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Throwback: Neverending Memories Folio Album + A Thank You to All Who Like It

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Today I’d like to reflect with gratitude on one of my earlier designs, that became quite popular from the start – and to this day there are crafters who manage to find it while spelunking in the deep cave that are my older YT videos. Some of them have even purchased the tutorial (it’s the Number 3 in my shop), others simply enjoy the video – which I will embed below. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

It’s a Folio Album which I’ve dubbed Neverending Memories. If you’d like to see it filled with pictures, here’s a photo (also, there’s a second video embedded at the end of this post, sharing more details):

Whence this trip to Memory Lane? Well, recently a very kind lady from the USA found it in her heart to let me know she had just finished crafting this folio album, based on my tutorial. And she just wanted to let me know she enjoyed the process, the tutorial and the end result. Needless to say her sweet message brought a smile to my face and filled my heart with gratitude! 🙂

She had also sent me some pictures and was kind enough to give me permission to post them here.

So here’s her end result, using the Born to Travel paperpad by Recollections. She did a wonderful job and I think her folio album looks wonderful and on trend, and perfectly fitting for the coming Spring season!

Creator’s Image Studio’s Neverending Memories Folio Album, by Lynn M. from the U.S.A.

Please send her some love in the comments below and/or on the Tutorials Projects Page – and while you’re there, please check out the awesome projects of the other crafters too!!

Thank you again to each and every one of you who have been supporting me over the years, by watching my videos, visiting this blog, purchasing my tutorials and sharing the creative love!

Have a blessed season of Lent!

My Book Stack Project – Filled up!

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Hey guys! It’s been a while, but I’m still here 😎. In fact, I’m working on a brand new steampunk-themed mini album – sneak peek in the video below!

Meanwhile, I’m sharing this book stack project of mine, which I filled up with some pictures but mostly pieces of journalling, that I edited and then printed myself.

Hopefully this gives you some new ideas, or at least inspires you to keep trying new things! 🙂 If you’d like to create this particular project yourself, check out Tutorial #43 in my shop. It consists of a 3-part tutorial set, namely a separate tutorial for each part of the project: the boxes, the folio album and the booklets.

Enjoy your summer (it’s raining here 🙄) – and the video!

7 Creative Ways to Fill a Mini Album with Pictures

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A couple of years ago I designed and created a very sturdy folio mini album, with the nature-themed Time to Flourish collection by Graphic 45. My mother now owns it, and she asked me to fill it up with some of the awesome closeup pictures my father took, mostly of flowers, insects and birds in their own garden.

And since it’s always nice to see a handcrafted mini album filled up with pictures, I thought I’d share it with you one more time 🙂 .

In the video I’ll be sharing some general tips for filling your mini albums with pictures:

  • Don’t be afraid to rigorously crop your pictures when your page design or paper pattern requires it;
  • Die-cut your pictures into shapes, like circles, rectangles, squares, labels;
  • Apply glitter glue or liquid pearl all around the edges of some of your pictures;
  • Fussy cut the main subject from your pictures if the background or the rest of the picture is boring or irrelevant;
  • Trim your pictures down to miniature size to fit them onto smaller tags – simply find a picture with a small main subject;
  • If two pictures don’t fit onto one page, use washi tape as a hinge for one of them and stack them;
  • And last but not least, my favorite: color-coordinate between your pictures and your design paper as much as you can!

If you want to create this yourself, check out my tutorial. I also did a second iteration with a masculine paper collection, you can find that one here.

My Treasured Memories Album filled with 1968 Wedding Pictures

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Recently my mother asked me to fill the Treasured Memories Mini Album DeLuxe I designed for her when my father passed away, with their wedding pictures from 1968. The black & white pictures truly look amazing in this album!

This album design is very luxurious and offers room for many pictures, large and small. You can play with any possible album theme of course, especially if you have many pictures you want to keep in it. Just choose papers suitable to your taste and the occasion you have in mind.

To give you an example of how this album would look with different papers, check out my Joyful Reminiscing version. There’s also a tutorial available so you can create your own beautiful tome! 🙂

Life’s a Picnic Mini Album – with Pictures!

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My Life’s a Picnic mini album was the first of several 6×6(ish) mini albums I created, back in  2015. And I finally got around to filling it up with pictures! 🙂

For those of you who are curious: my mother and I went to Madurodam last year, a park with miniature scaled copies of well-known Dutch buildings & streets. So if you look closely at the pictures I’m showing you in the video, you can see people taller than the buildings they’re standing next to 🙂

As for the album, I think I managed to fit around 65 pictures in there. Each of the 14 page designs (including the two inside covers) is unique and you can mix them up, use different papers, or create variations with less page assemblies – like I have done with my To my Sweetheart mini album.

All in all I’m convinced the extensive tutorial will offer you many hours of crafting fun! 🙂

 

Holiday Dreams Album – with Pictures + Printed Journalling

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A little while ago I designed and created a Double-Paged Gatefold Album that I called Holiday Dreams – or for clarity’s sake, Vacation Dreams. I had some sunny and exotic photos in mind when I created it, and this week I’m happy to be able to share it with you again, but this time with pictures! 🙂

I’m also sharing a great tip for your large photo mats: leave them unmatted and turn them into printed journalling – so cool! You can check it all out in the video & pictures below.

If you’d like to create this album yourself with your own materials, you can purchase my very elaborate & clear (written) tutorial – with a huge amount of helpful pictures! – in my shop. Now with a 10% discount for International Scrapbook day (discount offer will end Sunday May 6th, 10PM CET) – just like every other tutorial in my shop!

If you’d like to purchase a kit with the Ubud Dreams paper collection that I used, plus lots of embellishments, check out the Photographs & Memories webshop, which offers a complete kit INCLUDING my tutorial! 🎉 It is US based so will hopefully be very convenient for people in the North Americas, shipping-wise.

 

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Chipboard Micro Album – with Guinea Pigtures!

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You may have come across these press-out chipboard micro or mini albums, usually with some metal binding rings. In case you have wondered what to do with these, here’s an example!

It’s my second one actually, my first one was a bit larger and held pictures of my mom walking a fashion catwalk for elderly people – if you’re not curious about that, then by all means don’t check out that blog post 🙂

This time around I bought a really tiny one – I like tiny stuff! – and printed little tiny pictures of my three guinea pigs Todah, Rizpah and Yarden (who recently passed away alas 🙁 ). Let me know if you’d like a little video tutorial on one or two apps with which you can easily print these smaller sized pictures. If there’s more than one of you then I’ll see what I can do.

Anyway, enjoy the video and pictures below! And see you next week! ☀️

 


What to do with a Christmas mini album

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Frequently I get asked what to do with this thing called mini album. I tell everyone it’s for pictures and other memorabilia, but I find that showing an actual picture-filled mini album is the best explanation I can possibly give 🙂

So here’s my 2013 Tis the Season mini album, filled to the brim with my own family Christmas pictures. If you feel inspired to create such an album yourself, check out my mini album tutorial, it has hundreds of clear pictures and elaborate explanations. And for the many scrap mats you’ll see in the video, there’s a free video tutorial here.

Enjoy your Christmas holidays, have a very merry Christmas and the happiest of New Years!

 

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New Design: Pouch-Paged Mini Album

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Happy New Year everyone! 🙂

I’m not a New Year’s Resolutions Person, but I do have one for 2017: I’m committed to keeping up my schedule of weekly blog posts, which means I’ll again have to do at least 52 papercraft projects this year… How’s that for a SMART resolution 🙂

I’m also striving to keep up my almost-monthly mini album schedule, or more specific, to create at least 10 mini albums in 2017. Yes, a bit less SMART, but intentionally so since I cannot guarantee my own periods of inspiration & creativity. It’s a lot of hard work and keeping to a tight schedule, all while doing (and trying to excel at) an actual fulltime job. But to be clear, I am NOT complaining! I love my job, and I love papercrafting!

So, let’s kick off this new year as best I can – with a new blog wallpaper & background (again a detail from one of my projects, just like last year’s), but more importantly, with a new mini album design!

I’m very proud to present my Pouch-Paged Mini Album! It’s a very versatile design which will hold at least 75 large pictures (13×18 cm / 5×7″); with every pouch you add, the number of pictures will increase with an extra 25 pictures or so, while staying relatively thin and practical.

And that’s not even counting what happens when you decide to add digital photo collaging to the mix. In my case that ensured my three-pouch album to hold 165 pictures! Check out the video below to hear and see more about that.

So, I hope you are all as pleased as I am with this very practical design. Let me know what you think, or create one yourself with my tutorial – the first of 2017, and many more follow 🙂 .

 

 

Some Photo Embellishment Tips

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A short while ago I designed what I called the Easiest Mini Albums Ever Made. Today I’m showing you two more iterations of this kind of wire-bound album, filled with pictures, to demonstrate how you can easily embellish your pictures with some punches, dies and glitter glue.

This way it’s even more fun to peruse your little mini albums again and again, and though it might take you some time, it’s really very easy to do 🙂

 

Stamping a sentiment (stamp by Kaisercraft) on top of the picture! Use ink for non-porous surfaces for this.
Punches come in all kinds of fun shapes and sizes and are a great way to add interest!

Hiding a bystander with some die-cuts helps pulling the focus to the main subject of your picture.

Using a little glitter glue here and there helps to add that little Something Extra!

Two different examples of embellishing the same picture 🙂

 

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Reprisal: Neverending Memories Folio Album, with pictures!

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When I showed you my Neverending Memories Folio Album back in February 2015, I hadn’t filled it up with pictures yet. Recently someone bought it from me and asked me to fill it with pictures of their dogs. Which means I can now show you how a folio album such as this one can look with actual photos inside!

If you’d like to create this folio album yourself, you can do so relatively easily and with only one 12×12 inch design paper collection (plus cardstock of course), with help of the tutorial in my Etsy shop (120 pages with 430 pictures of the step-by-step process).

So here we go, hope you feel extra inspired by this picture-filled folio album!

 

 

 

Family Tree Mini: Remember This Moment Forever (filled with photos!)

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For this Family Tree Mini I used Echo Park’s Reflections paper line, which I combined with a sheet here or a few die-cuts there of two other collections, which I mention in the video.

The album sports a belly band and ten interactive page layouts, including the inside covers. The page designs are based on my Life’s a Picnic mini album – it keeps amazing me how great a difference the simple use of another paper collection makes for the tone & atmosphere of your mini!

As a bonus I filled it up with pictures – for this was part of the commission – which I know always helps viewers to get a better idea of how such minis can be filled with pictures and the effects you can add by die-cutting, glitter-gluing and stickering 🙂 .

In case you’d like to make an album like this, please check out my tutorial on Etsy – which gives you all of these page designs except the family tree page, plus four more! As for how to make the final page – the actual family tree page – simply watch the video, and/or the video of my own personal Family Tree Mini, in which I explain the (very simple) creative process.

 

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