Life - a mini album

Update:  I was chosen as one of the top 3 at Lasting Memories! What a wonderful recognition, especially considering the quality of all of the other submissions (not to mention the design team projects).

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Clipper Street but my Class Card doesn't lie. Thanks to my wonderful friend Jacqui, I ended the learning drought by taking "Tattered memories". The class was a lot of fun as it involved using distress inks, glimmer mist and alcohol inks. Nothing beats getting messy! I finally finished up the album this week by adding the last few embellishments and photos of a recent family vacation to the Calgary Zoo so that I could give it to my parents as a gift.

Pretty well all the papers used in the album are from 7 Gypsies, as well as most of the embellishments. And, of course, there is liberal use of Tim Holtz Walnut Distress Ink. For the book cover, we used heavily distressed chipboard letters, a bingo card embellishment, the EK Success binder border punch and some mica. This was my first use of mica and I'm still not sure of what I think about it. The shine is nice and it is really cool that it can be left thick or peeled into many, many thinner layers, but I can't help but think it looks like old cellophane tape (lol).

I loved using this acetate sheet for a page. I used my brand-new tiny attacher to add the cardstock and then added random strips of word stickers on the back to hide the staples.  The various tags were a fun way to add journalling.The acetate shape on the corner was cut on the accu-cut machine and has been liberally inked with a couple of alcohol ink colours (I think butterscotch, green and perhaps a brown?).
 Challenges: 

• Creative Belli - make your own embellishments
• Do You Stack Up? - chipboard
• Everybody Art Challenge - shapes
• Just for Fun - acrylic
• Lasting Memories - album with a summer theme
• Papertake Weekly - anything goes
• Shopping Our Stash - use something from a swap/RAK/won or from a kit (the project itself is a class kit and ribbon is from a card kit)
• Simon Says Stamp & Show - use a flourish