Mini Album Mania

Welcome to July 1 and its time for another Mini Album Mania Challenge!!!

I have a cool album for you today. But IMHO my project is more like a book.

I can see this as a book of recipes, a journal of sorts, a spot to record memories or whatever you can dream up. Can you picture a book of your fav recipes to give to your BFF. What a great gift. I'm sure you can come up with other great ideas for this book/album

 I had some press images laying around so I used them in this book, but as I said before this book has many possibilities. OK OK Let me share with you some pics of my project!!

Book Front

Page 1

Book Page 2 and page 3

Book Page 4 and 5

Book Page 6 and 7

Book page 12 and 13

Book page 18 and 19

Here is the spine of this book

There are many more pages in my book/album but they are not decorated yet so I didn't include them here on my blog, who wants to look at a bunch of blank pages. LOL

As you noticed I skipped some pages as well. Those are blank and I felt you would not be interested in those blank pages.

The smaller dark pages are the center of each folded page that helps hold the pages and ultimately the book together. (I know..... clear as mud - LOL)

I found this book design online and after I watched the video a few times I thought this design was really cool. It's called Accordion Hinge Album and the video is about 13 minutes long. Tutorial is done very well. Click on the link if you like albums, books. And the great thing about it is, this takes very little time to make.

I added chipboard to the front and back and covered it with that embossed cardstock and added a decorative BetterPress pressed image to the front for added interest.

For the front and back covers, I used watercolor paper and lightly spritzed it with water and then placed it in the embossing folder and ran it thru my Big Shot. I think that made the embossed image really stand out.  

Products used:

Paper/CS -Card stock, Chip board, Watercolor paper

Dies - Spellbinders - Ovals

Spellbinders BetterPress Letterpress die images - Diamond Avery, Rose Bouquet, Corner Sunflowers, Pressed Bouquet, Flutter Into Spring

Ink - Spellbinder -BetterPress Black Ink

Watercolors  and Water Brush to color

Embossing folder

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you enjoyed my project and gives you some ideas. I'll be back soon