you can't keep a good girl down

I went for a special scrap class yesterday. It was hosted by MWL like all the other classes I've attended, but this was different because the attendees were all members of a scrapping forum which I joined. It was fun being able to match names/nicks to the different faces, and we had a whale of a time making lots of noise and harassing our poor teacher, whom we affectionately called "Zher".

We didn't manage to complete much in the class (think we dilly-dallied and made too much of a ruckus to be productive!) but I did learn a lot and here's the completed project:



It's a gorgeous transparency album - transparency because the pages (some, not all) are made from Hambly transparency overlays (printed transparencies specially for scrapping). It's really pretty, but not easy to do, because the pages are transparent, so whatever you put behind one page is visible, and a fair bit of layout/placement planning is necessary. You don't want to put something behind your front page that clashes with your title, for example.



I love bling! The shiny, jewelly stuff..





My favourite page in the album! The teacher for the class gave us this design tip - using the Zutter Bind-it-All machine, punch holes and thread ribbon through for a "corsety" effect. Then slip your photo in! The ribbon can also hold charms etc. And I'm so happy I found the perfect photo for this page..



This is also something else we were taught in class. This page holds a three-fold sheet. You can choose to do journalling on the three panels, but I chose to insert photos.



I used magnetic snaps to hold the sheet closed. You can see how it opens up in the pic below:



Another nice page - I really like those new flowers I bought. (Yo sis! If you can't find scrap stuff to buy back for me, buy flowers! I lurve!) The two round metal things on the left of the photo are the magnetic snaps I used for the previous page.



In this next pic, see the flower and shiny bits below the transparent panel on the left? That's what I mean by placement planning - you've got to plan so that you don't see something distracting through the transparency, but it'll look nice if some embellishments (like flowers and shiny bits) show through so they look like decoration for that particular page itself.



The last page of the album! This transparency is tied to the back cover (dark brown cardstock) by the many ribbons you see on the right.



I love this album to bits. Love the concept, love the theme.... I think the class teacher cum creator of this album design is so so talented. I realise I still have a long way to go in terms of being innovative and truly creative, but for now, imitation is the best way to learn!

This album is so seriously pretty I've bought material for another two similar ones - one in black and the other in silver. I'm planning to do up an album for Ad's promotion ceremony and another one for my preggie pictures. Now, all I need are the photos.....!

[My apologies for the many many photos - actually there are more pages to the album, I just didn't post them here. Too many pics! :)]