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Emmy
Member
05-05-2004
| Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 6:31 pm
Mocha! Ask me before you buy e-bay. What do you think you need? What do you already have? I am over-stocked and would love to help you out. I have everything... paper, stickers, sticky stuff, pens, ideas to use -- ask Moonie -- I have it ALL. Kearie... are we going to start with a goal that's easy to get to and then work up from there? How much time? Should we say... 4 pages in a week? When do you get a chance to scrap?
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 6:33 pm
Lol Emmy! I need everything lol. I only have the book and the pages it came with. I think I also need an instruction book.
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Emmy
Member
05-05-2004
| Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 6:38 pm
What's the size of your album? How many photos do you have? Is it purple? Wanna do purples and pinks?
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 6:52 pm
Uh I think it's 12x12. Just cards so far and it's white with pink flowers lol. Of course I have to add aubergine.
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Kearie
Member
07-21-2005
| Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 6:55 pm
I have a 12 x 12... I have a bunch of photos and lots of paper. I actually have to make some Valentine cards before I start this. Four a week huh? Maybe it will motivate me to finish my brothers wedding album...but purple and pink...probably won't happen. Emma...overstocked on any Sizzix stuff?
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Emmy
Member
05-05-2004
| Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 7:58 pm
Kearie.... lol I meant purples and pinks for Mocha's album, being Cancer survival + her favorite color in the world. Your brother's wedding album? I'm in the middle of my sister's wedding album, but all that stuff is at my parents' house. I'm working at home on family albums. I just work chronologically. I work helping people make albums all the time, so it's really a big deal when I get to do my own - although it shouldn't be. I don't have a bunch of Sizzix stuff. I have a few heart die cuts and pretty pinks in papers. How are you going to do the Valentines? How many are you making? Mocha... I'm going to guess that you want to tell your survival story in your album to preserve part of your personal history for yourself, family and future generations, and maybe to help others who might have a similar experience. Am I right about anything yet? And it sounds like you have a lot of nice cards that you want to preserve. Have you been writing anything out in any sort of journal? Tell me about your album... do the pages have clear covers that will go over them? If so, you've got to think about how to stick the cards in so that you can still open them and read them. If not, no big deal for the cards. Just don't let those boys handle it a lot once it's finished!
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Kearie
Member
07-21-2005
| Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 8:12 pm
I don't have to make many cards, but I'm new at this card making stuff and ideas are quick to come by for me. I'm making my bro an album. He was married in china and the wedding photos are incredible. I still have to make the album and do some pages of the 'honeymoon'. (Their tour of china)
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Emmy
Member
05-05-2004
| Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 8:38 pm
Oooh Kearie! Sounds like those photos will inspire some beautiful pages. I saw some valentines that a friend of mine made last year that were Victorian inspired - really pretty and detailed. She used some satin ribbons and real lace. More muted colors that gave it a vintage feel. Are you making them for family? Kids? All of your cute boyfriends???
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Kearie
Member
07-21-2005
| Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 8:50 pm
Making them for my family and my mother asked me to make some special ones for her closest friends. Help!!!
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Emmy
Member
05-05-2004
| Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 9:11 pm
OK. Use your Scrapbook tools. Make a cut out in the front of the card (Do you have a circle maker or pattern to cut out a heart?) Then put a photo or pretty hearts on the inside, so you'll have a peek-a-boo card. Go to Hallmark and steal your favorite quotes from them! Dig through your stuff and I'll bet you'll get inspired. Any vellum papers? Make a string of paper hearts like paper dolls - Come over and my daughter will show you how! (She makes poodle heads somehow that are all connected like paper dolls.) Any gold and silver pens? Have a cuppa coffee in the morning tomorrow and you'll probably feel more inspired.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 8:39 am
Dang Emmy your ideas sound better than mine lol. I just wanted somewhere to put the cards I had gotten and print out some of the struggle I had and responses from here.
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 1:45 pm
Mocha, Listen to Emmy and make it pink and aubergine. This is the story of your life and your battle with cancer. Let her help you and give you pointers. I want to see it when you are done. So get busy so you can bring it to the next meet. lol
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 1:48 pm
Yes Granny. Emmy, yes the pages have the plastic stuff. Didn't think about the cards being opened. Dang so I'll have to take them out and put them on the pretty paper. What 'tools' will I need?
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 2:06 pm
mocha, chuck got me a whole brand new set of scissors that have edges that cut pretty designs, i had bought a few individual ones, i've got duplicates now. would you like the duplicates? if so, you know my email hon, and i'll mail 'em out to ya!
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Kearie
Member
07-21-2005
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 2:19 pm
Mocha---I took some more photos of some of my pages, to give you some ideas for borders and edges for photos, cards etc. Just ideas that I've used to make things look a little more 'eye catching' and unique. I'll post them here a little later...today or tomorrow.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 2:21 pm
K, thx Kearie! landi i'll get at you when I get home, thx!!
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Kearie
Member
07-21-2005
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 2:23 pm
Mocha...the cards I put into my scrapbook, I cut the front off and put that in the scrapbook...beside the front of the card, I journalled the inside. That way you don't have to "open" the card to see it all. Just an idea.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 2:32 pm
Hmm interesting.
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Emmy
Member
05-05-2004
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 6:55 pm
Hey Mocha, you've got lots of help here in this thread! You can definately finish this project. I put my cards in albums 2 ways: One way is kinda like Kearie I think. The other day I took Moondance's wedding invite and cut it in half and put the front and the inside next to each other. Another way is I use some special pages that let me pull out the cards easily to open them up, but I don't know if you have a post bound, spiral or strap hinge album. I will send you a care pkg when you're ready. Can you post a pic of your album and stuff?
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 7:35 pm
Ok I will but it's just the book lol. Post bound.
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Kearie
Member
07-21-2005
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 10:07 pm
Mine are post bound too. Heres a few pictures of different things I've done.
A little ribbon, some embellishments and viola. (My daughter and her hubby after they eloped)
This one has my folded border. I fanned out strips of paper and put it under the picture and then added ribbon and little gold roses. the bottom of the page has a gold key to match the gold flowers.
Just a regular picture mounting with punched out flowers added to the corner. Adds color to black and whites.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 6:47 am
Ahh very nice Kearie.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 7:51 am
Oh wow Kearie! Very nice pages, but I especially like the black/white pic with the little bit of color added. Very eye catching.
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Emmy
Member
05-05-2004
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 8:16 am
Kearie your b/w above is truly a work of art. Just beautiful work that you do.
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Kearie
Member
07-21-2005
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 11:20 am
Thanks guys, just trying to share some ideas.
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