Project Life Mini Album

I know so many of us have lots of Project Life, Albums Made Easy, & just those great pieces of patterned paper that are filled with the 3x4 and 4x6 images for us to cut out (super inexpensive way to build up your card collection), etc.... every company is jumping on the pocket scrapbooking band wagon.   But you can only use so many of them right?  many times there are 3-10 of each style in a boxed set so lots of left overs that are super cute but you may not want to use them again in your pocket album.  

So what to do......

I was inspired by Susan owner of EMI Scrapbooking to take a boxed set of the Becky Higgins Project Life Azure Core Kit cards & the matching patterned paper to make a mini album sample & kits for sale at her store.  Each kit included 1 of each of the 3x4 cards & 1 of each patterned paper (when I kit I use every little bit of paper)

I started out just going thru the "decks" of cards to see what inspired me & went together to make an interesting title.  Adding the stamped "us together" words by Ali Edwards completed my title and balanced the page.

This is what I came up with....

I tried to make it generic enough for nearly any kind of pictures you may be taking right now

Here's some of the 33 pages in this album

Cutting up office supply file folders is a great way to add lots of room for photos or journaling.

It's filled with lots of flaps, folders, tabs & pockets 

Another stamped image on the super cute but plain heart card.

Stamping on some of the cards added interest 

I even cut down some of the Project Life cards for title embellishment 

Gluing a piece of paper gives a nice spot to tuck a "book" of cards made by stapling several together 

Fussy cutting of the butterflies brought them over to the other side of the 

2 page spread.  The photo mat is hidden under the paper just lift the flap

All papers are 95% pre cut & stacked for ease of assembly. 

Pre-stamped images, decorative borders punched & flaps scored.

Purchaser will have to do the fussy cutting example butterflies shown above.  

Includes binder rings

If you would be interested in purchasing this kit contact Susan at 404-273-4773

emiscrapbooking@aol.com

I'd love to hear what you think...

Do you do pocket style scrapbooking?

Bringing back the blog.... Sharing My Favorite Mini Book Kits I created

I've been helping Susan at EMI Scrapbooking with the store blog... it's looking great!  The store is looking great too - so many new product lines, of course every one of Teresa Collins lines are well stocked, crops, & the mini books & kits business is booming.  New kits will be added to the blog when they are available for sale & will have a paypal purchase button right there.  Hope you check back often or sign up to follow EMI - lots of inspiration & happenings posted daily.  If you're in the Atlanta area drop by & say hello.

This is a picture of the Teresa Collins section from a couple months ago

I'm still creating mini books & kits for EMI.  I've been so bad about sharing them here on the blog... I added pictures of the covers over to the right on the slide show.  

Here's a few of my favorites.

Making Memories Valentine line (I miss that company... 

Their scalloped ledger paper is an all time favorite background - I still have 1 piece left & waiting for just the right project

Echo Park collections are always great to work with.

Love the sticker embellishment sheets 

This is an all time favorite using Graphic 45.

I cut out the "window" & hinged it so it would open to reveal another beautiful image inside on the cover.

So many great embellishments can be cut out of the papers. 

several of the pages.  Filled with half pages using the postcards 

that filled one of the piece of patterned paper

This one was a labor of love.  

Each page is an envelope & I hand laced the book together for each of the kits. 

My favorite Glitz line ever - love all the soft colors & vintage prints... very shabby chic

Here's the inside of  one of the pages.  

I put tabs on the card enclosed in each envelope page

Rhonna Ferrar did a cool line for My Mind's Eye

I love the kites 

I used canvas fabric for several of the pages - stitching near the edges but loving the fraying

another of the pages - love the pre-designed clusters on the paper 

Teresa Collins collections are so well designed & thought out - I love

how easily the mini book comes together

Another Teresa Collins collection - classic colors but fresh shades of green & red

This one is so different than my usual 6x8 size....

Tall & skinny using Studio Calico school collection

Perfect for teen boy photos

I did several of this accordion bound spine books

using My Mind's Eye's collection.

Loved this boy one with Navy & Gold

another MME more feminine book

Simple Stories collections are fabulous - they give you so many 

journaling & embellishing images just on a piece of patterned paper.  

Budget friendly without sacrificing the style & layers we all love.

6x12 in mini gives plenty of room for the photos of new little one.

Another My Mind's Eye...

I love the colors & patterns in their Lost & Found lines....

However the glitter became a running joke - after creating 3 mini book kits

I had inches of glitter on my desk & all over not just my scrap room but the whole house.

I was covered in glitter for days since their glitter.

You're probably thinking so..... but I'm not a glitter person lol 

I will not even buy greeting cards with glitter on them.

So Susan knows better than to ask me to create with glitter paper 

I have a ban on it.

This album was beautiful though glitter & all

Well I hope you enjoyed looking at the covers of some of my books.  I'm hoping to post a couple times a week what I'm creating for the store & for myself.  

Take some time to be creative today,

Kits & Pre-mades & some enabling.....

I dropped off some kits & pre made mini albums last week at the store.

Here are a couple of photos if you are interested in purchasing contact Susan at emiscrapbooking@aol.com for more information.  Follow EMI on Facebook to know all the latest news here.

The first one is a cute little boy book.

Premade (it comes with rings I was just out of them here at the house)

Chipboard Cover 

Lots of heavy weight double sided patterned paper pages 

Here are photos of just a few

This one is a kit all precut & easy for you to put together

The entire mini has chipboard pages.

Here's the cover. 

The theme is perfect for those 4th of July photos

And a few of the pages

Now for some enabling....

Joann's is clearing out a bunch of products

I caught the tail end of the sale but still got some good tools that I will so use.

Look at these big Fiskars punches $4.97 each perfect for journaling spots

Lots of Tim Holtz dies for $3.97

I thought this smaller zig zag would be great for mini book edges 

I love cogs & gears for guy pages so I was excited to get this punch on the left for $3.97

To make your own chipboard just punch on kraft 4x and adhere together then punch again in whatever you want the top to look like & adhere.  Very inexpensive way to get the look we love.

I couldn't believe how cute Heidi Grace new lines were.

I love the colors & those packages of die cut fabric flowers will save me so much time on my Brave Girls Funky Flowers art journal.  I've been cutting out individual petals by hand. (they are more artsy looking cut by the petal but I don't need to spend that much time/effort on each page)

They were on sale 40% off

I love Jenni Bowlin punches by Fiskars.  

I will use this roladex style a lot 

I used my 40% off coupon to get this one

Teresa Collins released a ton of different unmounted rubber stamp sets with Fiskars

Each collection is so pretty & very usable.... 

they sure will be getting inky & not just sitting around in anyone's stash 

Thanks for stopping by

Teresa Collins Carolina Breeze Mini Book

I loved the soft yellow/grey colors in Teresa Collins' Carolina Breeze from the start so I was so happy when Susan @ EMI Scrapbooking brought it into the store & then asked me to create a mini book kit with it.

With Mother's Day fast approaching we decided that should be the theme but I also included "sister", "grandmother", and "friend" in the same stamped font in each kit for versatility.

It's filled with lots of interactive fold outs and pockets

Here are some sneaks of some of my favorite pages and elements....

If you would like to purchase this pre-cut kit that is packaged by page.  With all the EMI kits we do most of the work for you.... except for adhesive, ink, stitching (some of my older kits came pre-stitched lol) and some "fussy-cutting" all you do is follow the color photos to put it together.

You can purchase it locally in the store, online here or call/email Susan 770-888-2417 emiscrapbooking@aol.com for world wide shipping.

I won a super mega prize on Teresa's blog a couple weeks ago... when I saw that my name was picked I screamed and the dogs jumped on the bed to see if I was alright then gave me stink eye that I interrupted their sleep time... they didn't quite understand how this was a big deal lol.  I received 4 lines of product.

I LOVE the door mini album cover from the Coming Home line & Giving Thanks was one of my all time favorite scrapbook lines ever which I was down to mostly scraps of.... now I can create again using it.  It's so timeless and classic not detracting from the photos or being too trendy that I get tired of it and wouldn't want to work with again.  Thanks Teresa for being so generous!