Building A Dream

This is a chipboard album I made for our neighbors who built a new house in the field next door. I don't know them very well, that is to say at all, and I'm very shy so they haven't received it. I thought it would be good advertising for my business to start gifting my work. I think this will end up going to someone else instead, sorry neighbor.




When I was shopping for the supplies for this album I wasn't planning on a shape, I tend to think shapes are too cutesie, but my local scrap store was all out of square so I caved since it's pretty appropriate. Cutting house-shaped paper for all 16 pages was a bit of a hand cramper. It took me about 3 evenings to go from naked chipboard to completed album. Turned out pretty cute with the ruler ribbon, brads, tool stickers, inking around the edges and construction/house themed papers, if I was building a house I might keep it for myself! I loved the maroon cardstock with blind embellished houses but my favorite little detail is the lock embellishment on the front.