Mini Albums and Comments

This a 6" x 6" mini album that I made for Stitches using some papers from Origins, Basic Grey.

As Omar looooooves green so as soon as I had the idea of making a Origins mini album I decided making one with my favorite photos of him.

I only wrote a few lines because it was my intention to write quite a lot of stuff that I did not want to display for anyone to see.

This is the back of the book much less decorated, but still has got plenty of decorative elements. The journaling spots are from the Origins Writers Block set, as well as Pieces and Take Note, the very large one featured bellow.

I know this blog has got readers, quite a few actually according to the only measuring method I trust Google Analytics. Yet, I get very few comments. Maybe is my fault because I am not inviting enough, but please, leave comments!!!

My love for Mini albums - Part 3 of 3

Some of the pages have more elements than others. Like the one above has a bit of everything that has been incorporated on the mini album.

By the way, I love this photos that I took of the daughter of a friends of ours.

The last page on the other side has one more up photo. I just love IT!

As you can see the back of the gap page is completely covered with matching flowers. There is two reasons for that. Number one, it is much stronger with two layers of thick paper, Number two, it is as pretty on the front as is on the back.

The detail of the foiling, done with Sakura Quickie Glue Pen.

The ribbon is completely loose on the back, it is only attached on the front underneath the flower.

And that is the end of this little mini album. All the materials were available from Dawn Bibby's Design Studio.

My love for Mini albums - Part 2 of 3

The bit gilded in on the heart on the left hand side of the photo. Also I wanted to show how to use full 4 x 6" photos on little albums. this way needs a landscape photo, but there are other ways for portraits.

I used, of course, some edge punches to add decorative elements. The photo on the right is a pop up one.

You can see here how I did it. Since discovering this method, I have not look back. Could not do it the proper way!

This is the back of the album.

Tomorrow, part 3.

My love for Mini albums - Part 1 of 3

It is no secret that i love both Mini Albums and Basic Grey, actually, if I had to choose between all the paper companies out there, Basic Grey would be my top option. Likewise, if I had to choose between Cards, Big Layouts or Mini Albums I would most certainly choose the latter one. So, when I get to combine both loves, I am a happy designer.

This one of my favorite albums to date. I used the gorgeous Indian Summer collection -BG, of course. I designed this one for a workshop at Dawn Bibby's shop last November. Because I have a serious policy of never repeating my classes unless requested by the attendees, I always look for new elements that I can teach in my classes. So for this one, I incorporated the gap card technique on the first page, elements of gilding and pop up photos.

Because is a 4 x 4" album you need strips of 4 x 12" card, scored at every 4". When assembled together you get pages double layer of card so I decided to use the most of them by converting them into little pockets

This is how it looks closed.

Tomorrow Part 2.

Mini Album part 2

Here you have the second part of the mini album. Basically, the first couple of pages, or spread, are for Omar. Then, there is a page of Snowflakes and a spread of photos of me.


Then another snowflake page, then Wasabi has a couple of pages, one of only him -above- and then a spread with two photos, one with each of us.




And then "The Three of Us" spread, which is the last pages of the mini album.


This is the back of the mini album.

Mini Album

I did this as a part of a mini album class a few years back. To date, it is one of my favourites to do and teach.

All the snowflakes were done with the Cricut and the Basics cartridge that comes with the Expressions. The important thing is that they are all glued well together and any one of them is attached at least a two different points to the rest.

Inside, I just added some old Making Memories romantic tags and KI Memories sayings and just added photos. I used to love, as in major love, KI memories stuff. Then they went all Elsie and lost what attracted me to their product, I am not complaining as there are plenty of other option in the market and I do understand that as much as i do not like Elsie's stuff other people will love it.

Card Keeper

Out of all my articles I think this one is one of my top favourites, mainly because even though I made it to fit a brief sent by the editor of the magazine, it is very useful and not only decorative as most of the other articles stuff.

It was published a couple of years ago in Scrapbook Inspirations.

I used the Cricut Expressions to create the envelopes out of large sized card in increments of half an inch.

The pages inside were left quite plain as i like simplicity.

Mini albums with the SLICE

If you live in the UK or just have access to the internet you will see that QVC's TSV (Today's Special Value) is the Slice.


I helped Dawn to prepare some samples as die cutting is one of my specialties. One of those samples is this little accordion mini album that is decorated with shapes from the Basics 1 cartridge included when you get the machine.


I used some lovely double sided card and Making Memories Flower Patch papers.



And the pictures are some of my current favourites. They are the ones Omar and Itook of his brother Hassan and his fiance.

Another Mini Album

I am not sure if this one is finished as yet, but we will see what i come up tomorrow

CHA and Stitches

Oh, how I wish I was there! Every year is the same, I want to go, but never quite take the plunge and go. Actually, I do think that most of the time it is best that I don't go as some times it can mean massive craft overload.


So, I immerse myself into websites and blogs in search of what is new, and to be honest what we call new new there isn't much. There is however, yummy lines of papers and stamps which as soon as they are available to the public they will go straight into my shopping basket. That is if I can get my hands on them!
Actually, jokes asides, I have plenty of work here as I have to prepare for Stitches -the UK craft trade show- in which I will be demonstrating and teaching for Kars. It will the fourth edition of Stitches in which I will be working i a booth but the first time that I will be teaching one of the workshops, which is exciting and daunting at the same time! When I was asked to teach the class, I said yes because it is always a good experience to do things a little bit different, I am still very excited at the opportunity, but it takes a lot of work.


As soon as I finish more samples I will post them here. For now though, this is what I have done that I can show, all materials are from My Little Yellow Bycicle.

PS: I still don't have broadband, I am just using Omars mobile broadband that he uses all the time for his little ISUS, which is a great backup for occasions like this.

Mini Album

I did this mini album as a class a few months ago at Tresure Crafts using photos I took of my sister. Hopefully, Ananda (my sister) wont see that I posted it here!




I used paper from My Minds eye and Bind it all products, such as the clear cover and the plywood backcover.


As the pages I used pre-scored cards and envelopes.

After a working weekend

As I mentioned in the last post, I spent last weekend teaching in Dawn Bibby's Studio. I loved the experience, as it was the first time I was teaching there.


This is the mini album we did on the Friday.


On Sunday, Kirsty Wiseman and Esther came to visit Dawn, so I finally met Kirsty. I have been in love with her absolutely fabulous photos for a long while so to meet her in person was really nice. She is exactly as I thought she would be from reading her blog which was nice.