Emma- School Book

Fancy Pants school book
by Emma Trout




Supplies list:

Fancy Pants boxed chipboard book and chipboard shapes
Bazzill cardstock
Patterned papers:
Rusty Pickle (Pop Star) Mikey, Monique, Emily, Lucas, Corbin, Cole
Chatterbox (Artylicious) black chipboard frames
Basic Grey chipboard mini monograms
Heidi Swapp chipboard stars
Making Memories texture tape
Ranger alcohol inks
Tattered Angels Glimmer mist (Key Lime Pie, Turquoise)
Jenni Bowlin chalkboard alpha (Black)
Zutter bind-it-all
Big Bite
Embroidery floss, acrylic paint, Ribbons,

How to:

Before you start, cut along the spine of each page to separate the pages.

Front cover:
Cover the chipboard with patterned paper. Draw around the chipboard bracket shape and cut the chipboard page. Paint two brackets with black acrylic paint, allow to dry, and then glue one on the front cover. Cut shapes from Rusty Pickle paper and add to cover. Paint chipboard shapes with acrylic paint and glue to cover when dry. Finish by adding title.

Page 2 (Blue page)
Cover chipboard with blue cardstock. Add the second painted chipboard bracket. Dry brush acrylic paint in the centre of the page. When dry, add patterned paper strips and shapes cut from papers.

Page 3 (Green page)

Cover chipboard page with green cardstock. Place Heidi Swapp chipboard stars across the page and use as a mask to sponge acrylic paint onto cardstock. Draw around the inside of the bracket shape onto lined paper and add to page. Add patterned paper strips and shapes as desired. Colour in quote using Glimmer Mist as watercolour.

Page 4 (White page)

Cover chipboard page with white cardstock. Spray with Key Lime Pie and turquoise Glimmer mist. Draw around the mini monogram numbers onto white card, overlapping as you work. Colour around the outside of the monograms with coloured pencil and add to page. Add chipboard frame, slide mounts, patterned paper strips and shapes and title. Finish By using Glimmer Mist as water colour over title.



Page 5 (Black page)

Cover page with black cardstock. Dip an old paintbrush into acrylic paint and splatter over page, using three or more colours. Draw around monograms onto white card, overlapping as you work then add to page. Colour the inside of the monograms with coloured pencil. Add patterned paper strips and shapes. Colour in some of the patterned paper elements as required. Add page title.

Page 6 (Pink Page)

Cover the page with pink cardstock. Apply acrylic paint to bubble wrap and stamp onto cardstock. Add patterned paper strips and shapes. Add monograms drawn onto white card, cut out then coloured in with coloured pencils. Make a Christmas tree by using the arrow heads on the patterned paper, overlapping three together and adding a thin ‘trunk’. Colour in the dots and add Diamond Glaze to enhance and resemble baubles. Embellish as desired.

Finishing the book.

Bind the edges of the page. I used Making Memories adhesive tape dyed with alcohol inks (Very quick and effective to do). I also used thin strips of Bazzill to suit.

Punch a strip of scrap card with the Bind-it All. Use this strip as a template and mark the holes on the page edges. Punch the holes using the Big Bite. Align two pages together and bind with the Bind-It-All and wired. Align this with another page and thread embroidery floss through the holes to join together. Repeat as necessary until you have formed a concertina book.

Finish by adding ribbons to the wires and painted chipboard pieces threaded onto the spine as charms.

Karin- Dino Mini Album

Dino mini album

by Karin Kreijen

SUPPLIES
My Mind's Eye Abbey Road collection paper
Love Elsie paper
Love Elsie alpha
Dino Stamp Pink Paislee
Love Elsie Fabric Paper
Love Elsie Epoxy Stickers
Love Elsie chipboard stickers
tag Cosmo Cricket Happy Camper
paint dabber green
black and white markers

HOW TO
First make a little harmonica book or hand make it with paper. Cover the outside and inside with blue paper colors and paint all around the corners to make frames for each page.

Then the outside of the book:
1) use a black marker to frame it and the inside with a white marker..
2) The cover of the book.. cut out some piece of elsie love paper and glue it in the middle. Take a border sticker of love elsie line and put near the piece of paper.  Add a sticker arrow and put it somewhere you like on the page. Pick the love elsie alpha and stick the title down there.. I put a tag sticker on the collage of elsie paper and stamped some dino on the fabric love elsie paper and cute it out and stick it on my tag and colord him and some doodling hearts..
3) then the next page you make a photo frame from abbey road papers take two different kind of papers for more dimension, and cut out two big dino´s out of the paper abbey road and glue them on your first page, finishing touch some elsie stickers.
4) The middle page I use some tag from cosmo cricket, again with a round sticker tag from sassafras lass. And stamped again on the same paper the dino´s and put it on the tag..
5) then I made a photo frame flip over with another dino (put there with 3d foam tape,) and some more elsie expoy stickers and the inside of the flipover.. I did again a photo frame and chipboard love elsie buttons and the tale of a dino and there you have youre own dino mini album to be given away or to hold it…

Karin - Mummy Mini Book

Mummy mini book
By: Karin Kreijen


Products:
alpha black glitter
tape
googly eyes
ribbon American crafts
spiders fob shop
expoy stickers love elsie
black paint
american crafts arrow
doodlebug paper, stickers
cosmo cricket journaling tags and stickers

How to:
Step 1. Make a harmonica book. Take the first page the fron of the book and make a banner black but some googly eyes on it and then around it put a lot of tape on it and wrinkle it here and there. Put some ribbon on it and the title.

Step 2. For the inside of the book, I used two big photos to cover the whole page. Then there are two how where over. For the first one I used doodlebug black paper and for the second page basic grey polka dot orange The borders of the 4 will be painted black.

Then cut out some purple polka dot paper in rounded shape a stripe and glue it on your black paper and doodle it with black marker. Then painted the little alpha orange and put it on the white paper and cut it out, put it on your black page and put some stickers here and there. Then pick some candy stickers and put it on the orange paper. I used some black bracket-stickers and marked them with white marker. Then use some flower in the middle and a bat button. Under that frame use some sticker ribbons and little schoolboard on i

Step 3. The back of this book is painted black with some photoframes made with the doodlebug. Everything is handcut, and the middle is a journaling tag from cosmo cricket.


And so you have your own Halloween mummy book to behold or to give away.

Karin - Pumpkin Halloween mini book

Pumpkin Halloween mini book
By: Karin Kreijen

Supplies:

love elsie basketball book
ribbon doodlebug design, and some black fabric
doodlebug design Halloween papers
doodlebug design Halloween stickers
mini alpha
black and white markers
cup cake papers
spiders
love elsie stickers
flowers
pumpkin rubons and journaling rubons
basic grey orange polka dot paper
googly eyes

How to:
Step1… Alterd the front and the back of the book the way you like.. I did a pumkin face with googly eyes..

Step2… I pimped the white inside of the cover of the book with drawing ghost..then put some striped paper on the first page and cut out the same size, then cut out another smaller round piece of orange polka dot paper and glue it in the middle of the page..

Then stick the haunted house sticker from doodlebug under in the orange paper and draw a frame with black marker..Then choose your tittle mine was boo HALLOWEEN.. and a bat from doodlebug design.

Step3… Basic paper paisley, and the other page orange glitter. Then cut a smaller one of orange glitter for your left page and some paisley ´s  for your right page and glue them on each page.. I use some cupcake paper cut them in swirls and framed them around the orange glitter paper to give more dimension to the page… Then draw a cool bat and color him in with some distress inkt when it is dry paste it on your right page.. Then stick some web and spiders on your left page..then put some journaling tag on it and some leaf ribbon and some pumkin stickers..

Step4 Background two pieces of striped papers and a droopy frame black marker. Cut a Halloween tree out of black paper and put some jounaling tags down with some pumpkins. Then cut a black frame and polka purple paper and glue it down and make a photoframe with white and black markers and put some stickers around …

Step5… polka dot purple paper for your background…draw some ghost on white paper and cut it out  and some journaling tags…and glue it on your page. Pic some doodlebug Halloween stickers.. and the other page make a frame with orange and black paper and draw a frame with white and black marker

Step6 …. Basis grey orange polka dot paper some ribbons and black marker frame.. stickers eyes…and some drop alphabet stickers

Step7.. then the last thing put some ribbons on the ring and some little Halloween stuff I use some mummy hanger

Spooky Halloween…

Zarah- Scrap Within Reach

This mini album is pretty self explainatory, mostly. Just cut up some nice cardboard pieces to overlap, going slightly bigger with every flap (or use an existing one). The Window on the first page adds interest.
I made a pocket for inserting one or two photos (with one facing inwards) using regular, no-fuss plastic overlays from my local book store.
Make sure your holes are evenly spaced and that the binder-rings you've chose goes through the holes with ease.

Cover all the pages with matching papers.
I've kept it rather simple this time, and instead of using a lot of different papers with every page, I just used one and I've also used the same kinds of decoration for all the pages, to keep it looking harmonious.
I also added an envelope that I dressed up in prettier papers (because I didn't want it to get to bulky with embellishments, I decided to "embellish" with papers instead) , and one of the 3d-accents works as a great way of keeping that flap closed. Not to mention it's pretty!... ;)

The only thing you need to keep in mind is to make sure you're getting the papers to line up properly. You'll have to cut them differently depending on which way you intend it to be flipped open. (Believe me, I forget things like that. Luckily - ribbons are a great cover up for holes facing in the wrong direction... *grins*)

Now, what I've done is that I've pre-made this album for someone I don't even know. It's gonna travel down to South Africa and pause at an orphanage, before it'll be assigned to one of the girls there - and follow her when she gets adopted. I have no idea where it'll end up, so I've written texts and titles in English.
Hope both you all, and the future owners, like it!

Here's the shoppinglist:
Chipboard album (you can make your own, or buy one similar to mine here or here for instance. Those two can both be trimmed into the "waterfall effect" I have on mine.)
Patterned paper, coordinated. Mine are all from Scrap Within Reach and the beautiful line "Afternoon Tea Collection"
Calendar stamp from American Crafts
White Bazzill (and some green for the leaves)
Wire words "celebrate" from Making Memories
Chipboard fruits/berries etc My house by American Crafts
Flowers from "Teacer's Bouquet" by Imaginisce
Laura Ashley Pop-up stickers

Other items:
Alphas: no-name foam alpha, faux alpha-stickers (just type the word you want and print it. I usually press space between every letter to make sure there's room around the letters) and cut them into squares. To make them pop some more, I drew an outline with a pen.
Buttons, staples, lace and ribbon from my drawers.
Brown ink for the edges. Two brown and one black pen.
Home made pins. (Regular sewing needles with some pearls on them. I always add a drop of glue to the tip to make sure no one gets stung!)
Album rings

Kirs- Cinderella Album

Cinderella Album

by Kirs de Ven-Smit

SUPPLIES
4 x acrylic circle, 6x paper scalloped circles
1 cardstock 24 x 8 cm or photos
1 x die cut Fancy Pants Designs #685
1/3 x Fancy Pants Designs
2 x Bazzil Chips, 2 x die cut round
2 x felt flowers Creative Imaginations
2 x Imaginisce Royal Jewels # 000941
1 x Heidi Swapp Crowns # HS64233
2 x flowers Prima Marketing Inc. Belle Fleur Primose # 523664
2 x brads jewels
2 x felt butterfly Heidi Swapp # HS64363
3 x heartfelt KI Memories # 2578
2 x flowers Creative Imaginations Princess Posies #000933
2 x flowers Prima Marketing Inc. Floral Embellishments #516314
3 x Jewels Doodlebug Design Inc. Cupcake
0,3 mtr felt ribbon flowers Queen & Co green
0,3 mtr felt ribbon flowers Queen & Co pink
1 x tag

HOW TO

For the wheels: take 2 chipboard Bazzill chips, paint them white and use a different color for the edges. Take 2 die-cut circles and embellish them with glitter gel. Let them dry.
Take 3 clear circles and adhere scalloped circles.
for the picture frames (when you don’t have photo’s) cut 3 pieces of 8 x 6 cm.
adhere those to the right pages of the album. Embellish the pages with felt ribbon.
embellish every left page of the album with the Fancy Pants die cuts.
for the front of the album: trace the pattern with the permantent marker.
use a piece of the felt ribbon and adhere to the front of the album.
make door and glue this in the middle of the album
use 2 Royal jewels and adhere them to the front of the album.
place the crown on the door.
for the wheels: adhere the chipboard chips in the middle of the diecut circles. Punch a hole in the middle and adhere the Creative Imaginations felt flowers.
Trace the diecut circles on paper and cut them out. Adhere the circles with the felt flowers on the front of the album and the paper circles on the back, on top of the circles on the front.
if you like, you can use a white permanent marker to make dots around the edges of the clear circles.

Kirs- Making Memories

Olivier's File

by Kirs de ven-Smit

SUPPLIES
Making Memories - Just Chillin-
4" x 8" Spiral Bound Notebook Just Chillin Boy
paper Just Chillin Boy flocked camo - checker
Alphabet Stickers : Passport Canvas Alphas
chipboard shapes
ink Memories TM Brown
Making Memories Paint espresso
cricut - cartridge Base Camp
fineliner brown
cardstock brown
cardstock kraft
rope

HOW TO
For the pages of the minibook: cut kraft cardstock 15 cm by 20 cm. Take the papers from a spiral bound notebook, adhere them on the cardstock and distress them with ink for the older effect. Do the same on the cover with the flocked camo paper.
For the subsurface with the Olivier's alphabet, I have used paper packaging from the alphabet stickers. It has a nice wood effect that you can recycle it. Punch holes along the edges and thread a rope through them.
Edit them further with old pieces of paper and die-cuts made with sponge. Letters are made by the cricut and finishing with the fineliner.
The pages are bound with a rope, so you get a tough look.

Mireille- They Fill My Heart

They Fill My Heart
by Mireille Divjak

SUPPLIES
Mini Album: Creative Imaginations Bare Elements - beverly
Patterned Paper: Basic Grey - Bittersweet collection
Pen: American Crafts + Sakura
Alpha's: American Crafts
Dimensional Pearls: Ranger
Heart shaped Mirror: Heidi Swapp
Stamp: Prima Marketing Inc.
Ink : Colorbox and Archival
Fiscar punch
Pearls: Kaiser Craft
small flower punch
Bind it all
Paper lace: Creative Imaginations
mini alphabet: Carolee's Creations

HOW TO

I used the same layout for each page.
I separated all the hearts in the album.
because my mini albums are bulky most of the time I figured the bind it all would give it a little more space
I traced all the hearts on the patterned paper
cut the hearts on 1/3 of the heart.. and matched the pages (the small part on the right page goes with the large part of the heart on the left page
I created borders with the fiscar border punch and filled the holes with dimensional pearls
I used bazzill stitch templates.. punched holes in the paper and traced it first with a black pen( galaxy marker) and then with a white sakura.
The hearts were traced with the Heidi Swapp Mirror's used as a template
I stamped a little image on the heart shaped mirror on the cover.

Carole- **KAISERCRAFT**

On this Christmas Eve, we have two KaiserCraft projects from Carole. First is a project made mostly with Cctober Afternoon and American Crafts products. This is an album with lot of texture and material; papers of course but also fabrics, foams, vinyl, chipboards, felt and wood also.

Play

by Carole Maurin

SUPPLIES

Wood mini album: KaiserCraft

Papers: Cctober Afternoon

Die cuts: October Afternoon, Jenni Bowlin Studio

Felt: Prima

Clip: Making Memories

Chipboard: American Crafts

Vinyl alphabet and embellishments: American Crafts

Foam Embellishements: American Crafts

Stamps: October Afternoon, Hampton Arts

buttons, ribbons

HOW TO

Use one page as a template, then cut another template using this one a little bit smaller than the original. Use it to cut all your pages in the October Afternoon papers. Ink all theses pages in black. Decorate all pages with pictures, die cuts, stamps and foam, vinyl, felt and chipboard embellishements. Just play with texture. Add some ribbons to the rings.

"Excursion"
by Carole Maurin

SUPPLIES
Acrylic Transparent mini album: KaiserCraft
Rub on: Making Memories, Hambly Screen Prints

HOW TO
This is such a simple album, very quick to do. The main idea is to keep most of the transparency so all the pictures are adhered under one another on each side of the page. Just decorate all the pages with one or two rub ons: hambly's one are perfect because they are colored on both sides.

Kirs- **KAISERCRAFT**

The Family Mini

by Kirs de ven-Smit

SUPPLIES
Paper: Imaginisce-Twitterpatted collection: Lady Bug Ball - Hey Foxy -Critter Chatter .
Also from Imaginisce: clear stamps - rub-ons - foxy's flowers - ribbon - bumble brads
Album : Flip album Kaiser Craft

HOW TO
I've worked with this album all the above products. The die cuts are created with the Slice from Making Memories. Many scrap fun!

Emma- **MY MIND'S EYE**

My Mind's Eye Clipboard
by Emma Trout

SUPPLIES
Clipboard- Creative Imaginations
Patterned papers- My Minds Eye (29th Market Street Fresh Brothers) - Playground stripe/ Sidewalk Chalk Paper and Vine Scroll/ Grass green paper
(Wild Asparagus “Brothers”) Polka dot/ Light blue paper and Stripe/ Orange paper.
Tags and transparencies - My Minds Eye
Big Bite
Acrylic paint, bubble wrap, ribbons, gems, mesh fabric, corrugated card, flat back pearls, craft wire, book rings and eyelets.

HOW TO
Cover the front of the clipboard then trim and ink the edges the edges
Cut four rectangles from the paper (reverse side) and arrange on the clipboard so they overlap each other. Mark the position of the book rings and cut appropriate holes in the clipboard and pages with the Big Bite. Set eyelets into the holes.
Make up ‘mini layouts’ on each page. I used cut and torn strips of patterned paper, corrugated card, ink, ribbons, gems, pearls, transparencies and tags. Use the same techniques on the clipboard.
*Tip* you can cut the tags to make smaller tags or even use the lettering to make new titles.
Assemble the pages and clip together on the clipboard with the book rings. I also used lined paper on the reverse of each page and added journaling. You can now add a stand to the back ( take one off an old photo frame), use an easel etc or add two more holes to the top and use thread to hang it on the wall.

Fanny- Promotion 2006/2007

We have another teacher on our team of designers. Today, Fanny made a piano hinge mini book out of cardstock and color pencils. She used photos of her pupils for this gorgeous themed mini.

Promotion 2006/2007

by Fanny Delobel

SUPPLIES

Papers: Bazzill (black, yellow, red, pink, green), Scenic Route- Appleton "Scrap Strip, Fifth Street, Third Street, Second Street"
Glitter: Stickles Gold
Glossy Accents
Miscellaneous: cork, stamp (handwriting text), dymo ribbon, alpha chipboards, brown ink, 6 color pencils, cord, black pen (posca)

HOW TO
My album is made with 24 photos, but you can use less if you want. Cut 12 strips of Bazzill papers 21 cm x 11 cm. Fold them in half to made 24 folded sheets (10,5 cm x 11cm).
Put two folded sheets together and mark on the fold every 1 cm. Cut out notches on the folded edges.
You now have 11 tabs down the 'spine' of the page. Starting with the top tab, fold every other tab forward. Repeat for all sheets.
Using one of the color pencils and 2 sheets, weave through tab 1 on the first sheet, then through tab 2 on the second sheet, then through tab 3 on the first sheet, then through tab 4 on the second sheet, and so on.
Continue in this manner until you have all pages connected.
Wrap fiber or little cord through top set of color pencils and add dabs of glossy accents occasionally.
Adhere papers on the cover. Ink all papers. Add glitter and Dymo tape.
Add cork cover and adhere photos.

Fanny- Birthday Mini Album **KI MEMORIES**

"Birthday Mini Album"

by Fanny Delobel

MATERIALS
Album: Plexiglass for pages, used CD, and chipboard pages
Photos
Patterned Paper: KI Memories Love, Elsie (Collections: Lola, Claire, Noel)
Lace Cardstock: KI Memories Tulips Surreal
Rub-ons: KI Memories Love, Elsie- Lola, KI Memories Glitter Rub-ons- Bloom Icons, Fancy Pants- Celebrate
Alpha: KI Memories Love, Elsie rub-ons (DAISY SPEAK)
Paint: Ranger Paint Dabbers- Pool
black and white gel pens.
Posca White Pen
Glitter: Stickles- gold, lime green and waterfall
Bind-it-all and pink wire


HOW TO
Pick photos from an event, like a birthday for example.
Choose your papers and embellissments.
For the cover, I used a cardboard plate we use for the cake base. It is decorated with Love, Elsie papers and rub-ons. Add some glitter (little dots along pink paper and a line along scalloped edge).
For the title I used Alpha rub-ons and letters cut from Love, Elsie Paper.
For each page of this mini album, you will use a standard size photo, Love,Elsie papers and rub-ons.

The most difficult thing is to be cautionary as to where you place papers and embellishments on each side of your page. Don't forget that we can see everything you add on the other side since it is a clear album. You can use paint (like me) to hide some parts of your pages .
Distress papers and embellishments and add some glossy accents on details (flowers, hearts, birds, etc). Add glitter for added dimension.
You can add other sized pages or use CD!
Use 3D foam to adhere your journaling (written on strips of paper).
And finally take your 'bind-it-all machine' and bind your mini album.

Add ribbons on the wire. I also added a little toy, a beautiful little rabbit because my daughter love rabbits!