Deck the Halls Mini Books

Another set of Mini Books! These things are so darn cute. I decided these counted as a scrapbooking project and this is what we made for club in November. And of course, I had to use some of that yummy Deck the Halls paper...which I am almost out of! See, I can reach my goals of not hoarding! If I have learned anything, it is that there is always something new that I will love just as much, so use it while it is current.
We made these in 3 colors, so I didn't use up my whole stash of any one color.

 Cherry Cobbler

Always Artichoke

Crumb Cake with Very Vanilla ribbon

• Stamps: Serene Snowflakes
• Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake, deck the Halls DSP
• Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake
• Other: Corner Rounder punch,  ½" Seam Binding ribbon in Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke,and Very Vanilla, paper cutter with scoring blade, Velcro dots

1. Start with a 12x12 piece of cardstock. Cut into four 2¾" strips. 
2. Cut one down to 11" 
3. Score the three 12" pieces at 3", 6", and 9". Accordion fold and adhere into one long strip. These are the book pages.
4. Score the 11" piece at 3",3½", 6½", 7", and 9" and fold all in the same direction. This is the book cover.
5. Stamp on one side of each piece.
6. On the cover, fold the 2" section over and adhere down. This creates a reinforced flap. Round the corners. 
7. Finish decorating as desired.
8. Adhere the accordian folds to form the pages, leaving about 1" free of adhesive at the book binding edge. 
9. Adhere the first and last pages, which are single layer, to the 3" section of the book cover. 
10. Stick the Velcro pieces to each other, apply to the flap, then close the flap to adhere to the other side. Doing it this way ensures that the 2 pieces will always line up the first time :)

All done! I didn't have any Velcro when I took this picture, but I do now, 3 boxes of it! I actually cut the dots in half for most projects.

And the inside of the Crumb Cake book. Can't you just imagine these filled with pictures of your kids to give to grandparents, aunts, and uncles?! I know I can :)

Animal Stories Mini Album & Tin

This is another of the projects that we did for December stamp club. It would make a great gift for any family member to fill with photos of their own dear ones, or with photos of yours The tins ( #108333) are on sale on the Clearance Rack on my demo site for 99 cents while supplies last!

• Stamps: Animal Stories
• Paper: Old Olive and Chocolate Chip textured card stock, So Saffron, Tall Tales designer series paper
• Ink: So Saffron, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive
• Other: paper cutter with scoring blade, bone folder, Sticky Strip, Signo white gel pen, So Saffron 5/8″ grosgrain ribbon, corner rounder punch

1. From a 12×12 piece of Choc Chip cardstock, cut two 5″ x 12″ strips. Then take the 2″ x 12″ scrap and cut off a 4″ strip, then cut down to 1″ x 4″.
2. Score the 5″ x12″ strips at 4″ and 8″ and accordian fold. Then overlap 2 sections and adhere with Sticky Strip. This forms a 5 section long mini album.
3. Use the corner rounder punch on all corners.
4. Decorate mini album as desired with strips of designer series paper.
5. Use white gel pen to create faux stitching on each section.
6. Take a 4″ x 5″ piece of Old Olive and use corner rounder punch on each corner.  Stamp with the elephant in Old Olive randomly.
7. Cut out a 1″ x 4″ piece of So Saffron card stock. Stamp with the whale randomly with So Saffron.
8. Stamp the Choc Chip 1″ x 4″ strip with the owl randomly in Choc Chip.
9. Adhere to the Old Olive card stock as shown.
10. Use the white gel pen to create the faux stitching.
11. Ink edges of Old Olive with Choc Chip.
12. Adhere to lid of tin with Sticky Strip.
13. Cut a 5″ piece of ribbon, fold in half andadhere ends together with sticky strip.  Put more Sticky strip on on end on the “outside”. Adhere to inside of the lid as picture to create a handle to open the tin with.

All done!

Please leave me a comment to let me know what you think! And if you make your own, please leave a comment and link to yours so we can see it too