Show Us Your Completed Album Pages!

Roberto,

Thank you very much for sharing the great pages of Italy definitive stamps show women in art. Well done!

Please, identifications of three of the images:

Retrato de Mujer - Venus from "Venus and Mars" by Paolo Veronese
Mujer 3 - "Antea" (also known as Portrait of a Young Woman) by Parmigianino
Mujer 4 - Flora from "La Primavera" by Sandro Botticelli

Regards, Eli

Postmaster, just seeing your pages above for the first time. Those are amazing in terms of design and execution. I would never have the patience, talent, or skill to create something like that.

Hope you plan to show more collection pages like these.

@laofil
I made the pages before identifying them; They're already modified, but I'll leave them at that, I've just added another page to the series.
We can say that I started building the house from the roof.

Another long series easy to get and beautiful. I had it full for a long time, but I had half a sheet left over and I didn't like the result with so much emptiness.

One more. This week, in addition to the Italian FDC, the hoopoe arrived.

Wow, I'm LOVING all these gorgeous completed pages.

So far my Argentina album has only 2 complete pages -

This 1966 sheet of coat of arms for each province (hope it's ok I include the map I made to go with it!)


And the last page of the 1950s section is all filled in:




I should have some 1960s pages completed soon, too. Just waiting for those deliveries...

When I started collecting, I enjoyed Czechoslovakia stamps, but never pursued completion and am not looking for more Czechoslovakia.

So, I have created pages that only include the stamps I have.
This way I can enjoy the "good old days" well into my retirement!

Nothing Fancy - just a couple of Bulgaria Steiner pages. Hehe.

Roberto, love those pages; very nice.

NCstamps, nicely done; fancy or not, if you enjoy them that is all that matters. Would like to see bigger photos/scans though.

Thanks Andy.

Not sure why the photo size is not optimal. I am trying this again with some crab stamps I collected.

More revenues

I looked at several applications for creating stock pages and none of them matched my requirements. Mainly, all the apps formatted to an 8 ½ x 11 in. page and I wanted to be able to create a custom layout using Scott Specialized pages (ACC120). Since none of them would do the job, I experimented with MS Word and found that with a little tweaking, it could do the job. The next hurdle was finding a printer that could handle the pages themselves (11 ½ x 10 in.). I found that Epson made a series of wide-format Workforce printers that won't break the bank ($150-250). So, once I solved the issues of the paper, application and printer, I was ready to move my stamps from stock pages to an album.

Since my collecting interest includes issues that are often oversized or odd-shaped, I routinely create a mounting layout that accommodates the stamps while also looking pleasing. Here are two examples.






Once you get the first couple of pages done you can modify them to change the layout for next set of stamps you wish to mount. Each page's layout is up to you and what you wish to highlight.

I approve. Very nicely done. That is quite a collection. Exhibit quality custom layouts. Thanks for sharing.

This page is full....when organization is not a requirement.

@rturn22 some very nice looking pages, and thanks for sharing :)

It is great that you have found a solution that works for you, however, I think that most applications would allow one to create pages other than 8 ½ x 11.

For example, I also use an Epson wide format printer to print on Stanley Gibbons 248 x 282mm pages. e.g
http://goscf.com/t/79577&whichpage=2#721677

Clive