Pages for a Cause

I made these pages for a girl on crop chocolate who put out a request to help make two albums for two young boys who were in the process of losing their father.  She wanted to put together albums for them with pictures of them and their father.  I kept them simple and non themed, but left room for a title if she wanted to put one over the stars.   The story broke my heart and my prayers go out to the family during this difficult time.

There is room for 6-4x6 photo's if she chooses, since she is putting together two albums I wanted to make it flexible for her and even she doesn't know what the photos will be.  You can't see it in the picture but I distressed the top edge of the black at the bottom.  

Here is a close up of the journaling pocket, this way she can put as much or as little as she needs

Products Used:
Spellbinders Stars
Spellbinders Labels 3
CTMH Paper

Crop Chocolate - September Project 3D Stars

For my September project for crop chocolate we had to use this sketch made by D2

This is what I came up with 

I did a tutorial on how to make the stars, I love using them on my sons's album since flowers seem to be out for some reason :)

Instructions for stars
1. Cut out a 5 point star 
2. Score each point in the middle (5 times)
3. Crease each score line with a bone folder
4. Fold the star along the score lines (this will help shape the star)
5. Unfold the star and shape as necessary
6. Put a foam dot in the middle of the star (on the bottom) and place a thin line of glue along the edge of the entire star. The foam dot will help the star keep its shape. 

Here is the Video


Attention Sweetpea1077, can you please contact me about your blog candy?  I will draw a new winner on September 14th, if I don't hear from you.


Products used:
MM Pitter Patter Paper
Spellbinders Starts

Welcome to the World

I am such a lucky girl, my hubby let me have a scrapbook day at a friends house and I got to play with some new goodies from Crop Chocolate.  This is a picture of my son when he was born, and the caption below says "Welcome to the World"  I put his name and birth date on there but for I edited it out his sake (who wants their baby pictures all over the internet) .   The papers, and embellishments are from the MM Pitter Patter Oliver line.  I got all them at Crop Chocolate for a great price as usual.  I will do a tutorial on the stars soon so keep posted.

Products Used:

Spellbinders Starts

MM Pitter Patter Paper

MM Pitter Patter Design Shop