You color my world (+ freebies)

Something cute I have created this weekend:

I just love when I make something for myself, designed for myself, designed to make me awww and oooh. Something that I don’t have to give away, it is MINE and I can look at it and cherish all I want :) This little book was something like that. I had a whole 20 page album planned with this theme. It was in my head since Mateus as 1 year old, but that is just too much work for the moment, so a little keepsake was the easy solution for my need to have something like this in my hands.

Now, this is a hybrid project, so there was a whole (fun) process to it, which I am getting used to and enjoying a lot. First I had to come out with a way of creating the album with layers/tabs, so I did a mock up in scrap paper, measured it, and brought it to photoshop. I wanted it to be practical and easy to print, so I planned it to be printed on two A4 pages.

It was a lot of work putting the template together, so I saved it for future albums, and I would love to share it with you. HERE is the link to the template.

Then I created my digital pages using the TuttiFrutti papers and elements by Lili:

I printed them, cut them and glued the same sized pages back to back. Then I did my favourite thing in hybrid, added buttons, ribbons and other embellishments (almost everything by doodlebug designs) and you can see the end result at the beggining of this post :)

Here was my process: template, quick pages, digital pages, printed pages with embellishments

Now, why did I create quickpages? Well, onto the big surprise :) I sent this to Lili and she suggested we give the quickpages away as a freebie.... YES! If you like this little project specifically, you can just download the quickpages HERE and add your photos and text, than it is ready to print and play. Isn’t she great? I am so excited! I hope everyone enjoys them as much as I did. I am still oooohing and awwwing at it ;)

I am off to Sydney this weekend to meet my best Aussie friend Melissa, who I haven’t seen in over a year. For those in Australia, have a great ANZAC day, and everyone else enjoy your weekend :)

ETA. You can click on all the photos on this post for larger versions available on flickr (lots more photos there too)