Travel Mini-Album Tutorial

Hello All,

During the past month, even as I began doing holiday crafts and cards, I set a goal to start and complete an album documenting our summer trip. We have two boys, and we are all avid baseball fans, so we planned a trip to the U.S. to visit a couple of baseball stadiums and take in Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs games.

I decided on a 6×8 album, and luckily chose one with a 2″ spine as it ended up being a very thick album. I also decided to primarily use Shimelle’s recent “Go Now Go” collection for this project. Here are some things that I decided to do to organize my photos, stories and memorabilia.

1. Used Thickers to title the album cover.
   
2. Used two larger photos of baseball stadiums we visited and Amy Tan Thickers to create a title page.
3. Created dividers to introduce each new city/travel day. Each divider labeled the city we were travelling to, a map, and a few embellishments, including a Thicker phrase from Shimelle’s Let’s Go Foam Stickers.
   
   
4. Include memorabilia directly in the album. I punched holes in menus, tickets, and brochures and inserted them together with the photos and stories of those experiences. I like my albums having different sized papers and “out of pocket” pieces, so this works for me.
   
5. Print small photos or cut larger photos to fit into 2×2 pockets.
6. Finish the album with two large photos (6×8) that I liked best from the trip.
   
7. Use packaging from trip to hold other memorabilia. In my case, I had a great bag from a candy shop we went to, and I punched holes to include it at the end of the album, holding any additional tickets, menus, and brochures.

Thank you so much for looking! I hope you have fun documenting your travels. There are many great products in the SN Store to help you to do so.

Shimelle – Go Now Go – 6 x 6 Paper Pad	American Crafts – Shimelle – Go Now Go – Sticker Book	American Crafts – Shimelle – Go Now Go – Chipboard Stickers	American Crafts – Shimelle – Go Now Go – Museum – 12×12 Patterned Paper	American Crafts – Shimelle – Go Now Go – Fly – 12×12 Patterned Paper	American Crafts – Shimelle – Go Now Go – Cafe – 12×12 Patterned Paper
Shimelle – Go Now Go – Let’s Go Foam Stickers	American Crafts – Go Now Go – Puffy Heart Stickers	American Crafts – Shimelle – Go Now Go – Live – 12×12 Patterned Paper	American Crafts – Shimelle – Go Now Go – Action – 12×12 Patterned Paper	Shimelle – Go Now Go – Fly – 12×12 Patterned Paper	American Crafts – Shimelle – Go Now Go – Botanical – 12×12 Patterned Paper
American Crafts – Shimelle – Go Now Go – Hike – 12×12 Patterned Paper	American Crafts – Shimelle – Go Now Go – Move – 12×12 Patterned Paper	American Crafts – Shimelle – Go Now Go – Drive – 12×12 Patterned Paper	American Crafts – Shimelle – Go Now Go – Stroll – 12×12 Patterned Paper	Chic Tags – Let’s Go – Road Trip – mini stamp set	Crate Paper – Open Road – Pennants
Simple Stories – Sn@p Binder products	Amy Tangerine – Stitched Thickers – Today 2 sheets	Amy Tangerine – Thickers Stickers – Today Phrases	Dear Lizzy – Saturday – Icon Puffy Stickers	Kaisercraft – Just Landed – Wood veneer shapes	Designer Desktop Essentials Paper Clips – Arrows
Small Talk Sticker book	American Crafts – Paper Clips – Camera	Poolside Individual double-sided papers

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Christmas Countdown Day 13: December Daily

This year will be my third year doing the December Daily project. I really enjoy looking back at previous years and seeing the different traditions and events from year to year, and how my boys are growing. I find that it also helps to ground me in being present and slowing down enough to enjoy the season as December busy-ness descends.

For those who are not familiar with this project, it typically involves telling one story through photos and journaling for each day of December (either until the 25th or 31st). Here are some reflections from my 2015 album, and some of the things I liked most about my album.

1. Album Cover:
   
2. Decorative title page:
   

   2×2 pockets

3. Intentions:
    
4. Full sized photos: I use a 6×8 album, and I really like the look of 6×8 photos.
   

   Finding our tree

   

   Trimming the tree

   

   Lights

5. Out of pocket: though most of the album is in pockets, I really like breaking it up with back to back photos or cards outside of pockets.
   

   Journal Card

   

   4×6 photos back to back

6. Use the packaging: It is fun to use packaging, wrapping paper, etc.
   

   Trader Joe bag with tea and cookies

   

   Starbucks cup (ask for an extra)

7. Blessings and Joys: On Day 10, I wrote ten blessings in my life on tags, and then created a pocket in which to house them. Then, on Day 15, I asked both of my children to write a list of things that bring them joy. I love having something in their writing (besides their Santa letters).
   

   10 blessings pocket

   

   I stamped numbers on the front of the tags

   

   tags with blessings and washi

   

   Joy list

   

   Joy list (2)

   I would love to hear from any of you who are doing a December project. Feel free to ask me any questions about my process.

   Happy Crafting!

   

Nerd Girl Fleur’s April Projects

I had so much un with this collection, here is a wrap up off my projects.

First up my Happy layout, love these photos makes me happy 🙂

Captured Mini Album with chipboard frames – so fun!

Me and my honey!

Documenting my son’s life at the moment.

Hello Victoria with my Mom.

Planner Love.

Crate paper – Kiss Kiss – 6×6 paper pad	Crate paper – Kiss Kiss – Ephemera pack 94 pieces	Crate Paper – Kiss Kiss – 12×12 Chipboard stickers	Crate Paper – Kiss Kiss – Cut-Outs W/Gold	Crate Paper – Kiss Kiss – Gold Hearts vellum 12×12
Mister Huey’s Mist – 1oz – Inky Black	Chipboard Embellishments	Chipboard Frames

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Using Chipboard Frames for a Mini Album

Step by Step paper crafting tutorials

Hi all, Fleur with you today to show you how to make a super cute and quick mini album using chipboard frames.  Here is the finished album.

To make this album I used my Iphone photos and printed them at about 4×4 size then trimmed them to fit into the frames.

I kept it pretty simple just adding a few embellishments to the frames like this flair button.

I also added some journalling cards and chipboard stickers – it is all Crate Paper products.

You could really add anything you wanted to the frames, here I added a sticker and on the next frame a tag.

 

This mini was really fun to and easy to make. I think it took me about 45 minutes after I picked the photos.  I hope you try it!

Chipboard Frames

Crate Paper – Notes & Things – Chipboard Frames

Crate Paper – The Pier – Chipboard Slide Frames

Studio Calico – Wanderlust – Badges

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Switch Pate Mini

Step by Step paper crafting tutorials

Welcome to another Tutorial Tuesday with Scrapbook Nerd. This week I’m going to show you how I made this mini album using a light switch plate cover – that’s right, a switch plate cover from the hardware store. What I love about using the switch plate covers for the cover of the mini album is that it gives the album a shadow box feel.

Supplies:

-Echo Park Jack and Jill Boy collection kit
-Echo Park Jack and Jill Boy Chipboard Stickers
-Echo Park Jack and Jill Boy Ephemera
-October Afternoon Daily Flash Flair
-switch plate cover with three openings
-2 binder rings
Step-by-Step

Cover the front of the switch plate cover with adhesive. I used my ATG but you could use mod podge as well. Once it is covered with adhesive, lay your chosen patterned paper on top. Sand the paper off the edges using your sanding block for a clean edge. Sand off the paper from the inside openings of the switch plate.

Adhere a piece of double sided patterned paper to the back of the switch plate cover. Pay attention to what side of the paper you want showing through the “windows” on the front of the cover.

Once the paper is adhered, poke the two outer screw holes through. These will be the holes for the binder rings.

For the pages of my mini, I cut apart the 4×6 cards from the cut apart sheet. Punch holes to match the holes of the cover.

Attach all the pages and the cover using the binder rings.

Add pictures and embellish as desired. I used the windows on the front cover for my “Dad” title.

Here’s my finished project:

Thanks for checking out my tutorial. We’d love to see your finished projects. Share them with us on our Facebook Page, Twitter, or in our gallery.

This week my projects are featuring Flair Badges. For this week, only, they will be on sale in the Scrapbook Nerd store. 20% off all Flair Badges. See you there.

Echo Park – Jack & Jill – Boy – 12×12 Collection kit

Echo Park – Jack & Jill – Boy – Chipboard Accent stickers

Echo Park – Jack & Jill – Boy – Ephemera Cardstock Die-Cuts 33 pieces

October Afternoon – Snapshots – Tin Pins 6 pack

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