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

Spring Mini Album Inspiration

Hello Crafty friends!

Here is Elisa and today I want to share with you a Spring Mini Album made with the colorful BoBunny Collection "Garden Grove"!!

Three years ago I and my Hubby had a trip to Turin (to celebrate our 10 years together). Till now I haven't created a Mini Album to take memory about this trip. So I decided to use those pictures for this project!!!

The album has a double cover... The external (in chipboard covered with patterned cardstock) and another one inside, made with cardstock (I used white Bazzill for it).

For the binding, I only made some holes on the cardstock cover and on the pages and pass some pieces of thin cord to keep them together, as you can see in the video.

Every page in the album reveals some secrets... Hidden tags, particular locking systems... I have a lot of fun making them!!

I have fun cutting the picture too!!! For example, I cut the picture below because I didn't want to cover to much the background.

Sometimes, when I place my pictures, I also cut parts of the page to fix a corner of the picture under it: can you see the flower on the lower right part of the page?

You can do it, but remember that then you must cover the cut on the other side on the cardstock!! (Very often I cover the cuts with another picture).

Another locking system:

In this project I used a lot of Foil Transfers Alpha. I love them when I don't have enough space for the Thickers Alpha. 

But when I have enough space... I love Thickers!!! And the Garden Grove one is great!

This collection is great because we have very colorful pattern carstocks, but neutral ones too:

On the back cover I created a big vertical pocket: the main aim of this pocket is keeping the album and the chipboard cover together. But I also used the pocket for my memorabilia. 

Once I filled the album with pictures and embellishment, I decide to add a main closing system (2 eyelets and a piece of thin white cord), because I filled it a bit too much, eheheh.

And now some schemes to realize the main structure!!! (Scoring quotes in red); when you have the main structure, you can personalize it with all the flaps, pockets and tags you want, of course!!!

BoBunny Supplies:

Garden Grove 12x12 Cardstocks: Spring, Postcards, Blanket, Happiness, Tranquility, Flutter, Ambiance, Adorable, Garden Grove;

Garden Grove Noteworthy

Garden Grove Layered Chipboard

Garden Grove Chipboards

Garden Grove Cardstock Stickers

Garden Grove Washi Tapes

Garden Grove Brads

Garden Grove Candy Dots

Garden Grove Thickers

BoBunny Dies: All Caps, Selpfie, Keeping Tabs

BoBunny It is written Stamp Set

BoBunny Alphabet Gold Foil Transfers

Other AC supplies:

White Bazzill

I hope you enjoy this project!!

Till next time!

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

Family Heirlooms Travel Album

Hello BoBunny fans!

Today I´m here with a little mini album for you that I have made. It´s a very easy album to make and I have been decorating it with this lovely collection Family Heirlooms paper. I LOVE this collection! I love the colors, the flowers, the stamps, and just everything. I think they did a great job with this collection for us to use.

I think I will use this album as a travel album for one of our trips. I love looking back at memories of trips we have had/ This will be so nice to have on the shelf later on for people to look at.
I hope you like it!

Products I used:

Family heirlooms paper collection

Family heirlooms chipboard stickers

Family heirlooms stamps

Family heirlooms brads

 Just my type stamp set

Have a nice day.