I wanted to try an envelope mini after watching
Kathy Orta's video on Youtube. However, I didn't think I had any envelopes I could make this with. So I dug into my stash and found this little girl's card-making set that I found at a second-hand store, still all packaged up and new. I love thrift stores for this, you never know what you will find!
I left the fronts of the cards as they were (so pretty!) and matted everything else with pink, green and white paper from Michael's in their dollar-fifty bins (yup, its Canada, go figure...). I used a duct tape binding, another new technique for me! and added lots of sparkly embellishments. I took a wide piece of lace and hand-dyed it with a Stampin' Up ink pad and added metal charms to use for the closure. The lace is also elasticized, to be able to accommodate the embellishments and lots of photos. I took some of the books with me to work, and sold this one immediately. All I had to do was personalize it, which I did with alphabet stickers. The very same day, I was asked to make 3 albums for a co-worker's daughters for their Christmas-in-July event. Well, of course I said yes :) Pictures of those will be posted soon!
So, for now, I am off to schedule another blog post, in my quest to get all caught up. Tata for now!
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