Record Album Tutorial

For the music lovers we have a Record Album Mini Scrapbook tutorial that was written for us by Megan Anderson from The Nerd Nes This very hip and trendy mini book is made from a couple of 45" records that you can pick up cheap from thrift stores and the like, you may have some in storage waiting for you to upcycle and create something fabulous. Well now is your chance.
You will find the half record that Megan also makes on her blog so be sure to head over and check it out.

Tutorial Mini Álbum Pétalos

All the way from Buenos Aires we have a flower shaped mini album tutorial by Fernanda. The tutorial is in the form of a 2 part word document (you will find the links at the bottom of the post) Each page of the mini album is in the form of a petal and when assembled it opens up to make a pretty flower.
The tutorial includes a template for the petals, template for the different accents used and instructions. Now these instructions are written in Spanish but the pictures give you a general idea of what you should be doing.

Fall mini album kit

Here's a Fall 2009 Mini Album Class/Kit-In-The-Mail from Creativity With Stamps. It is a nice album that can hold all your autumn photos an journaling. HAPPY FALL and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Pink Mini Albums for a Cause

Now this is truly an awesome way to get behind a good cause and also score a fabulous Pink Mini Album.
This is a 4x6 gate fold mini album that Joy Nieva has made to raise funds through a Silent Auction hosted by Laura of Following The Paper Trail.
All proceeds from this awesome initiative will go to the Susan G. Komen for a Cure Foundation through their Passionately Pink for a Cure event program. So be sure to pop over there for a visit, check out the minis up for grabs and Bid BIG!
The bidding place will be at Laura's blog site HERE and it will start on Oct. 31st and will end on Nov. 7 at 6 pm Pacific Time. I hope to see you in the auction and thank you! :)

To bid on Joys album go to this post

A Halloween Mummy Mini Book

Love this Mummy mini book that was designed by Karin Kreijen. She has posted a quick tutorial with the supplies and instructions at A Daily Inspitation Blog on how to make this cute little wrapped up mummy Halloween Mini Book so be sure to head on over to check it out!

love the halloween scrapbook and craft projects

How good is Halloween, all the crafty projects are amazing..... This mini accordion album by Jennifer is the cutest. Love all things vintage so this mini is a winner to me.


From left to right is an
Halloween Door Hanging signs
Vintage Altered Pumpkin tutorial
Tips to make Halloween photo frames
A Halloween mini titled "A mini book of crows"


The Peppermint Creative Blog has this tutorial to make some frankenbags. it contains a free printable that you can cut out for your party favors. And you can find adorable Monster Cards at Inking Pink to continue the theme if you like.

Make a coffin box like these ones by Laura for party favours, maybe a mini album, name places or invitations. You can find a printable coffin template at the About blog.



An altered Halloween Starbucks coffee holder thingy would be great for some candy gifts for your friends and family. Fill them up with candy or some spooky treats and toys, maybe some gloopy slime and dirt and stuff. eeewww......


Again from left to right there is a
Halloween altered house by the Gal Blog
Halloween tile pendants by Hopemore Studio
Hoo loves Halloween Altered Tin by Gypsy Mermaid
Voodoo Heart from Artist class

And finally i just have to post this picture of this Halloween Bed on FLickr... It is just too strange...

The 1,000,000 Giraffes Project

Have you all seen the 1,000,000 Giraffes project before? Ola helland has been challenged to collect 1,000,000 girraffes by 2011. draw a girafe, make a giraffe, alter a giraffe and get your giraffe over to the 1,000,000 Giraffes project.
At the moment he has 318 103 giraffes and needs a whole heap more.

What does this have to do with making mini scrapbooks you ask? Why, not much at all unless you plan on making a giraffe shaped mini and sending the pic over to Ola....

I figure some crafty ideas are...

• stamp a giraffe
• domino giraffe
• mini album shaped like a giraffe
• homemade giraffe ear rings
• giraffe die cuts
• giraffe scrap paper
• giraffe cards
• box of giraffes
• scrabble tile giraffe
• accordion giraffe.....

Share your ideas with us, and get your giraffe pics to Ola here

Halloween Paper Crafts

A sweet round up of very cool and very spooky halloween projects out and about starting with this cute Halloween Coffee Filter Treat Purse tutorial by Carolina. Perfect for holding all your Halloween goodies.
What about using your old novels to make these Paper Back Pumpkins over at The Craft Monkey.

Lyn shares her gorgeous Altered tin project.

Make your own Halloween Party Invitations with inspiration to make several kinds of invites including pocket invites and Spooky Coffin Invitations



For all you digi scrappers, here are some free Halloween Papers from Rusaane. You could use them to make these candy bar wrappers by Creative Memories.

Loving this Halloween Wall Art project by Out on a Whim Studio, would totally love to make one myself.

Art Freckles has a few October projects to share including this Shadow Box, a card, home made Halloween Candy Jar labels and some paper treat bags.

Check out these cute little

• wreathes here ,
  
• a hand painted and decorated candy bowl here,
  
• and a mini album by Laura here.

Finally I'll leave you with these oh so cute homemade pumpkin pencil toppers made with felt.There is a template that you can download to get you started.

Happy Halloween Crafting and send us your cool scrapbooking or crafting ideas.

A Non Scrapbook Mini Scrapbook!

Now what is that supposed to mean?!
Let's ask Lori from A Scrapmom's Musings if she can shed a little light...


This is a mini album created for a challenge on Scrapbooking and Crafting Friends (ning)in which the entire album had to be created from 'non-scrapbook related items'. In other words, nothing on it could be from a scrapping company. Everything had to be found objects, packaging, that sort of thing.

Lori's mini album was created from a photo album purchased at the dollar store with the photo pages removed. The papers are envies, cards, packaging, artwork, etc. Embellishment are all found items from the junk drawer, kids rooms, basement, garage, any where that you wouldn't expect to find items to use in a scrapbooking project.

Says Lori..
I have to admit, it was difficult at first, but once I got going, it was easy. The covering of the album is made out of worn out jeans. I acually used the pocket of the jeans to insert a clothing tag with the title "Zac" (recycled felt letters). The Wrangler tag is from a new pair of jeans--the '10' represents his age and "regular" represents that he's a typical boy! The pages in the book are created from chipboard (think cereal boxes and such) and covered with either envelopes, artwork or packaging and are kept together using old shoelaces.

This was a fun mini album and I suggest that everyone who loves mini's create one---see what you can find and create an album!

For more detailed info, please go to Lori's Blog

Making Plastic Bag Mini Scrapbooks

Now I know I tried making one of these a long time ago and I have probably already blogged about them here on SC but I had to post this tutorial to make a plastic bag mini book, or rather a mini book made from plastic bags (now i've confused myself) A great way to Upcycle.
So check out this youtube video tutorial.
In a nutshell you need 12 or more layers of plastic bag to make each page.
Iron the pages between some brown paper to make it all stick together and form a page. (you may want to experiment a little with this part - iron setting shouldn't be too hot)
Once you have your page you can paint them if you like then use them just like you would a chipboard page.
Pretty it up with pics and embellies, bind it and you're set.
Anyways, enjoy the vid.

FREE mini photo books with Vista.

Vistaprint are having a promotion for their new photobooks. They're usually around 9.95 each but for some reason the first one is free at the moment. Each mini includes 10 pages and is 4"x6" in size and sprial bound.

NEW! Get a FREE Photo Flip Book! A creative and memorable gift for family and friends!

Ceramic tile mini scrapbook

Just when I think I have seen every kind of mini album that can be possibly made, A mini album maker like Shallale Figaro goes and amazes me with a fresh new idea and think to myself..."now why didn't i think of that"

Now how gorgeous is this mini book? All the pretty colors and stamp designs... I want!

Shallale bought few squares ceramic tiles and decided to alter them for the cover of a minibook. All tiles are inked with alcohol ink then stamped with black staz-on and finally glazed with epoxy resin.

Go and have a look at more pictures of this very cool ceramic tile mini book. and if you are inspired to make one then be sure to let us know.

We have selected our lucky winners for our CropMom giveaway.
Congratulations to our two winners Char the mad shopper and Cheryl .
We have a CropMom gift on its way out to you.
Be sure to show us your CropMom creations.

My Cropmom Mini and giveaway

A few pictures of the Cropmom.com mini book that I made.

To find out more about how to make a mini book with cropmom check out our interview with Cropmoms owner Kathryn Balint.

Giveaway
Leave a comment here and tell us the most popular Cropmom Scrapbook Kit and you could win one of two packs of 10 credits to use at Cropmom.com. Giveaway ends 27 August, midnight.

To see the rest of my mini and my how to tutorial click here.

Cherry Pie Mini Scrapbook

I found this most awesome mini in our flickr group yesterday that I just had to share. Stacey from the Oh Scrap! blog has created this cute cherry pie mini scrapbook with digital scrappy stuff, pipe cleaners and godd ol creativityness which i swear looks good enough to eat (especially that cherry on top - made with a wooden bead and a piece of scrap leather)

I asked Stacey if she could share a little about how she made her mini and what inspired her and this is what she had to say...

My inspiration as always is my son. But the prompt 'Sweet' came from this great little contest blog called One Little Word. As soon as I saw the word sweet I thought of Sweet as Pie. Our (my family's) nickname is Pie... Piegirl, pieman and little baby pie :)

As soon as I thought of the idea the whole image appeared in my head - that I wanted to make the top of the pie a mini album and the base was just the pie plate. The base is a wooden box that I covered with the b/w pattern paper. I wanted to make the crust and the pipe cleaners just seem to work as it allowed it to be more flexible and added the bulk I needed. I have been blessed to have taken on my grandmother's thriftiness in making things out of unrelated items - so I am lucky that way. I also think living in a small town where you can't find all the craft supplies you want you must create your own.

Do you prefer making minis with digi kits to old fashioned papers? Would you make another?

I usually don't used digital papers all that often as I do have soooo much paper from the years of shopping and not creating. But none fit the cherry theme that I wanted and I found the digital kits. THis way I was able to have all the elements I love (buttons, flowers etc...) without the bulk....Make another??? Depends.... not sure...

Thanks a bunch Stacey for sharing this truly creative mini. If you want to see more pictures of this mini album then hop over to Staceys Sweet As Pie Blog Post