Mini MiniBooks: Holiday Edition

I made a few more of the Mini MiniBooks using Holiday scrapbooking papers. I have a bunch of vintage Christmas cards and children's books (damaged, but some pages were salvageable!), and included those in each of the books :) Super easy to make yourself - think old Christmas cards, or wrapping paper adhered to cardstock, a couple sheets of Christmas-y paper, and cardstock and you'll have a lovely little book to jot holiday notes and memories in. These are also available in my shop. 

vacation travel journal

We are on a family vacation this week in the Outer Banks, NC :) I threw this little travel journal together last minute (as in, the morning we left... yes, I like to plan ahead. Ha! ;)) and am using it to document our trip. As usual, I am journaling throughout the trip and will fill it with pictures when we return and I am able to have them printed.

For the cover, I used a vintage map of the North Carolina coast (that shows the Outer Banks where we are!), vintage ledger, some Studio Calico paper and foam letters and paper from the packaging. Inside is solid colored cardstock, a lot of paper from Studio Calico's new line "Atlantic" and some other papers. 

I love, love, love making and using travel journals (like this one and this one from past trips). So fun to look back through after the vacation or trip is over :)

paper scrapping

I have a ton of paper scraps all over the place in my workspace. Leftovers from other projects that  are still perfectly usable, just not big enough for journal pages, etc. I've been working on a few Everyday journals. And the covers. Oh, the covers (which I've said before), are the hardest part ;) Well. I had been thinking about how I could use up all of these scraps in my scrapbox(es)..... How could I incorporate them into the cover? How about a collage?! Yes! :) So I started with a 4"x6" base piece of paper and started stacking scraps (and some doilies and tags ;)) on top. Sewed them on there and voila! Some fun new journals covers. Now to punch holes and add them to the journals. Yay for using up scraps :)

a wedding book

I recently had the opportunity to create another wedding book for a sweet bride and groom :) They are using this book as a scrapbook from their special day - their wedding was full of lots of yellow, colors, and skeleton keys! Looking through their wedding pictures, I loved how they incorporated the skeleton keys into their welcome bags for guests (gorgeous yummy-looking cookies in the shape of keys!), wedding favors, and other details from the day. I knew I needed to incorporate a key into the book and was glad to have found this antique key to use on the front :)

I also found some paper that had skeleton keys all over it :) So I used that with a bunch of other colorful papers for the inside pages. I left all of the pages blank, but included lined and blank white pages for them to put where needed in the book as they are filling it up.  I'm super happy with how it turned out and am excited they will be documenting their wedding with lots of pictures and lots of journaling :)

Thank you Jen and Rick for letting me create a wedding book 

to help document your special day :)

New in Shop: Garden Party and Lovely Days Journals

The new journals from the giveaway are now in my shop :) 

Lovely Days - a lovely assortment of colors - lavender, aquamarine, and vintage pages. Thanks Andrea!

And Garden Party - green, red, yellow, coral and brown. Thanks Jean!

Lovely Days and Garden Party: Journal Winners!

Ya'll are awesome. Thank you SO much for your input and ideas for new journals. SO much :) I LOVED each and every one of them and will definitely be putting more together per your suggestions in the near future. Two journals that really stuck out to me were "Lovely Days" and "Garden Party". So thanks and congrats to Jean and Andrea! I will be emailing you soon. Here are a few sneak peaks at some idea boards for the new journals. Thanks everyone - so, so much. I really appreciate you all :)

Lovely Days - Lavender, aquamarine, and vintage book pages

Garden Party - Green, yellow, red, coral, and brown

My apologies for the delay in posting the winners - mild sickness entered our home late last week but all is well now :)

a wedding book

I recently had the privilege to put together this custom wedding book for a person whose bestest friend is getting married at the end of this month. How sweet and thoughtful that she wanted to have a guest book made for her friend! I thoroughly enjoyed working on it and am super happy with how it turned out :)

New in Shop: Everyday Journals and Embellishment Packs

Everyday Mixed Paper Art Journals as well as new Embellishment Packs are now in the shop. 

The journal is a delightful 4"x6" mixed paper journal ready to record memories, details and thoughts. It is packed full of fun and unique pages - 40 to be exact! The embellisment pack is a fun little collection of odds and ends - perfect to accompany the Everyday Journal, or perfect to decorate your scrapbook pages, mini albums or Project Life pages :)

new in shop: autumn journal kits

Autumn Journal Kits are now in the shop :) Grab one and document the approaching season :)

Beach Mini Album: Complete

I finished up my mini album from our beach getaway this past weekend. Complete with a sand confetti window (which I sewed around 3 or 4 times to keep all the sand in ;) So far it's working well!). I didn't really journal in the album while we were there, but rather wrote down thoughts and such and then transferred them in with the pictures once we got home. I was happy to do it this way, it helped it flow really well and I could organize the pages how I wanted them once the pictures were printed.

*I am putting together a few basic albums similar to this one. They will be available in my shop before this Friday.