Hey Welcome back

Well Hello

Thanks for being here even though I haven’t been. You know that thing called life - well it seems to always get in the way - 

Anyway today I wanted to share a fun new tutorial - at least new from me 

I’m calling this a mini accordion style album 

I made a step by step photo tutorial - with all the details attached! 

For this album I used the Metropolitan Girl paper kit by Carte Bella 

If you happen to make one tag me and let me see how yours came out if you need help send me a message 

Happy Scrapbooking friends. 

xo 

Tina

Happy New Year

Can You believe that it's 2017? Time sure does fly when you are having fun. Did some crafting this year, tried out some new album styles like this project life styled Disney album

Started making string art & fell in love with it. 

Now that the Holidays are over I am planning on lots of new things for the New year and this here ol' blog of mine.

My plan is to be more active here and share more of what I am making, hopefully sharing new videos and keeping you up to date with new craft shows I'm participating in 

If you have been with me for awhile - thank you for sticking with me. If you are new here, thanks for stopping by and hope you will stay tuned with whats ahead.

Wishing you a wonderful new year and noting but new fun and crafty adventures.

xo

Tina

Cute New albums

I'm all about a fun new album and while I like to make albums to give and sell I usually try and keep the cost down by using what I know and what I have but recently I found the cutest albums made of chipboard and well look how cute they came out...

Can you stand it?

A baby onsie...

this is another inside page

This is 6 pages including front and back covers and has 4 photo mats

And because they are for babies I decorated them so adorably. Using papers and embellishments by Carte Bella the baby mine collection (swoon)

If you would like to see more of the inside of the album please head over to my website

onecraftymess.com

and click on the shop icon and scroll down until you find it and check it out.

These are fun little albums that would make a great baby shower gift or even just a congratulations to a new mommy or grandma that lives far away.

Happy Tuesday Ya'll

xT

Graduation Kit

Here is another fun kit that I wanted to share with you and show you how much you can make with all the pieces. It is the Graduation kit from DoodleBug Designs and its black, white, silver and golds...and some really cute embellishments. I wish I had a the whole kitpictured but I am sure you can find it online to see what comes in the kit...

This is the first album I made 

which I listed in my shop immediately and it SOLD - Yeah...

Here is the 2nd album I made using the same kit...

Here are just some of the pages in the album - and its made of chipboard and only has 6 pages - plan to list it tomorrow in my shop

then I made 2 cards with some of the extra embellishments 

oh and I was able to get one 12 x 12 scrapbook layout that I made as a pocket page. 

sorry for half a picture. Anyway, as you can see the possibilities are quite enormous - you can get alot out of scrapbooking kit, just keep making. 

all the items I blogged about here will be listed tomorrow in the shop -

onecraftymess.com for all the yummy goods.

Happy Crafting

T

Rainbows & sunshine

Another example of how I use the HECK out of one paper kit. This is my 3rd album - you can visit my Instagram account (@onecraftymess) to see the other albums I created using the same paper kit...

This is the cover I made using chipboard and o-wires to bind it...

Inside pages are super happy 

And cheerful

Great 6 x 6 size too

I live how these all came out and best part is there still so many pieces left over.

I am working on making some cards with the left over pieces.

I'll share them when I am done with those.

I mean doesn't this album just scream HAPPY to you?

Ok so until next time. Happy crafting

xo

T

Making the most

I am sure we all have our obssesions - you know those of you that love Diet Coke, those of you that eat chocolate daily or those that spend every free moment at the gym...well I have a severe obssesion with PAPER...mostly paper kits if I can get them. By kits I mean the paper pad (preferably 12 x 12) and the embellishments, stickers, chipboard and die cuts. I like to have the whole collection and fore the most part I use it all - there are always a few bits left over but then you can make cards or other art projects. 

Recently I bought the new kit called SNOW DAY? by Pebbles Inc. and it only came with the 6 x 6 paper pad which had 36 papers, yes thats alot but 24 designs? I know - weird, I like 2 of each design always it makes for better coverage when I am making my albums...but I digress It also came with washi tape, dies, stickers and chipboard stickers...lots to play with. Here is what I was able to make with the whole kit...

2 albums - same colors but different themes - I think those princesses are from Frozen but I could be wrong - I was also able to make some cards with the left over bits 

Cute right? Different but similar - as you can tell I still need to add some sentiments to the fronts. But all in all they came out cute right? I have maybe a few sheets of paper left and lots of little die cuts left for more ideas to come later.

There you have it...always use up your goodies and get the most out of all your paper kits.

Have a great crafty week.

xo

T

Day 4

So yeah next task is to try and get these albums done before 10 at night!

So  far this personal challenge is going so well that I think I am going to be so well stocked up that I will have so many variations and options for my customers. So happy about that.

Here is tonights mini album that I made using more papers from We R Memory Keepers the Snapshots collection. 

See - cute right? Sleep well friends.

xoT

Day 2

Love having a mission and sticking to it-at least on day 2 anyway....

Today's album is a motivational one...like making those because they aren't any particular theme so you can add photos from anytime & occasion! 

xo

Tina

23 day challenge

'In an effort to make sure I am crazy stocked for my upcoming craft show, I have been busily creating everyday. But I am also so easily distracted that I can start something and walk away and start on something else. I do eventually get things finished but I am determined to stay on track.

I am known for my mini scrapbooks and usually sell out of the, rather quickly, so it is in my best interest to STOCK up. In order to do that I have decided to challenge myself to make at least 1 or more scrapbooks a day. I mean 24 more on top of all the ones I have already would keep me very stocked up for my next show! Not a bad idea right? 

So here is my first album In this challenge; just finished tonight! 

I love how it came out! Please follow along as I get this challenge completed! 

Happy Crafting!

Xo