How to add extra photos to your layout - by Cathy S

Hi All,

It's good to be sharing again and showing you how to stretch your layouts with a fun little mini-album idea.

I was super inspired by our moodboard this month and chose to scrap some beach photos from a few years back. True to form, there are always more photos that can comfortably fit on a double page spread, so what are you to do? Well this is where the mini-album idea comes in.

You will see the flip flops on my left hand page... well actually the polka-dot one is a little accordian album. I don't like having bulky stuff on my layouts, so I like to make my mini-albums as flat as possible, yet not skimp on the space for photos.

Here you can see the album open:

The album is simply made with the width of a 12x12 cardstock by the height of my photos (plus a little space for matting) and then scored to fold accordian-style. The bottom flap is glued directly to my layout. I didn't embellish anything (though you could add rub-ons or stickers) and so it all folds nice and flat. I printed my photos small so that I could use more and still capture the moment.

On this layout, if I left off the mini-album, the flip-flops would just create an extension of the theme, so by turning one into an album, it just stretches the layout ever so slightly.

Why not give it a try and share with us what you make.

Till next time.
Cathy S

Unicorn Mini Album with Carol

Hi, Carol Theng today, sharing a mini album that I made for my girl's birthday party. The theme for her birthday party is Unicorn. And I created this simple album to teach her and her best friends during the party.

I chose the simplest way to bind the album together with just 2 punched holes and tying the pages together with a thread. Let the kids tried diecutting with Spellbinders dies and Big Shot Machine. They had fun putting their albums together.

"Happy Birthday" Mini Album

Taught the girls to layer the diecut frames and cut outs with foam tape.

To decorate the inside, I simply cut out the designs from patterned papers. Easy for the girls to do as its their first album.

Hope you like my project sharing. Have fun crafting. Do join us for our January moodboard challenge.

Fabric and Paper Mini Album with Carol

Hi, everyone. Carol here today, sharing my project. Today is my home country, Singapore's 51st birthday. So for all fellow Singaporeans, Happy National Day!! Blessed to be able to share my project here today.

I made my first fabric and paper mini album. Been wanting to do one and to try my hands on sewing through both fabric and papers. I used Graphic45 Glided Lady paper collection.

"Glided Lady" Fabric Album

Sewn the album cover with my favorite fabric and lace fabric and a padding inside. Then I sewn laces around all edges. Punched 2 holes in middle, added eyelets and elastic strings to bind the inside pages together.

I used a mixture of fabric and papers and laces throughout the mini album. I sewn the first piece of fabric or paper down on each sheets (both the top and back pages) before I adhered down the rest of papers and laces.

I added a crochet flower that I crocheted, added Prima flower as centre and 2 other Prima flowers to embellish the cover. Pop up the centre cutout with foam tape. Below are all the inside pages.

I'm not a perfect nor experienced seamstress at all. I'm quite an amateur when come to machine sewing. And I used to have a fear for machine sewing. But I'm glad that I managed to overcome the fear. There's many imperfections throughout my album but I love the imperfections. And also love the raw edges of all the fabrics.

So don't be afraid to try new things. I'm glad that finally I done up my very first fabric cum paper mini album.

Hope you enjoy my sharing of my project. Have fun crafting. Do join us for this month's challenge , "Black and Anything Goes".

Thanks for dropping by.

Baby's first 12 months with Lizzy

Hi there! I've something a little different to share with you today.

It's a very short video about a small book I created to celebrate my Grand Boy's first

12 months.

It's a fabulous way of celebrating the changes that happen & also for stash busting!

 I hope you get some ideas and some inspiration to do something like this yourself...

& Happy Scrapping ~ Lizzy H

Envelope Album

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a tutorial on how to make an album with envelopes and scrap pieces of pattern papers.

This is the sample of how the album will look like after dressing it up.

You can use the normal envelopes to make this album cover but it will be a soft cover. If so, please scroll straight down to the photo of the score board.

For me, I prefer it to be more hardy. Thus will be making some with my cardstock and the Envelope Punch Board from We re Memory Keeper. 

What I love about this envelope puncher is that I can make it to any size and the instructions are all provided. For this album I'm going to make, I will need them to be 5" x 7". Thus I need a paper size of 9.5" x 9.5" :)

I have prepare 2 pieces of 9.5" x 9.5" cardstocks

Line paper to score line 4 and score. 

   

Remember to punch and turn it anti-clockwise.

Repeat the same steps for the next 3 sides.

  

This is how the paper will look like when you are done with all 4 sides.

Now turn the punch board over and use the reverse punch to round the corners.

 Now take a score board and score at 1" on only one corner of the long side of the envelope. 

Then sealed the 3 sides. See picture below.

Now align the envelope to the side and score the open flap at 5.75" (five and three quarter inch).

Repeat the steps above to create the other envelope. 

When you are done, you will have 2 envelopes looking like the picture below.

Now insert both sides of the open flaps into each envelope. 

The picture below shows the top down view. 

You have just completed the album cover!

Next, we need a long strip of paper; 11" x 7" to make a bone for the pages. 

Leave about 4" from the side and score 9 times. Each time giving a spacing of 3/8"

Fold the score lines; alternating the bends as you do so. See picture below.

It's now time to prepare the pages. Trim 8 pieces of pattern paper to a size of 5" x 7"

Paste the pages on the V bone you have just created. Ensure that the pages align well.

This is should be the final look after you have finish pasting all the 8 pieces of pattern papers.

Now slide the 2 sides of the completed album into the envelope covers and you are done!

*Similar action to how you insert the passport into the covers*

Here are the photos of the completed album with blank front and back covers.

I went ahead to beautify my front and back cover and this is my final version.

Hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and do feel free to leave some comments.

Lots of love and Happy Crafting!