23 Mini Album | Inspiration

Hello! It's Michelle here with a mini album to share with you. My birthday is coming up, and I wanted to make a fun mini album using some of my favorite pictures from the past year. I also challenged myself to use some of my new scrapbook supplies that I wanted to hoard. The album is quite short and not really representative of a whole year, but it was so much fun creating with some of my favorite things.

(just to warn you, this post is a little photo-heavy!)

This is the completed mini album from different angles. The pages range from about 4 x 6 inches to 6 x 6 inches and are held together with stitching down the center.

To start, I chose a photo from last May with my pet cockatiel. She's getting older and doesn't fly much anymore, so she always enjoys going for a ride on my shoulder (note: just look at how lovely that stamp looks directly on the photo!)

Some detail shots. The first photo of the whole spread showed off the effect of the stamping a little better than the close-ups. It's a really beautiful effect in the sunlight! I used an Evalicious snipsnip label for the sentiment on the left, and added a stamped image and a"love you lots" journaling card for layers.

Sorry if you don't like feet! This photo was taken back in May/June when my boyfriend came back for the summer. We were both quite busy with work (him) and school/volunteering (me), so it was nice to just relax together.

I'm not the best stamper and I usually stick to stamping on plain cardstock, but I'm glad I ventured out and tried it on patterned paper. I love how that stamp looks on the woodgrain paper! I used some gold ink to stamp directly on the photo again, and layered a journaling card and snipsnip labels from the "love you lots" line.

In July, my boyfriend and I took a weekend trip to a nearby city for our annual visit to the zoo (specifically the gorillas!). I get a little paranoid about being in the sun too long, so I was slathering on sunscreen. I swear, my boyfriend's photography makes me look much better than I do in real life!

I stamped on the vellum and added some stickers and accents. I used some of the "real life" snipsnip labels and another journaling card for layering. To finish, I picked this fun little "getaway" badge as it fit nicely with the theme.

In August, there's a festival that showcases different cultures. There's lots of food and traditional dancing, and it's quite fun except for the fact that we always seem to go on a super sunny, hot day (I don't do too well in the heat). I love this photo because we rarely have photos together that are not self-taken.

Keeping with the theme of having a simple left side of the spread, I used a little vellum envelope and filled it with gold sequins and wood veneer. The circle tag was the perfect finishing touch. On the right side, I used a light grey ink to stamp the Evalicious cloud a few times on a journaling card (like Natalie's tutorial). I like the subtle effect, and how it goes well with the hot air balloon. I also used an Evalicious cloud tag and a snipsnip label as fun accents.

More recently, I did some baking. I received a lovely mixer last year for my birthday, but when I'm busy with school, I'd rather just buy and eat cupcakes rather than deal with the clean-up. I've had a little more time lately, so I made some vanilla cupcakes with lemon-vanilla frosting, yum!

I love these "take note" badges, they are super cute and easy to add because they're neutral.

Evalicious supplies:

• love you lots V1 badges
• this & that page tabs
• love this banner stamp
• hello arrow stamp
• love you lots 3x4 tags
• photo love camera stamp
• over here stamp
• the everyday banner stamp
• love you lots snipsnip labels
• awesome day stamp
• real life page tabs
• getaway badges
• love you lots miscellany tags
• documented cloud tags
• cloud outline stamp
• so daily large tags
• take note badges
• so daily page tabs

Thanks for looking through this long post! I hope you are inspired to take out some of your favorite supplies and put them to use.

There are a few days left for the Evalicious challenge! Post your tutorial-inspired Evalicious creations in our shopEvalicious.com Flickr pool and link them up in the comments here for a chance to win some Evalicious product! The deadline is Saturday, March 30th at midnight. The winner will be announced on March 31st.

- Michelle