Home for the Holiday Accordion Album

My other Accordion album I made. I haven't added pixs yet but when I do....I will post with pixs. I used the papers that were in the Daisy D paper kit(Christmas). I decided the papers were so pretty....so I did them first before adding photos.

This album I tried to make more low profile and less embellies and more plain.

The papers were pretty enough on their own. I did add some Deja View Color Rub-on's to the pages. That all I really added.

Here is the cover and back cover of the album. I did add a few embellies onto the cover. Again, just some primas and some Autumn Leaves buttons & KI bling flowers.

The title was a rub-on and I used a round die cut from the Daisy D kit for accent on the cover title. The back side cover is just a piece of that gorgeous paper. Love the distress look of those papers so much.

Just some Photos taken of the Accordion album. This one is the front side. I like how the middle of the album turned out. I had those super cute dog & cat stocking paper and just worked great for a border of sorts.

This is the backside of the album.

Below is just some photos of the Accordion album. Starting with the front cover:

Here are the scanned images of the accordion album.............2 pages at a time:

Another postcard I made of the Home for the Holidays Album.

This is the first time I made a project without the photos in mind first. Alot of people scrap that way but usually I design around the photos. This time i designed the papers on the album first. Should be fun to see how that works out once I add the photos.

I used a white accordion album this time. Same brand as the last one: American Traditional Design. I just used the rest of my Daisy D papers from the kit and the Deja view rub-on's and some Making Memories Rub-on's. This accordion album was alot easier to make. TFL!

Family Christmas Accordion Album

The last of the Christmas 05 photos I put into Accordion albums. This one I named: Family Christmas Accordion Album. This one is my fav. out of the accordion albums. I worked harder on this one. I loaded it with embellies and ribbon. It is thick but fun.

I used Daisy D Paper kit(Christmas) for the papers.



I tried to use the vintage Santa paper the most on this album. It was my favorite paper from the kit.



I just love the look of Daisy D papers to begin with.....such distressed vintage feeling to them. The Santa paper I used from this kit just had so many cute things on the paper. Like the vintage toys and I especially like the airplane on it. Very fun colors too. Daisy D makes the best paper kits. This kit was a 8x8 paper kit.

Here some scans of the Front Cover and the Back Cover:

On the cover I used the Santa Photo Corners with the Red distress Vintage paper from the kit. I added the Sheer Frame from Making Memories with a cute pix of Aaron in the middle. Than added the green paper underneath the sheer frame. Than decorated it with Primas and KI Lab kit bling flowers. I also added the file tabs from the Daisy D kit and added rub-on words and Word Confetti from Making Memories. All the file tabs are from the Daisy D paper kit. They were just too cute! I added them to the back and front of the album.


Just a photo view of the album opened up. Both Front and Back side of the accordion album.

I was going to make the album from scratch but I was time limited. I wanted to get it done fast. So I bought American Traditional Design Accordion album in Black for my project. This was a time saver and probably made better than anything I could make~ha!

Below are just some Photo views of the album. I did a photo shoot of the album at different views. It's hard to scan in an accordion album. So I wanted to get different views with my camera for my blog. Here are those photos:

I did scan the originals in but had to do so 2 pages at time to fit on my scanner. I always like to have the original scans. So here are those:

This was a postcard I made of the scanned in pages. So I would have one scan of all the images together.

Pretty cool huh? I like using my photo program for that purpose.

I used alot of products on this album. I already mentioned Daisy D paper kit. Some others products I used:

American Craft Ribbon & Felt Flowers(Greenhouse), KI Memories Color Lab Kit(Joyful), Queen and Company Bon Bon Brads & Fontastics & Hook-Up & Sassy Sequins(Merry Kissmas), Making Memories Rub-On's and Word Fetti & Sheer Frame, Autumn Leaves Buttons(Winter Garden).

Someone asked how I made this album....very easy...I bought the pre-exsisting album. Than I just used the Daisy D papers and Daisy D cut outs from the kit(this kit had Loads of things in it: including those very cute Swirls you see on the backside pages). I than cut paper out to fit the black accordion album(designed the pages and put photos on). When I was done I stapled the ribbon onto the pages. First doing the front side of the album...than on the backside I had to pre-staple the stuff on before I glued it down(so it wouldn't show thru on the finished front pages). The covers(front and back) were thick so I used my crop a dile to punch a hole to put the brad and ribbon thru. On the other side of the covers(the inside of the albums) I just put brads thru BEFORE I pasted the papers down. So the front cover wouldn't have brad thru on finished page. Stuff like that........just takes a little bit of pre-thinking. Make sure when you design the album that when you flip it over to do the backside......that it is right side up. Ha....I did a bad and didn't look and had the pages of my backside upside down. I than Had to get out my faithful "undo" and redo them right side up. LOL LOL LOL! Hope that helps on the questions and TFL! I had alot of fun with this album. I think I will leave this one out for display in the house somewhere. All the ribbon was alot of fun to do. I always seen albums with loads of ribbon on them and wanted to try that technique. I always thought that was such a waste of ribbon when people would do that on a album...but after doing so....it really didn't take up that much ribbon. One could even use extra scrap ribbon laying around. I had 2 cases of American Craft Ribbon and I didn't' use much of it at all.

More Layouts

Finishing up my 05 Fall Album......this is the Christmas pixs I added. Not only did I do fall pixs but I did add to the end of the year on this album ...which was Christmas photos.

I did this two page layout in hopes of making my Christmas photos go quickly. However, I ended up adding 2 accordian albums to the mix. THose I will post in my next postings. Right now this is the only layouts I did on Christmas theme. I don't like doing Christmas layouts for some reason??? Can't figure that out/because I always have good photos. Oh well, I did use my curvy cutter again on this Layout. This Time I cut the Paper in circles and used 4x6 photo. Accent the round paper with loads of alternating Primas and Buttons.

Paper I used was Making Memories(Holly & Stripes). Chipboard is Queen and Company Fontastics(Merry Kissmas). Ki Memories Color Lab Kit(Joyful), Lil Davis Large Flower(Gardenia), Primas, Autumn Leaves mini bag of buttons(Winter Garden).



The next page of the 2 page layout ....is a pocket page. I wanted to add memorable things from Christmas in this pocket. That's why it is empty for the time being.

Again, I used Making Memories Paper(red stripe & green Holly) Daisy D Paper, Lil Davis Ribbon, More Autumn Leaves Winter Garden Buttons, KI Memories Color Lab Kit(Joyful), Queen and Company Fab Flowers & Bon Bon Brads(Merry Kissmas).



I really got the use out of my KI Memories Lab Kit and The Autumn Leaves Buttons. I had an experience finding those buttons let me tell you(well I did tell you .....in a past blog..the one on NSD). They go along way tho ...both products I have used on several layouts. Same with the Queen and Company.

Below is just another view of my pocket page. I threw in the accordian album in the pocket so you can see how I am going to use the pocket. I am not putting the accordian album in the pocket....just threw it in to show how it works. I had planned on first putting the accordian album in that pocket but it was just too thick for that. So no worries....just use it for random stuff(extra pixs, memorabilia, etc.....)

Anyway, there is a preview to one of the accordian albums I made. Will be posting those next. Keep watch and TFL!