new years eve mini

we started a new tradition last year with our kids of having a fancy dinner party with them to the ring in the new year, complete with the pretty dresses, a photo booth and crowns and horns!
i used my fuji instax mini camera to capture the fun. after new years eve i found a cute wallet at wal mart and decided i could make a scrapbook of some sort with it.
so i cut out the inside wallet part and cut paper to fit, accordion folded it and glued it together and into the wallet. after that i just added my pictures and embellishments. i love how it turned out and its fun and purse sized!

 

products used
epiphany round 25 tool and bubble caps
epiphany pennet tool
epiphany heart 25 tool and bubble caps
epiphany chevron tool and bubble caps
heidi swapp favorite things collection and dreamy, stamps, embellishments, stickers
pink paislee hello sunshine alphabet
misc. ribbon and trim, sequins
stickles
happy new year hope something inspired you!

wedded bliss album

 if you read my blog (which is amazing since its way inconsistent!) you know i love heidi swapp! as a photographer i obviously love taking pictures and capturing memories, scrapbooking gives me an even more creative way to display those memories and make them a little bit more of a treasure! so when my sis- in-law's birthday was coming and i didn't know what to get her my brother suggested a picture or something. luckily i photographed their wedding last year and had several hundred pictures to choose from and heidi swapp came out with a re-release of some fave products and a few new ones at michaels...so brilliant idea, m,ake her a wedding scrapbook! off to michales and to sams club (for the prints) and a couple hours later i have  a great gift customized with heidi swapp color shine in tinsel and mustard (which were also the wedding colors!) and some other papers and fun embellishments and i put 60 pictures in it!

 

 

 

 

 i tend to just print my faves and choose which to use along the way when i create...but i didn't know what to do with a few left over pictures that i still loved so i put them i a pocket hot glued to the back inside cover of the album.

i love how it turned out....if i had a little more time i would have added more stuff and journaling but i ran out of time!

thanks heidi swapp for always having amazing products and inspiration!

sew paper!

so i made 3 of these albums in a week! they are addictive!
there are pages and pockets,and ribbon trim, oh my! they were so fun to put together.
i picked paper and sewed them right sides out along the top and bottom, folded them, in half and then opened it and zig zag stitched up the center...and tada, a book!
i made pages that pulled out if the pockets for hidden journaling or more pictures.
this one is from a baby belly session i did, and then i left half the book empty for them to add pictures of the new baby!
i used anna griffin paper and embellishments, house of 3 papers and some other random pretty things in my stash, and lots of ribbon!
the other two i made were a baby book one that was completely blank and a wedding gift one for documenting a couples first year!