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Thought I should start another topic and stop hijacking Ariane's thread

I really enjoyed doing this and to me they look a lot better like this. They glow a lot more than they do in a black stock book.

I used the AlbumEasy program to do this. Like I said before it might not be to all tastes but once you get your head around the 'code' it's not bad at all and fairly flexible.

I bought a bulk lot of mounts and also a mount cutter which is brilliant and not too expensive - it cuts them just right.

And the new laser printer was used instead of my old inkjet - the lettering and lines are really well defined I think. The page came out a little curved so I had to flatten it a bit. I think maybe I can help that if I quickly put it under a heavy book while it is still warm - does anyone else find that ?

My pages will be going in Polypropylene pockets too.

I need to fill that gap when I can afford the shade - I decided to put the shades at the bottom, just my preference.

I'll stop rambling, any comments appreciated, good or bad

Looks good - I use album easy myself.

How you do your pages is your choice and that is the end of the story.

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Philatelists are not boring old F A R T S that smell of mothballs

The only point I would make is that catalogue numbers are usually capitalised when using Stanley Gibbons - SG, rather than sg.

Otherwise, very nice tidy looking pages.

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Always on the lookout for Australian pre decimal First Day Covers.

Thank you both for taking a look and your comments.

I thought that about the SG too...I think I will use capitals from now on...thanks for the second opinion.

The other thing I would do is get the two 1½d stamps with different shades & mount them next to each other for easier comparison.

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Always on the lookout for Australian pre decimal First Day Covers.

I'm doing Bechuanaland now and that is what I am doing with the shades. For the Gambia above it was an aesthetic choice

Super Job! and an extra thumbs up for the Gambia elephants , my favourites.

How do you display your pages? - never mind saw you putting them in Polypropylene pockets, assume these have hole punch on side for folder?

Very professional looking pages, I'm impressed.
I am currently looking into making my own at the moment and still deciding what software to use to design the layout. I'll have a look at AlbumEasy.
One quick question - what paper do you use?
Thanks
Peter

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Keen collector of Australian Commonwealth Stamps

Hey Rog,

I liked you hijacking my thread.. I got some new opinions that way:)

I tried AlbumEasy but I couldn't wrap my mind around the need to code and the absence of a GUI.

I think that your pages look very professional and I would have added a little bit more color but that is an entirely personal choice.

Good luck with your pages!

Cheers,

Ariane

Very nice and some good quality stamps too, no Bulgarian wallpaper flowers.

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I collect Malta, Ireland, Malta, Tristan da Cunha, Malta, various Pacific Islands, Malta, New Zealand, Malta, Australia and Malta.

I like! I have been making my own in LaTeX (Wikipedia it). Will be posting them up when they are done!

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Collecting Australian FRAMA stamps on Commercial covers.

Thanks all for the kind words



Thanks. Yes the elephants are probably my favourite too which is why I started with them. There are so many nice stamps from GVI it's hard to pick a favourite sometimes.

Yep PP pockets that are glass clear and yep they have holes punched. Then they are going in one of the standard padded Hagner type stock books. I'm debating whether to go double sided.



Thanks Peter. I'm liking AlbumEasy, it's a little like coding a web page in a way. I was also looking at Scribus, but for me AlbumEasy was a quicker start and it does what I want.

The paper I am using is some Epson Archival Paper :

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Epson-Archival-Matte-Paper-Sheets/dp/B000092QYW

According to the Epson rep it is acid and lignin free... Other brands are available of course, but this was a good price for me.



I thought you wouldn't mind, but I also thought I wouldn't run the risk I will still visit your thread to pick up ideas

AlbumEasy like I said is ok, it just takes a bit of time. I am with you on colour, I was thinking of making the border a dark blue or something, but I don't think you can do it with AE...so that's another reason why you are personally better off doing it your way. I don't mind the monotone but I may experiment a bit before I go too far to change.



Thanks. Yes this is a good clean set. As said above one of my faves



Had a quick look and it seems interesting, I will dig deeper later. I Would definitely like to see what you come up with

Hi Rog

Great work, you should be well pleased with the results.

Glad to hear the laser is doing the job for you. Your page inspired me to do my Gambia page yesterday, scan below.

Thanks ! Yep those elephant ones are great stamps. Nice work yourself

Really pleased with the laser, and it costs 25% of what my old inkjet costs to keep going.

It's so much easier to see what I am missing now, but this has the knock on effect of making me want to buy more. I think I will soon be spending my printer savings

I've got a few more done now and it's spurred me on to fill a few gaps so it could be an expensive weekend

Just thought I would share the cover I designed for the album.

Here is my first attempt. I'm having fun with my scanner, photoshop, old style fonts and powerpoint.



Cheers
Peter

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Keen collector of Australian Commonwealth Stamps

Very nice, I really like the font you used - it's like an overprint

What a great thread, really inspirational for a beginner like me.

The stamps themselves look lovely, the depiction of the elephant is beautiful. I could almost be tempted to go for this era when my collection gets underway (at the moment I'm still deciding what direction my interest should proceed in), although my preference is to go for something earlier.

You've really done the stamps justice in the way you've created the page layout. Crisp, clear font and neat lasered borders, setting the stamps off without distracting attention from them. Personally I'd perhaps inject a little colour somewhere, but it really is a subjective, personal choice isn't it?

Thanks to this thread and Ariane's I've already learnt much and have downloaded Scribus ready for my first acquisitions, but next I really need to visit an event, or a good dealer somewhere near me (retail premises do seem to be a dying breed), in order to make a firm decision over which paper stock I'd like and which album I'd like to house my future collection in.

Anyway, thanks again for a great thread.

Have you made any new pages Rog?

Cheers,
Erik

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Enjoy every minute

Churchill'sCigar, thanks for the kind words and I am glad you found the thread of interest.

Pookie, I have a few I made which I can scan and post if you want to see them. I fell ill for a while there with a bad gall bladder, so had an operation, I haven't yet got back into making these pages at the moment.

Here's some pages I made a while back.

Glad to hear you are doing better.

Cheers,
Erik

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Enjoy every minute

Another lovely post.

You might be interested to hear that I've decided to investigate the possibilities of forming a collection along the same lines as yours, perhaps limiting it initially to pre-WWII issues.

Those stamps are wonderfully drawn and presented so attractively - even the names of the various colonies, protectorates, etc are evocative of an age that now seems long past.

Thanks and yes; for me this is a golden age of stamp design. Some of these designs appeared earlier in the reign of GV if you want to go back in time a little. GVI is a very popular area to collect and I find it very addictive at times.

There's a lot of nice early QEII as well, some again with the same designs, but it's the GVI that pull me in. This has become my main area of focus for the past few years, but I still do collect GB QV and mint QV colonies too some times. I also like a little postal history mainly GB QV so far. Oh and blocks ! It's all good.

Thanks