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!

Playing With Dolls Layout

Hello friends! Happy Saturday! Today I am sharing a layout that I created of my daughter for A Flair For Buttons.

This one was really fun to create.  I saw a layout that Paige Evans created with envelopes and it inspired me to put my own spin on it. 

  I began my layout with a white piece of card stock for my background trimmed down to 11.5 inches wide by 11.5 inches long.  I adhered it to a 12X12 piece of patterned paper and machine stitched about a 1/4 inch from the outside edge.  

 I used my water-colour paints and watercolored in some matching colors that would coordinate with the patterned papers on my layout.  I have this awesome mini envelope paper punch and went ahead and punched out 15 envelopes I then put them in a row of 3 envelopes across by a column of 5 down  and then folded and glued them to the white card stock.

  I covered my photo and envelopes and splattered some pink water-colour paint and some black indian ink and let it dry.  

Next I began embellishing. 

I added some heart stickers and two of the Hashtag Boy Flair Buttons

 and tucked them inside the envelopes and then I added some photos that I matted on some patterned paper (all the papers are from the Pinkfresh Studio Up In The Clouds Collection) and punched some circles and added a Summer Gold Foil Flair Button.  I am loving the gold flair at the moment. 

Finally, I added my title of alpha stickers and a die cut word that I cut out of gold paper. Here are a few more closeups.

I hope you enjoyed my layout and are inspired to use your flair buttons tucked in little envelopes.  Thanks for stopping by.  Be sure to check out the A Flair For Buttons shop for these and hundreds more flair buttons.  

Flair Buttons Used On Layout

Hashtag Boy Flair

Summer Gold Foil Flair

Patterned Papers - Pinkfresh Studio In The Clouds Collection

Three Or More August Challenge - Pockets/Envelopes

Hello friends!  Today I would like to share a design team layout for Three Or More.  For August, the challenge is to use three or more photos, and also pockets and/or envelopes on your layout.  For my layout I created a pocket from a 3X4 card that came with the paper collection Summer Squeeze by Bella Blvd.  I also cut a journaling card from the same collection to fit inside the pocket that I stitched with my sewing machine and adhered.  For the inside journal card, I added two round stickers from the same collection back to back to be the pull handle for the journal card.

Here are a few closeups

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