are you all buried with holiday preparations? i am!! it is all fun but it is *so* busy! my mil is visiting right now and we are having lots of fun. we had our christmas with her last night and i thought i'd share what i made for her. it is a clear album. it is about 8.5 x 5 and made from clear sheets of acrylic. i stamped them with white stazon and small flourishes from the su set priceless. i don't think you can really get the full effect from this picture because it is see through and really hard to get a picture of. i matted one 4x6 picture on the front and back of each page so you can see through the sides of the album. it looks cool IRL! :) i punched one hole on the side of each page with my crop-a-dile and then used a big office supply ring to keep them all together. i made one page for each month of 2007, and the cover is a picture of our name written in the sand at the beach. i saw that done in a scrapbooking magazine a long time ago so now each time we go to the beach i write a message in the sand and take a picture of it. it makes for cute pages and you can even use them as journaling, like i did here!
both nancy and debbie asked me on my last post how i take pictures of my cards so i thought i'd share. i used to scan them and i didn't like how they got squished if the card wasn't completely flat so i started taking pictures of them with my camera instead. i sit the card on white paper in my scrapbooking room underneath 2 OTT lights. i put a paper behind and underneath the card so that the background is plain. i don't use a flash and i don't zoom in, i take it from a few steps back. then i upload my pictures and crop them using my photo editing system. it is adobe but it is an old version, not one of the new ones. i crop the photo pretty closely, and add my name to the bottom and that is it! i am certainly *not* an expert on this at all, i have just read online how others do this and i have adapted it to work for me. i hope you are having a great day! thanks for visiting! :)
Oh, I like this a lot! Where do you find acrylic sheets?
Posted by: Elena | December 18, 2007 at 12:20 PM
Jennie...your album is so cool. I love the cover with your family name in the sand. Brilliant!
Thanks for sharing your photo tips. It's funny because another blog I read, she takes her photos with an OTT light as well & they turn out really bright like yours. I recently purchased one but I haven't had a chance to take any photos yet with it. I only have the one light so I will have to make do with that. Thanks for the tips Jennie!
Posted by: Nancy P. | December 18, 2007 at 06:07 PM
This is one of my favorite things you have ever done. I just love it. Thank you so much for the tips. I can't wait to try it. You're such a wonderful inspiration, Jennie!
Posted by: Debbie | December 18, 2007 at 08:43 PM
This is awesome!! What a cool/clever idea!! Definitely an idea to refer back to when I need to make a cool album!!! TFS!!
Posted by: Rhonda Maynard | December 19, 2007 at 12:01 AM
Love this little album, but where did you get the acrylic from? Thanks.
Posted by: Vicki | December 27, 2007 at 05:21 AM