Diamond Island Angels 2008 Project 1

O.K. I promised some projects from my DIA trip, and here is the first one. This was a special date book that Dawnmarie put together for us. The paper is The Angel Company's new Angelee paper collection. A collection you'll probably see a lot of on my blog in the coming weeks because Angelee is the paper collection I've chosen for my board for the upcoming St. Charles Expo.

This book is made with an accordion pleat in the center holding pink library pockets. To make the accordion pleat, you take a piece of 12 inch x whatever height your covers will be (slightly larger than the library pockets you choose). Score the entire 12 inch length of the paper every 7/8 inch and accordion fold. When you're finished, you should have 6 mountain folds when the end flaps are facing up. Then you would attach the end flaps to a piece of covered chipboard, covering the flaps and ribbon to tie the book closed, with a piece of cardstock. Adhere the library pockets back to back on each mountain fold so that you have a pocket for each month. Print the date/occasion cards on the computer, place them inside the pockets and embellish.

I embellished the front of my book with the Flourish Bet Level D Hostess Set from the current catalogue and some of the tags from the Angelee collection, stamped with a flower from Spring Dream.



The inside pages are decorated with the Swirly Gigs stamp, colored in with the Stardust Glittering Gel pens, and the Date Disks and Mini Occasions stamp sets.





I'm hoping that this little date book will help me stay organized when it comes to the cards I should be sending out every month.

Our plan was to have everyone from the cottage that has a blog, post their projects at the same time so you can see different versions of the same project. So check out the following blogs (and hopefully everyone's on board).

Rita: http://ritasangels.blogspot.com/
Dawnmarie: http://monkeybusinesswithdawnmarie.blogspot.com/