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

Stampin' Dreams Blog Hop - Something Different

Welcome to the Stampin' Dreams Blog Hop, running monthly. You are currently visiting Stephanie Fischer from Australia.

This month our theme is: Something Different

The front of the mini album features mainly the Eastern Palace suite of products

I have never made an album before - so that's something different for me!  It was a lot of fun to make but really challenged my patience!  It turns out that actually making the bare bones of the album is the quick part - off and on it took me weeks to decorate the album and make all the little surprises.

I worked from a tutorial by Corenescreations.

The final challenge was to photograph it!  Unfortunately it didn't fit into my light box properly so I spent another day trying to edit out all the joins and seems of the box that were not very attractive features of my photographs!

Each page has a side tab to pull out a double-sided layout sheet

The frame on the front of the album is cut with one of the Lots of Labels framelits in conjunction with a Layering Oval framelit.  The lined sheet is cut from one of the Merry Little Christmas Memories & More cards with the idea that a date and the contents of the album can be written on the lines.

The Eastern Palace papers are so elegant!

Each page has a double-sided pull out.  I used the Circle Tab Punch to create the tags and decorated them with Copper Foil Sheet circles cut with the coordinating circle punch.  I glued the tabs onto the base card before I added cardstock layers so that they wouldn't catch the edges of the pockets.

This photo shows some of the side tabs partially pulled out

 Some of the pages fold open to reveal an extra panel.  Hidden magnets hold them closed.

The page to the right has a flap, held closed with a magnet, that opens up into a three page spread

There are lots of decorative elements in the album but I've tried to maintain some consistency.  The various elements are cut with the following products:
Swirly Snowflakes thinlits
Bloomin' Heart thinlits (the flowers)
Eastern Medallions
Decorative Ribbon Border Punch

With the flap opened up

Other pages have decorative pockets that hold another double-sided card - one side is Dapper Denim and the other is Tranquil Tide.

The pocket holds anther double-sided layout sheet

I haven't been able to include photographs of every page - but I think you'll get the gist!

Thank you for visiting.  I hope you've enjoyed this project.   You are currently visiting Stephanie - please see the list below & click on the next person on the list to hop through all of the people to see all of our projects. You don't want to miss any!

'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List

Swirly Snowflakes Thinlits Dies

[144678]

Eastern Medallions Thinlits Dies

[143725]

Bloomin' Heart Thinlits Dies

[140621]

Decorative Ribbon Border Punch

[143721]

Eastern Palace Specialty Designer Series Paper

[144147]