Mini Album

Before I start my blog this week, I have had a bit of feedback about the painted lasercuts I posted last week. Some people have shared they think these look great, but they wouldn't have the time or patience. So I thought I would pop a poll onto the blog this week to see if people would like to see some painted lasercuts available for purchase (saving you the work, if you wanted this look, but didn't feel like painting). Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks

While we were away on the getaway a few weeks ago, one of the workshops was creating a mini album. I thought I would share this with you today. The idea behind it was to scrap a little more about ourselves. If you are anything like most of the scrappers I know, we all scrap about other people and not ourselves. In scrapbooking magazines and blogs there is always lots of ideas to scrap about ourselves, but I still rarely do. So, as the weekend was a no children weekend I thought it would be a good time to make a mini album focusing on 'Me'

I titled it 'a week as me' and as I like simple, kept the album very basic. You will probably notice that the photo on the cover is not me and I have yet to replace Jaime with me. I ran out of time prior to the getaway to find a photo of me to put on the front (something else that is very lacking in my scrap booking), so I used Jaime's for an example - lol

The album is 6" x 6" and has a chipboard cover which I covered in Bazzill cardstock.

Inside the front cover I wrote a small page on "I am ..." and filled this in with thoughts about what I do now and what I like to do etc. The page to the right of this was the first day of the week. I took some random photos throughout the day, printed them small and then cut them down with a 1 1/4" circle punch. How many photos you use does not matter. I used a minimum of three on each page and then filled in the other spaces with plain bazzill and patterned papers.

Behind each day of the week I made a pocket, so that I could slip a journalling card in. On this card I jotted quick notes about what I had done each day. Very simple things, but things that show what my week had been like. I did one for each day of the week and then stuck Sunday onto the back chipboard cover to finish off the mini album.

Hopefully it will be something fun to look back on in years to come, or for the children to flip through when they are a bit older :) It was quick and easy and since every page followed the same format very little thinking was required.

As we put these together on the getaway it was great to see how everyone adapted my basic layout to suit their own scrapping style.

Have a great week