Shannon Hutchinson

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25 Feb 05:57

I love the colors and details together in your book! The edging adds a beautiful element to the whole thing. So well done! 💜

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25 Feb 05:55

This is so gorgeous! From the styling to the matting to the paper colors. Beautifully done! 💜

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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. 💜

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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I totally forgot that I had ordered a Valentine's bundle from Carta Bella (one of my fav. design paper creators). So I used the Mighty Mini tutorial rather than do a second challenge album. I really love this album and will use it again.

One issue, no matter the weight of the cardstock that I use and the amount of gentle pre folding - when I bend it around the chipboard for the cover, it frays and sometimes breaks in spots. If anyone has suggestions, I'd love the help.

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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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I completed the Flutter Folio challenge!  I didn't have enough of any one style of Valentine's paper so I chose to go with another "love" of mine...reading.  This was fun paper to use from Echo Park's "Bookish" line.

I'm never completely happy with my designs and am my own worst critic but never the less, I love doing these challenges.

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