Ink it! Stamp it! International Design Team Blog Hop - 3D Project - Retirement Mini Album

Welcome to the Ink It! Stamp It! Design Team Blog Hop - we hop every month so be sure to pop back and visit us again!  

Today our theme is a 3D Project.

You are currently at my page - Stephanie Fischer, The Crafty Thinker.  At the end of my post there is a full line up of team members, please click on the name after mine in the list to continue the hop.

The closed memorabilia "retirement card" album

Since this post is very image-heavy, I'm not going to say a lot.  But I do have a tutorial (with diagrams and pictures) of the basis of this project for anyone who would like it.

First stage of opening the album.  I could have put something on that right side - but the paper is just too pretty!

We are so blessed in our company - we have wonderful staff who seem to enjoy their work and so they stay ... until they retire!  When someone retires, I like to make a "card" that also acts as a piece of memorabilia for them.  This is for the most recent retirement.

Second stage of opening the album

The base is created with three A4 pieces of Tranquil Tide cardstock, decorated with Share What You Love Designer Series Paper.

The "flip mechanism" has space for 12 photos

There's space for lots of photographs, providing memories of people, events and activities through the years.

The third stage of opening the album reveals some of the pockets holding personal messages

There's also space for individual cards on which co-workers will write personal messaages.

The fully opened album

Underneath all of the flip photos there is a card, written in my poor attempt at calligraphy, with a company message and the start and finish dates for our retiree.

The album and presentation box

I didn't have time to correct the situation but I should have made an even deeper gusset to allow for the depth of all the photos.  Something I've corrected in my tutorial.  I also made a presentation box.

A close up of the "dedication" on the top of the album

Click here if you would like the PDF instructions for the basic build.  I must add though that I made some adjustments to create a deeper gusset that I hope will work but I haven't tested them.  Please contact me if you run into problems.

Thank you so much for joining us today and we hope you'll join us again next month when we'll be showing you our favourite colour combo! 

I'm Stephanie Fischer and, to keep hopping around, see the list below to see who is up next with another great project.

Thanks for visiting
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - All products used available for purchase in my online store

Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper

$47.00

First Frost Clear-Mount Bundle

$85.50

Frosted Bouquet Framelits Dies

$57.00

Foliage Frame Framelits Dies

$47.00

Delicate Lace Edgelits Dies

$50.00

Tranquil Tide A4 Cardstock

$14.75

Petal Pink A4 Cardstock

$14.75

Grapefruit Grove & Lovely Lipstick Foil Sheets

$0.00

Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock

$14.75

Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Stitched Labels Framelits Dies

$57.00

Itty Bitty Greetings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$63.00

First Frost in Blueberry Bushel

In September, the Ink It! Stamp It! International Design Team will have as our theme, projects inspired by home decor (thank you, Carolina Evans for setting such a great topic!).  I'm so excited that I just can't wait that long!

This card was inspired by a picture from a store catalogue that didn't quite fit into my post box.

This card was inspired by a department store catalogue.  First Frost with Blueberry Bushel ink

I started out with a piece of Balmy Blue cardstock and roughly brayered it with some Blueberry Bushel ink.  Usually I end up with streaky brayering accidentally but this time it was what I wanted - very liberating!

I then lightly spritzed with water and then immediately with a mix of Blueberry Bushel ink and water.

Once the piece had dried, I stamped a variety of the First Frost images with Blueberry Bushel ink - some of them a couple of times without reinking to obtain lighter images. I did a little bit of masking on the roses so that they overlapped and had stems.

I used my Stamparatus to stamp the greeting with Blueberry Bushel ink so that I could increase the intensity of the colour.

Then I simply layered the piece onto Balmy Blue cardstock before adhering to the Blueberry Bushel base card and added a few Basic Adhesive Backed Sequins.

This was my inspiration piece - putting those store catalogues to good use!

Thank you for visiting.

'Til next time!

Stephanie

Product List - All supplies available for purchase in my online store

First Frost Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$38.00

Blueberry Bushel Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Blueberry Bushel A4 Cardstock

$14.75

Balmy Blue A4 Cardstock

$14.75

Blueberry Bushel Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

$6.50

Basic Adhesive-Backed Sequins

$12.25

Stampin' Spritzer

$5.00