60th Anniversary Mini Album

Hello friends! I hope you are having a great day so far. It's very smoky where I live because of several forest fires burning in my area so it's a good excuse to stay indoors and do some papercrafting and blogging.

I am really excited to share an interactive mini album that I created for my parents. They celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in July and I wanted to give them something special that I put my heart and soul into so I decided to create this mini album for their anniversary gift.

My three children and their spouses, my husband and parents got together and celebrated the very special occasion. It also was awesome because my parents were especially happy to meet their very first great grandchild that was only a few days old. I was able to take several photos so I will add those later as well as some my parents would like to add of their dating years, engagement, wedding day, and other special occasions.

This is a very photo heavy blog post and I put a lot of time into this interactive mini album. It's probably my biggest project to date but I wanted it to be very special. I couldn't tell you how many pieces of heavy teal cardstock I used to create this album. It was a lot! I made the book completely from scratch. The book is made from medium weight chipboard that I covered with design papers.

I wanted to give credit to Rosa Kelly for her tutorial that I followed. I adore her creations. I wanted to make the album my own so I printed the design papers on my Epson 4750 home printer on Epson Presentation Matte Paper. The collection I used for this album is the Abigail Collection from Nitwit Collections. When I first saw this collection I was in love! The teal and pink colors are some of my favorite color combinations. I wanted to create a somewhat romantic, vintage, shabby chic, Parisian  feel. I thought it was perfect for a 60th wedding anniversary. My style is usually more trendy, but it was awesome to try something different.

Here are the pages. I believe there is approximately enough space for 80 photos.  I haven't decided what paper I will mat the photos with, but it will probably be more of the teal cardstock.

Front Cover

Shaker Box 

 

Spine

Side View Of Pockets With Slide Out Pages

Back Cover

Inside Front Cover Large Fold Out With Magnet Closure

A Sticker That I Had In My Stash Forever

A Gatefold With A Magnetic Closure

Lots Of Flips

A Pocket With Flap 

A Waterfall 

A Pocket With A Flipout

A Pocket With Brads And Twine Closure

An Envelope Accordion File To Add Photos Or Memorabilia

Another Waterfall

Add caption

An Accordion Fold Out For More Photos With A Ribbon Tie Closure

An Envelope That Is Attached With A Brad And Spins To Reveal Photo Below Envelope

A Waterfall To Add Several Photos

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. I hope you are inspired to create a mini album. 

Have a great day and happy creating!