A Few Unfinished Designs

Just wanted to share a couple of photos of some designs I worked on for display at a show this weekend. Amanda asked me to see what I could come up with for some new chipboard albums she is selling.

I can't show you the inside of this album because I didn't quite get to finish it all. I'm sure it would've turned out ok if I had.

Instead I got rather excited about this one and turned all my attention to it. I have always wanted to do a recipe album of some sort and while this wasn't quite what I had in mind, I was really pleased with how it was shaping up. I could do these for several people I know. I am desperate to share family recipes right now.

I think maybe I'd use just 2 rings to secure it since you could hang a ribbon between the 2 so it would hang up. It had to work it vertically as some of the pages were just too small to have it horizontally and still get much text on them.

To make it go together a bit quicker I used designer sheets that had punch out alphabets, frames, borders and embellishments to match papers. These sheets may seem a bit more expensive at the time but they are well worth it - I promise you. Add some creativity, inks, computer text, ribbon, buttons and voila!

And just in case you're wondering where the recipes actually go here is a photo of the pages that were tucked into the different sections to write on. I decided to decorate these too.

I'm really sorry I didn't get a chance to finish these off properly but I thought I'd share them anyway.