{Inter}National Scrapbook Day!

Hope everyone had a wonderful and productive day on {Inter}National Scrapbooking Day! In between errands and running to the next town twice to take care of my son's dogs while he is away I actually got 4 single page layouts done and one double page. I did the scrapbook.com challenges so it made me not over think my layouts and just try to get them done. A great way to jump start your creative juices to flowing. The five layouts correspond with five different challenges. One challenge was to use Instagram size photos, one was to use a rainbow of colors of one item, one was to use pocket pages, one was to use at least 10 cut-outs/punch-outs, and one was to use a template with and type of medium like mists, matte medium, etc. So here are my pages:

Very Small Mini Album

There was a challenge on the FB group Will Craft for Supplies to make a project using nothing but scraps. The only other item that could be used was a piece of cardstock or canvas...anything to make the base of the project. Not having a lot of time to scrap, I chose to make a very small mini album using one sheet of cardstock that is scored and cut to where you can fold it into small 3" x 3" squares with a binding to make it a book. I seen the tutorial on Erica Hettwer's blog "Yes, I should be doing something else" at http://ericasdoingsomethingelse.blogspot.co.nz/2008/03/one-sheet-mini-book-tutorial.html. I used some scraps from the Colorbok Hootenany 8x8 paper pad which is very cheery and colorful. I used some Prima paper flowers and I put some pearls in the centers, a Prima flourish, and a little bird wood veneer from Studio Calico on the front of the mini. It has a ribbon to tie the album closed. The inside was kept very simple since it is so small and I needed to leave room for the pics. The mats are 2 3/4' x 2 3/4" so it does not leave a lot of room for embellies. I might add this little itty bitty mini to one of my 8x8 albums. :-)

Added Bling to Sister's album

I wasn't quite satisfied with my sister's album being so plain so I went back and added just a little bit to it. Now I'm happier. I've showed the album to my co-workers and they loved it. Now let's see what my sister thinks. I'll be putting it in the mail either today or tomorrow so I should here something next week. Here are some pictures of the additions and a better picture of the flowers on the front cover.

Pictures of the Mini made from scraps

Here are some pictures of the mini that I posted the video on. My camera broke and so I am taking pictures and videos with my phone. Boy is that different.Hope you enjoy the pics and the videos and remember if you want to try one go to Angelwings14100's tutorial on YouTube.

Mini Album from Scraps - Take Two

Okay, so I don't have a camera to take regular videos so I have to use my phone until I get one. I learned that when you turn your phone in the landscape position to take the videos and then post them on YouTube the video is on its side. Live and learn, right? So I did another video real quick so that you won't get a crock in your neck trying to see it. I did not go into as much detail though so that you didn't have to hear absolutely everything all over again.

Mini Album using Scraps and Leftover Papers

So I found this wonderful tutorial on how to use scraps and leftover papers from your collections. I had the idea to try using my leftovers from the G45 Bird Song collection. I originally had used that collection to make my sister a perpetual calendar for her desk at work so I thought it would be a wonderful idea to make her a mini album to go along with her calendar in the same line of papers. I followed Angelwings14100 tutorial   and mine came out great except for the fact that in her video everything was backwards to the person watching it and somehow I got confused and switched a couple of things around compared to the way she had them but it all worked out great. Everything I used for the mini were from the Bird Song collection except for the black cardstock that was needed for the base of the mini and what I used for matting.

Another perpetual calendar

I thought I had posted this last year but I guess I didn't or I did something wrong and it didn't go through.  This is a perpetual calendar I made for my sister for her birthday last year.  I used the 8x8 Graphic 45 Bird Song paper pad. Since my sister lives 3 hours from me, I mailed it to her office so she wouldn't be expecting it and I figured she would use in on her desk at work.  She was shocked because she loved the one I made for her daughter and she didn't know I was working on one for her also.  I decorated hers more than her daughter's because she doesn't have to worry about tiny little hands messing with it. Everyone in her office loved it. She just has to keep them from stealing it...LOL.