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Published by Shai | Filed under General Creativity
Ever since I got a hold of the Zutter Bind-It-All machine, I just fell in love with making my own books, journals and albums. This one is one of my first experiments - an album for my son. It’s a 6×6 album. I used white chipboard (pre-made by Zutter) as covers. It’s coil-bound (via the Zutter machine) with 3/4in. black o-wire.
One cool thing about mini books is that they can be really simple to do. And, it doesn’t take long to complete a project.
You see, one of the things that continue to stop me to scrapbook more often is the daunting idea of filling 12×12 layouts and filling up 20 page albums. Scrapbooking with mini books changed that.
One of the things that I like about creating mini books is that I’m also able to vary the pages a lot. I can use different sizes, shapes, textures… I love being able to use all sorts of labels, tabs, tags and other goodies.
Other materials used here include: acrylic paint, ephemera, buttons, patterned papers, cardstock, stickers, stamps, scrapbooking pen.
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