Shannon Hutchinson

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Thank you Francès!

I have tried light, medium and heavy weight papers. On my recent projects, I've stuck with medium. Heavy has cracked the worst and light weight lifts from the chipboard when handling the book unless I put adhesive on every single inch.

The chip board is usually medium to heavy weight. In this case it was medium weight.

For spacing, I've tried the 3 widths of chipboard but found it to be just a little small so I have spacers 3, 5 and 7mm. The 3 has been too small so I mainly use the 5mm.

23 Feb 11:20

My grandson would LOVE this! (He's 5.). You did such an amazing job with the matting and pulling it all together. 💜

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I wasn't sure if Francès covered it on her podcast so hadn't asked yet until I could watch.

I do really like this album too! I will come back to it again for sure.

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https://a.co/d/0a88WKlv and https://a.co/d/092jVvcN on Amazon. I wanted the perfect stamp to always use but I'm glad I found multiple to have options!

Thank you!

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That's a good point, it's pretty dry in the winter. I can usually repair with glitter glue but not always. Thank you for your thoughts on it! I hadn't considered it.

I'm in love with Carta Bella paper...they are almost always gorgeous and heavy weight. A joy to work with. Thank you!

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19 Feb 12:08

I don't see any flaws either! The paper is beautiful! Great work on it!

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17 Jan 07:07

Wow this is so beautiful and delicate looking!  I love the bird stamp and the papers are gorgeous!  Excellent job on this!

Thank you Frances!  I was worried about the busy-ness of the papers but had to hope that the colors would pull it all together.  This was really fun and thank you to the creators that gave the ideas and you for pulling it all together in a beautiful book!

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Thank you!  Hard to pass up the fun bee papers.  This is my 3rd or 4th bee collection.  😊

Thank you!  I'm in love with these Carta Bella and Graphic45 papers that feel so heavy.