Halloween Skeleton Mini Tag Album

Halloween is quickly creeping up on us and it's time to start sharing our spooky Halloween mini album creations.

Wendy Cusky has a fantastic tag book to share with a scary (slightly macabre) theme to it. I love the way it turned out. The skeleton embellishment of the front is seriously ick! Just as it should be.

She has scrapped a small hostess gift tag album with a treat box "case" that she hand made for a friend. She has covered each tag with patterned paper but only embellished the front so that her friend can put bigger pictures of her Halloween party on the other pages if she wishes.

It is made using a couple of neat techniques and with a few bits and pieces including skeleton beads (bargain at $1) salvaged from a necklace, lace, spider webbing and a plastic spider. See more pics and tips on how she made her Halloween skeleton Mini Tag Album

gorgeous little mini album

looking for mini album inspiration for your next mini project? Check out these two random Mini Albums that have caught my attention in the past. I've added them to my list of projects i am yet to create! lol.I have always wanted to use Nail Varnish on an arty project. Alexandra has made these clever tag mini books and embellished them with nail polish.
Pennants, especially pennant banners are hot, they're at birthday parties and wedding celebrations, and i seem them framed as wall art, and now you have a mini pennant notebook.

I found these little darlings at the cheap psychology blog. They'd make great little gifts or party favors at birthdays. Easy to make with or without the accucut die cutting machine that Doris used to create her pennant minis. After all they are simple triangles.

Crocheted Mini Scrapbook

Have you ever tried blending a crafting passion that you have with another to create something totally unique. Say Painting and sewing, knitting and card making. Kerri has used a combination of two crafting techniques that she is passionate about, making mini albums and crochet. While is may sound like an unusual mix the end product is this gorgeous hand crocheted mini book.

As you can see each page has been hand crocheted around the edges to create a detailed border. The album is even bound together using a single crochet stitch.

Follow along with Kerris Crocheted Mini Scrapbook tutorial to create this fab little mini album. If you don't know how to crochet then pick up a 'crochet for dummies' book from your library. Or you can simple google 'how to crochet'

I learned the basic single crochet(sc) double crochet (dc) and a half double crochet stitch in under an hour when i needed to make a baby cocoon photography prop that i just had to have. It's really quite easy. I'll take crochet over knitting any day.

Work of Heart Photography Giveaway

Skye Hardaway from The Work of Heart Photography is having a huge giveaway. Skye is a Professional photographer who specializes in child photography. She shares all her photography tips and secrets through workshops and her workshop workbook.

Now I actually purchased the 'Workshop Workbook' about 8 months ago (on sale of course) Love the posing guide. As a wannabe photographer i love that she lets you in on what she carries in her oh-so-funky camera bag and most of the photos let on her blog and facebook page tell you what lens and actions she used. I think to myself "Now wait on a minute, I have that lens so why can't i do that" so then i go off with my camera in hand and practice for what i know is an attainable shot.

The workbook is great too. Sky shows you her methods for post processing her pics. There are also forms and docs to use if you are getting into professional photography. She covers everything you would need to know as a pro photographer. A guide like this would seriously save your life, well, it will save you a heap of time at the very least.

So go and check out the workbook for yourself (it's on sale) or try to win a freebie like I am by entering into the Work of Heart giveaway. Yes, yes, I know I already have the workbook but I really want a chance to pick up all the other freebies on offer as well as the update version of the posing guide.

Coca Cola Can Mini Scrapbook

To celebrate Earth Day The Two Paper Divas created these super cute mini notebooks made from recycled coke cans.
I am a huge fan of upcycling products and this mini is definitely a great way to both create something fab and useful and show our planet a bit of love.

The Two Paper Diva gals have a breif tutorial on their blog to show you how to make these soda can notebooks.
Note - they are made with the handy bind it all.

New mini scrapbook tutorial and new team member

Two bits of news for you all today.

The first is that we have a new mini book tutorial over at scrapbook-crazy. It's for a super mini bottle cap mini book and has been made with...yep, you guessed it...bottle tops or milk bottle lids to be more exact. Love the upcycled mini albums.

Bottle cap mini album

It's has been written for us by Kerri Steward from Kerri's crafts which brings me to my second piece of news. We have a new team member, although i'm not really sure if i had a team to begin with since i was really just a solo act until now. Well whatever Scrapbook Crazy had before, it has a team now! Woohoo, so exciting.

So you will be seeing a lot more of Kerri and her fabulous crafts and tutorials around the place from now on. You can read a little bit about Kerri here as well as head over to Kerri's blog to check out some of her other crafty projects. Kerri also has an Etsy Store The Craft Stewards.

Baby Diaries Mini Album

Here are a couple of cute mini albums sent in to us by Blossom Inch. The first is titled 'Baby Girl' and is a gorgeous fabric and felt album. Love all the pretty fabrics used to make this one.
The second is called 'Baby Diaries' made with paper bags, patterned papers and an assortment of embellishments. I Totally love that title, very clever.


What are you making now! We'd love to see your mini album creation!

Another gatefold mini scrapbook

Glenda made this very sweet gate fold accordion mini album - (sheez what a mouthfull)
Full of fun and summer her mini album
She used the wonderful instructions from the Scrapbook-Crazy.com website and made it for the first time with hardly a glitch. She plans to use it with pics of family and friends in our pool. She used lots of pretty Amy Butler papers and lots of cricut cuts as well. Stickles for glitter and gel pens for accents, too. Made in a single day it is ready to be filled with memories in a snap.
You can find the instructions that she used to make this mini album in a tutorial on the main scrapbook crazy webstie here

1st of August Mini Album

The Nostalgic Scrapper made this minimalist styled mini album to mark 8 years together with her partner. We hope you both had a great day together.
It was made from scratch using 7gypsies Family papers, and transparencies from Hambly for the book cover... Inspired by a book from Ali Edwards - Sharing Your Story-Recording life's details with mini books.
To see more photos of this mini album click here

Alcohol inked acrylic mini album

Louise Forsyth has made this beautiful acrylic album altered using alcohol inks and patterned papers. She has also used inked chipboard and lace. Titled 'smiles from u' it features photos of her baby girls gorgeous smiles that she share with them. Check out some more photos of this most gorgeous mini.

winners for the toilet roll mini scrapbook competition

We announced the winners for our mini toilet roll competition here. So get on over and see who our winners were...

toilet paper roll mini's competition

Last chance to enter the toilet roll mini album competition. It ends in a couple of days on the 30th of June.

We already have a heap of great entries already so get your entry in quick to be in for a chance to win a cool prize.

Enter Now

felted mini books.

These are some crazy cool felted mini books by chad alice hagen.
She is an incredible artist and makes such beautiful pieces.
head over to her blog and see all the pretty mini books

A Mini fold out scrapbook

I was scrapping up a storm this weekend, so much to do and so little time.

Amongst a few other things I made a little flip out mini book for my Nan. I am yet to round up all the photos that akw and I have taken with the Fuji Instax to pop into it but I couldn't resist posting these pics now.

I made it with Bazzill and patterned card paper from the BoBunny Mama-Razzi range which I just love... The only other bits I added to it were a small key chain and a couple of small flower eyelets to thread the chain through. The eyelets lends the album a bit of strength so that the chain doesn't simply tear the card.

Mini tutorial for this album coming soon.

A very cool stumpwork mini fabric book

Love this stumpwork mini fabric book made by Beth Lea from the Bluebell Wood blog. In case you were wondering, Stumpwork is another type of embroidery, it's 3 dimensional and is often referred to as raised work. It was popular in the olden days (around the late 1600 - 1700's)

This little mini is only 2 inches high.
If you want to see how Beth created this mini then head over to her blog for a very detailed description including templates, advice and even a shopping list of supplies. Beth has really done a great job putting this together (It makes me want to add stumpwork to my growing list of crafts i want to learn.... sigh)