Not so Mini Album

Today I have what could loosely be called a mini album. It's 6" x 6", so it falls into the mini album category, but I stuffed it so full of photos, that it's a little larger than mini. The whole thing is made from My Mind's Eye's Miss Caroline Dilly Dally Adventures collection. I fell in love with the colors and patterns in this line immediately, and since I had to have almost everything in the collection, I figured it would be put to best use in a large mini album.

I made the covers out of chip board, just to make it a bit sturdier. The blue star piece behind the title is actually an unfinished wood piece that is part of the Miss Caroline line. I used Tim Holtz Broken China Distressed Ink to stain it.

I love when mini albums are interactive, so the photo on the right hand side of the bottom page opens up to show 2 more photos underneath.

 The photo on the top right side flips up to reveal another photo and journaling about the trip.

 My favorite interactive page is the bottom left page. I made little pockets behind the main photo, and one photo pull out from each side (by pulling on the ribbon). The photo on the bottom right spins up around the brad in the right hand corner to reveal another photo underneath.

The journaling/title tags that go with Miss Caroline were perfect for my album, and really helped make everything come together quite quickly. I raided my leftovers from all different projects to scrounge up a few unexpected touches like the layered giraffe sticker on one of my pages, and some fun word stickers to sprinkle throughout the album. It was a great way to use leftovers and enhance the album!

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Awesome

 I have 2 more layouts today with Simple Stories Awesome line. It's perfect for boy stuff, but, as you'll see in my second layout, it works for other things too.

I figured, with the range of colors in this photo, that I'd have to convert it to black & white to scrap it, but what do you know? Awesome worked really well with the photo colors.

I added a little bit of zig-zag stitching and some layering of embellishments. The stickers are from the Amazing collection. The brown, round brad looking things are my new favorite embellishment. They're called Candi Dots and they're from a company called Craftworkcards. They have the look of brads, but are made from paper (or chipboard maybe?), and you don't have to deal with the metal legs like you do with brads. Candi Dots attach easily with foam adhesive. They come in a whole bunch of color and patterns too!

I used them on this second layout, too.

I haven't spent much time scrapping my pets, so I thought it would be fun to do a layout of our dog, Uther. The printed text was especially perfect for this layout.

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