Mini Album - Maine

Wow. I didn't realize how long it has been since I posted last. Sorry for that. I just haven't spent that much time on the computer lately, no drive to keep me on there. But, I am back with a mini album I created in 5-6 hours or so of our vacation to Maine. I made this as a gift for our Aunt Bev since she wasn't able to join us on this vacation. We sure missed her. I just wanted to be sure to include pictures of all the families that were there and in a couple different locations. BTW, she loved the album and I was so happy to make it for her.

Supplies:

chipboard book - Cosmo Cricket

patterned paper - October Afternoon

stamps - Papertrey Ink, Stampin Up!

gems - Hero Arts

letter stickers - American Crafts

Here is the sledding album I told you about a couple of posts ago. This album was so simple and fun to do. Actually I really enjoy doing the mini albums because there is a lot less space to ponder over where to put pictures, embellishments, etc. The longest part to creating a mini album for me is picking the pictures and what order I want them to go in. What I really love about these albums is that I keep them in our living room for easy access and you can flip through them whenever you want to look at some pictures. How I decide to do mini albums is when I have a lot of pictures of one event. Sometimes it is too hard to narrow the pictures down to just a few so I decide to make a mini album to showcase all my favorite pictures of the day, holiday, special event, and so on.

Products used: Mini album - 7gypsies, CS - Bazzill, PP - October Afternoon, Rubon Snowflakes - October Afternoon, Snowflake with Brad - Making Memories, Crystal gems - Hero Arts

Mini Christmas Album

I got some mini albums about a month ago and I knew when I bought them what they were going to be used for. This one of course was going to be used for this Christmas album and the other one I bought was going to be used for a sledding album (I will show that one at a later date). Since I take so many pictures at Christmas time, I thought it would be better to put my favorite ones into a small album instead of making 4 or more 12X12 pages. It is just nice to keep a special holidays like this all on its own to easily go back to time and time again.

Products used: Album - Maya Road, PP - BasicGrey Wassail Collection, Journaling cards - October Afternoon, Snowflake punch - Martha Stewart, Scalloped punch - Stampin Up, Stickers - BasicGrey, Stamps(front page) - Stampin Up, Berry Brads and leaves - Making Memories, Ink - Staz On, Pen - Zig