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Hi everyone! Corri here today.  One of my goals for 2015 is to get more of my kids’ photos out of the computer and into albums.  I decided to try my hand a pocket page.  I love how easy these pages go together and that I can add die cuts to embellish for any subject or season.

I used some paper from Webster’s Pages – Hall Pass Collection added some of Lori’s school themed die cuts.

I cut this apple and grade title to fill one of the 4 x 6 slots.

I used my sketch pens to add some journaling to this globe life card. This is how.

1. Reduce the size of the card to 75%.

2. Place the top layer on your mat and type your journaling.  Scale the text to fit.

3.  Align the text on top of the card.  Select the card and select “no cut” from the cut menu.

4. Replace the blade with a sketch pen and select cut.  Do not unload the mat.

5. Select the text and then set it to “no cut”.  Select the card and set to “cut”.

6.  Replace the pen with the blade and select cut.

Lori has so many great fonts in the shop!  You can really change up the look of your page just by changing the font.  I used the Dot Sketch Font in my example.

Don’t forget you can save 30% off your entire purchase at Lori’s SVG Shop with the code “JANUARY” through 1/19/15.

Hi Everyone!  It’s Kathy,  with my very first post as a member of Lori’s Team!!  I’m very excited to be here!  Today I wanted to show you how I transformed Lori’s Adorable Shaker Camera embellishment into a fun mini album celebrating my cousin’s sweet new baby boy!

I started by loading the Shaker Camera file into my Silhouette.  Keeping everything grouped together, I resized the camera shape to be about 4.5″ x 6.5″ so that it could accommodate 4″x6″ photo sleeves.  By keeping all the shapes together, everything was uniformly resized.

After ungrouping everything, I cut two of the camera shapes and the six “thinner” rings from some Silhouette Chipboard.

I then cut some patterned papers to cover both the outside and the inside covers.  When doing this, make sure to flip the camera shape horizontally for one of the covers.  This will make sure that everything lines up properly.

 

Now I started assembling all of the pieces to make my album covers.  I started by gluing both the outside & inside covers to the chipboard camera pieces.  I then glued the chipboard rings together in a pile.  This builds the “shaker” part of the card.

To finish the “lens” I first glued the ring stack to the background circle I cut from a coordinating piece of paper.

Next, I filled my shaker with a cute Teddy Bear Sticker and some sequins.

Finally, I finished it off by adding a circle of clear plastic to hold all the shaker elements inside, and then added the “fatter” ring that I cut from another piece of patterned paper.

 I added the completed lens, and the viewfinder piece to the front cover.  I used Lori’s Perfect Type Font to cut out the Baby’s name and added that to the lens.

I didn’t have the 4″x6″ photo sleeve when I started this project, so after the covers were complete, I used one of the sleeves to measure where to punch holes for the binder  rings.  On the inside cover, I again used the Perfect Type Font to print the baby’s birth information on a cute little label!

Lastly, I filled the pages!  I wanted to keep it simple, and leave some room for my cousin to add her own writing, so for each page, I simply added one of Lori’s 7 Shapes Labels where I put the date.  Here are the rest of the pages…

I left her some blank pages and labels to add to the album!

That’s it for me today!  Thanks so much for stopping by!