While Autumn has arrived and stretching its legs with some really cold temperatures here in the Netherlands, I thought I’d design and share a little Four Season’s mini album. I used Graphic 45’s calendar collection Time to Flourish, which of course automatically offers seasonal colors and themes.
The cover design makes it a cute little suit case with a magnetized closure and a ribbon grip, that will stand on its own. Each of the ten pages are pockets, holding a tag that has been decorated on both sides but still leaves room for wallet-sized pictures.
All in all a very cute little gift – think Thanksgiving, Christmas, simply Summer or basically any seasonal holiday 🙂
Like to make one yourself? Go ahead and purchase my tutorial, offering lots and lots of clear pictures, guiding you through the creative process step by step. And for people who have worked with several of my album tutorials: this time I’ve used a different binding system, so not the hidden hinge binding, but the stack the deck binding. If you don’t know how that would work, check out my tutorial.
Enjoy the video and let me know in the comments what you think!
Last year I designed and created what I call a Box Pocket Mini Album, by which I mean a mini album that holds a special kind of pocket, large enough to hold a notebook, a personal planner, a mini folio or a large stack of pictures.
This week I’m sharing a variation on that album: this time the actual box pocket is in the back of the album instead of the front, and this album has a gatefold magnetic closure. It also has a different ‘do up’ of the inside front cover. Most of these different elements I borrowed from another design of mine, the Springtime Dreams Keepsake Album Deluxe.
I designed this second version of the Box Pocket album for Nora, a lovely lady from Munich (Germany), who commissioned the album as a way to keep her most important memories. You’ll find more details about her story and why she wanted the album in the video below. You’ll also understand why I’m calling this version Remember Me.
Since there already is a tutorial for the original Box Pocket album in my webshop (#33), I decided to add a free bonus cutting guideto that, containing the measurements for the different elements of this new Remember Me version. Anyone who already owns Tutorial #33 can simply go back to their Etsy purchases page and download the bonus cutting guide for free! (It’s just a cutting guide mind you, if you want actual instructions, please check out my Tutorial #10 for the Springtime Dreams album.)
Anyway, thank you for watching and feel free to leave a comment below, in the comment section! 🙂
On the brink between Summer and Autumn, I’m proud to present my new, summery-autumny Two-Paged Bragbook 🙂
This time I used not one but three paper collections, which for me is the absolute exception, definitely not the rule. And I also threw in some digital scrapbooking again. Not only did I use my own graphically designed paper for the binding system, but I also enhanced the background of one of the pictures and did some digital collaging. And lastly, I dolled-up my own picture… well, what can I say, I just couldn’t help myself 😉
Above: Text die by Crealies
It was commissioned by a group of my co-workers as a gift to one or our retiring colleagues. So I designed it to hold as many pictures as there were co-workers who joined the gift giving, and had them all write on a unique tag.
As you’ll see in the video, this is another great group gift!
Of course I wrote a tutorial for all of you who’d like to create such a great mini album yourselves. It’s fun to make and it really makes for such a great gift. As an added bonus, you don’t need the usual ‘thousands’ of patterned paper sheets, as it only has two page assemblies!
Oh, and I also threw in a card, made with the leftover papers 🙂
So, enjoy the last weeks of summer and hopefully your autumn will be as colorful as this album 🙂 See you next week – don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a comment!
This week I’m sharing my latest mini album with you all. It’s designed specifically to hold 4×6″ (10×15 cm) pictures, without it being too large or bulky. I always like my albums nice and ready to take with me 🙂
The design collection I used was the lovely Spring Market by Carta Bella, sponsored by Scrapworld, an internationally selling papercraft supply store located in the Netherlands.
This is a fun little album, I really enjoyed creating it, and despite of its moderate size it will hold at least 65 pictures, probably even more!
So check out your purchase options, either the tutorial only, available in my Etsy shop, or the complete kit, which is all the materials PLUS the tutorial, over at Photographs & Memories (available very soon!).
Enjoy the video and leave a comment if you have any questions or remarks to share!
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! 🙂
This week I’m sharing the wonder of repeating a previous design with different decorative papers. What a huge difference! And it’s really the very same album design. The original album was my Zoo Adventurefolders & pockets mini album, created with an ever colorful Graphic 45 collection called Safari Adventure. This new iteration is a travel version with masculine overtones, using Echo Park’s Go, See, Explore collection. I created it at the request of Scrapworld / Scrapwereld, who also sponsored the materials.
Hope to have inspired you to play around with different design paper collections for you’ll get completely different albums from your one album design! 🙂
Check out the album tutorial available in my shop. Plus, below you’ll find embedded the free video tutorial on the sewed booklets.
A little while ago I designed and created a Double-Paged Gatefold Albumthat 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 largephoto 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.
I’m very happy and honored to be a Guest Designer for Crealies this month! 🎉
For my first guest designer project I designed a completely new variation on my own micro album designs, and I’m calling it a Tea Bag Micro Album! This title says it all, for it literally is that: a micro album (3 x 2¾“) with tea bags for pages. Which of course makes it a great and original gift, plus it’s stinking cute because it’s so very small! 💛
It was very fun to make and super affordable for it only takes one sheet of 12×12” design paper for the bulk of what you need! Sweetness 👍🏼😃
You can find all dies and the stamp set at Crealies’s (internationally oriented) website.
Enjoy the video and pictures below, and don’t forget to check out my tutorial, which is suitable for anyone, regardless of whether you are a beginner or an advanced paper crafter.
See you next week, and let me know what you think by leaving a comment and sharing this post on all of your social media!
Filled up with tea bags! / Gevuld met theezakjes!
Ik ben blij en vereerd dat ik deze maand een van de guest designers ben voor Crealies. 🎉
Voor mijn eerste guest designer project heb ik iets nieuws ontworpen, d.w.z. een nieuwe variatie op mijn eigen microalbum ontwerpen, en ik noem het een Theezakjes Microalbum!
Die titel zegt in principe alles, want dat is precies wat het is: een piepklein albumpje (7.5 x 7 cm) met theezakjes als bladzijden. Die Crealies-theezakjes stelen echt de show vind ik, door de prachtige details, die het geheel een authentiek gevoel meegeven. 💛
Dit microalbum is natuurlijk een hartstikke leuk en origineel kadootje, en het is superschattig doordat het zo klein is! Het was erg leuk om te ontwerpen en te maken en het is nog betaalbaar ook omdat je feitelijk maar 1 vel dubbelzijdig designpapier nodig hebt van 30.5 x 30.5 cm. 👍🏼😃
Geniet van het filmpje en de foto’s, en kijk gerust in mijn webshop voor de rijk geïllustreerde werkinstructie (tutorial) voor dit kleine albumpje. En je vindt de gebruikte Crealies-producten in het lijstje hierboven. Je kunt ze uiteraard allemaal krijgen bij www.crealies.nl.
Laat het me weten als je dit een leuk projectidee vindt door een comment achter te laten, en natuurlijk door deze post te delen op al je social media!
I was pondering a new design of mini album, one that would not only be able to hold a lot of pictures, but would also make it easy to add still more pictures that you forgot in your first round of filling the album. Eventually I came up with this week’s project: the Folders & Pockets Album!
With this fun new design you’ll be able to shuffle the pictures in your album at any moment, and add to their number endlessly. Also, of course, these same folders and pockets offer plenty of easy room for your tickets, receipts and other memorabilia! No more tedious glueing your pictures to the pages, just stick them into the folders and pockets and be done with it 🙂
Check out the video below to see it! If you’d like some more inspiration, check out the second version I created, with a completely different theme and papers. And if you feel inspired to create your own, as a gift or for yourself, please check out the written tutorial – with almost 250 clear pictures and easy-to-follow instructions.
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!
As my first Christmas mini has been completely loaded with family Christmas pictures since last year’s holiday season, it was time to create a new one – yea! 🙂
I rummaged through my (by now fairly impressive) stash and came back out with the beautiful vintage-yet-fresh All is Bright papers, a 2012 collection by My Mind’s Eye. With its 18 x 25 cm (7 1/8 x 9 7/8″) it’s larger than its Tis the Season predecessor. It sports nine interactive page layouts, plus what I’m calling a box pocket on the inside front cover.
I created one of these box pockets before, in my large Girly Girl’s Precious mini (see picture below), but this time I incorporated it in a tutorial! It’s already waiting for you in my Etsy shop 🙂
Since the box pocket can hold all kinds of nice things, like a stack of photo mats, cards, a mini folio or even an entire hardcover notebook, I have not included my mini folio in the album tutorial. Instead it’s part of its own – very affordable – tutorial set, including a bonus cutting guide for a larger version!
Check out the video if you’d like to see all the fun & interactive page designs, and sing along with the Christmas tune: “Aaaaall is calm, all is bright….”
A friend asked me to create an Alice in Wonderland-themed mini album for her, to hold a maximum of only ten pictures. So no wallet, no folio, but an actual mini album. Oh, and no flowers please.
Well, that turned out to be a fun design challenge! Using a Marion Smith Designs paper collection called Mad Tea Party, I designed two interactive pages to hold the ten pictures. Of course I also incorporated a scrap mat, for which there’s a free video tutorial available on my blog. The second tutorial which may come in handy is my free gradient technique video for Distress Stickles.
So, this is a very thin mini album with no bulky embellishments, but:
(Nederlandse tekst + video hieronder!)
