Crazy about mini albums: March 2009

Monday, March 30, 2009

Sharing the mini album love

It's a beautiful day here in sunny sydney. A great day to share a couple of great little mini albums sent in by some of our readers.

Sarah's daughters fill her heart with so much joy, she filled a heart shaped album with their photos.

Beth Bugart shares her Domino Accordion Book too. It's a mini album made out of 2 dominoes and Bristol board accordion pages. It is painted with rich natural colors and a gold boarder and is held together with a gold ribbon. Nothing on the inside yet, still waiting for just the right thing to put inside. :)

Kraftykeepsakes shares her recycled cardboard mini scrapbook as well.

until next time....

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

St Patty's mini book inspiration

I love green, it's my most favorite color. I just had to hunt around and find some St Patty's day mini lovin and I was not disappointed.

My favorite first up are these ultra cute green lucky felt speech bubbles from Etsy store owner Evalicious. There are phrases like: "kiss me i' irish", "lucky guy", "so lucky" and "green". Soooo cute. You can even pick up some matching paper flower buttons... It's not too late to grab some but you gotta be quick though, there are only 5 left.

Next up, Katie shows us how to make her Lucky envelope book with this cool little tutorial. Shoot over there for a look see. We also have our envelope mini scrapbook tutorial as well.

On the Creative Imaginations blog is this shamrock mini book made by Cheryl Mezzetti. Look a little further down the blog post and you will find the instructions to make this mini book with heart shaped pages.

And last but not least we have a house.... A St Patty's Day house made from cardboard and dressed up in green irish luck. campbelj45ca did a great job on this little beauty. A great project to keep the kiddies busy.

Stay green and be lucky.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Maria's Shell Mini Travel Book

Yes you guessed it. A book made with the most awesome shell covers made by Maria Maair
When i asked maria about her little shell mini this is what she had to say.

Gee, What is
This is my first mini book. It´s a travel book. Normally I do rather big -and heavy - books to take with me on holidays. This one was done in a couple of hours because I didn't have any time!

Did you leave it to the last minute?
I agreed on short notice to travel with a friend to Brasil, and it was like - "Do you want to go to Brasil there is a big discount now!?" and I was like "Ok let´s go!!" - and one week later we were on the beaches of Natal (Brasil).

Why the Shells?
As I had little time to prepare, I had to work with things I already had at home. The shells are from the wonderful beaches of "Cabanas" in Tavira - Algarve, Portugal. There are always lots of beautiful shells on that beach and I just can´t resist so I have tons of shells at home!

What else did you use?
The paper is handmade and was given to me when I visited the "Carvalha Gorda" Paper Mill some time ago - It was a trip organized by me, to show how ancient paper was made, to the class I was teaching.

What did you use it for in the end? How is it put together?
The book is a travel diary, it has one bi fólio (quire) for each day. The colors of the papers are all beach related, and there is actually one paper that has sand in it´s composition. So there are blue and yellow pages. Of course The book covers are shells because the trip was to the beaches of Natal. I dont know the scientific name of the shell I'll need to check. I made the book as you would make a medieval binding.

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Domino Mini Scrapbook

I made my first ever domino mini book. So super simple to make. I received one with a sweet poem in it from a friend so i simply had to make one myself. I used some scraps of paper that were lying in the waste basket + the little half dress is from the back of a really old simplicity sewing pattern. I would say that this is a good way to use up those scrap bits of paper except that you don't really manage to reuse a whole heap of it - but it is still recycling so i still get bonus points i guess.

I wrote a quick tutorial to give you the basic run down of how you can make your own altered domino mini book.
Be warned... you have to get out the power drill which brings me to my hot tip of the day... make sure the cordless drill is charged before you start your project! Don't start with a nearly dead battery like i did then wait for 4hrs for it to recharge... grrrr

Have fun and send us pics of your mini domino album and share the inspiration.

Tutorial to make a domino mini book.