Gina's Designs Leafy Corner Set

Hi friends!  Debbie with you today sharing a fun envelope mini album with a sleeve to store it in. For years I've kept a day planner to keep my life organized and this is one of the storage covers and sleeves that comes with my planner sheets every year.  I was wondering what to do with all of them and finally decided to cover them with patterned paper and embellish them with some beautiful Leafy Corner I had from Gina's store.

To decorate the outside sleeve I covered it with patterned paper and stenciled it with a beautiful stencil created by one of my good friends.  I painted my pieces of chipboard with a deep burgundy color and then highlighted it all with Inka Gold.

To finish off my pieces I added gold embossing powder and adhesive gemstones and flowers.

Here are a few additional photos, the inside of the mini album is made with envelopes.

I hope you give this technique a try, it's fairly fast and easy and it looks beautiful when you're finished!

Thanks for stopping by Gina's Blog today!!

Gina's Designs Products used:

 Leafy Corner Flourishes

All You Need is Love...and a Dog!

Woof! Lynne here with a fun project, the adorable bone-shaped mini album from Gina's store! As a major pet lover, I fell in love with it and with the Graphic 45 paper line "Raining Cats and Dogs", which was perfect for this project. Featured here are my Shih-tzu Chazz and my pug/Boston mix Toby, with cameo appearances by my daughter Elizabeth and cat Marley!

 The bone-shaped tag comes with the album, as well as a round tag.

As you can see I had fun playing with this little album; check out the great minis in Gina's store!

Gina's Products Used

Dog Bone Mini Album

Other Products Used

Graphic 45 Raining Cats and Dogs,

8x8 and 12x12 sheets

black ink, foam tape

Martha Stewart punches

Steampunk Mini Album

Hi everyone! Carla here with a fun tutorial using the Cutout Cover Mini Album- Steampunk from Gina's Designs!

The first thing I did was to take one of the pages and turn it into my cover, I used gesso all over it and with a foam brush, did pouncing movements to create this cool texture.

 After that was dried, I used different sprays in gold, brown and coffee shades to make it look antique.

Next I took the Steampunk cutout overlay and painted it with this acrylic gesso and let it dry.

Then I sprayed it with dark copper and bronze shades, using a mixture of flat and shimmery finishes.

When the two pieces are adhered together, you can see the cool effect!
Here are some more pictures of the inside pages. I used the Dragonfly Frame, Flourish Frame Sienna, Flourish Frame Sienna Mini and Dragonfly.

I love all of the details in this steampunk mini album. Hope you enjoyed this tutorial and please check out the video on my YouTube channel. Please subscribe!!!

Gina's Designs products used:

Cutout Cover Mini Album- Steampunk
Scribble Frame Dragonfly
Flourish Frame Sienna
Flourish Frame Sienna Mini
Dragonflies Fancy

Other products used:

Gesso

Acrylic gesso

Lindy's sprays

Robin's Nest Snowman Mini by Dianna

Hi everyone, Dianna here with Gina's Designs adorable Snowman Mini Album (Coming Soon) and a Cross-Promotion with The Robin's Nest.  On the cover I used a beautiful snowflake paper from The Robin's Nest and Gina's Designs title Winter Wonderland (I cut the snowman off and cut up the phrase to fit on the mini album).  All the large snowmen are chipboard from Gina's and covered with plain white cardstock embossed with an embossing folder.  I daubed Stickles on both the title and the snowmen.  The hats are patent leather paper and scarfs are felt. 

The blue and white striped paper is the coordinating side of the glitter deer paper from The Robin's Nest.  I am kinda proud of the fact that this mini album has fold outs, which are on plain white card stock or drop-off from The Robin's Nest paper. The snowflake rosette is cut from a die and prior to folding the rosette I daubed Stickles on the edge to give it a little something.  The clip is just a plain paperclip with a snowflake charm.  The LET IT SNOW is from Gina's Designs Winter Shape Set painted white and stickled.  The snowflakes thru out is from the Snowflake Shape Set and the Winter Shape Set.  The deer from Gina's Design is being used as a pocket.  I glued the deer on The Robin's Nest glitter deer paper and cut out around the back of the deer and created a folded a flap and glued it on the back of the deer.  I painted the ice skates white, daubed Stickles and used a snow-writer for the "fur" trim.  I created a downward foldout and glued the ice skates on the front.  The rest of the pages are a using the rest of the snowflakes and snowmen.

Items Used

Gina's Designs

Title Winter Wonderland

Snowman Mini Album - Coming Soon

Winter Shape Set

Deer

Snowflake Shape Set

The Robin's Nest

Winter Deer Glitter Cardstock

Winter Snowflakes Cardstock

Other Items

Stickles

 

Gingerbread House Mini Album and Family

Dawn Rene here today to share a Gingerbread House Mini Album from Gina's Designs. It is a non-traditional gingerbread house made with a pastel color palette. I decorated the inside of the album with the Gingerbread Family Shape Set. Aren't they so adorable? All the pieces are painted with gesso and Tim Holtz distress paints. The "snow" is Shaved Ice.

      

Thanks for stopping by!

Gina's Designs Supplies
Mini Album: Gina's Designs - Gingerbread House Mini Album
Chipboard Shapes: Gina's Designs - Gingerbread Family Shape Set

Other Supplies
Paper: BoBunny - Prairie Chic
Dies: Memory Box - Grand Madison Window Shutter
Ribbon: Lovebug Creations Ribbons, Ric Rac
Inks and Paints: Tim Holtz Distress Paints, Gesso
Embellishments: Shaved Ice, Binder Rings

Dress Form Stand Mini Album

Hello  friends, Marjolaine here with my latest creation.

Today's project was made with Gina's Designs dress form stand. It comes with 12 dress form pages and is meant to be a calendar but I made mine to be a mini album. I drilled a hole at the top to attach it together. (OK so my husband drilled the hole because I don't like power tools!) I thought a dress would be appropriate so I fashioned one without having to sew! A pretty pearl necklace finished the outfit nicely.

The mini album is at the back and I added one line per page from a beautiful quote by Audrey Hepburn.

 So elegant!

Here's the beautiful quote I used,

"The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years.”

Dressform For All Occasions Kit

10 Words Mixed Media Style

Hey everyone. Shanna here today to share with you my take on using Gina's 10 Words. 

I have been really into mixed media lately and well this mini looks like it was tossed in a room full of sprays, inks, and paste. I has so much fun creating this and playing with all the colors and combos.

 So please let me know what you think and enjoy. I even made a little video on my process of how the pages were made if you are interested!

Here is the video link to watch how I made the cover. 

Items Used:

Gina's Designs - 10 Words and Intricate Doilies

Canvas Mini Album

Lindy's Sprays

Tattered Angels 

Black Paint

Crackle Accents

Prima Paper and Stamps

Modeling Paste

Stencils

Mini Album by Heidi

Hello: Heidi here with another beautiful Gina's Designs Project.  I got this album from Gina along with the beautiful gate. The album has scalloped pages and wire bound. I did not really have anyone specific in mind but it had to be delicate and allow for some room for some pictures.  

Here are some pictures of the inside of the album- all decked out using some of Gina's Designs. 

Products used:  

Scallop Edge Album

Chipboard words

Labels

Birds & birdcage 

Doilies

Garden Fairy Mini Album by Rashida

It's another wonderful Monday and we hope you are ready to start a new week!  This week our designers will be highlighting a new shape set from Gina that is Garden Fairies.  Check out this fun and whimsical Garden Fairy mini album by Rashida.  For more pictures visit her blog atwww.kokonamoon.com

Supplies used:
Gina's Designs Butterflies and Dragonflies 
Gina's Designs Garden Fairies
Gina's Designs Doilies
Gina's Designs Birds and Flourishes 
Rose Trim ( Hobby Lobby)
Wbesters Pages paper
Websters Pages Journaling Tags
Websters Pages Embellishments 
Prima Flowers
Ranger Ink pads
Liquitex Modeling Paste 
Deco Art Snow-tex
Luminart Twinkling H20s Shimmering Watercolors.

Star Mini Album by Lisa

Hey All! Happy July 1st to you! 

It's Lisa Novogrodski here and today I have one of Gina's "Star Mini Albums" to share with you.

Grab yourself a beverage and relax. There are a lot of sweet fun pages to view on this one. (you might want a munchie too)

For the cover I used a coat of gesso as my base. Then I hit it with the heat tool (not really hit it but you know what I mean) and then applied some Magical Micas. I let it dry for a bit and while still tacky but not wet I brushed crackle over it. The crackle smeared the coloring a bit and allowed it to shade and some of the gesso to peek through.

To the little stars I added Lindys Mists and Shimmerz sprays. 

I've also added some of Gina's Glassine bags to the pages of this album. I scored them in order to fold them then adhered. This leaves a little pocket to tuck things in and places to adhere photos or other small treasures.

Here is a little vintage 4th of July image I found. Sweet isn't it?

I thought it would be fun to create a little fold out page. I used a die cut from Bo Bunny, cut it in half and attached with a paper hinge.

I like to use die cuts as photo mats.

More glassine bags with little tags tucked in.

Fun star banner and beaded pin.

Whew!Thats a wrap! 

Thanks for sticking with me and be sure to check out Gina's Designs Store!

Supplies Used

Glassine Bags

Star Mini Album

Heidis Stars