5 Tips to Make a Pretty Mini Album with Angela

Hello crafty friends,

It's Angela here showing you a mini album made with the gorgeous Family Heirlooms collection by BoBunny.  If you are new to scrapbooking mini album or, for any reason, don't feel comfortable with this type of project, let me share with you five tips that will make the easiest mini album the prettiest.

The size of the mini is 7 x 9 x 2 inches. It has a hard cover that I made with a piece of chipboard and covered with three different papers from Family Heirlooms collection, one light color for the outside cover, one darkest for the spine and a third different one for the inside cover.

The first tip I would give you to make a pretty mini album is to vary the size of the pages. Make some pages longer, smaller and wider. 

You can also vary the shape of the pages, for example including a half circle page. You can even vary the size of the cover like I did in my mini where the front cover is narrower than the back cover.

The second tip is to include pockets. Making a pocket is very easy and it's fun to create hidden spaces where adding journaling or mirabilia.

In the pocket section I would reserve a special place to envelops. You can use real envelops or creating your own like I did here, using the WRMK 1-2-3 Punch Board. 

To give even more interesting and secure its content, I created a closure with two brads and a piece of twine. This, introduce to my third tip.

Add texture using twine. Think of any twine, string, ribbon, fabric and lace. I used a piece of velvet ribbon for the closure of the mini and a piece of lace under the embellishments.

Also stitching is a great plus. You could stitch an embellishment or the profile of a page or close a pocket with a regular or a zigzag stitch.

The forth tip is about the embellishments themselves. Play with the embellishments! Let the embellishments guide you to create the page.

On the above page, I created a kind of notebook with a piece of patterned paper just to give a place to that beautiful fountain pen die-cut. On the page below, I folded the Family die-cut following the tile shapes of the design.

We arrived to my last tip, the fifth. This is the most creative of the tips I listed till now and it's definitely the one that I prefer.

Tip 5: include unexpected elements!

It isn't that difficult, sometimes it is the design of the patterned paper itself that guide you. What about a mini in the mini?

I made a little accordion mini album out of paper Family Heirlooms Ancestors and glued it on the circle page. Isn't it fun?

To secure it and avoid the accidental opening, I made a closure using again a piece of twine and a brad.

And what about buttons? 

These Vintage Buttons cards were a wonderful opportunity to include in the mini album a few of my granny buttons.

Thank you so much for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed the Family Heirlooms album I made and hopefully found some inspiration from my tips. Happy crafting my friends!

BoBunny supplies:

Patterned Papers: Family Heirlooms/ Keepsakes/ Pedigree/ Heritage/ Trinkets/ Generations/ Ancestors/ Origins/ History/ Lineage/ Traditions

Double Dot: Natural Necessities 6x6 paper pad

Cardstock Stickers: Family Heirlooms

Chipboard Stickers: Family Heirlooms

Layered Chipboard: Family Heirlooms

Noteworthy: Family Heirlooms

Brads: Family Heirlooms

Stamps: Rose Garden

Double Dot Pearlescents: Blush/ Coral

Other Supplies:

AC Sticky Thumb dimensional foam adhesive/ sticky dots

WRMK Precision 5" scissors

WRMK 1-2-3 Punch Board

Easter Gift with Angela

Hello BoBunny friends!

Angela here on the blog to show you a new project made with Garden Grove collection and some Double Dot papers but first of all, let me wish you a Happy and Peaceful Easter.

During these tough days of social distancing, I had a lot of time to play and a lot to think. What I struggle the most is thinking to my old mom all alone in her house. At the moment, I don't know what will be the situation and if we will have the possibility to spend Easter together. For this reason I decided to make a little present to cheer her and her home up.

I created a wreath made of simple DIY flowers and the phrase 'Happy Easter' in the center.

I started  choosing some pretty papers from Garden Grove collection as a base of the wreath. Particularly, I chose paper Spring that has tiny dots in yellow, pink and orange and I cut it in a big scalloped circle of 9 inch diameter.

I cut a second circle of 7 inch out of vellum and centered it on top of the scalloped one. 

Following the combo of paper Spring, I picked some Double Dot papers in the same coordinated colors, to create the flowers. 

Making this type of flowers is very simple. I cut a circle of about 5 inch diameter. With a pencil, I drew a spiral inside the circle, leaving about 1/4 inch between each line. I cut along the line with a pair of scissors and then, I rolled up, starting from the outside edge. Last, to secure the flower I used hot glue.

The phrase Happy Easter is a combination of a chipboard and letters. Easter is from the Garden Grove chipboard stickers and Happy is made with gold foil foam stickers.

Below the phrase, I added some Easter eggs and a super cute white Easter bunny. I finished embellishing with some colorful butterfly chipboards and a pair of wreath tails on the bottom of the wreath and voilà!

Thank you so much for joining me today. I hope you enjoyed my project and feel inspired to create with the beautiful Garden Grove collection. I can't wait to see your projects!

BoBunny Supplies:Pattern Paper: Garden Grove Spring/ Postcard

Double Dots: Lace Mist/ Flamingo/ Maize/ Avocado, Damask Sunflower

Chipboard Stickers: Garden Grove

Thickers: Garden Grove

Other Supplies:

AC Stocky Thumb adhesives

WRMK Precision 5" scissors

Garden Grove Folded Mini Album with Angela

Hello BoBunny friends,

Angela here with a brand new mini album to share with you, featuring Garden Grove collection. 

It's a fun folded mini album made out of one sheet of 12 inch paper and it contains a few photos of a scrap meeting during last summer.

The size of the mini album is 3,25 x 9,5 inch when it's folded and 12,50 when it opens up.

I embellished the cover with a few bouquets of white roses that I fussy cut from paper Garden Grove Remember. To break up the mono tone of the roses, I added a few layers of leaves. These are from Rose Garden stamp and I stamped them in black on white paper and with gold embossing powder on vellum. For the title I used the All Occasion Sentiments craft dies. I chose the word Celebrate and I cut it twice, once in burgundi and a second one in white. I overlay the two pieces, keeping them slightly off-set, so that the title stands up.

The little squares that compose the mini album are 3 inches. I personally preferred to alternate some squares with photos and some with decorations only but there is nothing, of course, to prevent from fill each one with photos.

I also find the way to include a little shaker page!

To decorate the mini album, I fussy cut all the smallest images I could find, like flowers, wreath, butterflies.

I added a few stitched swirls, because I do like stitching.

I also played with stamps and dies and other bits and pieces from Garden Grove collection.

That's all for today my friend. Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed the project and if you'll try to make it, please share it, I would be very happy to see your creations!

BoBunny Supplies: 

Pattern Paper: Garden Grove/ Remember/ Blanket/ Happiness/ Adorable/ Spring

Layered Chipboards: Garden Grove
Cardstock Stickers: Time & Place

Candy Dots: Garden Grove
Hearts: Count The Ways
Washi Tape: Garden Grove

Stamps: Sweet Celebrations/ Garden Grove/ Beautiful Butterflies/ Balloon Party/ Rose Garden/Remember

Craft Dies: All Occasion Sentiment/ Balloon Party/ Nested Terrific Tags

Other Supplies:

AC Sticky Thumb dimensional foam adhesive/ sticky dots

WRMK Precision 5" scissors

5 Ways to Use Stamps with Angela

Hello dear BoBunny fans,

Angela back here. Today, I would like to share with you some pretty tags featuring BoBunny stamps. I am going to show you some easy and fun ways to use them and make your creations unique. 

The tags are 3 1/8 x 6 1/4 inch and are made out of white card-stock. They come with a their own tag holder made with Double Dot papers from Lace collection.

1 - Create your own patterns with stamps:

To make each tag holder special, I decided to create a unique pattern on the paper. I stamped all over the front pocket and heat embossed with white embossing powder.

The first tag has a fun window shaker on top, very easy to make with the adhesive vellum windows by EK Success. The shaker is round and filled with sequins and round paper confetti. So, I chose the Bubbles from Terrific Textures Stamp as a pattern for the pocket. 

For the sentiment I used the 'Congratulations!' from Sweet Celebrations Stamp and a layered chipboard banner and a few confetti to embellish the tag.

2 - Create your own embellishments:

The pink tag holder is featuring Beautiful Butterflies Stamp. Again, I stamped on the pocket all the different shapes and sizes of butterflies. Moreover, I fussy cut a few other butterflies and layered one on the other to create a decoration. Just combine the different shapes of stamps on different  kind of paper, fussy cut them and you'll obtain special embellishments!

I repeated the same pattern on the tag too. I first colored the white tag with pink watercolors, giving an ombre effect, then I tamped the butterflies and heat embossed in white.

3 - Use stamps as a stitching guide:

For those who love hand stitching, another way to use stamps is to use them as a guide for stitching. Here, I stitched the sentiment 'Happy Birthday'. I first stamped the sentiment using Versamark Ink on a piece of craft card-stock, which is a kind of transparent ink. Then, I punched the holes, following the lines and finally I stitched the 'Happy Birthday' with a thin needle.

This is my preferred tag, maybe because of the flowers. The tag holder has a beautiful rose pattern on the front made with Garden Grove Stamp. I stamped the roses changing direction each time and avoiding overlapping. 

4 - Dimensional Pattern

This is a combination of the above techniques. What I have done here is to stamp some rose bouquets on a white piece of card-stock and fussy cut them. I adhered them on the tag using square foam adhesives so to create a dimensional pattern. I cut with scissors the parts exceeding from the tag and voilà. 

5 - Punched Stamps

Here is another idea on how to use our stamps.

If you don't like stitching or are too lazy to do it, what about just punching holes along the stamped image? 

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you liked the stamping ideas I shared with you. Just keep in mind that you can always take these ideas, change the color scheme and the papers and make them perfect for any occasion you are creating. Happy stamping!

BoBunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Double Dot Lace Lavender/ Flamingo/ Island Mist

Chipboards: Count The Ways

Layered Chipboards: Garden Grove

Candy Dots: Garden Grove

Stamps: Sweet Celebrations/ Garden Grove/ Of Time Past/ Beautiful Butterflies/ Terrific Textures

Other Supplies:

AC: card-stock white/ craft

AC Sticky Thumb dimensional foam adhesive/ sticky dots

EK Success: adhesive vellum windows

WRMK Precision 5" scissors