Hey everyone, I’m super excited to share a mini-album with
you today using the For the Record Collection! The album structure itself is
very easy to make: it’s just a front cover, covered in patterned paper and then
little patterned paper pages inside with lots of photos and embellishments
added!
The album documents a day out with my little boy – he has
been learning about the Great Fire of London 1666 at school, and has been
totally captivated by the subject, so we went on a little adventure to London
to visit the Monument and climb all 311 steps up to the top (phew, that was a
struggle!!), and then to visit Pudding Lane. There are also some photos in
there of a model he made of the fire too. There was never going to be a themed
collection about the Great Fire of London, lol, so I’d been looking to use
something quite generic with bold colours in it to document these photos – and For
the Record was PERFECT!
I started off with the outer cover, which I just cut from a
piece of white card. I then covered it with the gorgeous bold colourful striped
paper on the outside. I then covered the inside with yellow patterned paper.
I cut my pages mostly from the 6x8 paper pad. I layered
these inside each other to create two little booklets. I then placed these in
the spine and machine stitched them in place for a really firm hold. My machine
stitching then showed through on the outside edge of the spine, so I just
covered it up using another strip of the same striped paper.
Then I started decorating! I used a title from the Foam
Stickers on the front cover ‘happy together’ together with some Journaling
Bits, Floral Bits and Chipboard. I also added a piece of ribbon around the
outside of the whole album so I could tie it closed.
On the inside of the front and back covers, I used larger
Journaling Bits and pieces cut from the Journaling Elements patterned paper. Of
course I also added lots more pretty Bits: Bits & Pieces, Floral Bits, and
some Decorative Brads and Cardstock Stickers.
For my internal pages, at only 3x3” I could only use small
embellishments, especially as I had 26 photos to fit in too! I utilised all the
small pieces from the Cardstock Stickers, Floral Bits, Journaling Bits, Bits
& Pieces and Sentiment Bits. I also used lots of Decorative Brads throughout
the album and a few Foam Stickers too.
Those little tags from the 6x8 paper pads are an excellent
size for mini albums! I used a few of these which I tied through with various
different ribbons. I used some of these just for decoration but some I used to
add journaling too.
I made some of the pages interactive: there are two pocket
pages, one concertina fold out page and two flip-out pages. I love having
interactive elements in my mini albums. Some of the pages are for photos, some
are just for journaling and some are just decorative. It’s great to have a
mixture throughout!
I absolutely loved making this project, it was so fun to
make and the For the Record collection was perfect and so easy to create with!
I hope you have enjoyed reading about it too.
Happy scrapping
Niki xx
@nikiclairecreates
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