It’s a mini fan out album using the camera element from Happy Snapper digital kit.

Size: approximately 2 x 1.5″

Digital Kit: Happy Snapper by Captivated Visions. This kit was included in August The Digi Files from TheDailyDigi.com.

Tutorial was for August Playbook.

My son took gazillion photos of his hermit crabs, Mr. Stik and Jimmy to celebrate their birthdays and demanded that I printed all of them out. Yeah right! Not happening. So, I selected few of my favorite photos, and printed all in a 11 x 8.5 River Linen paper from Red River Paper and made a tiny album. It was a hit! He loved it and was showing it off to his friends. He thanked me many times.

Create the clipping masks using the camera element (in Photoshop, select the whole image by Control/Command + click on the layer. Create a new layer. Fill in the color). Multiplicate(?) the masks in separate layers and clip the photos. Make sure to have one mask flip horizontally for the back page.

Cut all the pages with scissors.

Glue the last image to the reverse side of the back cover page.

Make a hole on the pages. Take out the handle from the binder clip and add the album pages (add few pages at a time).

Add clear circle sticker on the lense.

We bought both hermit crabs two months ago. Mr. Stik from Outer Bank, NC, and Jimmy from a local PetSmart store. Jimmy was more active and friendly one. He even survived a fall from a dining room table after this photo shoot in July.

He died today. *sniff* *sniff*

My daughter is starting school tomorrow and my son will on Monday. I can’t believe the summer vacation is over already! How am I going to wake up early from now on!!! Hehe.

During the break, I wanted to take photos everyday, but I kept forgetting to take photos a lot of times. So, I gave up on day 75 (89 days of summer vacation). I was getting tired of taking photos of the same stuff over and over again and didn’t see the point of photo journalling. I want to try it again in the future though. Perhaps, I’ll have a better idea to take photos of ordinary things in different perspective.

This 4.75 x 4.75 handmade album was created with July The Digi File from TheDailyDigi.com. And the tutorial was for July Playbook.

Cover.
Digital paper (white polka dot on black) from AUDacious designs “fresh” kit (from July The Digi File).
“Summer” was hand written by me (gasp!!!) using a Wacom pen tool to copy the letter style from Emily’s Hybrid@Home 5, 31 Day Calendar Layered Template (This is no longer available.)
“2010″ from the template (Combined 20 and 10) and recolored.

The template came in 4.75 x 4.75, so I created 9.5 x 9.5 document for two side-by-side layouts to print on 12×12 paper.

Score, cut, and fold in the middle.

Using double sided adhesive sheet and attach all the pages. Use brayer to smooth out the surface.

Measure the spine.

Make the cover. Score and fold the spine, and don’t forget to score a line on the back cover (1.25″ spacing on my sample. I think .75″ would’ve worked better). This will prevent the book from warping when you open it up. Look at children’s board books for reference.

Inside the back cover, attach the double side adhesive sheet, make sure not to add the adhesive on the extra score space.

Finished spine.

The book opens flat (Lay-flat binding).

Hi there!

Here I used the album inserts (version 2) from the Mini Album Stand with A Drawer template to create this rolodex style album (Couldn’t really find a good name for this project, heehee)

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First, the winners for my giveaways…

Cristina won $10 gift certificate to Kelleigh Ratzlaff Designs.

Adriana won two hybrid templates from my store.

THANK YOU ALL!!!

I’m also giving my templates to Corinne because she was the first one to congratulate me on my post (heehee), AND she sent me $50 gift certificate to Red River Paper. Because she wanted to pay me for de-cluttering MY crafting room. Heehee. THANK YOU Corinne!

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Here is the basic assembly for the Mini Album Stand with a Drawer template.

This is the album stand. Print, score, cut, and fold.

After putting it together (good thing I didn’t use the strong adhesive), I decided to decorate it with some eyelets.

Mark the holes where the eyelets will go in.

Open it up. Punch the holes out.

Put eyelets to decorate.

Print, score, cut, and fold the album covers. Small one goes on the front. The one on the bottom goes in the side (if you decide to make an album instead of a box).

This is the version 1 for the album inserts.

(TIF file comes with layered masks for you to drop digital papers/elements and photos)

Put the adhesive on the side panels and attach the album inserts.

This is for using one strip of album insert.

Glue the end panels together to connect multiple inserts.

Tada~

Attach it to the album cover.

If you want to glue the inserts to the spine…

Stretch the spine with a bone folder or a pen by holding the one end of paper and with a bone folder rub/stretch on the spine. This way, you won’t get hard crease when you open the album.

Pull the inserts out, and apply the glue on the spine. Use the glue that dries clear and FLEXIBLE.

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This is the album inserts version 2. It has the tabs for glueing.

Attach it to the album cover.

To connect multiple inserts, fold the tab, and align with another insert to glue together.

Attach it to the album. You can glue the spine like the insert version 1.

Tada~

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And to make the rolodex style album…

Attach the version two inserts together without the album cover.

Bunch/fold it together and apply the glue inside the ring.

Add a pencil and roll it around so the glue will get on the pencil as well.

Hold it while the glue dries. About 300 hours!

Just kidding! Heehee.

Put the ribbons around while the glue dries. Space out the panels to equal distance.

Of course, add the photos on the insert panels before assembling it. =)

Thank you~~

First of all, I want to thank everybody who loved The Greeting Farm Carnival projects I made and voted for my team! THANK YOU!!! We made to the final round! Yay!!! THANK YOU!

Danielle Young created another beautiful digital kit, Blessed Blooms and it is available exclusively at The Daily Scrapper! I love the flower elements in this kit, I wanted to emphasize it on my project.

I printed many many flower elements (all same size), cut, distressed, and skewered it on a florist wire (used glue to attach) to create the flower. Added a white pom pom and few beads as well.

Album is about 2.5 x 2.5.

I bent the wire and put in the album to create a different look on the album stand.

And I even made a box to slide in on the side. This mini album with a box template will be available on May 1st. I’m opening my shop! Heehee.

Thank you!