Quilts and Cards: mini album video

Friday, May 15, 2015

Taste of Summer

This month at Close to My Heart, the Constant Campaign is for a pack of beautiful summery papers, all double sided and 2 of each design, Taste of Summer.

There is also a cute set of stamps that coordinate with the paper pack, making it a great resource for keeping summer memories in a scrapbook page or making a special summery card.

I decided to make a mini album using the paper pack - and I still had 4 sheets left after making the album so I will be doing some cards with those ones!

I have made a short video showing my latest creation using these colourful papers.

Enjoy and do let me know if you want some of these lovely papers or the stamp set before the end of May.

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Part 4 of the Mini Album series

Part four of my mini album series is now available here and on You Tube.

There are still some parts of the process I need to record and I will post them as soon as I have done so.

The instructions are available on my Tutorials and Video page on this blog.

This video follows directly on from Part 3.

Enjoy!

Favourite Tips

If you need a brad of a particular colour and don't have one, check to see if you have some embossing powder of the colour you want . Rub embossing ink on the top of the brad, then dip it into the embossing powder then heat set it. Use tweezers or a clip peg to hold the brad while you heat it.
When you are stitching on cards, make sure you are not sewing over the top of DS tape! The needle gets gummed up and won't lock the threads underneath.
Use zip lock plastic envelopes for smaller pieces of card offcuts that accumulate when making cards. Have one envelope per colour and periodically go through and trim up so they are ready for use on another card.