January 28, 2011

My first Paperbag Album

Hi all,
It's Kelly from http://www.kamscraftyplace.blogspot.com/ .Here's my first project of the year for Sheila. I decided I would have a go at a paperbag album. I had seen a tutorial on how to put it together on You Tube. Here's the link to the tutorial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAcsKl87Ryg . It's not easy finding paperbags over here in the U.K. I found some on Ebay but I haven't been able to find them anywhere else. If you know where I can get some please let me know in the comments.
After watching, pausing and rewinding the tutorial many times, this is what I ended up with.
Here is the album put together. I used Mountboard for the covers as it's hard to find 12 x 12 chipboard here in the U.K.


To decide which distress ink I should use I tried them all out on a spare bit of mountboard. I chose Walnut Stain






Here is the distressing around the front cover. I repeated this on the back cover.





Here's the front cover Finished.



Here are all of the Pages completed.


















Thanks for looking at my project. I hope you liked it.


Kelly :)

8 comments:

Stacy said...
1

Kelly,
Wow, you did a great on your first paper bag album. I love the soft colors you used.
Thanks for sharing
Hugs
Stacy

Beatriz Farquhar-Guzman said...
2

Kelly, it is very nice! I love all the inking. Thanks for sharing!

Sheila aka SassyLady said...
3

Kelly very nice color choices and I like the page with the bling on it a lot. Thanks for sharing with us today.

Barb Craft said...
4

Kelly, I have never made one of these but I might just have to give it a try! Love the papers you used! Thanks for the link too!
barb :)

Java Jen's Creations said...
5

I keep saying that I'm going to make one of these. Yours is beautiful and elegant!! Thanks for sharing the link so I can give it a go!!

Unknown said...
6

Very pretty mini considering it started out as paper bags!!! Love the inking and the paper you used!

Not sure what it would cost to ship to you, but I can get paper bags at the grocery store! Let me know if you need any.

Fellow Sassy Sister Lori

Audrey Frelx said...
7

Wow, Kelly, you did a beautiful job on your first one!!! It came out terrific!!!

mfc.melissamade2 said...
8

Fun! I'm going to try this - I've hear a lot about them too! Love the bling on the front cover.
M