As well as scrapbooks, I ADORE mini albums! I love Googling them, watching tutorials on YouTube... I have dozens of them pinned on Pinterest. Seeing all the incredible designs really inspired me and I must have watched dozens of videos of people showing off their latest creations. I got so many ideas from so many different posters that I've lost track of who they all were. I can't take any credit for originality on this one but I was really happy with how it turned out
This was the very first one I made. It was a gift for my lovely sister-in-law, who is also mad-crafty and has made my boys the most adorable quilts. She had recently gone on a big round the world trip and loved Paris so I thought I'd make her something to put her France photos in.
The cover is book board; I attached the front and back covers to the spine with Duck tape and then covered the whole lot in A4 sized self adhesive kraft labels, which I stamped with a Tim Holtz and Stampers Anonymous stamp set. These kraft labels were a Thai brand that I bought when we lived there and were cheap as chips. If I'd known how much I would end up loving them and using them, I would have bought a whole bunch more before we moved here to China.
These adorable little charms, the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe, I bought in a really cute little shop in Shanghai. The lace strip with the beads on it was a bracelet I bought from a student enterprise group at my last school. The flower was made using a method I found here on this blog.
I made it using A5 sized brown envelopes for the pages, attached with Cathy Orta's Hidden Hinge binding system.
The paper inside is from a paper stack from Kaisercraft, in Australia, where my in-laws live. It's a gorgeous mix of blues and greens and pink and brown and it's covered in butterflies and French script - so romantic and shabby chic.
The nacre buttons are from Chinatown in Bangkok, which is full of awesome beads and jewellery-making bits and bobs. The flowers and the leaf skeletons are from Chatuchak Market in Bangkok, which also has loads of fantastic mulberry papers and all kinds of handmade items for sale. Oh and that ticket stamp was free with a magazine I bought in good old Blighty, so England gets a nod too :)
Inside the back cover is a vintage style map of Paris that I found in the Japanese version of a Pound Shop or a Dollar Store, which brings the number of countries represented here to six: Thailand, China, France, Australia, England and Japan.
This was the very first one I made. It was a gift for my lovely sister-in-law, who is also mad-crafty and has made my boys the most adorable quilts. She had recently gone on a big round the world trip and loved Paris so I thought I'd make her something to put her France photos in.
The cover is book board; I attached the front and back covers to the spine with Duck tape and then covered the whole lot in A4 sized self adhesive kraft labels, which I stamped with a Tim Holtz and Stampers Anonymous stamp set. These kraft labels were a Thai brand that I bought when we lived there and were cheap as chips. If I'd known how much I would end up loving them and using them, I would have bought a whole bunch more before we moved here to China.
I made it using A5 sized brown envelopes for the pages, attached with Cathy Orta's Hidden Hinge binding system.
The nacre buttons are from Chinatown in Bangkok, which is full of awesome beads and jewellery-making bits and bobs. The flowers and the leaf skeletons are from Chatuchak Market in Bangkok, which also has loads of fantastic mulberry papers and all kinds of handmade items for sale. Oh and that ticket stamp was free with a magazine I bought in good old Blighty, so England gets a nod too :)
Inside the back cover is a vintage style map of Paris that I found in the Japanese version of a Pound Shop or a Dollar Store, which brings the number of countries represented here to six: Thailand, China, France, Australia, England and Japan.
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