Stardream Inspiration Album

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Good morning ! I'm sitting here sipping my coffee and I got to thinking that lately I have gotten a lot of calls from customers who are wanting to make journals, albums or book type projects. Sometimes its difficult knowing which product is the right one to choose. I say this because I was in the same dilemma recently. I decided to join a circle journal group. A circle journal is basically a journal that will travel the world and come back to you after reaching the destination of all those who are part of ones group. At first I thought picking a theme was going to be the difficult part. But when I sat down to make the book I realized .....oh boy I had no clue where to begin.

Well I decided on making my book as colorful as I could and this is what I came up with.
I made the cover and back pages using our 12x12 Kraft Chipboard.
I than covered the kraft chipboard pages with some pattern paper.

 I especially luv our metallic cardstock/sparkly cardstock. So I decided to use them. I also decided since they look so pretty I wanted them to be immediately visible so what I did was cut them in a steeping pattern where you could see a 1/4" of each color. Some of the colors I used are:
Curious Metallic Ice Gold
Curious Metallic Lustre
Stardream FUSE Metallic Fairway
Stardream FUSE Metallic Lagoon
Stardream Metallic Crystal
Stardream Metallic FUSE Vista
Stardream Metallic Amythest
Stardream Metallic FUSE Punch
Stardream Metallic Dolomite
Stardream FUSE Metallic Flame
Curious Metallic Ice Silver
Malmero Perle' Abysse
Malmero Perle' Noir

Here are the pages I scrapped based upon the topic I choose for my album which is "Inspiration". Now each girl will choose a page/color and scrap about this topic.


 
 Now these colors where chosen simply for aesthetic purpose. I knew I did not have to print on them and I wanted the book to be quite sturdy since it will visit many homes and be in many hands. The metallics/sparkly cardstock we carry are quite heavy in stock. Ranging from 86lbs cover weight (Astrobright Glistens), 89lbs cover weight (Curious Iridescent), 92lbs cover weight (Malmero Perle'), 92lbs cover weight(CHIARA Stardream Metallic), 105lbs cover weight (FUSE Stardream Metallic), 105lb cover weight (Stardream Metallic) to 92lbs - 111lbs cover weight depending on the color in the Curious line (Curious Metallic).

Now had I wanted to print on them or just wanted something lighter in weight I would have chosen:
Curious Metallic 80lb text weight, Malmero Perle' 80lb text weight, Curious Iridescent 80lb text weight and Stardream Metallic 81lb text weight (including the Chiara and Fuse line).

 
 After I covered my Kraft Chipboard (front and back cover), cut my metallic/sparkly paper in a stepping pattern I was than ready to bind it all together. This is one of the best tools you can own if you like creating art books/journals. It is made by ZUTTER and super easy to use. It punched right thru the heavy metallic cardstock with no problem at all.

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