Mother Goose

I just love making these folio albums, and when looking through my stash of paper the other day I found leftovers from another album project that was just asking to be used!  After all, I was looking for something to use for making an album for a friend who wants one to put pictures of her great grandchildren in.  This Mother Goose paper from Graphic 45 is so cute, and it made up really cute.  I love those bright colors, and making the base with a bright blue card stock brought out all those lovely colors, I think.

I also tried a new project with some other left over paper from a previous folio album and made a small gift bag for the album.  It turned out pretty good, if I may say so myself!  I'll definitely try this again.

It has been a productive week!

Songbird album

I spent most of the day yesterday creating this new folio album from a set of papers named Song Bird, from Paper Wishes.  I think this paper is beautiful and it made a really pretty album.  It is the same design as the other folio album I made last week.

Here are some pictures of the songbird album.  I'd be interested to know which one people like the best

Oops!  This picture is a bit blurrier than I want, but you get the gist of the closed album...
Here is a side view showing the 3-D effect bird on the lower right:

Now, opened up all the way...

As before, the pocket on the left side has three mats, one of which is a little booklet folded.

And, finally, the waterfall in the center section.  I love the colors in these papers!

My first folio album

When I came across pictures of a folio album on Pinterest, I immediately fell in love with the layout idea and since I had a set of papers from Paper Wishes that I was planning to use for some kind of mini album, I set to work to use this paper and I LOVE  the results! 

The paper set had a sheet that had a flower collage in the lower left corner with the blue pattern and pink stripes, so I used that as the base of the front.  It opens with the panel you see on the right.  I added the gold butterflies at the bottom and a die-cut pink and maroon flower beside the rose buds.  By the way, the base of the folio is black card stock.

When you open the right panel, this is what you see:

I covered the inside of the panel with plain pink patterned paper then added a cutout of flowers from the top left corner of the paper that had the flowers on the bottom left, as described above.  I die cut a flower and leaves and added them to the lower part of the panel just for added dimension and interest.  
Now, open the left panel all the way to see the rest of the folio:

The left side is a pocket with three tags in it, one of which (the deep red one) is actually a folded 3 1/2  x 4 1/2 in. booklet that has four panels total.  Both of the other two tags (one is 5 x 7 in. and one is 4 x 6) are two-sided.

The flower and butterfly decorating the pocket is a three dimensional decoration:

The center panel is a "waterfall" album that has seven two-sided panels.

All in all, there is space for at least 22 photos or journaling spaces.

I like this so much, I plan to make several others with paper sets I have in my stash.  I think it is quite striking~  I can hardly wait to see how others will turn out!