will be sharing the 14 pages split into 4 blogposts to avoid photo overload.

Here are the first 4 pages, hope you like them as much as I enjoyed creating them!

Front Cover

 

 

PRODUCT LIST

Papers

Carteria Magnani fine graned watercolour paper "Italia"  140 lb

My Mind's Eye "Lost & Found Collection 3 Ruby", reverse side of Collage Strip Paper

Teresa Collins "Now & Then", Bee Paper

Teresa Collins "Now & Then", Words Paper

My Mind's Eye "Lost & Found Collection 3 Ruby", reverse side of Floral Paper

Embellishments

Lace washi, matte white pearls, feathered angel wings 

from local store

Webster's Pages heart trim

Petaloo stick pins

All flowers are Prima, loose from a box

Ingvild Bolme fluid chalk edgers in Turqoise Stone, Dark Bark, Dusty Attic, Pastel Pink and Pastel Peach

Cream, fine hessian (don't have a proper name for it in English)

Gesso

Memory Box heart die

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Page 2

 PRODUCT LIST

Papers
UHK Gallery, "Winter Is Coming" collection

Teresa Collins "Now & Then" collection, reverse side of Words Paper
Teresa Collins "Now & Then" collection, Words Paper
My Mind's Eye "Lost & Found Collection 3 Ruby", reverse side of Floral Paper

Embellishments
Lace washi, matte white pearls and white felt from local store
All flowers except the tiny teal-blue (Petaloo) are Prima, loose from a box
Fussy-cut butterflies from a scrap of Maja Design paper
Cream, fine hessian 
Ingvild Bolme fluid chalk edgers in Turqoise Stone, Dark Bark, Dusty Attic, Pastel Pink and Pastel Peach
 

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Page 3

PRODUCT LIST

Papers

UHK Gallery, "Winter Is Coming" collection

 Teresa Collins "Now & Then", Bee Paper

Teresa Collins "Now & Then", Words Paper

My Mind's Eye "Lost & Found Collection 3 Ruby", reverse side of Floral Paper

Embellishments

Lace washi, matte white pearls and white felt from local store

Webster's Pages heart trim

Fussy-cut butterflies from a scrap of Maja Design paper  

Floral vine from Prima and turqoise bloom from Petaloo

Cream, fine hessian

Ingvild Bolme fluid chalk edgers in Turqoise Stone, Dusty Attic, Pastel Pink and Pastel Peach

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Page 4

PRODUCT LIST

Papers

UHK Gallery, "Winter Is Coming" collection
 Melissa Frances  "Bits of Paper"
Tilda "All That Is Spring" collection
Teresa Collins "Now & Then", Words Paper

 Embellishments

Hand-made lace flower from Etsy
Teal blooms from Petaloo
Peach glittery stars and pointsettias from Prima
Cream, fine hessian
Lace washi and matte white pearls from local store
 

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Thank you so much for taking the time to come for a visit!

I'll be back with the next 3 pages on 23 Jan.

Toodelipip! xoxo Eila