Album Tutorial

Hey..Here is a little tutorial I have posted on the MAA Blog...

You should seriously check out the blog regularly for the AWESOME tutorials from the other amazing girls!

Creating An Awesome Album With "Left-Overs"!

If you are like me, you have leftover bits and pieces of your acrylic albums hanging around...I always save a page or two out of my albums,and they definitely come in handy later!

Here is the formula to making an awesome album of leftovers!

Grab up whatever leftover acrylic pages you have on hand....I happened to have 2 sheets of 8x8, 2 sheets of 6x6, and two 6x6 tabbed pages...I ended up choosing the four 6x6 pages...

Then, to supplement extra pages, I used four 6x6 squares of patterned Overlays.  (2 of each pattern)

Once I decided the order I wanted my pages to go, (Mine is: Acrylic, Overlay, Acrylic, Overlay etc...) I decided on a theme.  I wanted to make my album a travel journal documenting my trip to CHA this past summer, so I chose travel themed papers and embellishments from American Crafts.

I cut 6x6 squares of my travel themed paper to supplement my album as well...to bind it, I used blue binding rings I found at target...

For the journaling, I decided I wanted to give my album a very structured, more uniformed look, so I typed all my journaling and adhered it to the right side pages of the album.  Each journaling block represents a different topic in the album.

Inside my album I added ephemera and souvenirs from my trip including buttons from the show, the hotel key from my hotel room, my show badges and my plane ticket!

Here is my final result:

CHA Summer '08                                                                                                                 

By Emily Jones

I hope you all are inspired to dig through your stash and create a "leftover" album of your own!

-E

Comments

[Michelle M.]

Ok, I have not seen that pic of me. But it looks sooo funny. It made me crack up all over again. I will kill you if you show the other bad ones. hehehehehee. It looks great I still have to do mine from summer and winter. :(

[Kimmi Achord]

I LOOOVe this EM! I still havent finished mine. I need to put it all togehter!! LOve ya!! -K

[Alison]

What a cute book and a great way to use up leftovers and turn them into something wonderful to keep!

[Michelle]

LOVE your CHA book! That is the cutest one I have seen! SUPER CUTE

[Susanna]

Emily, this book is AWESOME! I just loved it. I'm seriously toying with the idea of going to Winter CHA -- you're inspiring me with your pictures :D

You were the Runner Up Mini-Book of the Week at Card of the Week.com. You can see the original post here: http://www.cardoftheweek.com/2008/11/scrapbook-satur.html.

I did use a picture from your post, with links back to the site and the original post. I hope that is OK. Please feel free to email me if you need me to change anything.

I also have an “I was featured” on badge for you if you want it :D

[Heather Prins]

Hi Emily!!! Love your CHA album! I actually met you when I was there, I was with Jenn Emch (you guys were both finalists for chatterbox at the time)! I am just working on my little album!!