Gretchen Schmidt: Our life
- posted by: guest
- posted in: Scrap Life, Projects
- on: June 4, 2008
Our Life
Created by Gretchen Schmidt
I created a special mini-album to highlight our family’s life in March. It’s an acrylic album with 12” x 6” pages. For my initial stack of papers, I held them together using a bull clip and then used my craft drill to create the four holes. I used the acrylic album cover as a guide. Some of the pages are layered with the Sunrise Smoothie patterned papers where the holes are; for those I repunched the circle using my hand punch. I used the Threading Water Border Punch (I love this punch!) on the bottom of each page to give it a little flair. All other page edges I rounded off using the Round the Corner Punch. Throughout the album, there are smaller flip pages inside. I used pre-cut papers from the Double Mat Stack. To create these, I used my tape runner to adhere the backs of two papers together. It made these smaller pages come together quickly. I used tabs from the Thought Starter Stickers on each of those smaller flip pages to help turn them easier. Throughout the album, I decorated pages and photos with Thought Starter Stickers, Borders & littleBIG Words stickers, and Chipboard stickers.
This project was so fun to create and even though I used a lot of different supplies, it came together easily. It’s just a matter of doing things in steps.
Supplies:
Threading Water Border Punch, Fiskars
¼” Round the Corner Punch, Fiskars
¼” Circle Hand Punch, Fiskars
Craft Drill, Fiskars
Tape Runner, Fiskars
Rub-On Words & Alphas, Sunrise Smoothie – Cloud 9
Large Alphabet, Sunrise Smoothie – Cloud 9
Medium Alphabet & Numbers, Sunrise Smoothie – Cloud 9
Thought Starter Stickers, Sunrise Smoothie – Cloud 9
Border & littleBIG Words, Sunrise Smoothie – Cloud 9
Chipboard Stickers, Sunrise Smoothie – Cloud 9
Double Mat Stack, Sunrise Smoothie – Cloud 9
Simple Stripe, Sunrise Smoothie – Cloud 9
Sunrise Dots - Teal, Sunrise Smoothie – Cloud 9
Floral Stripe, Sunrise Smoothie – Cloud 9
Paradise Large Flowers, Sunrise Smoothie – Cloud 9
Sunrise Buds, Sunrise Smoothie – Cloud 9
Floral Smoothie, Sunrise Smoothie – Cloud 9
Bazzill Cardstock
Notebook Rings
Acrylic Album
michelle 3624 says:
June 4th, 2008 at 10:10 amVery pretty and such a cute idea. TFS
Patty # 2832 says:
June 4th, 2008 at 10:10 amVery cute! That paper looks really nice, bet it’s even prettier in person! Love the border! Great project!
kim3timemom says:
June 4th, 2008 at 10:25 amWhat an awesome project!! Thanks so much for charing it with us!!
Gina #2795 says:
June 4th, 2008 at 10:45 amFabulous album! I Love it!
Yaritza 3395 says:
June 4th, 2008 at 10:58 amWow. It’s awesome. Such a good idea documenting a month in your life. The colors and embellishments are perfect.
Sharon #2472 says:
June 4th, 2008 at 11:22 amWhat a wonderful project…you really did a great job!
Ursula says:
June 4th, 2008 at 11:33 amYou made an incredible album! What a fun idea! I love how it all flows. And the papers/embellishments are perfect! Great job!
connie #2909 says:
June 4th, 2008 at 12:15 pmGretchen so cute!! Thanks for sharing.
Amanda #1485 says:
June 4th, 2008 at 12:22 pmGreat looking album. I love all those photos on the pages and it’s such a neat little project.
Renee S #1900 says:
June 4th, 2008 at 12:44 pmtoo cute! must.have.threading water punch…….
Rita Shimniok says:
June 4th, 2008 at 1:25 pmthis is really cute Gretchen!
Debby says:
June 4th, 2008 at 4:18 pmAwesome job Lady…wonderful work and details. I love a good smoothie.
Tammy says:
June 4th, 2008 at 4:25 pmVery cute!!
doverdi says:
June 4th, 2008 at 4:53 pmWhat a neat idea to document a special month in your life. Love the Sunrise Smoothie papers you used for this project & of course the Treading Waters punch just gives it that wow factor. TFS!
Casey #1111 says:
June 4th, 2008 at 6:28 pmI like this….alot!
Gretchen, Fab Project!
Maya says:
June 4th, 2008 at 6:44 pmHow pretty! Love the smaller pages that you added in between!
Trish #2702 says:
June 4th, 2008 at 7:38 pmGreat project! I love the Threading Water punch at the bottom of the pages. What a great idea!
Paula #2796 says:
June 4th, 2008 at 8:43 pmThis is wonderful - very pretty. I love all the colors in “sunrise” and can’t wait to find it in stores around here.
Julie Overby says:
June 4th, 2008 at 11:07 pmThis is so fantastic Gretchen!
Jennifer Muller says:
June 4th, 2008 at 11:21 pmI LOVE this project! Am definitely going to scraplift!
cherrie #1790 says:
June 5th, 2008 at 1:32 amthis is just simply gorgeous - awesome work!!
Tara says:
June 5th, 2008 at 9:30 amGreat use of colors and space on your book. You were able to get lots of fun photos inside!
Patti Smith says:
June 5th, 2008 at 9:31 amGreat album Gretchen. I love that”sunrise” line. Such pretty colors..Also I like the acrylic cover that is a nice touch…
Sandy #1781 Wilkins says:
June 6th, 2008 at 9:33 amThis is a really great album Gretchen. Thanks for sharing it with us!
Sonda T says:
June 6th, 2008 at 8:20 pmFabulous Gretchen! I love the idea of something small for the whole month!