World's Fair Mini Album

Back when Tuesday Morning had lots of fun Graphic 45 paper packs, I kind of went overboard. I always figured that I could use the papers for cards. However, this particular collection, called "World's Fair" was something that I couldn't resist, even though its appeal might seem rather limited.

My mother worked at the San Diego World's Fair in 1934 or 35 when she was a young woman. The official name was actually California Pacific International Exposition. 

Disclaimer: Yes, I am older, but probably not as old as this might sound. She and my dad were both older when they married, and I was the youngest of their kids.

At any rate, I ended up going through her photos with her before she died, and several were from that time and place, so I will make copies to add to the back of some of the larger tags.

I think that I started this project in 2020 or 2021. I sent sheets of the World's Fair papers that I had to two of my scrapping friends, since I had quite an abundance of the papers to play with.  We had all moved to different states. I made a flip fold mini album base for each of the three of us, gave each one the same number of the papers, and mailed them with the challenge to make a mini album. It would be fun to see how our mini albums all differed.

However, with COVID, and the fact that both my crafty friends moved twice, I don't think any of us made very fast progress, and they may have purged the gifted papers in their moves. I won't be offended if they did. Since it was my challenge, I worked on it, but with my DH's back surgery, followed by the heart attack 3 months later, it was kind of a low priority. I became his caregiver. Thankfully, he has improved significantly, and I actually do craft more again these days.

I was going through some things, found several mini albums that I had done, and I decided to get this one out and see if I could finish it. There wasn't that much left to do. So here is my creative project. I didn't copy anyone or anything. It is all my own design, one reason that it took so long.

Because this is a Flip Fold Mini Album, pages may be out of sequence to some extent.

Cover page:

Inside front cover (left side) and last page (right side):

 

Inside front cover with tag pulled out. If you see a brad, it means the item rotates. The left side is a half page, with a pocket for the tag.

Left flap opened, tags pulled partially out of their pockets:

Middle front image is the center section, and the right image is the inside of the back cover:

When you turn the left side the the above page, you see this:

Below is with the tags removed. In case the print is too small to see in the photo just above, the hot air balloon slides up and don the vertical decorative sentiment strip.

This next section is actually the middle, with both of the side flaps closed. The right side is actually the open view of the third section of the Flip Fold Album.

The middle section, with the side flaps opened:

The last pages of the open mini album, with the tags pulled out of the middle pocket:

And the back cover:

Like other items that are held on with a brad, the ballon swivels. It helps to hold the journal/photo card in the pocket. As mentioned previously, all photos will be on the opposite side of the journal cards. I just need to get them printed, and since they are of my mother, I don't want them shown publicly, anyway.

I hope you liked my little World's Fair Flip Fold Album. I don't think the photos do it justice. It's more dimensional and impressive in person.

CARDtober #31 Favorite Color

This challenge was to use your favorite color. My favorite color is blue, especially royal blue, although the manufacturers don't seem to like it as much as I do, because I have little to no royal blue anything in my stash. I did the best that I could with what I had.

I die cut the blue overlay. I used the watercolors on the flowers, which I made with Heartfelt Creations products.

I also like pink, so I made the white flowers pink with the watercolors, which have a lovely, almost glittery shine to them.

 

CARDtober #30 Product Playtime: Watercolors

Various options were available for this challenge, but since I have never actually used the watercolors that I bought from Tuesday Morning years ago, I decided to pull them out and give them a try. I used them to paint the background, then stamped on top of it once dry, then added a few touches of watercolors again, especially on the seagull and clouds, after the stamping ink had dried. The watercolors have a shimmer to them.

CARDtober #29 Any Type of Texture

My take on this might be a bit weird, but I added texture with Nuvo drops and gems.

I fussy cut the woman, phrase, and florals, and added Nuvo Drops, for a slight texture that can be felt as you run your fingers across the card.

 

Tiny gems were added to the centers of flowers in the paper, which could be easily seen and felt.

CARDtober #28 Monday Multiples

For the record, I did make 2 of this card, although the 1st one didn't have a pocket or card inside. I may scan and add it later, but for now, I am just showing the second version.

On the left is the closed card. The top portion is a flap. The bottom part is a pocket, which is overlapped slightly by the flap. The right image is the open card, with the card insert taken out of the pocket.

CARDtober 27 Pretty Patterned Paper

For this challenge, we were to use patterned papers to create either a set or a single card using the Sheet Load of Cards pattern for May 2020.  This was my take, although instead of a circle, I used a Silhouette print and cut design. I really liked the scalloped edge, and it seemed to match relatively closely to the yellow of the polka dot paper. The ultra thin border of the outside edge is not actually part of the card pattern, but just a piece of card stock that I put behind the card when I scanned it. The cards with a white border don't show up well on the blog, since it also has a white background.

CARDtober 26 Framed by Die Cuts

This one took me 3 tries before I was happy with the results. The first one wasn't bad:

 

I just wasn't really that happy with it. So I tried a second time, hated the border, so I didn't even glue anything down. The example was multiple die cut leaves, which looked really nice, and which went all the way to the outside edge, but a lot of die cutting and/or punching is hard on my hands. I needed something that was easier, but I was having difficulty finding dies that seemed suitable. I finally chose some dies that looked like wooden boards, and that you can ink like stamps for the wood grain to show. I added an AI fall design in the center, and I was a lot happier with this one.

 

CARDtober #25 Loving Leftovers Double Cluster

For this challenge, I am asking card makers to make a card with TWO embellishment clusters: one large, one small.

I used Queen & Co. dies to cut out the cooky jar, baking sheet, rolling pin, and cookies, as well as the mini banners for the small cluster.

CARDtober24 Color Triad

For this challenge, we were to use a color triad. I chose blue, yellow, and purple. I used an older BoBunny paper pad. The colors look better together in real life than the scan makes it seem. I did a bit of fussy cutting to get the flowers on the banner and the beehive.

 

CARtober 23 Product: Ribbon

This challenge is to use two or more ribbons or fibers. The example used woven ribbons. I chose to make a bow, and decided to add it on a shaped card (Queen & Co. Stocking shaker, but I didn't use the shaker parts). The white top of the stocking is velveteen paper.

 

CARDtober 22 Texture

This challenge was to emboss then sand or ink. I used a card stock that I thought would work for the sanding, but it wasn't enough of a contrast, so I inked it. I added AI clip art that I printed and cut awhile back, and used a stamped phrase that I had made for a previous project, and added a small banner die cut behind it.

 

CARDtober 21 Multiple Monday

We had a sketch to follow, and we were to make 4 cards. Mine are identical except for the tag on each card. I did adapt the sketch a bit. The card base is a cream color, although it looks darker in the photo. The floral/butterfly tags were a jpg file from either Etsy or Creative Fabrica. The stamp that I used was from a very old Technique Tuesday stamp set.

 

CARDtober #20 Patterned Paper

This project was about using a sketch and pretty patterned paper to create a card or a set of 4 cards. I chose to just make one card, since I am using scraps to make most of my CARDtober challenge projects.

I found some red, white, and blue papers and decided to go with a July 4th/patriotic card. I gave a background mat to a piece of print and cut ephemera for the image. I used a product information strip that had a design on the back side for the fireworks strip.

CARDtober #19 Sketchtember

I adapted this one a bit. The sample card had rows of punched circles, and a strip with the sentiment. I felt the sentiment strip detracted. And I wanted a bit more visual interest, so I used a scalloped envelope flap die from Queen & Co. Like most of the cards I am making this month, I used leftover scraps.

CARDtober #18 Loving Leftovers

It's time for a bit of fall fun. Whether you make a spooky cluster or a fall one, make an embellishment cluster from leftovers that represents October and/or where you live. I had some leftover die cuts and stamped images that were sitting in my stash, so I used them for the spooky card. I also made a card with a western theme, since I live in Texas

CARDtober #17 Color Combos

For this challenge, we were to use black and white, and one other color. I immediately thought of Alice in Wonderland, especially the Queen of Hearts, so I chose red for the third color. My daughter loves anything related to Alice in Wonderland, so I will be giving this card to her.

CARDtober #16 Product Playtime Inking

This challenge was to use inking. I chose to ink an embossing folder, and use the inked (debossed) side. I'm happy with the inked and debossed chicken wire. Of course, it needed chickens, so I used a Silhouette print and cut file. I typed the sentiment and turned it into a print and cut file. The inside of the card will say, "Get Well Soon."

CARDtober #15 Texture Tuesdays Debossing

For this challenge, we were to deboss. In the example, the wood slats of a door were created with a stylus. I have been wanting to use this AI door image for awhile, so I decided to deboss the slats of the door. The debossing doesn't show. So I used the reverse side of an embossing folder for my background. In real life, you can see that the vine background is debossed, but somehow the scanned image looks embossed. I can't win on this one. It really is debossed, even if it doesn't look like it.

CARDtober #14 Multiples

CARDtober #14 is Monday Multiples. We make 4 cards based on a sketch she gives us. We were supposed to use 4 different sentiments, but since I needed birthday cards for family birthdays, I might have fudged slightly. They are different sentiments, just all birthday sentiments.

I used embossed card stock instead of patterned paper. The images are AI clip art from the internet that I downloaded awhile back. I'm not sure if the ones that I used are from Creative Fabrica or Etsy.

 

CARDtober #13 Patterned Paper FunFold

This card challenge was about using patterned paper and was combined with a Fun Fold. It was the first time that I had made this particular Fun Fold. It looks better in person than in the photo. If I were to do this Fun Fold again, I would probably use different papers.