This is Katie Ehmann on board with a beautiful, vintage heritage album. Beyond it's red bow is a window filled with flowers surrounded by exquisite pages from years long ago. Today, I'm going to show you how to create an album like this of your very own. It's truly magical and a treasure trove of memories - come take a look!
The materials needed are as follows; vintage book, ruler, pencil, craft knife, self-healing cutting mat, ribbon, sewing machine, old family photos and your favorite Crate Paper collection. I opted to use the DIY Shop collection because of it's vintage feel - matches wonderfully with my old photos from the 1930's and 1940's.
The start of the album begins with a special touch - an altered title page with a window, exclusive to a Crate Paper Stand-Out Embellishment. To recreate this page, gather up a group of pages the same approximate width as the embellishment it's to hold. Position a craft mat just beneath the group of pages to protect your work surface.
Next, use a ruler to find the middle of the page and then with a pencil, draw a square that is slightly larger than the soon-to-be encapsulated embellishment.
With a craft knife, carefully cut along the pencil markings, making sure to cut through all of the pages. Remove the squares to reveal your window!
Machine sew the group of pages together to reinforce your "window" and create one very thick page!
Add patterned paper, letter stickers and embellishments to your title page, sewing across your chosen letter stickers.
For the remainder of the album pages, cut various patterned papers sized slightly smaller than the book pages and machine sew them into position.
Add photos, embellishments and journaling to each page, including names and dates (mine have been covered for privacy purposes).
Depending on the number of pages you've created, you may want to remove additional "book pages" in order for your book to close properly. Wrap your album in ribbon and add a decorative CP clothes pin to the top. Now, watch as your family enjoys the album for years to come!
Wow wow wow!! This is amazing!!! PINNING it!!
Posted by: Julie Tucker-Wolek | April 30, 2013 at 05:31 AM
Katie this is beautiful and so original. What a wonderful keepsake!
Posted by: Mel Blackburn | April 30, 2013 at 06:09 AM
This is beautiful Katie! <3
Posted by: Shannon | April 30, 2013 at 06:36 AM
So very lovely!! I actually started to make one like that, but never finished it, it´s a pity..
Posted by: Maria | April 30, 2013 at 10:33 AM
Love this idea ! I have some pictures of my Dad's side of the family but not much info about them. This would be perfect.
Posted by: Pam Sohan | April 30, 2013 at 12:36 PM
Just gorgeous!!
Posted by: Jean A Marmo | April 30, 2013 at 12:43 PM
Love this!!!
Posted by: amber engelhardt | April 30, 2013 at 01:58 PM
This is so beautiful!!I am definitely going to try this.
Posted by: Sharmon | April 30, 2013 at 08:43 PM
Awesome idea, it looks beautiful :)
Posted by: Lucia Barabas | May 02, 2013 at 02:00 PM
I absolutely love this project! It is beautiful in all its vintage glory!
Posted by: Nathalie | May 04, 2013 at 07:18 PM
This is absolutely amazing! I'm completely inspired to ge my little sewing machine out & stitch my heart out. I love tha you cut windows out of the pages & added your lovely layers. Wonderful project!
Posted by: Jody Spiegelhoff | May 05, 2013 at 08:53 PM