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You can easily make your own greeting cards using supplies from your scrapbooking stash. It’s a great way to use up scraps too. These two tutorials can give you some ideas for personalized cards you can make. First try the keyhole card above, by May Holi Crafts as a nice housewarming greeting.
Lucy Abrams shows the techniques for making this best wishes card. I love how she embellished that shape! You can easily adapt this idea for any occasion.
Andrea used the Fun Times collection from Simple Stories to create this fabulous mini Travel Tag album. She even found a cute tiny plastic suitcase to fit it inside of, decorating the outside with a few chipboard elements and a scalloped border.
The album itself has different siezd and shaped pages, some rectangle, some tag shaped, some with scalloped edges but all stitched around the edges. It’s held together at the top with a metal “O” ring.
The pages have 3″ x 2 1/2″ photos that are accented with metal buttons, vintage cameras, floral and map papers, chipboard embellishments, tabs, labels and travel related designs in fun retro color combinations.
She’s even included some fun interactive pages too for a really cool tiny but mighty album design.
Learn more and check out the entire project over at the Simple Stories blog.
-Heather
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