Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Mini album month at Let's Capture Our Memories! & a winner!

First of all - thanks for all your sweet comments from the Creative Scrappers blog hop - the winners are all announced on the blog for the copy of the sketch E-Book from Kristine Davidson!

BUT, I did promise a RAK... and my winner is Kerys -- so Kerys if you are out there - please email me your contact info so I can ship you out some schtuff!!

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Now, onto scrappy goodness!
All through September the Marketing Team will be sharing mini-albums with goodies from the LCOM store!

Today, I am sharing a book I made using some Basic Grey Clippings & Paper Cottage, using this cute little mini found in the store by Basically Bare:


I have to admit that I have trouble with minis... EEK! Yes, I have a hard time .. I am not sure why, but this time I took it one step at a time. I decided on a theme and used a bunch of my duplicate instagram photos from this summer and went with it!

For my cover, I cut a chevron paper from my Silhouette Cameo and used it as a mask for a paint dauber and left the cover neutral, but using the cream paint and the kraft base of the album. I added a small title and some embellishments to quickly pull the cover together: 


I did the same thing to the back of the book with a skinnier chevron:

One little tip I would have for you - when making a project like this - try to tie the album together by using one item throughout the album to unify it. It can be a colour, shape or product. 
I chose to use some droplets throughout as above with Glimmer Glaze

Here are a bunch of photos to show the album! You will see how great the 2 Basic Grey lines work together and have some great stickers, & embellies to document your photos - sorry, there are a lot of pics :

You will see that I used some of the Clippings Garlands instead of paper - I left my book bare as I love the neutral kraft background - it matches basically anything!


You will see here that I have a bit more paint masking going on. I rubbed a bit of mist over the top to make it a different texture for the background :)
One cool thing about this album is that it has acrylic tabs inside too! I just swiped some cream paint along each of them, let them dry and used some old school Heidi Swapp rub ons for little titles" 
I used a lot of these garlands throughout the book too. A fun way to add patterns and movement: 
Elle's Studio tags are PERFECT for minis - stock up! There are a good variety in the store.

 I just added a few stickers from Basic Grey to finish off the page:
a few final pages mixing up the papers from the lines:

 I picked up some Jenni Bowlin chipboard tags and added them in with more of the garland:

 ... and that's it!!!

I hope you will come back throughout the month while the rest of the MT shares some great mini album ideas for you - and other amazing creations too!

While you are waiting... why not check out all the new Echo Park that is listed and ready to go!!
Chillingsworth, For the Record 2 and So Happy Together!

6 comments:

Christin aka Umenorskan said...

Great chevron and fun mini album.

Bente Fagerberg said...

LOve your mini. So many cool and inspiring techniques! TFS!

Anonymous said...

Lahhoroooove this to bits!

pruts said...

great mini !!
love the chevrons

Unknown said...

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What a lovely post as you are thanks for sharing and just keep up the good work.

Sherri said...

Love this!