What A Beautiful Mess: Frank Garcia Design Team March 11 2024/ Mini album featuring Tim Holtz product.

Sunday, March 31, 2024

Frank Garcia Design Team March 11 2024/ Mini album featuring Tim Holtz product.

When you think about Tim Holtz, you think of a gorgeous dark, grunged distressed style. I had a different vision. I was thinking pink, lovely, airy, not so distressed and created a mini album to showcase the dies. I mean mini. Like 3.5x4,5 with a 2 inch spine. Small but mighty as it is packed with beautiful goodness. I created my own album with chipboard and covering it with the beautiful Loves Notes paper. I used a gold metallic pen to highlight the little hearts on the paper, and doodled some lines around the edges of the album. For the front cover I used Loves Notes Chipboard Stickers and Love Notes Puffy Stickers to adorn the cover. I absolutely love the Prima Strawberry Milkshake Velvety Smooth Flowers. I used them on the cover and in the mini. Such a delicious color pink!!

I had the pink ribbon in my stash that I matched with the papers. To close the mini just tie it up in a bow.

This is the view from the back of the album. I hung the dome from a bead and chain dangle that I created using my own stash.

I absolutely adore the little Idea-ology Decorative Domes. I just knew I had to do something special with them. So I took it apart, glued some moss on the bottom, placed a Prima Flower in the middle, fussy cut teeny tiny butterflies from the 6x6 French Blue paper, glued them to the top of tiny strips of acetate, then glued the base of the acetate to the flower. Then I placed the dome back on the base, tucking everything in carefully, and glued it onto the base. It looks like the butterflies are fluttering around in the dome.

I gave the sweet little Idea-ology Salvage doll wings that I fussy cut from the Prima French Blue paper, as the size was perfect. I scattered some Idea-ology Gumdrop Hearts on the cover. The sparkle is beautiful!

Here is a shot of the book opened from the front. The pages have tabs that make the pages easier to flip. The tabs are part of the Tim Holtz Sizzix Specimen die set. And it looks sweet too!

These little collector packets were die cut from the Tim Holtz Collectors die by Sizzix. It coordinates beautifully with the Specimen die set. The cards were cut from the Love Noted collection. They fit perfectly! The backs were tied with thin jute, and the buttons were topped with The Loves Notes Puffy Stickers.

The little envelopes were created from The We R Memory Keepers Envelope Punch Board Mini. It created the smallest envelopes in different sizes just like the big Punch board. I love the mini one. Perfect for gift cards, and stuffing into mini albums like I did. Inside of each envelope I stuffed some fusst cut papers from the Love Notes paper collection. Save your scraps, it doesn't take much!.

And my favorite die in the Specimen Collection?? The photo slide!!! I die cut 3 of them. 2 of them I backed the opening with acetate, and the 3rd, used some Love Noteds Ephemera and placed it in the opening. I added the jute for some added texture.

The next few photos will show each page in the mini album. It is simply chock full of goodness.

I simply adore a good little chunky mini. I could probably stuff some more into it. I left a couple of the pages blank, but now I have other ideas for them!

Here are the last 2 pages. I created some bely bands on the pages to slide the pockets and envelopes into to keep them from sliding out of the mini. I just love layering the ephemera. The sizes are perfect for this little album.