I ran into my pal Connie at the scrapbook store yesterday and she showed me an adorable envelope album that she learned how to make recently. I loved the concept because you can store additional photos in the envelopes. I also thought it would be an easy project to teach. My church's women's ministries is having a "Crafternoon" next weekend and I will be sharing about scrapbooking. I had been formulating my project in my mind, but threw it out completely when I saw the envelope album. This is my finished album, which I will probably give to my mom, since yellow is her favorite color. The version I created for "Crafternoon" is three panels rather than five.
The envelopes are approximately 5 3/4" by 4 3/8". The envelopes Connie used were larger. The paper is by Authentique. I purchased single pieces from the line at the scrapbook store. It caught my eye because of the color, but also the paper is textured. When I went to the fabric/ craft store to pick up some muslin, they had the same paper in a paper pad. It wasn't textured, but there were a couple pieces that the scrapbook store didn't have. They also had similar Authentique paper pads in pink and blue -- very cute! The crocheted ribbon for the cover I bought at the fabric store too. It happened to be sitting on the cut table when I was having the muslin cut. . . it was meant to be in this book!
