Winter Scrapbook - Half Page Mini

I have been working on a winter scrapbook album to put all of our snow related pictures. I can honestly say that I was an adult (about 20) before I actually saw snow falling from the sky.  I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area where the temperatures are mild most of the year.  When my family went to play in the snow (about 4 hours away), the snow was already on the ground.  So, as you can imagine, snow is a big deal to me!

I have already started to put our snow pictures in this album and I plan to bring it out to the coffee table at this time of the year so that we can look at and remember all our snow adventures.  There is still space for more pictures and I can't wait to capture our next snowy trip.

This is Paper Phenomenon's June bonus project the Half-Page Mini.  It is 8 1/2 by 10 inches with large pull-out pages for lots of pictures.

The paper collection is from BoBunny - Sleigh Ride.

What you cannot see in these pictures is that the half-page is a pocket and a large folded insert nestles in the pocket.  Here are a couple of those inserts open.

Check out this great tutorial from Kathy Orta on her site Paper Phenomenon.

Have a scrappy day!
NancyD

It's a Cute Purse, No Wait A Mini Album!

I have been a member of Kathy Orta's kit club for a little over a year and am enjoying the great, inventive, and interesting mini album projects.  The amount of paper and supplies we get is amazing and very generous. My project today is from Kit Club #11 - The Convertible Album and it looks like a ladies handbag.

I think the reason it is called the convertible album is because you can choose to make it into the purse shape or leave off the closure and handle and just make the wonderful album.  The project also uses a chipboard speciality album with the pieces inserted throughout with a special hinge that Kathy's shows us how to make.

Enough talk.....  here is my decorating take on the Convertible Mini......
I decorated some like Kathy and some like me.

Close up of the front

Here is the back

Just a note about the pages.  The 100 Days of Summer album came out before I started this one and I used the stacked pockets idea in my convertible album.

Inside first cover and first page

Here is where you can see the stacked pockets I added to the design of the mini. It just gives more space for tags and that means we can add more pictures.

 On this page I cut out the round slides "thingy" and attached it to the pocket so that it made another pocket.

I made a fancy tag for this page that opens up and has pockets.

More stacked pockets here. You can also see the added page
with Kathy's special new hinge

I love adding elements to pockets that make more pockets.

This is a really big album because there are 6 pages on both sides of the handle clasp. This is the start of the second section.

More stacked pockets and lots of tags.

Finally the last page!

I really liked this project for a number of reasons; super interesting design and clasp, really two albums in one - 12 pages in all, and the new "add any element" hinge.  Thanks Kathy!

Project Recipe

Tutorial: Paper Phenomenon Convertible Mini Album
Paper: Kathy's kit included BoBunny Mordern Miss, Paper Accents black, cream, red and Navy
Embellishments: Rare Earth Magnets, Trinket charms from Kathy's shop, BoBunny ephemera and a bunch of other goodies from the collection, paper clips from my stash, amazing purse clasp from the kit
Inks: Ranger Distress Black Soot

Hope you enjoyed my project!  Have a super scrappy day!
NancyD

Gate Fold BoBunny Mini Album

Feathers anyone? 

My mini album today features a BoBunny collection and a wonderful kit and tutorial Kathy Orta called Life in Retrospect.  The color combination is fun and youthful making this an album that could be used for almost any age or occasion.

I made the cover a little different than the tutorial with just one picture frame and place for a title or another picture.  And since the paper line sports wonderful feathers I decided to add a few with beads to dangle from the cover.

The frame on the cover is made so that you can easily slip a 3x5 picture in and even switch it out occasionally. This is a gate fold style that comes together in the center, secured with magnets.

I love this design!  It has so many tags and places for photos that I counted 24 spaces on each page and there are six pages, which means 144 photos to tell a story of an event or a person.  

Here are the pictures of the first page. The left side is a flap that has a folded tag slipped into a belly band and on the back side of the flap is another belly band that hold two folded tags.  Right away that is room for at least 8-10 photos.

Under the flap is the base page with a pocket flap folding from the right side. In front of the pocket is a little pocket that holds more tags and memorabilia.  The flap itself is a pocket which means you can add more tags.  That is just tagalicious!

The backside of the page is made of Kathy's signature stacked pockets making room for much larger tags to hold more photos and journaling.

You can't really see in this picture but the left side is the back of page one with the stacked pockets.  To top it all off, the page mechanism itself forms a pocket where I slipped a very large folded and pocketed tag. 

These pictures represent the general construction of each of the six pages. Here are the rest of the pictures....

Inside page 2

Back of page 2 and start of page 3

Inside page 3

Back of page 3 and start of page 4

Inside page 4

Back of page 4 and front of page 5

Inside page 5

Back of page 5 and start of page 6

Back of page 6 and the inside back cover with tag

 There is so much room in this album that Kathy showed how how to make a tag booklet secured to the inside front cover with magnets.  It has several layers and room for over 10 photos!

Well, I think this is going to be one of my favorite albums and you will be seeing it again here with different papers in the future.

Project Recipe

Tutorial: Paper Phenomenon Life in Retrospect
Paper: Kathy's kit included BoBunny Star Crossed and Authentique Crush
Embellishments: Feathers from Michael's, beads from my stash, Rare Earth Magnets, crate Papre Kiss Kiss Stickers, dies cuts journal cards from the paper lines, papers clips from my stash
Inks: Prima Chalk edgers from Scrapadabadoo

Hope you enjoyed my project!  Have a super scrappy day!
NancyD

A BoBunny My Design Mini

Today's scrapbook has a bunch of new features and twists in design - so let's check it out!

Here are the cover shots ......

I used the BoBunny C'est La Vie paper collection pack along with the Life Journal Dividers and Ephamera Contents and the 6x6 pad.  To the cover I added Petaloo, Prima and Wild Orchid flowers, and Prima bling, a jewelry finding and wood button.  The punched edge around the perimeter of the album is from a Recollections punch.

Here is page 1 ..... (yes, all this is page one!)

The design of this album is from Paper Phenomenon and I combined the My Design Mini with acetate pockets and Kathy's faux post bound cover.  Kathy is currently working through an alternate MDM with this binding and acetate pockets on her Friday show.

Showing all the pictures one-by-one is tougher than just watching a video, so I made a video with my phone to show you how all the pages go together.

Ok, so the twists and turns I wrote about are the pages that are reversed from the original tutorial the addition of acetate pockets and pages, and the faux post binding.

Here are a few more pages .....

Project Recipe
Tutorial: Paper Phenomenon My Design Mini
Paper: BoBunny C'est La Vie paper collection pack, Life Journal Dividers, Ephamera Contents and the 6x6 pad.
Embellishments: Petaloo, Prima and Wild Orchid flowers, and Prima bling, a jewelry finding and wood button.  I also used  Recollections, EK Success and Martha Stewart punches. I used Ranger Gathered Twigs ink for distressing the paper edges.

Hope you enjoyed seeing this project as much as I did making it!

NancyD