Graduation Mini Albums

Do you have a child graduating this June? Or maybe she graduated last year and you haven't done anything with all those pictures you took before and after the ceremony. Maybe Grandma and Grandpa would love a keepsake of the Graduation Day as well? 

Since I do have a Grade 8 graduation this year and I need a gift album for my parents, I decided to make a workshop for all of my friends who also have children graduating in the near past or future. Is your graduation not for 2 years? Why not get it done now and you will be so happy when it finally arrives that you have that task already crossed off the to do list. Both styles of album are classic colours and designs so they won't look dated or too trendy.

Each kit will contain all of the supplies needed to make a 17 page mini album celebrating a Graduation Day with lots of spots for pictures of your grad in cap and gown, family and sibling photos, pictures with friends and favourite teachers, receiving their diploma and awards and, finally, pictures of the dance at the end of the night. 

I will be holding several workshops in my home to assist you in completing this project but it can easily be done on your own since all the pages will be pre-cut and detailed instructions are included. 

Workshops at my house will be held on 3 separate dates.  All of the workshops start at 6:30pm. You may be asked to join another workshop if minimum numbers are not met.

Wednesday, June 1st  Your order must be in to me by May 18th
Thursday, June 9th  Your order must be in to me by May 25th
Tuesday, June 14th  Your order must be in to me by May 29th

Both albums have the same title page and you can choose your own school colour for the title page. 

Classic Black and White Album Kit
$45 pre-cut pages ready to be assembled
$60 completed album ready for photos - yes I will put the album together for you and all you have to do is pick it up!

Here is a sneak peek at some of the pages in the album. If you are not a fan of the flowered paper there is a simple black and white pattern on the back that you can use instead.

You can also add a pocket page in between to hold wallet size photos

A spot to record your graduate's thoughts on his/her future plans

A spot to record their favourite things at this moment. Always something fun to look back on.

This is one of the pocket pages included in the kit. The "you got this" card is NOT included, it is a product from the extras list.  You have enough paper in the kit to use in the pocket pages but I loved the cards from the Beautiful You PML set so I wanted to incorporate them in my album

Another pocket page and Beautiful You card from the extras list

These are cards from the Beautiful You card kit that I stamped with the Smarty Pants stamp set.

These are more of the cards from the Beautiful You set that I will be using in my album when I put the pictures in.

Supplies Included:

• 3 ring mini album
• La Vie En Rose pattern paper 6 sheets
• black cardstock x 3
• white cardstock x 5
• pomegranate cardstock
• poppy cardstock
• gold glitter paper
• 4" x 4" plastic pocket page
• 8" x 6" plastic pocket page with two 4" x 6" pockets x 3
• 8" x 6" plastic pocket page with four 4" x 3" pockets x 2
• 8" x 6" plastic pocket page
• black shimmer trim 18"
• pre-cut paper
• instruction guide

Extras
Beautiful You Picture My Life cards $12.95
Smarty Pants stamp set $16.50
Jennifer's Hand alphabet stamp set $11.75
Handwritten Print alphabet stamp $35.50


Magical Album Kit
$42 pre-cut pages ready to be assembled
$57 completed album ready for photos

I stamped the cut apart sheet using the Smarty Pants stamp set.  Since there are two pages included in the kit you can stamp one and leave one blank for journalling or extra pictures.

Supplies Included:

• 3 ring mini album
• Magical pattern paper 12 sheets
• black cardstock x 2
• white cardstock x 2
• class of 2016 in gold glitter paper
• black shimmer trim 18"
• 8" x 6" plastic pocket page with two 4" x 6" pockets x 3
• 8" x 6" plastic pocket page with four 4" x 3" pockets x 2
• 8" x 6" plastic pocket page
• black shimmer trim 12"
• precut paper
• instruction guide

Hope to see you at one of these workshops!! 

CTMH Memory Game Box Turned Mini Album

When this new box came out in the Fall 2011 idea book I just knew I could make a mini album out of it! Of course I was inspired to do this because I was taking Stacy Julian's Finding Photo Freedom class and had all these great pictures of Hilary sitting in her category drawer. So here it is!

I covered the box with CTMH Sophia paper, stamped the word "smile" and covered it with liquid glass to give it a little dimension and shine, added some bling to the flowers and another couple of stamped images.

The quote I added was a digital stamp from Designer Digitals just copied into word, printed and cut out.

The box comes with 24 3x3 squares to I simply covered them with more paper and then added a picture to each square. These are just cute pictures of Hilary that I wanted to showcase in some way. Needless to say she LOVES looking at this and took it to school the very next day to show off to her teacher and friends. This was a very easy project that anyone could make in an evening. It would make a great grandparent gift too.

CTMH Card Box Creations

Inspired by this project by Sara Batkin, I decided to make a Christmas 2007 mini album. Inside I put a collection of all the things we did in December as if I had actually done a December Daily that year.

Here is a picture of the album pulled out and you can see that I glued the last page into the box to secure it.

Here is the album with the flaps out. I could have added many more if I wanted to get more pictures in.

All of the products used are Close To My Heart except for a bit of ribbon and a few stickers from my stash.  The Believe Paper that I used is retiring at the end of January but the card box is still available.

I also decorated this card box to hold some Christmas cards that I want to keep.

6 x6 December Daily Mini Album

To accompany my 25 Days of Christmas online class I have created not only the 12 x 12 version of the December Daily album but also a 6 x 6 mini album. I really liked using the CTMH all sorts mini album for this project because I could easily add more pages to have one page for each of the 25 days. I also used 6 x 6 envelopes as pages so I could have a pocket to slip extra pictures/memoribilia/journalling in. All the products used are Close to my Heart unless stated otherwise.

Supplies:
CTMH all sorts 6 x 6 mini album
paper: Believe Workshop on the Go kit, various retired paper packs
various CTMH ribbon
Ali Edwards Holiday Word Art Vol 2 from Designer Digitals
CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge to cut the tags
stamps: Magic Tabs (C1448), Tiny Typewriter Alphabet (D1222)
bling: red, pink & purple sparkle assortment Z1326, clear sparkles Z1104

Here are some pictures of the completed album. I took pictures of the covered chipboard pages that come with the mini album.

 title page using the Ali Edwards digital stamp and Believe WOTG Santa stamp

6 x 6 envelope used as a page with a tag inside

tage pulled out of envelope

 

This mini album would be perfect for a younger scrapbooker to decorate themselves and use to recrod their 25 days of Christmas.

Contact me if you would like to join my 25 Days of Christmas online class.

25 Days of Christmas Project

A 25-day album project intended to encourage and inspire you to celebrate the Christmas season by engaging your creative spirit on a daily basis.

Do you have lots of activities going on in December? Do you take tons of pictures? Have you ever thought that it would be nice to have a really beautiful place to put all those pictures, prepared in advance, along with the little stories and memorabilia that go with them? I have found the solution! Last year I took part in the most amazing scrapbooking project and I wanted to share it with you. This year, Valerie Martin and I have developed our own class called “25 Days of Christmas.” The purpose of the class is to create a 25-page scrapbook in November (no pictures in it) in order to be ready to add pictures and journaling to the completed pages daily, starting December 1^st and ending on Christmas Day. Each day class participants will receive an email from us full of layout and photo inspirations, Christmas craft ideas, cool websites, blogs and giveaways.

The goal of this project is to get your base album completed before December 1^st, so you can sit back and enjoy all the activities, documenting them while your memories are still fresh. All you will have to do is print a few pictures and write a bit of journaling. Don’t think you can find time to do this daily? Don’t! As long as you snap your photos everyday and jot down a few points about the activities or feelings of the day you can always print your pictures weekly, biweekly or even at the end of the 25 days and add them in all at once. As for me, I will have my album ready for pictures on December 1^st and will print my pictures every day, completing the page the next morning in time to send to you in your daily email (okay maybe not Christmas Eve, but you never know!)

This class would also be perfect to do with your kids. You could do one album together or each child could decorate their own and even take their own pictures.

This class can also be completed by digital scrapbookers too! Simply use the daily emails to inspire your picture taking, make your digital pages when you have time and print them out at the end of the month. It really couldn’t be easier.

Here are some pictures of my album from last year:

Class includes:

· 25 daily inspirational emails

· coaching from Valerie Martin (digital and traditional) and Cyndy Recker (traditional and hybrid scrapbooking)

· Facebook group to connect with others taking the class

· colour pictures and assembly instructions for Cyndy’s 2010 and 2011 albums.

· Option to album assembly workshop on November 19 or 20th

· A goodie bag filled with FREE embellishments to use in your album

· Random prizes throughout the month

· A month of FUN that I promise you will want to do again year after year

· A 10% discount on CTMH products!

· A special gift from Creative Memories when you use the digital software to complete your pages

Can you believe all of this fun for only $1 per day?
Sign up today for only $25 and start a new tradition you will carry on with year after year.

Supply List

This is a STASH BUSTING project! We strongly encourage you to gather all of your Christmas paper, stickers, embellishments, etc. together and work from that. If you are like us you have been collecting all things Christmas for as long as you have been scrapbooking and now you have found the project that is going to help you use it! Of course we totally understand the desire to also use some of the new and fun Christmas paper that is out there so here is a list of supplies that I used in my book this year with links to the place you can buy it if possible.

Traditional Scrapbooking

I used a wide variety of paper in my album this year including the new CTMH Christmas line called Believe. We are also carrying a new winter themed line called Wonderland . The amount of paper you need will depend on the size of album you are doing. I have 20 page layouts and 5 photo storage pages that I plan on using as one day each. I can easily add more if needed on a particular day. I can help you decide how much paper you need and will have single pages available for purchase.

I used the November stamp of the Month “Cherish the Day” and the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge to make my daily number tag.

I will also be using the October Stamp of the Month “Holiday Magic” to embellish my pages but it is only available until October 31^st.

Close To My Heart also carries a large variety of Christmas and Winter themed stamps

Scrapbook album any size. Last year I used a 3 ring 9x9 binder so this year I decided to do something different and am using a CTMH 12 x 12 Quick Pic Album. I chose the cranberry colour but they also come in brown and dark blue. You can do this project with any size or type of album even a photo album if you want it even easier. All you need is a place to slip in photos and a journaling block for 25 days. It really all depends on how many photos you want on a page. Michael’s carry a variety of scrapbook albums in various sizes as well.

Memory Protector Photo Storage Pages. I love these for super quick pages on those days when you have lots of photos or you find you need to add a page to your album while you are working on it. I also plan on using the CTMH flip flap pages to add more photos and/or memorabilia.

Digital Scrapbooking

Creative Memories Project Centre

Valerie Martin’s Creative Memories website

Pixels to Pages: Creative Memories Storybook Creator 4 pages, tips and how to’s.

Creative Memories Facebook Page

So join us today for only $25! You can pay by credit card, cheque, cash or even Paypal.