The reason of being MIA! (8 X 8 Album)

Wow!! I am soooooo sorry to be MIA for a whole week!! I've being working on my latest workshop (an 8 X 8 album with 20 layouts!!)

So as you can imagine work 20 layouts plus doing 25 kits (500 pages in total), it was really a lot of time! Thanks God I have a super special friend "Rosalyn" that helped me with this awesome project, she came to my house on Thursday to help me out plus she did the flowers for the Cover! YEAHHHHHHH she ROCKS!!!

Well here is the slide show (is the easier way to show this project, since is 21 pictures!) Hope you enjoy it as much as my friends and I did! It was such a great day; good friends, a great place and the bless of do what we LOVE!! I was in HIGH! another great thing about that day was that they finished the WHOLE album in less than 3 hours!!! I cut everything for them so they can finish in that time because I know how bad it is when you go to a workshop, pay for that and come back to house with an incomplete project!! that is soooooo wrong!!

Talk to you soon because I have a BLOG CANDY on the way!! Yesssssss I am almost at 250 post! can you beleive it? Well if you know me, you know that I talk a lot, lol!!

Love,
Diana

PS I have some kits available, so if you are interested just contact me for details!

Wohooo, I scrap!

I can not beleive I scrap today!! but I did!

Do you remember the Sonia Purse album I did last year! I love that album and the main reason is the memories in there! So today I decided to do some layouts with those pictures to keep in the Family Scrapbook.

Hope you like it! Want to know what I used?

Mia's Cottage
Mia's Cottage Ribbon
Alpha Grunge
Scripty Bet
F is for Family

Love,
Diana

I owe you!!!

I know, I know, I was supossed to add the instructions for the inside of the Coaster mini album. But since this is one of the projects that is going to be feautured on my "All about gifts kit" I am going to share with you the steps, but not the complete tutorial or hints *wink, wink*




What you need:

12 squeare coasters (4" X 4")
Wide ribbon (about 20-24")
Paper collection with tags (I used three DC and 3 carstocks and some pieces)
Stamps and ink
Embelishments
Scallop scissors


First: follow Nichole's challenge insturctions for the cover

Second: cut 9 pieces of 4" X 8" cardstock and score them at 4"

Third: Glue the coasters to the cardstocks as this: fold 1st piece of paper at 4" then attach one coaster to each side, then attach other piece of paper to the coaster and so on, like doing a sandwich.

Fourth: When you have glue all the coaster to the DC pieces you can start working on your album (Maybe you prefer to do so before glue it, is optional) Remember to round the corners!! I did that with a scissor.

Fifth: When you are done with your album (I did it simple!! just some tags that comes with the collection, some square boxes for journaling, I stamped the lines from the Punctuation set, a lil bit of ribbon, a flower, stamps and more stamps!!) you can glue it to the cover. To do so, you have to put your album inside of the cover and look where is going to be better to place it (You can try to open it while you hold it together) it can not be at the cornes you have to do it aprox. 1/8 from the sides.

Sixth: Embelish your cover and you are DONE!!

If you need some clarifications, please send me an e-mail with your request.

Love,
Diana

PS This is not the collection that comes with the kit, the collection is Merry Wishes! so the pictures here are slightly different from the one on the kit.