miniBOOK : AEzine Challenge
AEzine Challenge for the week of September 24, 2006: Your challenge this week was/is to use wallet photos to create a miniBOOK about your five fabulous favorites right now. Pick everyday favorites - simple stuff like your cozy fleece jacket, your hand cream, your electric toothbrush, your favorite CD of the moment, and your drink of choice. Maybe step out of your own personal box by using non-photos or a mixture of photos + ephemera. (I am looking at a pastry bag from Starbucks sitting on the seat next to me thinking that would make a great visual for one of my favorites right now.)
If you don't feel like making something about yourself this week then ask your partner or child to name five of their favorite things right now and document those instead.
Go for "mini" overall. Small photos + small album = BIG goodness.
SUPPLIES:
• miniBOOK : Itty Bitty Album from Cosmo Cricket: this is one of those products that comes on a 12x12 sheet (similar to the Basic Grey matchbook albums) that you punch out and fold. Super easy and quick.
• Today Stamp : Ledger Stamps by Katie Pertiet for Autumn Leaves
• Ribbon : American Crafts
• Stickers : 7gypsies
• Fabulous Tab, Chipboard 5 on the cover, Bling Circle on the cover : Heidi Swapp
It is all about playing and keeping it simple. One thing you may have noticed in this miniBOOK is that I mixed vertical and horizontal photos. This is a question I get a lot in my workshops. My answer is this: don't worry about it! When someone picks up your album and turns their pages they will automatically turn the book based on how you have oriented the photos. Pick the photos you love and use them.
Also, one thing I just noticed as I was looking at my miniBOOK - I forgot to add the dates. Make sure you add dates on your projects - I am jotting mine in right now. Ten years from now you won't remember (I probably wouldn't remember next year) so take a couple seconds and add it while you are working on the project.
I also wanted to let you know that I had a few people email me highly recommending using a Xyron as adhesives for their miniBOOKS - I will have to try that soon.
Feel free to link to your own project here in the comments section. Can't wait to see what you guys came up with this week.
Wow! Love your mini book! I'm thinking of my 5 fav's right now, so I'll have to get working on my book. Thanks for sharing, I love it! (Love the bling too!)
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Love it, Ali! Thanks for this challenge! Here is mine... http://joyjaeger.blogspot.com/2006/09/five-fabulous-favorites.html !
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here is mine...
loved doing it! yours looks awesome and always you have left me very inspired!
http://creativeblessing.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-had-so-much-fun-making-this-album.html
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I love it..I have not had time to finish mine yet but late is better than never..After my weekend get away I will post on my blog :0)
I cannot wait for all your inspirations from your newsletter!
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Love your miniBOOK Ali. Thank you so much for this challenge...I enjoyed it a lot. This is only the second miniBOOK I've done....will be doing more!
Here is my miniBOOK:
http://www.scraptivity.com/show/showphoto.php?photo=3376&limit=recent
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Oh it is so cute! I love that it probably took 20 minutes but looks like it took so much longer. It rocks. And the date thing, I ALWAYS forget to do that!!
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this is just sick!!! I freakin' love it, Ali. Plain insanity and I am not happy to see you tease me with the Cricket stuff. Oh, this is so wrong!!!! I am working on my book this evening.
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Ali I love this! I'm cropping this weekend and hope to get this challenge done. Thanks for the inpiration as always :)
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I loved the first newsletter, and this is an awesome challenge. You rock, as usual!
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This is so darn cute! And you are right,
10 yrs from now, you won't remember the little things...DO IT NOW and date it!
Lovin this. thanks
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Oh gosh so cute! I totally love it!
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Well first of all I love the newsletter - and so excited to see what challenges you have to come! I actually just did a "Things I Love" mini album back in July with my top 10 favorite things right now so I am posting a link to that project - I would do another but they would be the same :) I really enjoyed making the book though and think it will be so fun to look back on in years to come!
Nicole
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/pg.asp?cmd=display&layout_id=931859
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Can't wait to see what the new challenge is. Love scrapping "out of the box" and seeing what happens in the end. Thanks again for this challenge...here's my miniBOOK...
http://www.bethjohnson5.blogspot.com
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What a fun challenge! Here is mine:
http://familyhouston.blogspot.com/2006/09/scrapbook-share.html
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Had a lot of fun working on this challenge. Love yours Ali and all the other participants too. Very inspiring!!!
Here is mine....
http://jeanneszewczyk.blogspot.com/2006/09/five-fabulous-favorites.html
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great job everyone. i tried to make one but i'm not a fan of minibooks at all. i thought this might help me and give me some direction but i just can't seem to find the nack for them.
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Here's mine! Thanks for the fun Challenge Ali!
http://www.oscraps.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=989
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i love it! i do have a question about the photos though...did you have them printed that size, or did you trim larger photos down?
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I (and several other gals who post links) are still working on the challenges from Designer's Eye for Scrapbooking with PP. We are all still LOVING the project and LOVING the process...so thanks for that. Will have to jump in on these in a few weeks when I've got the other challenges done!
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This is beautiful Ali. I signed up for the newsletter and did the confirmation but haven't received it in my inbox. Help :)
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awesome minibook ali!
I don't know if this really fits the challenge---instead of scrapping my favorite things right now, I scrapped five fav's from our honeymoon.
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/pg.asp?cmd=display&layout_id=989662
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I have a QUESTION ... what did you use to create the "white" lettering on the last page, the green page? Thanks so much!
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Love tthis idea... so simple but really captures the everyday.
Oh yeah, I need to know where you got that MOD bedding? I want!!
Melanie
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I haven't finished mine yet either, but I am more than half done!
Just had to say, I love your gourd!
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Ali- YOU are the best enabler :-) I ADORE those ledger stamps :-) I'm going to have to look high and low to find some :-)
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