Day 13-back to my Challenge

Ok so seems a whole week has past and looks like I slacked but actually last Monday my uncle past away. It was shocking to say the least and then the way I found out was awful. He was my grandmother's caregiver & it's just me now so I had to pack and fly out to figure it all out. It was a long grueling, emotional week. But we got it taken care of. Things worked out in the end. I got home Friday night, and took the weekend to adjust and move kids into different rooms so we could get a "room" set up for grandma and now finally I'm back into the swing of things....

I opened up a new paper pack by We r Memory Keepers called Market Street and made the first of 2 albums... Here's the first one

The papers are super fun and colorful and I love the touches of gold. I kept it simple and inspirational and uplifting. Because I was feeling it. 

Sorry for the interruption in the challenge but I'm back and ready to get busy. I usually post my up to date happenings and projects on Instagram so follow me over there @ #onecraftymess😊

Happy hump day!!!

Never again

I know that we are all obsessed with Youtube, Pinterest and Instagram...and I am Pinning all these cool scrapbook albums I want to try, so I go on YouTube and find a few that look amazing and the videos are simple enough to follow so I try this one...its a folio type album

 

I used the coolest paper by Graphic 45 - the Steampunk Collection and created this cool album.

 

I got the how-to from #MySistersScrapper on YouTube - they have the coolest album how-tos and sometimes they just share a completed album and all the things they used in the album.

 

See the waterfall folio aspect - cool right?

 

So I went back to their YouTube channel and found another album which I wanted to try and appeared simple enough...

 

Well I had trouble with it...I mean maybe not trouble but I don't measure very accurately so it caused some hiccups...plus this album took me 3 nights to complete...much longer then I like to spend on one album...

 

Argh...definitely on my list of never again. It looks o.k. but not nearly as cool as My SistersScrapper

bummer for me - but I wanted to share it anyway...Here are a few photos:

 

this is the cover -

Lovely right?

made of chipboard and papers by Market Street by My Minds Eye

 

 

 

Here's the inside view: I used envelopes as the pages...so it was tricky to put them together and make them work out o.k. so that I can add the inserts later....

 

the pages flip upward instead of out like a book

 

ok I take that back they open and flip up....

 

Then I added some inserts into certain flaps as seen below...

 

It's cute right? But it took to long. I am an instant-gratification type of girl.

 

Anyway, this was my one hit wonder with these types of albums. Now on to the next Pinned goody!

 

Happy Crafting and may you have more patience in your next project then I did.

 

xoT