Home Sweet Home Mini Book

Hello everyone! I hope your weekend was a good one. My parents visited and we did a lot of fun activities; visited an outdoor museum which has animals, and took walks, among other things. Anton also got to learn how to make a ceramic bowl, on one of those tables that turn around and around. We are looking forward to picking it up after it has been burned to see how it turned out.

This week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge our theme is Home Sweet Home.  Don't miss the project by our May guest designer Dr Sonia, aka Cards, Crafts, Kids Projects.

When I was thinking about the theme, I got the idea of making a mini album documenting all the homes in which I have lived, nine in total so far, on two continents. I still need to have the photos printed (I don't print my photos at home), so the album is not completely finished yet. I plan to add outdoors and some indoor photos of each place, as well as journaling. As my base, I used Tim Holtz's Chronicle Worn Cover, which is larger (9 x 6.5 in) than the other worn covers. I had fun decorating it.

To change the background, I used Tim's Bricked Stencil and Dina Wakley's lovely Rosy metallic paint. I avoided the framed circle.

There had to be some stamping on the cover, and I used number stamps, an address stamp, a date background, birds and a compass.

To embellish my cover, I die cut a small globe, and houses from Cityscape Suburbia, Cityscape Metropolis, and the Snowglobe sets from Heavyweight paper, as well as clouds from white wool felt. They paper die cuts were coated with Matte Medium, and I also applied Crazing Medium here and there.

Then I coloured all of them with Distress Crayons.

The globe fits perfectly in the circle frame on the cover. I glued everything down with Matte Medium, since it both sticks very well and doesn't show.

As a base for the houses, I used a piece of Design Tape with numbers and applied a little Matte Medium underneath to make sure it is stuck down well.

The Crazing Medium gives great texture to the houses.

I die cut my title from white mat board using the Deco Alpha die. I really like this font. The letters were painted red and stamped with a text stamp. Then I coated them with a layer of Glossy Accents.

I added some metallic embellishments too, such as this globe. The hearts were done in the same way as the title letters. 

I like to mix different textures, and the wool felt, glossy hearts, and crackled houses and globe look fun together.

A little Mermaid Lagoon paint was rubbed into the lock.

I also added some air mail arrows in Design Tape form.

The ring binder was tied with a piece of Linen Ribbon, and I added a key to it.

Here is the back, kept simple with just the bricks and some stamping.

For the inside, I prepared all the pages, so that I can just add photos. I used Tim's Large Assorted Page Pockets. There are three different types of protectors in the pack with great sizes: 3 x 4, 2 x 3 and 3 x 3, as well as a couple of thinner strips here and there. I mainly used Tim's 8 x 8 in paper pads and if you cut the papers cleverly, you can basically use every piece of each paper.

I used one pack of page protectors here, but I need to get a second one to add to the album. I was also out of the large ring binders, and will buy them instead, since the thin one you see here will be too small, once all the pages and photos are in the album.

The Zebra strip by Graphic 45 was a left-over from another project, the rest of the papers are all by Tim. I will add stamping to the inside pages, once I have the photos.

I picked a mix of neutral, number, postage, travel and map themed papers.

You can also alter the inside covers. I stenciled the pretty Floral stencil and added some stamping. I might add journaling later.

And here is the back inside cover.

I really hope you will join us in our Home Sweet Home challenge. As every week, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

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Thank you so much for visiting today! 

Happy crafting!!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Tim Holtz Idea-ology CHRONICLE Worn Cover	Tim Holtz Idea-ology LARGE Assorted Page Pockets	Tim Holtz Sizzix CITYSCAPE METROPOLIS	Tim Holtz Sizzix CITYSCAPE SUBURBIA	Tim Holtz Sizzix SNOWGLOBE Thinlits
Tim Holtz Sizzix GLOBE MINI	Tim Holtz Sizzix DECO ALPHA DIE Bigz XL	Tim Holtz Sizzix TINY SHAPES	Tim Holtz TINY THINGS 2	Tim Holtz NEWSPRINT AND TYPE
Tim Holtz MINI ORNATES	Tim Holtz ETCETERA	Tim Holtz ULTIMATE GRUNGE	Tim Holtz DOCUMENTED	Tim Holtz JUST THOUGHTS
Tim Holtz STUFF TO SAY	Tim Holtz WAREHOUSE DISTRICT	Tim Holtz SOUVENIR Adornments	Tim Holtz LOCKET KEYS	Tim Holtz Metal Word Bands OBSERVATIONS
Tim Holtz LOOP PINS	Tim Holtz Idea-ology LINEN RIBBON	Tim Holtz LARGE RING BINDERS	Tim Holtz Idea-ology CHITCHAT STICKERS	Tim Holtz POSTAL Design Tape
Simon Says Stamp Wool Felt White	Tim Holtz Stencil BRICKED	Tim Holtz Stencil FLORAL	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress 8.5 X 11 MIXED MEDIA HEAVYSTOCK	Sizzix LITTLE SIZZLES MAT BOARD 6x13 WHITE
Tim Holtz 8 x 8 Paper ETCETERA	Tim Holtz Idea-ology COLLAGE	Tim Holtz FRENCH INDUSTRIAL	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paper Stash MENAGERIE	Tim Holtz 12 x 12 Paper Stash DAPPER
Tim Holtz Idea-ology CORRESPONDENCE	Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK	Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium MATTE	Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium CRAZING	Dina Wakley Ranger ROSY
Tim Holtz Distress Paint CANDIED APPLE	Tim Holtz Distress Paint MERMAID LAGOON	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons SET 10	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons SET 3	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons SET 2
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons SET 6	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons SET 1	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons SET 7	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons SET 4	Tim Holtz Tonic GUILLOTINE COMFORT PAPER TRIMMER
Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White	Sizzix SHUTTLE Movers and Shapers	Sizzix MINT Standard Cutting Pads	Sizzix CUTTING PAD XL Pair	Hero Arts CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCK 3 by 3
Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS	Ranger MINI ROUND INK BLENDING TOOLS

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