Thursday, January 9, 2025

Snowflake Lace Winter Mini Album with Lori Whitlock

Hi crafters! Today, I'm sharing my latest Lori Whitlock Design Team Project. It's a winter mini album that I made with one of Lori's beautiful cutting files called Snowflake Lace (link below). I used it to create the front and back covers and a few pretty pages inside. I love its intricate design. Take a look ...

Snowflake Lace Winter Scrapbook Mini Album by Artsy Albums

First, I'll explain how I created the covers, then we'll take a look inside.

To start, I resized the Snowflake Lace cutting file to 6x6 and duplicated the file for a front and back cover.


I wanted my back cover to be solid, so I needed to remove the lace in the second shape. To do this I highlighted the shape, right clicked, and hit release compound path.  

Now the outside square is removed from the lace snowflakes. I deleted the design and kept the newly created solid back cover. Then I cut both pieces out of white acrylic, but ... you could easily use white card stock or chipboard instead.

In the file, there is a perfect spot in the lace for the binding ring to go through. You’ll need to punch a hole in the solid back cover if you're using card stock or chipboard.

Once the covers were done, I cut the inside pages out of white card stock. I cut 6 solid pages and 2 lace pages. Since the design is a bit intricate, I set the machine to cut “heavy textured card stock” with 2 passes. Now ... time to decorate!

Snowflake Lace Winter Scrapbook Mini Album with snowmen and jewels

Isn't this lace cover pretty?! To decorate the album, I used the Doodlebug Design Winter Wonderland Collection. On the cover, I added some die cuts and a few sparkling mini jewels (links below).

Snowflake Lace Winter Scrapbook Album Page with a cute yeti and a fox

Inside, I covered each of the white pages with pattern papers, photo mats, stickers, and more die cuts.

Snowflake Lace Winter Scrapbook Album Page with flowers and a ski lift

Here, I created a fold-out page and added a photo mat on the front flap with a ski lift die cut piece.

Snowflake Lace Winter Scrapbook Album Page with a yeti, a pocket, and a snowman

Open that fold-out and there's a cute pocket inside with a fun snowman flip-up card on the front. I added a die cut in the pocket for journaling but extra photos can also be saved here.

Snowflake Lace Winter Scrapbook Album Page with trees and yetis

This is one of the pretty lace pages that I cut from cardstock. I love it. I added a photo mat to the front and back side. It's such a beautiful way to highlight your winter photos.

Snowflake Lace Winter Scrapbook Album Page with a pocket, journaling cards, and a cute moose

On this pocket page, I used another one of Lori's cutting files to create the cute scalloped circle mat.

Snowflake Lace Winter Scrapbook Album Page with a cute moose, trees, and snow

The cutting file is called 4
Scalloped Circles (link below) and includes the scalloped circle and the plain circle in the center. 

Winter Scrapbook Album Page with a cut-out snowflake lace design

Here's the 2nd lace page I cut from card stock. Doesn't it look gorgeous with the pink paper behind it?

Winter Scrapbook Album Page with a cut-out snowflake lace design

I had so much fun creating this winter mini album with Lori's Snowflake Lace cutting file. The delicate pattern is so lovely and it made such unique album covers and pages. 

Doesn't it look wonderful sitting on my clear Acrylic Display Stand? These are perfect for showing off your mini albums, greeting cards, and other handmade projects. They make great decor, and ... they're filled with your winter memories!

I hope you'll give this fun project a try. It could be made with any paper collection and would also make a wonderful Christmas scrapbook. Until next time, happy scrappin'!

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Wednesday, January 8, 2025

NEW! You Captured My Heart Scrapbook Album Kit

Hey guys! Who's excited for the next holiday? With Christmas and New Year's now behind us, I'm looking forward to new collections and fun new projects. So today, I'm sharing a peek into this Friday's kit titled You've Captured My Heart. It's all about your loved ones, sweet moments with them, and Valentine's Day! 💕

Valentine's Day Mini Scrapbook Album Kit with hearts, flowers, and a camera

Look how pretty! I designed this with a 6x8 inch Doodlebug Design binder album in ladybug red and the beautiful Echo Park, Valentine's Day Collection by Lori Whitlock.

This mini makes a perfect keepsake for photos of ANY sweet love story, whether it's between you and a partner, your family, children, grandlittles, best friend, or a beloved pet. It's wonderful for pictures of anyone that's special to you.

Valentine's Day Mini Scrapbook Album Kit with hearts, flowers, a pocket, and a tag

On the cover, I've added lots of cute hearts, beautiful flowers, and check it out ... a little pocket with a pull-out tag! What a fun spot for a favorite photo.

Valentine's Day Mini Scrapbook Album Kit with hearts, flowers, and a camera

I also added the "You've captured my heart" title card. It's just one of the sweet phrases in this mini. Others include Life is better with you, You're the best thing that ever happened to me, You are so loved, and more.

Inside, there are 14 scrapbook pages that include 3 fold-out pages, 5 pockets, 7 flippies, and space for 60 photos. It also has 10 plastic pocket pages and 6 blank card stock pages to design on your own / add additional photos to.

Valentine's Day Mini Scrapbook Album Page with flaps, scalloped ribbons, and a journaling spot

Check out this gate-fold page. I used a black scalloped ribbon on the inner edges and added a flippie on the front of one side. It has a journaling spot and space inside for 2 photos. Lift the left and right flaps and there are 5 photo mats with more pretty papers. So, in total ... this page has room for 7 photos!

Valentine's Day Mini Scrapbook Album Page with pretty flowers, a pocket, journaling cards, and a scallop circle

Pockets are wonderful for saving journaling cards or memorabilia. It's perfect for love notes, cute cards or drawings from your littles, a special recipe, tickets from an event, a label from a wine or champagne bottle, a wrapper from a favorite candy, or a few pressed flowers from a meaningful bouquet.

Valentine's Day Mini Scrapbook Album Pages with red flowers, pink hearts, a flip-up card, and photo mats

This would make a gorgeous handmade gift for a bride-to-be. Do you know anyone who's just gotten engaged, having a bridal shower, or getting married around Valentine's Day?

Valentine's Day Mini Scrapbook Album Page with red flowers, pink hearts, and a flip-up card

It would also make a thoughtful anniversary gift for your sweetie, daughter, parents, or grandparents. Add pictures of your / their love story, first date, and favorite memories together. It's perfectly safe to add vintage photos to my albums. They're all made with archival quality products.

Valentine's Day Mini Scrapbook Album Pages with red flowers, pink hearts, and 2 photo mats

Isn't this page beautiful? The pink and red color combo is making me so happy. New season, new color palette, and I'm loving the light airy feminine feel of this collection. I think you're going to have so much fun with this kit!

Thanks for stopping the blog today, and don't forget ... my You Captured My Heart Mini Album (kit and premade) will be available in my shop this Friday. Have a wonderful day! 😊   

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Thursday, January 2, 2025

Build A Snowman Winter Scrapbook Album with Doodlebug

Hello everyone! It's time for my next Doodlebug Design Team Project and for this one, the designers were asked to create a project using the brand new 6x8 Mini Albums. I love these pretty binders, so I created a super cute winter themed scrapbook. In this post, we're explaining how we designed the cover. Then in our next few posts, we'll be sharing how we decorated the pages inside.

Build A Snowman Winter Scrapbook Album with Doodlebug

For my album, I chose the swimming pool binder. It's one of my favorite colors. Then, I decorated it with the adorable Winter Wonderland Collection making it the perfect keepsake for your snow-filled memories.

To start, I covered the white section of the front with the 12x12 Just Chillin' pattern paper. I love all of the cute little snowmen.

Build A Snowman Winter Scrapbook Album with Doodlebug

I wanted to create a winter scene so
I cut a snow hill out of lily white card stock and adhered that on top.

Winter Scrapbook Mini Album with a cabin, snowman, cute reindeer, and trees

Next, I chose some sweet die cuts from the Odds & Ends to decorate. I tucked the cabin and 3 different tree pieces in behind the snow. Then I adhered the snowman, the reindeer, and the tree on top. I also added the word bubble die cut from the Chit Chat.

Winter Scrapbook Mini Album with a big bow, a cabin, snowman, and a cute reindeer

I had the perfect white ribbon with aqua dots so I tied that around the front cover and into a big bow.

Winter Scrapbook Mini Album with a cute snowman and snowflakes charm and a big bow

On the album's spine, there's a bookplate for adding dates, an event, the season, or a title. I added a small piece of the Just Chillin (striped side) paper inside. For an extra fun detail, I attached the Just Charming Clip and Key Chain from the Snow Much Fun Collection to it for the perfect finishing touch.

Winter Scrapbook Mini Album with a cute snowman and snowflakes Just Charming Clip and Key Chain

Look how cute! These 6x8 inch photo-safe Mini Albums are so much fun to create keepsakes with. Their quality is amazing and I love that they come in so many beautiful colors that coordinate with ANY Doodlebug collection. I also appreciate their white covers making them super versatile. 

Build A Snowman Winter Scrapbook Album with Doodlebug

Remember, my next posts will be of the inside pages where I share how I added embellishments, photo mats, and fun interactive elements. Be sure to check Doodlebug's blog daily for lots of mini album inspiration!

 
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