Baroque Mini album

Hello everyone ,


Hope you are all doing well!

I finished something I started on a while ago , my baroque mini-album . This small album actually is a personal item I made with sayings of comfort and personal notes regarding my special relation with my mother who is now palliative . I have nursed her for many years . (She was declared dementing in 1998 and I didn't want her to be placed in a home , without doing the impossible for her to keep her in her worthyness and our home and garden, which we have both enjoyed to the full , until the social workers decided that for both our health reasons ,  it was no longer possible . I was forced to place her in a home by the end of 2007 .

The personal notes are hidden in the small pockets and envelopes and tags .

I have quite a lot of picures taken by every 2 pages and several close-ups . I had been searching the web for a while and finally  found a template somewhere  . I cut the pages by hand out of boxes of muesli .And covered them with papers .

This is the front cover .

A few close-ups :

A leaf of lace I cut out and a beautiful
forest trinketpin from Viola Mahr's etsy shop .

I used a ready bought closure .

A few ribbons and lace , tied to cover the binding ring .








Pages 1 & 2

I made a pocket out of a hard plastic cover and covered the upper side with a trim of lace .

                                                     A small heart to embellish the tag .
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

  This is a Marionpocket ,(I hope I pronounce it well ,  I learned from the you tube videao's.                                                                    

Pages 3 & 4 :

I used an old rusty looking flower to hold this foldingcard:

 On the other page I used a trim of really old lace, I got from my neighbour Emy,

so nice of her ,and attached a peace of one of my earrings that I found was too long and had simply cut off .

Pages  5 & 6 :

Used a golden sticker to stamp in the sentiment .













Pages 7 & 8 :

 A black embossed insert page .

5 very important things in life : love , belief, joy , hope , and peace .









Pages 9 & 10

Two tags hidden behind a peace I cut from a beauttiful flowered hairband . And a trifold page (  I stamped the corners ) , behind the paper flower .

And the last pages :   kept simple

 This is a peace of band I purchased years ago on a creative meeting . Still love it , it is rather difficult to cut because of  the tiny pearls but I maneged .



The little oval tag opens down towards the buttom of the baroque diecut .

This was quite a long post , I hope you liked it .

On the next post I will share a card that  had a sewing pattern on it and this will be my first embroidered card . I made this because my pain was so severe the last week that even making a card involving cutting and embellishing was impossible . But this way one is lead to explore new things that ask a minimum of movement.


Hope to be  back here soon ,

Love,Rosa