Mini Book Monday

A little late, but I forgot to take pictures of them on Monday :)

First up: Elf on the Shelf Tag mini:

I inked the edges of some plain manilla shipping tags, then layered a little bit of patterned paper on the front with a tag and some ribbon. I wanted it to be a pretty simple album, so other than the first page with a short blurb about what Elf on the Shelf is, the rest of the album is a variation on this:
dates stamped on the edges with a strip of patterned paper leftover from the December Daily albums under an inked photo.

And the second album:
I fell in love with the Little Yellow Bicycle Hello Fall line when it was released last year, but we don't really have "fall" down here, or we kind of do, but not until December. The 6x12 album bases don't tend to last long at Archivers, so I went ahead and grabbed it, along with the Hello Fall 6x12 pad and chipboard accent pack. When we did get to Oyster Creek for an attempt at Christmas pictures in early December, the leaves were gorgeous, so I decided to go ahead and make my Hello Fall album. For the cover, I added some brown glitter Thickers letters that I found on clearance at Hobby Lobby. Some of the interior pages:

I was running low on accent pieces, so I added the 10 things pocket and some of the chipboard die cuts from the Deja Views Fall page kit at Hobby Lobby.


Not a lot of journaling, but I may go back and add a few things here and there.

365 Layouts total: 12o layouts and 5 mini albums

Mini Book Monday--December Daily #1 and #2

So far I've done 2 albums: 1 for Terri (the other half of Craftyx2) and one for my sister. Everything was from my stash, and I can now report that I'm out of Christmas embellishments.

Terri's album. I went with more traditional red, green, and brown for her album. I left the cover blank for her to add her own title, and I need to track down a set of Bind-it-All clear 8x8 covers, since Hobby Lobby seems to have stopped selling them.
I like the peekaboo aspect of mini albums, so in past albums I've trimmed down pages and used border punches. This year I decided to do something different, so I kept all the foundation pages as 8x8 and added in extras, mostly 6x6ers and some like these, BoBunny cut outs mounted on cardstock to make tag pockets. For Terri's albums, I let her decide on her own page numbers.

More inserts and library pockets for journaling.

For her album, I used Basic Grey, BoBunny, American Crafts, DCWV, Recollections, Simple Stories and Imaginisce paper and misc. embellishements.
My sister's album is more cutesy, since she has a baby girl turning 1 in December. I left the title blank so she could pick her own title. The felt tree is a Christmas ornament from Target.
Foundation pages are all 8x8, with some 6x6 extras mixed in. On 6 of the pages, I used Doodlebug 4x6 journal cards as tag pockets to hold journaling or more photos.
The birthday page layout. The snowman is actually a lunch bag sized goody bag trimmed down and turned into a tall pocket for extra photos and journaling. The backside is covered in pastel-y ledger paper for more writing area.
Since they are Disney fans, I used the Cricut Mickey Font cartridge for the numbers. The tags are from a couple bucket o'tags in the Target Christmas section.

Papers used in her album are Doodlebug, Jillibean Soup, We R Memory Keepers, K & Co., Making Memories, Bella Blvd, and Recollections.

Now I just need to make my December Daily. :)

365Layouts total: 36 layouts and 3 minibooks

Mini Book Monday

I'm trying to get in the habit of making all the little mini books that I have planned, so first up was making one using some of my leftover Counterfeit Kit #3 papers.

There were a couple of sheets of paper that had 4 6x6 squares on one side, so I let that guide my albums size. I use a 12x12 sheet of packing corrugated cardboard and cut it into fourths for my covers and two insert pages to give it some stability, then I started "decorating" the inside pages.

I've seen several "this I believe" layouts where scrapbookers recorded their basic beliefs, so I wanted to record mine, and this little album seemed like a good way to do it.