One of the products that Kingston Crafts sent me to play with is Beautiful Moment album with the Everyday Stories papers – an 8×8 album with precut cards, inserts and embellishments (cardstock stickers, rub ons and puffy stickers). Each of the inserts is sectioned into quarters and it is such a simple way to scrapbook your memories – choose a card for each quarter, add your photos and any journaling and embellish as you wish – and the stack of cards it comes with are fab – so many to choose from.
Martin was on hobbymaker.tv with this earlier today so I’m delighted I can start sharing the projects I made!
I decided to start off by documenting the little trip to Cheddar in Somerset that me and the hubby took in July. I printed photos mainly two per 6×4 so I could cut them in half for the inserts – I did do a few that were square but just shrank them down so I knew they would be less than 4” tall.
I decided which photos for which page and then found cards I liked to either fit the feel of the photos or the colours in other cards.
Then I set about embellishing and telling the story on each page.
I would normally do them back to back but as they were made primarily for the tv I did one sided only – when I get them back to keep I will combine them into back to back pages to save my inserts for other pages I can make in the future.
Obviously you don’t have to use the album just with the supplies it comes with – I did some just using the kit and then I started experimenting a little … on this page I embossed the two plain colour panels with a Fern embossing folder and then die cut some trees from other cards to add as embellishments.
And on this page I started grabbing stickers from the stash to add elements and stamped some leaves onto the cards to make them match each other.
This final page documenting the trip of me and hubby I added in the stamped and embossed hearts as a starting point for adding in extra bits.
I also had to share this pic of the hubby and I watching the tv and getting to see ourselves … 🤩
I’ll share other projects I did with the kits in another blog on another day … but this was very much my starting point – keeping it simple and using it in the easiest way possible – print photos and stick them in!
Of course you could go even simpler and just print 4×4 photos off and just slot them in too – but you know me – I like to go a little mad and add some bits and bobs!
Now off to do some cleaning before Martin is back on tv again at 5pm for the next show!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
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