Baby Mini Brag Book

Hello friends! On July 1 I had my first grandchild and to document the memories of the first two weeks I thought it would be appropriate to create a little "brag book".  I have an obsession with mini albums at the moment and wanted to share this little accordion mini that I created with envelopes for Paper House Productions.

This was a lot of fun to make and it has lots of little tags and pockets to journal and add some baby photos. 

I created this with patterned papers from the Hello Baby Boy Collection by Paper House Productions. I love the fun, happy colors and the elephants and giraffe are so cute. 

This is the back cover of the album. I added some stickers and my grandson's name in mini alpha stickers and added a puffy sticker for dimension.

The foundation of the album is made with five white envelopes measuring approximately 5 1/2 inches by 4 1/4 inches. I glued them together and cut a little piece of the top of each envelope to create the pockets.

The photo mats were made with dark blue 110 pound card stock so that they hold up to some wear and tear and don't bend as easily. I added the patterned paper to each card. The photos were printed in the 2X3 size. I added stickers and puffy stickers.

The tags were created with the We R Memory Keepers Tag Punch Board some patterned paper from Paper House Production's Hello Baby Boy Collection as well as some stickers and puffy stickers. I finished the tags with ribbon or baker's twine.

I hope you are inspired to try an envelope mini album. 

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

Relax And Unwind Envelope Mini Album

Hello friends! Happy Sunday!

I love camping, nature and the outdoors and all of my three grown children love it too so when I saw the beautiful collections from Paper House Productions, I knew that I wanted to create some mini albums for my daughter to add some photos of their camping trips. This album was created with 8X8 inch white envelopes that I created from scratch. It makes a great foundation for the pages.

I added brown 110 pound card stock to the base and also photo mats that I tucked into pockets of the pages and added patterned papers and stickers from Paper House Productions The Great Outdoors Camping, Hunting, and Fishing Collections. I love these collections and the 3-D stickers just finish off the album nicely with a little pizzazz and dimension.

Mini albums are a great way to use paper collections and stickers and to add lots of photos. Paper House Productions fits the bill.

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

Paper House Productions Supply List

Patterned Papers - The Great Outdoors Camping Collection
Cardstock Stickers - The Great Outdoors
3-D Stickers - The Great Outdoors

It's A Boy Mini Album

Hello friends! It's great to be back creating after a crazy July.

Today I wanted to share a mini album that I created while I was away at my daughter's home. Of course it is for my new grandson and it took a LOT of time and paper.

I followed a tutorial by Shellie Geigle. She is an excellent teacher. I used a lot of the same supplies that she recommended, but also used some of my own to make it my own. The book is made from medium weight chipboard that I added a 3 1/2 inch spine and gussets to add the pages.

Here are photos of the mini album:

I think I'm on a mini album kick now.

I'll be giving this to my son and daughter in law so that they can add photos of my grandson.

Thanks for stopping by and I will have some more projects to share very soon.

Happy creating!