Mini album - seraphina

I made a little baby scrap-album for a dear friend's #4 baby girl: a little princess after 3 boys. It's such a joy!

lots of space to put photos and journal each and every little milestones.

Baby album : Jerome

Here's another baby mini album that I've made for a friend's baby...

These days, babies have everything they need. These little albums are perhaps a better keepsake and memory for them.

Baby album: Penny

My cousin-in-law had a new baby recently and I made her an album.

I've changed the format of the album.

After (almost) completing my son's 1 year album and making a few baby albums, I realized it can be quite challenging to put a photo monthly. 

Being a mum, I know, just how hard it is to remember to take a photo for each milestone so that you can stick in the baby album.

Hence, with this album, I've only put a few key pages (a) welcome baby (b) Dad (c) Mum (d) My family and the rest are pretty much "free-style" pages. 

No headers, some embellishments with or without photo mats and the freedom to put in photos for any occasions.

With this, I've enclosed stickers and some embellishments for the new mum so that she too can enjoy sticking embellishments in the album. It's really so fun :)

Sooo.. here's a peek at the insides of the album.

Essentially, spaces to put in photos and spaces to journal. 

I hope it will be fun :)

baby album - EJ

it's been a while since I made a baby album. I don't think I've actually uploaded their pictures.

Since I've made a few to-date, I have a rough idea how to start, but I must admit that I didn't have much time to do this and my brains were stuck.

Thankfully for a pack of baby-boy journaling cards I bought. I used more than what I expected.

for the Cover: I applied clear gesso on it, sprayed it with 2 colours and left it to dry. I then used EK heart punch to punch hearts shapes and just layer them.
I "gesso-ed" the chipboard E, J and put VersaCraft red on it.I used small lettering to put the name on the chipboard. decorated with some heart-ribbon and a bit of blings.

As this album is for a boy, I couldn't use much flowers or the like, so I ended up using wood veneers & stamps.

I used paper from a stack, so that it all coordinates. my first album was using random pages and what a headache it caused me.

pages 2&3 were dedicated to baby's family.

pages 4&5 was for 3 months milestone.
I also added an insert to break the monotony and to give some space for journaling, if so desired.
the flap was for "random facts about me"

pages 6&7 was random pictures
on page 7, I mildly decorated the page so that a full 4x6 picture could be inserted. the rest of picture slots were either 3x4 or 3x3.

pages 8&9 was for 6 months milestone.
there is also an open flap on the right for more photos.

pages 10&11 was 9 months milestone

pages 12 was dedicated to 1 year milestone though it was not explicit.I used a stamp for 'walking feet'.

There were very few captions as I was really out of ideas, although 'bath-time', 'grandparents' were among some of the pages in previous albums. Partly it was due to a lack of appropriate embellishments, which made me aware of the need to top up!

to be honest, i do have, but it was mostly for girls and the recent deliveries are going to be boys!

paper punches to create different edges and also using ribbons between pages to create textures in place of blings.

Overall, I thought it was pretty nice for a boy :)

Zoo mini album

I started working on this album quite a while ago but I've recently completed it :)

It was good to document my adventure with my kids and to 'watch them grow'.

I used the zutter to bind it together.

In it, I used Martha Steward Doily punch and Floral Web and Wild-flower round-the-edge punch.

When I "zuttered" the pages, page with the round-the-edge punch tends to be a little more filmsy. Probably it won't be such a good idea for 'zuttered' mini albums.