Voyager Album

Hi everyone, I am so glad it is Sunday. I have had such a busy week and cannot believe Sunday is nearly over. I have a few things to show this week, the first is the mini album I have mentioned in earlier posts. This is one I made for a very good friend and her husband. I have worked with Robyn for the last 14 years and she finished up on Friday, to take a well earned holiday on her beautiful big boat.

The boat was the inspiration for this album, I have been planning it for so long, but left it to the last minute (as usual) to put it together. I wanted it to look old, like an old ships log, but I got a bit carried away. Trying to get it finished this week meant a few nights with very little sleep, but it was so worth it. Going to miss you so much my friend.

As I was transferring the photos to my computer I decided to call this album Voyager. It is an envelope mini although it is rather large at 61/2 inches x 9 inches. I used manilla A4 envelopes (thanks sis) and cut them in half. The spine is from the fabulous Laura Denison http://www.followingthepapertrail.com/, it is her "stack the deck" spine easy and strong. The covers are just chipboard covered in Kaisercraft cardstock which I sanded, I covered the spine with sticky back canvas and inked it with Tim Holtz(who else) walnut stain distress ink.

I made tags to go inside the open ends of the envelope pages and added mats and journal spots.
Except for one tag where, as I said I got carried away.

Dory is the good luck charm on the boat, so even though it didn't fit with the album theme, I knew it needed to be in there.

Sorry for the long post. If you stayed to the end, Thanks.

Cheers