Sheila's Stamping Stuff: Album Retreat ~ Capture the Details

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Album Retreat ~ Capture the Details

If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, then you saw lots of photos posted last month when I attended Close To My Heart's Album Retreat in Salt Lake City. It was a wonderful weekend spent with friends, creating fabulous scrapbook pages designed by CTMH featuring the Artbooking Cricut cartridge.

As they did with the Album Retreat in March (see my completed pages), CTMH sent a "homework" assignment a few weeks prior with specific themes and sizes for photos and journaling on each page. For this event, they even printed the photos and journaling for us. Completing the "homework" included uploading photos into Studio J and placing them into a specially-designed template so that all photos were automatically sized to the correct proportions. Using the 'No Limits' pattern in Studio J is a great way to print photos of any size since you can create an entire two-page layout of just different size photo wells. Since each two-page layout is only $6.95, this is a very economical way to print non-standard size photos.

Each of the pages that we created is very detailed and includes multiple cuts from the Artbooking cartridge as well as papers from different paper packets with a mixture of embellishments and stamp sets.

For the cover page, a black & white 5¼" x 4" photo was suggested. Texture was added to the Colonial White background by spritzing a mixture of Slate reinker and water using a Spray Pen. Stamp sets used for this page include All the Details, along with both the Take Note and My Life stamp sets which are included in the Artbooking Circuit Bundle. Patterned papers are from the Laughing Lola and Frosted kits. Click on the photo for an enlarged view.

Be sure to follow my blog to see all of the completed pages. In addition to the cover page, there are ten 2-page layouts which I will be sharing throughout the month.