Great Impressions/Echo Park October Blog Hop

Welcome to the Great Impressions Stamps/Echo Park Paper Design Team October 2012 Blog Hop! Today the Echo Park Paper Design Team and Great Impressions Stamps Design Team are showcasing projects from our latest collections. Be sure to follow the blog hop list below as you hop from one blog to the next. ONE winner will be selected from EACH blog to receive an Echo Park Paper collection kit of their choosing, and a set of two stickable stamps from Great Impressions Stamps.   To qualify for the kit and stamps, comments will be due by midnight EST, Sunday, October 21st to qualify for the drawing. The winner will be announced on each blog Monday, October 22nd so be sure to check back to see if you've won.

You should be arriving here from Susan at Creatively Savvy-

A complete hop  list to follow should you get lost along the way:

Echo Park Paper Kandis Erin  Wendy Sue Jenny Susan Sue K. Lowri Angela Mary Linda Shanna Tamara Jennifer Great Impressions Stamps

  To continue on-pop over to Lowri's Paper Vine blog!

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 I am so tickled to be creating with both Great Impression Stamps and the brand new Very Merry Christmas kit designed by Jessica Sprague for Echo Park.  I was so inspired by this wonderful kit, I had to make something that used almost every paper in the packet! (over 20 of them!)  I think I almost made it except for 3 or 4 papers.(and easily enough left for 3 or 4 more mini's!)

I found this great mini album pattern on YouTube a while back and fell in love with all the tricky little pages. (Designed by Angelwings 14100-see video link below!)


On the front of the mini I used the Christmas tree sticker from the kit and added Joyful Penguin, Penguin with Snowflake and a couple babies from the Playful Penguin Trio(yep, reminds me of my daughter's little Newton family).  I also cut out the sentiment Christmas (from Echo Park in the Silhouette store) .  I used two layers of  red satin ribbon with a little magnet inside for the closure and colored a white snowflake button (tied up with some May Arts green twine) with an E42 copic marker to antique it up a bit. 

Here it is open to the first page. The left side has the little page insert decorated with an EP sticker along the top and another Great Impressions Penguin. The right side is a gate fold with a magnet closure.

 closed

open

Grab the little gold Noel tab sticker to open up the page. Inside has another double sided insert for pictures.

 Flip to the next page...the page on the right flips up and there is a page underneath that flips down.  The page on the right has a Santa's Coming sticker from the kit.

 Last page fully opened up. 

These pages have stickers from the kit and a Joyful Penguin on the page insert. The string of lights is another Echo Park file from the Silhouette store. There is a page insert on the top Santa page and the bottom page (with the holly leaves) flips back up and then opens like a gate fold (held closed with magnets) Oh my---look at all the pretty papers and stickers!

On the left side of this page is another Echo Park cut file (Holiday Cake) from the Silhouette Store, the right side has a print out and another sticker.

A quick video that I made to show you how this album works-thanks to my son for helping me!



If you want to see Angelwings 14100 How to video, click HERE




Album Details:
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Stamps:
Joyful Penguin
Penguin with snowflake
Playful Penguin Trio 


Paper:
Echo Park Very Merry Christmas  
Red Bazzill for the base
Silver and misc colors from SU for lights

Copics:
E42
YG68
G43,46
R29 

Misc: 
Red Satin ribbon (SU!)
May Arts green twine amd ribbon
Mini Magnets
Dimensionals
Bazzill Basics holly paper leaf
EK Success Snowflake border punch

Silhouette files:
Echo Park Holiday Cake
Echo Park lights
Echo Park Christmas