Vintage Mini Envelope Book

So, is it "Vintage Mini Envelope Book", or "Vintage Envelope Mini Book"? I have no idea. Thank goodness the mini wasn't as hard to make as the title for this entry. 

A week or so ago Julie Fei-Fan Balzer posted a mini tag book that was made from coin envelopes. I thought I would just quickly assemble one so I would burn the process into my poorly functioning brain cells, but I just couldn't stop once I started.

Here's the link for Julie's original tutorial, (I won't mess with perfection by trying to retype it here).

My mini is made from Julie's first example and I followed it pretty much to the "t" except I used a letter opener to slit open the bottom of the envie before I attached it to the other envelopes, (easier to just not include a screwed up envie than try to fix it after it's already a part of the book).

Once I attached all the envies together, I used Distress Ink in Walnut Stain and Antique Photo to age them. I love the results.

Following the same process I also made some tags for the envelope pockets.  I aged the white string the same way. Got to love Ranger products.

Here's the finished product. Wish those were real pictures, (I would love to have a collection of vintage photos), but they are cut out from a Graphic 45 On the Boardwalk 6X6 pad, (I love the smaller print on 6X6 papers). 

Front cover

Inside front cover

Back cover

Another really fun project and the beach theme coordinates perfectly with The Paper Variety's current challenge.  Their week 55 challenge is all things ocean and nautical. Deadline for entering this challenge is Tuesday at noon. Oh, and I forgot to mention the prize for the winner of this challenge is from WeScrap.  Isn't it pretty? 

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Creating.

Susan

Picture Palooza

I cannot believe how many pictures I scrapped this weekend. 40 or more and that was just on Saturday, (laundry distracted me on Sunday).

Do you remember this stack of photos I was working on last week? 

Now it looks like this. Just a handful left.



All day on Saturday I worked on a mini album. I've made tons of minis but never one like this. I used a 4x6 photo album to scrap those 40+ pictures. At this point you're saying, "heck, I could scrap way over 40 pictures if all I did was throw them in an album". Well, it wasn't really like that. I used the photo as my background and scrapped a layout right on the picture.

I had so much fun playing with these pictures and selecting which ones to scrap. I even scrapped more than one picture on the same 4x6 page. (photo lesson learned this week - do not take pictures of layouts while they are in the page cover. Also need practice on removing unwanted backgrounds)

I wasn't real fond of the outside cover of the album I used so I just covered it with some of the leftover paper I used in the layouts. Then I added a chipboard title leftover from a K and Company summer themed sticker sheet along with the numbers for the year from a pack of Thickers. 











I like the look of tabbed pages and one of the kits I used had several pre-made ones that I glued on the outside of some of the page covers.



This was a super easy and quick project. It did take me several hours to complete but taking into consideration the number of photos I scrapped, I think I got a lot done in little time.

Happy Creating

Susan

Why Do Now What You Can Procrastinate Until Tomorrow?

Yahoo!!!! I finally finished my daughter's mini book. Now I'm pondering what to work on. Perhaps my photography skills. I have a wonderful new little point and shoot that my family gave me for Christmas and I'm still trying to learn all it's features. Please bare with me as I learn and excuse the quality of any photos I post for the next several weeks.

Back to the mini. The base of the book is a 9X9 Bo Bunny refill for a chipboard book. Found it on clearance somewhere and figured I would use it some day for something. I covered nearly all of the pages with paper and embellies from one of my Scarlet Lime Frugal Fab kits, (sorry, can't remember which month). It's a mixture of Crate Paper Cottage Collection, some Lost & Found from My Mind's Eye, I'm pretty sure there's some Pink Paisley in there and a few miscellaneous items I had in my stash or picked up at my LSS last weekend.

  
I had a blast making the cover. Really though, I had a blast making the entire book. Right now I seem to have an over abundance of ribbon. I used nearly an entire package of fibers from a Basic Grey kit. I think it's Pheobe, but I'm not sure. Come to think of it, that paper would have been great for this book. Now I'm in the mood to make something with those papers.

As you can tell I'm pretty eclectic in my crafts. Whether it's old or new, I might use just one line entirely or mix and match, (at least I try to make it match), from several different companies.

You can't deny it, she is definitely cute.





 And a trouble maker.

But we love her dearly.


Thanks for stopping by.

Susan