"Our Baby" Premade Scrapbook Album

This past weekend was very productive and eventful. I attended "Scrapbook Expo" and had fun checking all the vendors with so many stamping and scrapbooking goodies. I did my part of helping the economy by shopping for a lot of new papers ( as if I needed more.. haha.. ), and some unique embellishments.

I also created 2 new albums. I am going to share "Our Baby" album today now available in my Etsy shop.

This album is 6" x 6" made from chipboard. I used Basic Grey Sugared collection. It has all the pink, green, peach colors but not typical baby hues. It has lot of dark shades and I loved how it turned out in the end. I tied the spiral binding with overloading of ribbons. It has 12 full size pages and then there are shaped pages, tags in between giving it more dimensions and extra depth. I also used lots of flowers, ribbons, woven labels, and of course machine stitching in this album.

This album will make such a great gift for new mothers or baby shower gift. As we all know, new mommies get so much busy with all the baby stuff that they hardly have time to do anything else. With this premade ( ready to put photos ) album, they can take all the pictures of baby's development, can show / share precious little ones photos with friends and families and cherish the memories for long time.

Hope you like them :)

"Our baby" album cover with rhinestone title and hand cut bird -



Pages 2 & 3 with a half circle page in between -



Pages 4 & 5 with two heart shaped pages in between -



Pages 6 & 7 with tags in between -



Pages 8 & 9 with a half page in between -



Pages 10 & 11 -



Back cover -



If you'd like to see more detailed picture, checkout Flickr set here - "Our Baby" Mini Album on Flickr.

Owls, Birds and more.. Post It Note Holders..

These are the first in the series. I stamped the owl with black ink in a circle and inked the edges around it.

Even though the above owl did look good, something was missing. So I thought to try the embossing after a very long time. This time I stamped the image with pigment ink and sprinkled superfine black embossing powder over it and embossed it with the heat gun. This was the exact look I was going for - much more vibrant and the shiney effect gives the owl just the right edge. The details are not too noticable in these pictures but it looks much more live in real life. Now next step is to try the owls in different colors with different patterns :) More to come in OWL series..


Next are the Birds - one of my favorites and most popular after owls :) I can never have enough of these funky birds..


More birds with outline..



These and many more beautiful Post It note holders are available in my shop.

Birdie Desk Calendar - Featured on another blog!

Elisa from MyBoutique was very kind to feature this 2009 Birdie desktop calendar on her blog for the holiday gift guide. She is running 2008 gift guide series every friday. This is second in the series - "Stocking Stuffer" gift guide - Friday @ 5

Don't forget to checkout her Etsy shop for some really cool jewelry - http://MyBoutique.etsy.com
Thank you Elisa :)