Paper crafting... ocbrandy style!

I made an album yesterday- start to finish- in the time it took my youngest to take his nap! It is only 4x4 inches, but I am still pretty proud :o) Could I be getting a teeny bit more efficient??? I'm waiting on three new paper collections...seems like it's taking forever. What to do... what to do...LOL :O) One of my fellow PFOPers, was talking about trying to use up some papers from three years ago... so I gave myself a little dig through my older bits and pieces. I found my extremely old bag of Cosmo Crickets Jitterbug line! Though most of it was cut to finish a 5x5 mini album one day, I chose to use some chip and acrylic shapes I had cut on my cricut a couple months back. So here is what I created! It is so cute and so tiny. A couple of the mats will hold a cropped wallet size picture.. the rest need about half that. I stamped and cut out a few journal spots to put them on the acrylic pages. I'm going list this on eBay one of these days...but here...

As much as I try to be a more regular blogger, I just find it really hard to get my butt on here and get it done! That being said..lol..I have new albums listed on ebay, so what better time to post :o) Oh and you probably should get a little comfy...this ones going to be bit lengthy!  I made this first album a week or so ago, and finally got it listed!  It's a Maya Road Binder album, the first one I have ever made. My albums are usually quite fat, and to fit all that in a binder album takes a bit planning and cramming :O) I used Cosmo Cricket's Early Bird collection...they are still ever so intimidating to me...I just love 'em anyway! To keep it all closed up, I used a yellow hair tie around stacks of buttons that I tied though the heavy chipboard covers. Works great :o) I tried to be extra creative with the flowers on the cover. There sooooo fun to make. I think the only con with them is they are too thick to put many other places throughout albums :o(  ...