Goodbye, Jimmy!

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It’s a mini fan out album using the camera element from Happy Snapper digital kit.

Size: approximately 2 x 1.5″

Digital Kit: Happy Snapper by Captivated Visions. This kit was included in August The Digi Files from TheDailyDigi.com.

Tutorial was for August Playbook.

My son took gazillion photos of his hermit crabs, Mr. Stik and Jimmy to celebrate their birthdays and demanded that I printed all of them out. Yeah right! Not happening. So, I selected few of my favorite photos, and printed all in a 11 x 8.5 River Linen paper from Red River Paper and made a tiny album. It was a hit! He loved it and was showing it off to his friends. He thanked me many times.

Create the clipping masks using the camera element (in Photoshop, select the whole image by Control/Command + click on the layer. Create a new layer. Fill in the color). Multiplicate(?) the masks in separate layers and clip the photos. Make sure to have one mask flip horizontally for the back page.

Cut all the pages with scissors.

Glue the last image to the reverse side of the back cover page.

Make a hole on the pages. Take out the handle from the binder clip and add the album pages (add few pages at a time).

Add clear circle sticker on the lense.

We bought both hermit crabs two months ago. Mr. Stik from Outer Bank, NC, and Jimmy from a local PetSmart store. Jimmy was more active and friendly one. He even survived a fall from a dining room table after this photo shoot in July.

He died today. *sniff* *sniff*

Photo Everyday Mini Album

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My daughter is starting school tomorrow and my son will on Monday. I can’t believe the summer vacation is over already! How am I going to wake up early from now on!!! Hehe.

During the break, I wanted to take photos everyday, but I kept forgetting to take photos a lot of times. So, I gave up on day 75 (89 days of summer vacation). I was getting tired of taking photos of the same stuff over and over again and didn’t see the point of photo journalling. I want to try it again in the future though. Perhaps, I’ll have a better idea to take photos of ordinary things in different perspective.

This 4.75 x 4.75 handmade album was created with July The Digi File from TheDailyDigi.com. And the tutorial was for July Playbook.

Cover.
Digital paper (white polka dot on black) from AUDacious designs “fresh” kit (from July The Digi File).
“Summer” was hand written by me (gasp!!!) using a Wacom pen tool to copy the letter style from Emily’s Hybrid@Home 5, 31 Day Calendar Layered Template (This is no longer available.)
“2010″ from the template (Combined 20 and 10) and recolored.

The template came in 4.75 x 4.75, so I created 9.5 x 9.5 document for two side-by-side layouts to print on 12×12 paper.

Score, cut, and fold in the middle.

Using double sided adhesive sheet and attach all the pages. Use brayer to smooth out the surface.

Measure the spine.

Make the cover. Score and fold the spine, and don’t forget to score a line on the back cover (1.25″ spacing on my sample. I think .75″ would’ve worked better). This will prevent the book from warping when you open it up. Look at children’s board books for reference.

Inside the back cover, attach the double side adhesive sheet, make sure not to add the adhesive on the extra score space.

Finished spine.

The book opens flat (Lay-flat binding).

i dont know

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Hello there! Anybody missed me? =)

I was sick for awhile, then went to Outerbank, NC for a week. And I’ve been on a lazy mood since the beach vacation. I still LOVE crafting, but it has been so easy doing nothing. Just goofing around with my kids are fun. And I plan on doing nothing much while they are home for summer break. Heehee.

This Thursday would be my last day selling templates at AfterFiveDesigns. I might re-release those templates in the future, but I am a big procrastinator so don’t know when that would happen. *sigh* I know I just began selling my templates at A5D, and it’s very irresponsible of me to leave them so soon. But, Kristen who helped me so much with starting my designer career there was leaving, and I wanted to do the same.

I was planning on moving to another digital scrapbook store this Friday, but after my recent vacation, I didn’t want to “work” anymore. I’m very wishy washy, so I might change my mind. *sigh* I still have a lot of template ideas/drawings so I do hope to design again. Hopefully soon. But for now, I’ll be closing my shop at AfterFiveDesigns this Thursday.

I’m VERY grateful to all my customers! Thank you! Thank you!

And MANY many thanks to all who used my templates to create awesome projects!

I am SO sorry that I have been terribly bad about leaving comments on your blogs/galleries, and this I will try to be better.

This Saturday, PaperWorks Co. will release 4 new Rachelle Anne Miller stamps and we are going to have a blog hop! Lots of prizes!

silhouette tile teacher gifts

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Look what my dear son did to the silhouette tile that I made the other day!

So I did make these tiles for the teachers (+ a friend) end of school year gift. Heehee, I blurred the faces since I didn’t ask their permission to use their photos.

Whenever I show my husband what I’ve made, he just says, “Hmm… that’s nice.” without really looking at it. But, he was impressed with what I did with this. Heehee.

Okie, here is the winner of my blog candy (Paper Works Co. stamps and my template)

It’s Wendy!

I had to postpone the Flower Stall Card Box template release. Sorry!!!

And Thank you everybody for all your loving support!

so tweet!

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Heeheeheee. I need to write names on my kids baby photos so they’ll know which one is who. It is my duaghter on the photo, but she looked so much like her older brother. Thank goodness for her long hair, these days people don’t ask if she is a boy or not.

Created this layout for a baby scrapbook contest at the Kodak – Tips & Projects Exchange. Contest ended past Sunday. But, I’m sure they’ll have more in the future.

I’ve used the following digital kits for the layout:

Polka dots by Boutique Cute Dolls Designs

Bliss by Boutique Cute Dolls Designs

The Book Baby by Boutique Cute Dolls Designs

By the way, have you guys heard of Paperclipping Roundtable? If you love scrapbooking, you will love to listen to this podcast. They had famous people like Tim Holtz, Jessica Sprague, Ali Edwards on the show. They just started a digital show podcast and Steph from theDailyDigi.com is hosting it!