I found this expense ledger that came inside a box, both covered with material, at a church rummage sale for 25 cents.  When I saw it, I thought it might be great to make into an album.  At the time, it also had a big pocket that maybe held pens inside that I had to tear out.  There were expense pockets as well.  I thought I’d use the pockets and in the end, decided they looked bad and got rid of them.   I bought my paper from Amazon and it was from DCWV, and the paper was called Denim Stack.  I couldn’t find any other large amounts of denim paper, so settled for this even though it has a shiny finish, which didn’t thrill me and was harder to work with..  The bride’s theme was denim and lace so I spent more time with the lace theme than the denim since my paper covered the denim aspect.  The paper was primarily blues, reds and whites..    I used a Distress re inker of Frayed Denim and put seam binding, flowers and flower ribbon in the ink.  In the end, I only used the flower ribbon on the project.
I cut the paper and used Fabri-Tac from Beacons to adhere the paper with tear tape to the outside of the box as the box has a fabric outer layer.  The outside of the box has what looks like the top pocket of a pair of jeans and I added a piece of lace to the edge of the pocket and then added white buttons to it as well.  I used matching paper and cut a thin strip and threaded it through the buttons in an “X” shape then glued them where the rivets were on the paper. On the album, I found a piece of paper that had the & sign on it, so took chipboard and colored it with Chipped Sapphire from Distress Ink Stains and then adhered Mr. , Mrs. around the & sign on the front.  I covered the letters with satin Mod Podge as well to protect them.  The back spine of the album has a pull tab that I had to cut around and it was hard to keep it in frame as the album was so tall.  I put chipboard for their wedding date on the inside cover and on the right side I put chipboard letters of their initials and put big chipboard hearts that I colored with picket fence stain from Distress Inks and Mod Podged them as well.  I found buttons that were shaped like pearl colored hearts and had Rich cut the backs off of them.  I found Ide-alogy trinket pins (here’s the link to them)  http://www.joann.com/tim-holtz-idea-ology-1-1-4in-trinket-pins-15pk-antique-metallic/2035285.html#q=idea-ology&prefn1=prod_type&sz=36&start=37&prefv1=Product

and attached the buttons to the top of them and used them as pulls on the tags I put inside the pockets I created.  There was a page of pockets inside the stack of paper so I cut them apart and created pockets in my album with them.  For embellishments, I used buttons with matching twine and buttons with small strips of paper woven through them.  I used matching papers for the tags and used an ornate tag topper to cut the tops of some of them.  I used denim ribbon and decorated with it.  I made a small strip of paper and ribbon and attached it to the bottom of one page and added two pockets so they would stick inside and easily pull out.  I found small white flowers at Joanns and added them to a pocket with some small red flowers I had in my stash.  I had a cute tag that a woman had given me with hearts on it and I attached it to a craft tag so it would be more secure.  I used tiny pearls and layered them on the belt buckle and on the rivets.  I used pearls everywhere I could find spots that they worked.  I did put eyelets on each page where I punched the holes for the 3 ring binder, to stabilize the paper and make sure it won’t tear.  I made an envelope and filled it with punches of photo corners that match the papers in the album.  I lined them with double sided tape so the bride can put her photos in the album and hold them down with the photo corners.  I hope you like the album

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