Graphic 45 Home Sweet Home Mini-Album

 I started this album way before Christmas and finally have it finished.  Again, I had used the Country Craft Creations Beginners Mini-Album for my base (see the above My Mind's Eye Gingham Garden post for measurements).  I love, love, love this paper collection.  It is Graphic 45's Home Sweet Home collection.

On the front cover there is a layer of Bazzill cardstock with a piece of the Graphic 45 paper on top.  Then the signature piece from the collection is mounted on chipboard with two corners rounded and two of the corners have simple metal corners. I like an album to be fairly flat, so they can be kept in a bookshelf without having to worry that the decoration will get damaged.  I am definitely a form has to follow function type of girl.

The spine has a piece of the chipboard with a brad glued onto the two layers of paper:

I left the Bazzill cardstock off the back, because I ran out!  The back cover with my stamp from Paper Sushi on it:

The inside front cover and first page:

The inside cover has a gusseted pocket holding an accordion fold book (held together with magnets).

The first page is a 3/4th page with a pocket and flap (held shut with photo mats) and the side pocket with a mat:

And turn the page:

The left page is a simple belly band with a sticker from the collection as a stopper to keep the photo mat from sliding out the bottom.  The right page has a pocket with photo mats on a flap that folds up.  Then there is a flap that folds down.  And a cut apart from the collection that folds left.   And a photo mat slides out of the base pocket page to the right.

And turn the page:

The left page has two pockets that open to the left with matted cut a-parts that slide out.  The top pocket decorated with another cut apart flips up.  And the bottom pocket flips down.

The right page is another 3/4th page.  It has a pocket on the bottom with a photo mat holding a flap that folds up.  And because it is a base pocket page it has a photo mat that slides to the right.

And turn the page:

The left page has a vertical pocket decorated with stickers from the collection.  It has a folder for pictures inside the pocket.  The inside of the photo folder:

The outside of the photo folder: 

The right side has a flap that folds up, then a flap that folds down.  Then a cut apart that folds to the left.  And the photo mat in the side pocket.

And turn the page:

The left page is just two pieces of the collection paper pieced together to make a flat mat.  The right side (the inside of the back cover) in a side ways waterfall that is held shut with a magnetized strap piece.  I was running out of the papers I liked best by now and so the waterfall is not fully matted.

This album has plenty of room for pictures and I love the paper.  The only thing I don't like is the amount of the page that is actually glued to the hinge and although it lays pretty good, the pages still won't lay flat.  

I have started another album and it is almost finished.

The Paper Studio girl tag

With Hobby Lobby supplies and a Graphic 45 tag: