Happy Monday! I hope you all had a great weekend. Today, we have two Spring themed mini albums to share with you. Both of them feature the Spring Flings & Easter Things collection.
"This Life" mini album, by Wendy Morris.
Spring is in the air to bring a new-ness to the day, to the season, reflection, change, and growth. In this mini book (made by Want2Scrap), I reflected on these bits & pieces of Spring to capture "this life", this moment in my life. A season to reflect on change, new happenings buzzing, and the blooming of a new life. So, this was my inspiration in putting together this project. Butterflies were my focal inspiration throughout the book - change, transformation of the soul, growth - so you will see them sprinkled here & there as this play on repetition and meaning throughout the book. We are all unique, in different cultures, but like a butterfly we change but are beautiful in our own unique way. Also, always remembering to enjoy life, enjoy today, have adventures, and experience love.
Be sure to check out my blog to see even more details and photos of my mini album.
I cut out the rainbow from the Cute Cuts paper (from the Hello Beautiful collection), mounted it on pop dots, and used as an accent on my tag. I added in a few clear pebbles as accents for "raindrops".
For the quote under my photo on the glitter page, I used the quote from the Alpha+Bits sticker sheet (from the Socialite collection) and cut off the top part of the sticker referring to the new year to made it work for this book in a different way. This is a neat way to stretch your product beyond the theme of the paper collection.
I used a few Ciao Chip chipboard clouds as accents on this manilla tag, along with a stamped airplane. I mounted the word "GO" on top of the clouds as a bit of added dimension.
I used the new High Five Alphabets, and addd them directly to my photo. These alphabets are the perfect size for mini projects.
The new Designer Tapes are the perfect accent to highlight Instagram or TTV photos.
On one of the Spring Fling cards, I used the new Button Market buttons as a sweet flower to highlight the flowers in the corner of the card insert.
On the back of one manila tag, I stamped randomly with various floral stamps, including the Flirty clear stamp set. This was a neat touch for a "doodling" effect. Then, I added in an extra punch with some colorful Baby Blooms a Bella for dimension and color.
On the last page in the book, I cut out the butterfly from the Cut Cuts paper (from the Hello Beautiful collection), stamped with a large script background stamp, cut the butterfly in half, and adhered off to the side of the page. Stamping is a neat way to jazz up a rather plain cutout. Also, on this page, I randomly played in a mix of chipboard, wood, glitter and clear acrylic butterflies for a nice medley to accent the play on butterflies throughout the book.
Supplies:
Spring Flings & Easter Things: Cute Cuts, Egg Hunt, Borders, A Tisket A Tasket, Mom's Bouquet, Just Write Journaling Stickers, Alpha+Bits Stickers; Sunny Happy Skies: Sugar Patch; Lovey Dovey: Love Is In the Air; Mr. Boy: Connect the Dots; Hello Beautiful: Cute Cuts; Socialite: Alpha+Bits Stickers; Swing Into Spring: April Showers; Estate Sale: Belveder; Chipboard Alphabet; Baby Blooms a Bella: Rossini, Azzini; Ciao Chip Versatile Elements: Clouds; Designer Tapes: Teal Stripe; Sophisticates Chip Essentials: Apricot & Banana; High Five Alphabets: Yellow; Button Market: Fruit Punch, Pink Flowers; Stamps: Flirty
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"Spring" mini album, by Kathy Martin.
{A Winter CHA Project}
It's spring, my favorite time of the year! There's so much to love about this season and there's no better collection than Spring Flings & Easter Things from Bella Blvd. to document all things spring! The colors, designs and accents are ideal for Mother's Day and Easter to April showers and May flowers! Instead of using a pre-made album I simply cut some 8 1/2" x 11" heavy white card stock in half and added the punched holes for binder clips.
Supplies:
Spring Flings & Easter Things: Egg Hunt, A Tisket A Tasket, Sunny Sunday, Borders, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Just Write Journaling Stickers, Miniatures Stickers, Flags; Button Market: Red Flowers; High Five Alpha Stickers: Pink/Red, Green; We’re Expecting: Miniatures
Both beautiful!
Posted by: Andrea Winbigler | March 26, 2012 at 05:36 AM
Beautiful and so fun!
Posted by: Melonie Madison | March 26, 2012 at 05:40 AM
Wowwwwww! These are both gorgeous!
Posted by: julie Tucker-Wolek | March 26, 2012 at 06:17 AM
awesome mini albums!
Posted by: Mandy Szeto | March 26, 2012 at 09:04 AM
Wow, beautiful minis! Thanks for inspiring!
Posted by: Melinda T | March 26, 2012 at 10:56 AM
These are awesome mini albums! Great inspiration!
Posted by: Tiffany Hood | March 26, 2012 at 02:18 PM
You sure do great work. I want to start using my spring paper, i've been out of the loop know that i've had some great inspiration from you blog thank you.
Posted by: falan | March 26, 2012 at 03:24 PM
WONDERFUL albums!
Posted by: Diana Waite | March 26, 2012 at 06:20 PM
What fun and wonderful albums. So much fun and can't wait to try something similar.
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