So I finished the mini book that I started 2 weeks ago for my baby son's birthday day. We went to a
pumpkin patch and apple picking... had soo much fun. It was great that all three of the boys had a good time!! So let me talk a little bit about this book!! I used a "kit" or products from my stash... October Afternoon, My Minds Eye, MAMBI, Recollections, Smashbook, Basic Grey, Paper House, Snap and more! You know what, I just decided to pull from my stash and have fun! I did pull some 12x12s, but didn't really use any. I knew I wanted the book to be more like an embellished photo album than a scrapbook! I grounded each photo by using photo corners. I have to say those were the hardest to decide on... black, clear, or craft.... In the end I went with the black ones... which I know tied in better... since the binding and pen holder are also black. I used the Recollection brand.
Here are some hints with doing a One event mini book...
1. Put your photos in order first. I printed out and numbered all my photos first. I would even trim them down if needed.
2. If you are using a pre-designed book go thru and see if you love and or need all the pages. This Smashbook minibook had a few pages I didn't want to use. Some
I ripped out and some I just glued together.
3. Place the pictures into the book(not glued) so you see how they will look next to each other. I personally went in order of the day... so I could be telling a story with this book as well as showing the pictures!
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4. Decide whether or not you will be doing layer and such or just photo corners and journal or Both. I did both so I really knew that I would be using the photo corners and only a single stripe of glue(glue runner) down the middle of each photo... so later I could tuck in layers and embellies without issue.
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5. Add the photo corners to the photo... don't try to put the corners on the page then fit the photo. Add the glue then put on page.
6. Put all the photos down first on all of the pages, then go to town embellishing the mini book. That way if you come across something in your kit... and you are like "Oh that would go great on the Hayride page" you can just stick it in there.
7. Don't feel like you have to finish it all in one night (like me)! I used a bin and drawer to contain the "kit" while I worked on this minibook.
8. Not every page needs to be a layering masterpiece... some simple pages are good!! Like this page... I just added stickers of pumpkins to beef up the real pumpkins in the photo.
9. Try doing the journaling after you finish the embellishing. Now that the book is all fun'ed up and lovely... it will be easier to conjure up things to say about the events. I decided to use one 2 page area for the main journaling since it was of my son's birthday. I also did "one line" journaling thru out the book where I thought some of the pictures needed a bit of explanation.
I had a lot of fun working on this mini book! I couldn't even think that I would be able to do 10+ 12x12 layouts as well I did this mini book. Thanks for stopping by and check out these hints and photos. If you want to see more please click here for the YouTube video that is live right now!!
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I am late to the game I know... but I just couldn't handle the money for a tape dispenser. Even though some of my friends and fellow YT scrappers SWEAR by it... I resisted. Anyway I got on a kick for tapes and I was using Ad Techs disposable ones that you can get at TJMaxx and Marshalls and Tuesday morning... but the waste is nutty. The cost was pretty good, but it was so short lived. I did about 3 layouts per runner. So I was on the way to the Scrapbook Expo this past weekend ( see video) and had on my mind that if I saw it being sold there I would buy it. 
6. I might have used out my old one... but this planner also comes with a punch hole mini notebook. With about 50 sheets(eyeballling this amout).
9. Saturday and Sunday get the same space as the other days... I find this the best cause those are just as busy days for me!!
Let's talk about the title... As you might of guessed I took inspiration from the sprinkles as far as the rainbow colors.... After I thought up the title (a real stretch LOL) but then I had the challenge of finding the fonts I had more than 3 colors of... 7 in fact!! Then I grabbed my letters album and searched... this is where I remembered I had those My Minds Eye block letter stickers!! They worked out perfectly!! I had decided I wanted to use the card stock sticker sheet from the Sprinkled with Love collection ... even before the title was thought of... just cause it matched so well with the papers I picked!
Puffy sticker of Love and arrow is a MAMBI sticker. I found more than a few of those at Mike's a couple of months back... but I know for sure that they have new ones out!!! The adhesive on those MAMBI sticks are insanely good!!! 
The rest of this layout are just great wonders from my stash!!! I hope you like this layout and if you got inspired from this one... let me know and share!!! 
If you are a fan of TV shopping... check out HSN for their craft days!!! Today's special is looking really good to me cause I don't have any machines.... I KNOW I KNOW!!! LOL!!! Follow me on Instagram and Youtube to see what I have been hauling lately and if and what I pick up today from HSN!! Happy shopping!
So my word for the crafty year of 2014 will be FUN!! I want to try new things and new techniques and just have fun with my hobbies!!! This layout is still under way and totally inspired by 2 videos by the amazing Wilna Furstenberg here and here are her 2 videos!!
So I have been all about Two Peas this past few weeks... and I really got inspired by a video from the Seeing Double series. As I was watching I really knew excatly which pictures I wanted to use and everything... Well you know what they say about plans!! Anyway I looked thru my pitcures and found two pictures I had posted on instagram and then printed via Walgreens and decided to use those. I am soo happy with this layout!!
Purple is by far by favorite color and I don't get to use it a lot while scrapbooking about my boys. So I was definitely excited to start looking thru my stack of purple papers and bits!! The only thing about this layout that I didn't like was I HAD to use my favorite paper ever :) ... Bird Song collection Enlightenment by Graphic 45. I even posted on Instagram about not wanting to use it... I was hoarding it I know. Listen I had 2 sheets... I used the first sheet to create my Filofax cover and this sheet I was holding on to... but it was just to prefect not to use! I used papers from: Graphic 45, My Minds Eye, Studio Calico, Sn@p, Recollection by Michaels and American Crafts. Heidi Swapp, Studio Calico, American Crafts and other bits from my stash for the embellishments! Here is the link for the TwoPeasInABucket video by Lisa Dickinson and here are pictures on my layout! See if you get inspired by it too!! I'm posting on my TwoPeas account also... Look for the post in the Gallery!!
So the December Daily craze has started again!!! I am on this bandwagon, but only in the wheel well! When The Coco Martha mentioned it to Swtdreamz03 and I at the Scrapbook expo in Sept... I was like what is that??? I didn't think about it again until Oct. And before I checked into it I just figured it was a daily calender!! So I decided that I would create a flip calender, but couldn't find exactly what I needed. So I went with a clipboard, and I am sooo happy with the outcome!!! Now I started this back in October so I would be finished by December, but it turns out that I am only on day 18 so I have some still to finish up. I am doing a daily video of all the cards... today's video was only 50secs so these are short videos! I am hoping none will be longer than 2 mins!
