Tiny Mini Christmas Album

I had the empty container from a bronzer that I used during the summer.

I thought the container was just too cute to toss away. It has a little door and window on the front and one on the back.  Then it hit me, perfect for a tiny Christmas album, the color was a perfect red already.

On the spine I glued a paper sticker with a handle image.

Spine

Front cover

Inside the front window I added a square of Christmas scrapbook paper.  Then a little red acetate house image , some green bling rhinestones and on a dimensional  glue dot I use a punched out 1' Santa image.

Back cover

Made a little tab to  pull the album pages out from the box.

And here are the front of the album pages ready to be filled.

 

The back side is red and white stripe.  There are 7 little pages waiting for pictures from Christmas.

Happy Crafting!

Tag Travel Album

This album was made for the pictures from our recent cruise. 

The paper collection was Graphic 45, Sail Away.  The album pages are made from three sizes of Graphic 45 tags, in black.  I covered both sides of the tags with paper from that collection.

Love to use their papers, they always coordinate so beautifully.

front cover fussy cut elements


After binding the tags into the album I cut out a variety of images that where then Mod Podged in place and highlighted with tickles for the front cover. 

 When everything was dry I gave the cover a coat of Matte Mod Podge to make the it more durable.

fussy cut the children and added to the page

This is a waterfall of three tags on this page.

Here I added a little wooden star

fussy cut the mermaid, she was so cute and used Stickles to highlight her flowing hair

There was a lot of piecing and matching patterns, but it was fun to make.

 I used the 8" x 8" paper stack throughout this album.

Lots of tags a for journaling or photos.

And plain mats for more photos.

All the pages where highlighted with Stickles in a platinum shade.

Red, white, and blue ribbons on the tag tops to keep with the nautical theme.

Used a blue distress ink on all the edges and added a metal buckle with white ribbon to this page

back cover (Sorry about the glare.  Just couldn't get a shot without the reflection.)

I believe I found the layout for this album on Annettes Creative Journey.

Happy Crafting!  

Soft Page Altered Lace Mini Album

Today I am sharing a soft album that I made from mostly vintage laces.

Front Cover

The base pages for the album are cut from a beautiful floral upholstery fabric I had in my stash.  I stitched them together to form the album which consists of 4 pages and each page is covered with laces and trims.

When my Mother passed away I found so many beautiful pieces of laces and vintage sewing notions among her things.

I have been saving them for years trying to decide how to use them.  Then I got the idea to use some of them for this album.

On the front cover I used 2 vintage doilies and an appliqué. Then added more lace to cover the entire front cover.  The image in the center, along with all the images in the book, I stamped on muslim with permanent ink and colored a few parts then added small touches of Stickles. The green and pink glass bead tassel is attached with a metal garment tag pin to the spine.

1st Page

On this page I added a different background fabric on each side then layered with vintage laces.  The laces and the tiny rosebud trim in the background are over 100 years old. I glued a string of pearls down the center of each page.

2nd Page

On the page above I used 2 different background fabrics, 2 tiny vintage doilies and 2 bakelite buckles plus a vintage frog closure. I also scattered a few vintage buttons on the pages.

3rd Page

And lastly  

I added more vintage laces, a few handmade flowers from my stash and a bakelite button. 

And again I used 2 different fabrics on these pages, a green and a gold.

Back Cover

The back I completely covered the floral fabric page with lace and added a vintage appliqué.

I was so happy to be able to preserve a few of my Mother's vintage items.

Mini Chipboard Album/Tags

I have been working on a couple of small  projects since this darn cold is still hanging on.

 I just haven't been up to any large projects.

I finished a couple of these little chipboard album/tags from Maya Road.

I used two different paper collections from my stash.  One vintage inspired and one bright traditional red and green.

front of vintage tags 

On this album I choose a vintage collection from a 6" x 6" paper pad.  On the first page stocking I glued a piece of paper behind the snowflake then glued a second stocking piece sandwiching the two together making the first page a double thickness.  Next I glued the paper to the front of each stocking.  With my craft knife, on my cutting pad, I carefully cut each stocking out. I followed that by sanding all the edges with a sponge block sander and punched out the hole that the chain runs through. I did the same thing to the backside of each stocking. I aged all the edges with Tim Holtz distress ink in broken branch.

I filled the snowflake with Glossy Accents and then filled it with clear Martha Stewart Micro beads to give it a shimmer.  I glued six small pearls and six medium pearls around the snowflake with my hot glue gun.

back of vintage tags

Traditional papers

 On this one I used papers from a 12" x 12" Christmas pad and distressed with a green ink.

Reverse side

Album in an Artist Canvas

6" x6" covered canvases

And lastly,  today's project with DCWV Le Tres Chic 12" x12" paper stack is a 4" x 4" mini album hidden between two 6" x 6" hinged artist canvases.

I painted the edges of the canvases black to match my paper, then covered them inside and out with the scrapbook papers once the paint was dried.  I used two tiny brass hinges to connect the canvases together. On the bottom corners I hot glued 4 large silver grey pearls for feet so my finished project will stand on its own.

closure on the outside

The edges I covered with a flat lace I attached with glue.  Then added the tiny closure with the screws that came with the lock and screwed it right into the wooden frame of the canvas.

inside with mini album in place

Front cover of mini album, here you can also see the hinges I used on the inside to attach the  canvases together .

And here is the finished inside where I also painted all the edges black just in case I had any gaps in the paper.  I didn't want any of the white canvas to show through.

back of cover of mini

The photos below show the detail of the album pages.

Believe or not but this tiny album has tons of space for photos and journaling.  
There is space for at least 30 photos.

back cover of hinged canvases