
I watched a lot of tutorials on you tube and looked at a ton of photos of works on the Graphic 45 ring for inspiration and techniques. This time, I tried a lot of fold out folios, in addition to the tag making and original page layouts. I may still add more embellishments as time goes on, like I did with my first Steampunk mini book.
On the cover I used a cut out of a photo shoot I did of Cindy in her Victorian piano dress and superimposed it over a vintage Orient Express train engine. Then added K and Co. borders, metal embellishments, Prima flower, hand made title and letters.

On another page I made a pull out portfolio using Graphic 45 papers on the page and folio cover and then adding photo mats and journaling pages inside.
I distressed a lot of the page edges using pigment inks to give the album a vintage sort of grungy, well-traveled journal.
This is an envelope style folio I made which opens up too and has small photo pages. Bits and pieces of Orient Express ephemera and Graphic 45 papers from the Botanicabella and Renaissance Faire paper collections.
On the left, you can see the copper photomat tag tucked in on the previous page on the left.
Background papers are form a K and Co. paperpak.
I did a two page spread in black because that seems to be a good color for a spy plus I had some gorgeous vintage style papers I wanted to flaunt! I added some photo and journaling tags and left a large photomat on the page so Cindy can add photos after our big 2-day Upstate Steampunk Con to be held in November. I'm sure we'll take lots of photos at the hotel which is very posh and Victorian. I made the London stamp using a wooden stamp made by Hero Arts embossed with blue ink crystals and added ColorBox pigment inks to age it.
Here are the tags I made for photos and journal writing. I just cut cereal box cardboard in various shapes and added the papers, used a grommet setter so I could add yarn and ribbon pulls.
The opposite sides are photo mats and also have sayings on them.
I did a third portfolio using on the coin page. This one is a library pocket portfolio and holds the vintage train itinerary listing all the stations where The Orient Express makes its stops from London to the Egypt. This page also features ephemera from the Orient Express. The resin coin is positioned on a gold circle which came from the top of my instant Maxwell House coffee jar! It came off perfect and was too pretty to throw away. This green striped portfolio opens up to hold four photos.



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