Yearly MIni Albums...

Hi everyone! This is Kristy from craftin-on-my-door and I want to thank Sheila for allowing my to be her guest designer again today! I look forward to my monthly She's a Sassy Lady posts!
This month I thought I would show you all the mini albums I made for Little Stinkerbella's grandparents, for Christmas. (I know that Christmas has come and gone, but these would also be great gradparent's day, father's or mother's day gifts!) I used my YourStory photo machine and a few 6 x 6 paper pads from My Mind's Eye.  

 I started by trimming all of my photos down to 5 x 3.75.

 Then I trimmed the papers to 6 x 4 1/8.

 Next, I typed up the months of the year using Microsoft Word and the Kwekel font.

I used a Stampin' Up label punch to "punch" out each month.

Then I glued down the pictures and the month to each page (I had to keep these simple since I was making 8!)

 Here's what each page of the book looked like.

 Here's the same pics on different paper.

 I used a binder to clip to hold my pages together while in the machine.

Then, I lined up the letter stickers onto a ruler, and then placed the title onto the cover.

 I added some tulle or ribbon and some twine, and of course the year. Here's are all the different mini albums.

 Hope you enjoyed these fun little mini albums! Thanks for stopping by today! ♥Kristy

CHRISTMAS MEMORIES MINI ALBUM

Happy Saturday, everyone! Are we all ready for Christmas?! I'm gettin' there! :-) Java Jen here from Java Jen Creations !  Once again, I am so honored to be here and share my simple project with you all! Thanks, Sheila!

Back in October,  I made a mini album based on Heidi Swapp's tutorial on My Craft Channel. For her tutorial click HERE ! This time, I'm using what I think is the easiest version of her albums. Basically, you just pick papers and adhere them back to back until you have as many pages in your album that you want.

Here is a pic of my completed mini album:

I used a retired paper pack from Creative Memories called Candy Cane. All of the Cricut cuts are from the Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons cartridge. I also used the Creative Memories tag punch and corner rounder. 

For the cover, cut an 8.5"x12" piece of solid card stock. This makes the album size 8.5"x6".  The inside pages are printed papers from the kit and are cut to 8"x11.5" so that when the book is closed the pages don't hang over the edge.  

Here are pics of how I embellished the pages with photo mats made from paper in the Candy Cane kit. There were also card stock stickers in this kit. 

The Cricut cuts dimensions are as follows:

"memories" ticket and layers: 2.29"

present and layers: 1.59"

snowflake and layers: 1.59"

snowman and layers: 2.65"

tree and layers: 2.65"

See - told you it was a simple project! :-) Hope you are inspired to make some precious memories this Christmas season! 

Sheila here, didn't you just love Jen's Mini Album? Today I challenge you to share a Christmas Project with us... ANY thing Christmas, just link it up. This week I will be giving away another stamp set to one lucky person. I will use random.org to pick a winner from one of our link up entries. Now you can link up a new project each day if you want for more chances to win! I just love these link ups don't you? You can see so many wonderful projects and I have started following some awesome blogs too. Now be sure to link up!

Family Quizzes mini book

Hi everyone!! Java Jen here from Java Jen Creations again to share another mini album with y'all! Thanks Sheila for another opportunity! It is always an honor!

Today's project idea came from Heidi Swapp's video on My Craft Channel ! This site is brand new and full of great craft project videos!! I love it! Since I love mini books, this video really inspired me to try one of my own! I really fell in love with the third book she showed so that's what I'm making today. Here is a link to Heidi's video HERE!

My book!

All paper in this project is from the April 2011 Club Ruby Designers kit which has elements from the My Mind's Eye - Fine & Dandy line. These kits are the perfect thing to take with me when we travel with my husband like we are now! Everything is already coordinated so it makes it easy to pull together for a project like today's.  By the way, you can get it at a discount if you are a Club Ruby Advantage member! Check out Club Ruby HERE!

Start with a card stock rectangle, (or chipboard), that measures 7.5 x 12 and score 4" and 4.25" from the left and 2.25" and 2.5" from the right.

Now to start making the inside pages - we want them all to be no wider than 5" and no longer than 14.5", (since they get folded over). I varied the length of my pages like Heidi did in hers because I think it really adds interest! 

Here is a side view of all the un-embellished pages adhered in the book. The pages are bound using the back to back binding technique that Heidi Swapp demonstrated. So simple and easy!

Now comes the fun part - EMBELLISHING! :-) I used some of my scraps to decorate the cover. The stickers I used are also in this Club Ruby kit.

The pic below is the cover before embellishing:

This is the back:

The cover after embellishing - the ribbon slides over to keep it closed.

The edges for the pages were cut from the Elegant Edges cricut cartridge. How fitting! :-) I cut two of each border, flipping the second one on my Gypsy so that when I glued them together they fit perfectly. I unlinked the height and width so that I could set the width at 5" and stretch the height to be what I wanted! I love this feature of the Gypsy! 

I did the same for the labels. I unlinked the height and width so that I could stretch the width to fit my handwritten titles. (Sorry this picture is not flipped! It was right on my computer but when it uploaded to blogger it was this way!) :-(

The completed cuts from Elegant Edges:

The quizzes that I used in my book are from a special issue of Simple Scrapbooks. I really miss that magazine but I use my back issues quite frequently! 

Following are lots of pics of the completed pages with embellishments. The ones that don't have quizzes on them will most likely have photos on them.

Open with all the pages closed.

ALL DONE! I can't wait to fill in our answers! This will be such a good coffee table book!

Thanks for stopping by today - now go create something beautiful!