teleroblog;

through the woods, mini

not in kit:

• alpha: american crafts delight thickers (white fabric)
• paper: woodgrain contact, crate paper season collection friendly, colorbok friendly forest collection, colorbok woodhaven collection, nikki sivils my sweet cherry pie collection cherry tree/cherry brownie
• journaling spots: colorbok friendly forest collection, crate paper season collection journal stickers, 7gypsies gypsy tags, library card
• sentiments: colorbok friendly forest collection
• rub-ons: crate paper season collection, american crafts mini marks twirl accents
• chipboard: cosmo cricket early bird collection ready-set-chip
• ribbon: black, white ric rack
• felt accents: american crafts fieldhouse fleece blue skies, queen & co. felt fusion vines (chocolate)
• overlay: basic grey june bug collection take note (w/ transparencies)
• vintage cut-out: making memories vintage findings collection mini kit
• eyelets: we r memory keepers
• other: masking tape, brown tulle, nylon thread

this mini is the first i’ve ever made entirely from scratch — no premade mini book elements (like covers, a spine, etc.). i recycled a cereal box for the base and went from there! the beautiful red vinyl included in the june kit actually inspired me to create a mini. i also wanted to do something different with my favorite part of the kit (and tara’s, too!), the korean little red riding hood fabric, rather than just stitching it down or creating some kind of applique. i’d never made a french memo board, so i thought it’d be cute to make a tiny one to hold the journaling my book would contain.

one of my favorite collections from a couple years ago is colorbok’s friendly forest collection, which i have used here and there throughout my projects. however, i did not have the chipboard accents, and when tara sent me the cute skunk, i was inspired to use a lot of the friendly forest embellishments i hadn’t yet used. there’s also a sheet from crate paper’s season collection which i absolutely coveted and had no idea how to use — till i made the mini, of course, and realized it’d make great end pages for the book. i love using bits and pieces from older collections; they deserve love, too! i feel that it makes projects much more unique, since most of the scrapbooking world has moved on to newer papers and embellishments.

the mini itself is kind of an elaboration on my into the wild layout from last month; i had lots more pictures i wanted to use! i found a film strip in the deviantart creative commons and made the pictures tiny in photoshop to go along with the small size of the book. lots of embellishing later, this is what resulted!