Using 6 photo page protectors

This works well for a group of mismatched photos in a larger album

I have so many photos for mum's album and they do not easily lend themselves to one or two layouts so I decided to use a 6 photo page protector (American Crafts) and embellish it like a scrapbook page - something I learnt from Shimelle's class. I mounted each photograph onto a different coloured patterned mount (all brown/orange) and then stuck ribbon down the centre and then made a loop bow and sewed it on using a button.

Simple loops in ribbon sewn onto ribbon below and held in place with button

I used Jenny Bowlin corrugated letters and inked and painted them to spell her initials. Finally the Martha Stewart flower punch was used on the scraps of mount paper and the flowers were stuck on top of the page protector. I am now created a lo to go opposite this in the album continuing he paper and colours started here and hopefully in the album it will work well...

Inked and painted letters and punched flower embellishments

I should also say these are not colours I would normally be drawn to but I think they work well with the black and white/sepia photos.

New uses for page protectors and how just a few minute becomes hours...

The latest prompt was all about looking at page protectors in a new way. Great for me as I had recently invested in a new D ring album and 12x12 divided protectors to scrap our travels in Spain last summer. Last night I organised the alum into places - each with a 12 x 12 protector and several of the photo pages which can hold up to 6 photos. I put in memorabilia etc and now I feel the I can start to scrap this trip as I was finding it really daunting. I wanted to show some pics from our stop at Warwick Racecourse on way to Portsmouth but did not thinks pics needed a LO and I only had 3... So I cut the protector in half and started to play adding the class staples of metal, brads and ribbon. I like the finished effect and I feel a whole new world of possibilities is opening up. Plus it takes my mind of break in. Only problem is that at 7pm I told Lens Guy I just had to finish one thing and I would be a few minutes. Several hours later...