ETA: bigger giveaway!! Finished! A new favourite adhesive!! And a Giveaway!!

Just this past week I finished up a HUGE project for a friend of mine - she asked me to do a heritage album for her mom's 80th birthday. It was so fun to play with someone else's photos for a little while (not on a regular basis so don't call me - LOL) but I'm really glad to be done. It ended up being 49- 12x12 pages. Yikes. Here are a few highlights:

There were a lot of "people" pages - family members - so I picked a layout and stuck with it (WAY easier that way). And I chose to expand my friend's plan for this album and do double-page spreads so I could include all the photos she wanted. (I've put asterisks on the names on this page for privacy).

I used my cuttlebug and some staz-on ink to make a bunch of titles like this for several pages. I love how it turned out and it was easy to transfer this theme from page to page. The alphabet letters I used are really old (but still awesome) SEI letters. AND, I learned a great colour trick - most of my alphas were this rich burgundy colour but occasionally I ran out of that colour....did you know that the mossy green letters, covered in hot pink Copic makes burgundy? Betcha can't guess which letter is coloured.

It was really fun to play with heritage photos like this.

This family had a daughter who died at 1-day old. Very sad. Also sad....there were never any pictures of her. So this is her page in the album. Thanks to Charity @ 2peas who suggested these Twyla Paris song lyrics.

And of course, a wedding photo....so fun. Most of the album was very photo-heavy but a few pages I pared it down and made it a little more special. Also, the recipient of this album is a writer so my friend and I agreed that the album would have a bunch of blank journaling spots so that her mom could fill it all in by herself.

Lots of scripture verses and a few pages had some flowers and buttons and other embellishments on them. My friend, who is not a scrapbooker, said she never would have though of using stuff like this but that her mom loved it....so, good then....I'm not sure I could have done a whole album without flowers and buttons anyway (whew!)

SO, it's done, and delivered and I feel that part of the process reminded me of why I scrapbook in the first place and I'm in a better place myself because of it.

NOW, About that adhesive.
I discovered Glue Arts at CHA this past summer and have completely head-over-heels, fallen in love with their entire line. I used a whole bunch of their adhesives in this album including:
For almost all the photos, The Glue Glider Pro: For larger photos and pieces of patterned paper, the Glue Glider MAX: and for the ribbons on all the cuttlebugged title blocks, The Crop & Glue Ribbon Adhesive:A perfect line of adhesive exactly where I want my ribbon....I'm hooked. OH. And I used this:

I wasn't sure what to do with it at first but I stuck it on my blank cream-coloured cardstock, sprayed that stuff with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (coffee shop, of course) and ran it through my Cricut for perfectly matching - and now self-adhesive - letters for my names. Looooooove it!

You have got to try this stuff for yourself. In fact....I feel so strongly that you should try it that I have a little bit I'd be willing to part with for just that cause. Post a comment here in the next 2 weeks and I'll choose a name on October 19th. I have a 5" x 5" pack of the Wall ART adhesive to give away - perfect for die-cuts!!! Trust me - you need this :)

ETA: Glue Arts has offered to add a 12x12 pack of this Wall Art to this giveaway so it's for both now, the 5x5 and the 12x12 pack!

By the way, Glue Arts is now on FACEBOOK....sign up to be a fan of theirs on facebook...they have great project ideas, and lots of giveaways on there too! Tell them Cathy sent you :)