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.

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

This is the mini house book that Di built

An interesting house mini album from the Make Me Creative Blog.
There is also a step by step tutorial in the form of a pdf that you can download for free. You have to purchase the pieces for the house but maybe you can wing it.
Check out the house mini that Di built here

Just thought id pass on a couple of interesting links today.

A mini album competition at The Craft Barn Blog - they provide the sketches for each page and you make the mini - get on over there and find out how you can enter.

An interesting paper bag mini album tutorial here

now you gotta love cupcakes and mini books right - Check out this baby shower with the cutest book themed cupcakes. mmmmmmm
Vistaprint mommy cards. I have got some in the past for moving house cards as well as for contact cards.

Pink Mini Albums for a Cause

Now this is truly an awesome way to get behind a good cause and also score a fabulous Pink Mini Album.
This is a 4x6 gate fold mini album that Joy Nieva has made to raise funds through a Silent Auction hosted by Laura of Following The Paper Trail.
All proceeds from this awesome initiative will go to the Susan G. Komen for a Cure Foundation through their Passionately Pink for a Cure event program. So be sure to pop over there for a visit, check out the minis up for grabs and Bid BIG!
The bidding place will be at Laura's blog site HERE and it will start on Oct. 31st and will end on Nov. 7 at 6 pm Pacific Time. I hope to see you in the auction and thank you! :)

To bid on Joys album go to this post

The 1,000,000 Giraffes Project

Have you all seen the 1,000,000 Giraffes project before? Ola helland has been challenged to collect 1,000,000 girraffes by 2011. draw a girafe, make a giraffe, alter a giraffe and get your giraffe over to the 1,000,000 Giraffes project.
At the moment he has 318 103 giraffes and needs a whole heap more.

What does this have to do with making mini scrapbooks you ask? Why, not much at all unless you plan on making a giraffe shaped mini and sending the pic over to Ola....

I figure some crafty ideas are...

• stamp a giraffe
• domino giraffe
• mini album shaped like a giraffe
• homemade giraffe ear rings
• giraffe die cuts
• giraffe scrap paper
• giraffe cards
• box of giraffes
• scrabble tile giraffe
• accordion giraffe.....

Share your ideas with us, and get your giraffe pics to Ola here

Ceramic tile mini scrapbook

Just when I think I have seen every kind of mini album that can be possibly made, A mini album maker like Shallale Figaro goes and amazes me with a fresh new idea and think to myself..."now why didn't i think of that"

Now how gorgeous is this mini book? All the pretty colors and stamp designs... I want!

Shallale bought few squares ceramic tiles and decided to alter them for the cover of a minibook. All tiles are inked with alcohol ink then stamped with black staz-on and finally glazed with epoxy resin.

Go and have a look at more pictures of this very cool ceramic tile mini book. and if you are inspired to make one then be sure to let us know.

Cherry Pie Mini Scrapbook

I found this most awesome mini in our flickr group yesterday that I just had to share. Stacey from the Oh Scrap! blog has created this cute cherry pie mini scrapbook with digital scrappy stuff, pipe cleaners and godd ol creativityness which i swear looks good enough to eat (especially that cherry on top - made with a wooden bead and a piece of scrap leather)

I asked Stacey if she could share a little about how she made her mini and what inspired her and this is what she had to say...

My inspiration as always is my son. But the prompt 'Sweet' came from this great little contest blog called One Little Word. As soon as I saw the word sweet I thought of Sweet as Pie. Our (my family's) nickname is Pie... Piegirl, pieman and little baby pie :)

As soon as I thought of the idea the whole image appeared in my head - that I wanted to make the top of the pie a mini album and the base was just the pie plate. The base is a wooden box that I covered with the b/w pattern paper. I wanted to make the crust and the pipe cleaners just seem to work as it allowed it to be more flexible and added the bulk I needed. I have been blessed to have taken on my grandmother's thriftiness in making things out of unrelated items - so I am lucky that way. I also think living in a small town where you can't find all the craft supplies you want you must create your own.

Do you prefer making minis with digi kits to old fashioned papers? Would you make another?

I usually don't used digital papers all that often as I do have soooo much paper from the years of shopping and not creating. But none fit the cherry theme that I wanted and I found the digital kits. THis way I was able to have all the elements I love (buttons, flowers etc...) without the bulk....Make another??? Depends.... not sure...

Thanks a bunch Stacey for sharing this truly creative mini. If you want to see more pictures of this mini album then hop over to Staceys Sweet As Pie Blog Post

clam shell mini album and box

this isn't a tutorial or anything. Just a little something found that may inspire you.

some interesting mini book findings

Out and about on the www today, lets see what we can find....
A contest or two
Lulu are promoting a new product and are having a contest giveaway to spread the word- Lulu is an onling publishing outfit. handy if you want to publish a book (hmmm, not today) or a mini album you'd like to create.

Now surely this is a contest a scrapbooker should win! The best creative and unique mini book design can win you $500, $250 or $125 when submitted to LULU before July 23, 2009. You do need to have an account with lulu to get started though, but it might be worth checking out. You can also make as many Mini Books as you like to enter in the contest.

A quick mini book contest here. just leave a quick comment and you're done.

A Bind it all Summer challenge here

Minis im liking
this sweet heart shaped mini by Maren. a pocket full of love.


And this Summer fun watermelon mini scrapbook by Rhonda.

a camera in a matchbox mini album

The ever so creative Patti Lee made this sweet mini. A small Camera matchbox mini that holds a bunch of petite photos to enjoy. The finished size of this project is 2-3/4"x 2"x 3/4". The photo strip is 2-1/2" x 11" long and is removable.
See more Creations by Patti over at her blog, it is definitely worth a visit or two.

mini book in a nutshell

take a look at this little cutie. a mini book in a nutshell... literally.
you can read all about how Nick Graham made this project on the craftstylish blog

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.

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.

Yummy flickr mini scrapbooks

Just wanted to share some flickr yumminess today. starting with this yummy looking biscuit mini album. How cute is it! I just want to eat it up! Patrick picked it up in japan so it wasn't homemade. He has filled it with index prints and will be keeping it in his sons treasure box full of memories.


More super mini loving in the MINI ALBUM group on Flickr. There are 2000 pictures of beautiful creative mini scrapbooks from crafters all over the world. That is a lot of inspiration. If you have a mini you want to share then post it to the group!




Credits
1. Biscuit Mini Album, 2. Untitled, 3. "En mi casa" hinge album, 4. lunchpail2ok, 5. this is my daddy, 6. Album em caixa de bombons, 7. Ross' Valentine Album 2009, 8. new Scrap Can Do! kit!, 9. mini troca, 10. 9 mois, 11. album à languette pour somaia, 12. Post-it notes, 13. sassy girl, 14. calendrier 2009, 15. Bo-Bunny BABY Word Album, 16. Mini Jardim botânico - Capa, 17. calendar mini book!Sassafras Lass DT project and New online class coming soon!, 18. Mini Calendar, 19. lowe2, 20. PC070125, 21. little and large zoomed in, 22. mini album : les jeux de Gabriel, 23. Shell book- A trip to Brasil, 24. 3 Stooges Mini Album, 25. sesja8, 26. Mini Madness March 9, 27. christmas diary1, 28. Mini album - Emma (page 1 of 48), 29. {you have my heart}, 30. His & Hers Mini Album, 31. Altered name card book, 32. nous, 33. Holiday Houses, 34. baby book, 35. Custom scrapbook Baby Boy inside, 36. Turquoise & Chocolate

make or WIN a perpetual calendar

You are all probably thinking that we are well into the new year and that the time for giving out calendars as gifts has long passed no matter how cool they may look.
Not so, I say. I have recently discovered perpetual calendars... the type that never end, or at least the type you don't have to throw out (or recycle) at the end of the year. For those of you who have no idea what they are or how they tick they simply are a set of months and dates that you change daily to reflect the date. If you take a look at the pic below you will see how they work with this perpetual block calendar set made by Wayne. It has been crafted from wood and then decorated.

Wayne makes these cool little wooden sets (amongst a million other things) that he sells from his Etsy store. But he is all for sharing the love and so he has ever so graciously written us this perpetual calendar tutorial which you can find at scrapbook-crazy.com. Covered in scrapbook papers these little beauties look great. You can totally coordinate them to match the decor in your home or office. I have one in the post on it's way to me right now, so i will show you it when it is all spruced up.

So who wants to win one of these naked calendar kits?
Do you want to cover this little calendar in pretty scrapbook papers for your desk, or home. Wayne is giving away a perpetual calendar kit to one lucky reader. All you will need to do to enter is to leave a comment on this post before 18 Feb. If you want to be entered five times then link to this scrapbook calendar give-away post from a post on your blog or other scrappy site (just tell me you if you are due 5 entries in the comments and leave a link to the post )

My dd will be picking a winner out of a hat when all the entries are in.

Match Boxes Mini scrapbooks

You can't get much smaller than a match box right? Check out some of the cutest little minis in a box around.

A full tutorial to make an matchbox jewelery box by Rachel from wonderful whimsy. You can also check out this tutorial to show you make a simple altered matchbox books by crafty crow.

a matchbox mini book made by prairiepeasant. A tiny little accordion mini tucked away into a love this little beauty. How about some matchbox art to wear? Check out these amulets and this butterfly box by Nic Howard.


Linda shows what can be achieved with a little imagination, some paper and glue with this da vinci quotes mini. Stemplechaotin makes a this mini.
Viola makes this great mixed media mini titled 'Dreams' and Sue creates this accordion album

Love this little mini album, can't believe it can fit inside a matchbox, but in a matchbox it lives. Sarah created this little darling along with a fab tutorial for it's a creativeworld.

a supersized altered matchbox by jayjay

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updated 13/2
just wanted to add a comment by Sarah
She used a large matchbox for 'cooks' matches- now she has a bag of matches in the cupboard!!

Mini Books you can wear...On Your Ears?!!

Yep you heard right.
Rhonda from has made these outrageous itty bitty book earings and has them up for sale in her Etsy store - MyhandboundBooks where she has a tonne of hand made mini books on offer.

I asked Rhonda 'Why the earrings?' to which she replies 'The itty bitty books are a lot of fun to make. and since they aren't very practical, turning them into jewelry seems so logical! Also, being able to wear books is a thrill for book lovers who want to be able to display their passion as fashion"

I hear ya!!


Rhonda also has this teeny tiny handmade book with a brown leather cover.
If you have a mouse, a small bird or a dollhouse at home in need of a sketch book then this is the book you want. lol. so cute.

Barbie loves mini album scrapbooks too.

Oh my Lord! Even Barbie is into mini albums.
A fellow flickr buddy Le posted this photo recently. when i asked her how, what, where, why? She said...

'i made a lot of miniatures always using polymer clay...but this is a different project...in fact i looooove to take pictures as well...so, why not merge these two passions?? so, i created this mini album with some pictures of me and my husband in a size that a barbie doll could see and grab with her own hands! i love it!'

I love it too.

Pictures and mini albums by Le Bohrer

Daily Christmas Inspiration

Ali Edwards - mini album queen is again doin her December Daily mini album and we can all play along. It's a way to record and celebrate traditions throughout the month of december. There is also a flickr group where participants can post their stuff. Check it out for more details.

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Tim Holtz is running a 12 tags of xmas. Each day he creates a fabulous (and i mean fabulous) tag with all his bits n pieces and he shows you how he does it, step by step. Truly awesome if you're keen on learning a thing or two using stamps. You can win some great prizes by leaving a comment on his blog too.