Hi crafters! Today, I'm sharing how I made this pretty Happy Easter Mini Album with two wonderful Lori Whitlock cutting files and the Echo Park, Our Happy Place Collection. With its pastel colors, flowers, gingham prints, and plaids, this little scrapbook is perfect for saving photos of the holiday and spring season.
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The front cover is so cute! It's actually a card file called A2 Easel Card Easter Bunny Basket File (link below). Because it's a card, you could replicate this idea with ANY design and change up the theme to Mother's Day, birthday, summer, etc.
For the actual book, I used the Hidden Binding Mini Album Rectangle File (link below). Lori has other hidden binding mini album shapes too. I've made the house, flower, telephone, apple, and tag shape and I love them!
Let's take a quick look inside, then the tutorial ...
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I embellished the pages with a mix of pretty 12x12 and 6x6 papers, photo mats, stickers, and enamel dots.
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On this page, I added a shaped photo mat using a 3" scalloped circle punch and a 2.5" circle punch by Marvy Uchida (links below).
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Wouldn't these pages be pretty filled with photos of Easter, spring, family gatherings, fun with friends, church activities, and sweet everyday memories?
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This album's hidden binding feature allows for enough space in between the pages so that you can add lots of pattern papers, pop-dots, photos, and embellishments.
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Such a pretty little scrapbook! Ok, time for the simple tutorial ...
1. I resized the Hidden Binding Mini Album's pieces to create a book that would be 4.75" wide x 7” tall. I chose this size so that I wouldn’t need to resize the Easter basket file.
2. Next, I cut out all of the pieces for both files.
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3. I assembled the card first. The Basket file comes with a base "grass" background that is shaped to help you know where to layer each of the pieces. I added the pink shape on top of the green base.
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4. Then, I layered the yellow basket on next.
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7. How cute! I used some foam tape underneath the feet and tail to give them some dimension.
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8. You can see in this picture that the pink base helps you know exactly where to adhere the flowers.
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9. I added some pretty colored enamel dots to the center of the flowers and the bow for a bit of shine.
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10. Once the card was assembled, it was time to build the album. Above, are the pages
and the binding piece. The binding piece is scored, so I folded along the
score lines to create “mountains” and “valleys”.
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11. I added adhesive inside the “valleys" and adhered the sides together.
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The outside of the binding now looked like this. The cutting file includes a separate piece that will be glued over these folds to create the album's spine.
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12. This is the inside of the binding. To add the pages, I adhered one page piece to the front of the first spine fold and a second one to the back ... sandwiching them on the "mountain".
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13. I continued to add the rest of the pages until the book was complete.
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14. To decorate the cover, I adhered the Easter basket piece to the front and added my title. And ... voila! A fun and simple spring project.
Look how cute this mini album is sitting out on my clear Acrylic Display Stand. These are perfect for showing off your projects. They make great decor around the holidays and through the seasons, and ... they're filled with your FUN memories!
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