Mini Album
Mini Albums as Christmas Presents
Christmas is around the corner and the department stores are jam-packed of people jostling around just to find the exact gift. However many of us yearn to make Christmas more simple and more significant by giving stuff made out of love instead. You can easily make important gifts for everyone on your roll using scrapbook materials you may by now have. I love to create and give little scrapbook albums. They are fast and simple gifts that can be arranged with the use of pictures, patterned papers and a few add-ons. Here are some fundamental instructions to make an uncomplicated mini-album and ideas on how to customize it.
First buy a reasonably priced small photo album at a dollar or discount department store. Remove the front and back covers and make use of them as patterns to form new covers by means of colored cardstock or a preferred patterned paper. Make the heading using stickers, stamped or die-cut letters, chipboard, and add a few small trimmings. Slip the fresh front and back covers back into their niche. Tie a length of match up ribbon around the backbone of the album to dress it up.
Now settle on what will be contained by the album. Your first alternative is to make and give a “completed” album, filled of both photos and embellishments. What grandparent wouldn’t adore receiving a mini-album filled of fresh photos of all the grandchildren? This would also be grand for family members who are distant or you haven’t seen in a long time. Or how about making an album for your best friend packed with photos of the both of you over the years?
Another choice would be to make an “incomplete” album that holds ornamented pages, but no pictures in it. This would be functional for a hectic mom who doesn’t have a moment to scrapbook the photos of her own family, or the traveler who has plenty of pictures from their adventures and trips. I also like to offer unfilled albums festooned with holiday themed ornaments so pictures from this year can be effortlessly slipped inside – an instantaneous Christmas album! If you prefer this alternative, make and beautify the pages, but put down bare spaces for the recipient to add their own pictures and journaling.
Lastly, this type of mini-album provides itself to many other ideas. It would also be exquisite filled with a compilation of inspiring quotes and complementary photos. Or how about replicating your much loved recipes onto 4 x 6 recipe cards, adorning them and slipping them inside the album? Or fashion a small calendar for the forthcoming year with monthly calendars downloaded from the internet highlighted by an assortment of seasonal photos and added extras. It can truly be customized for anyone.
Mini-albums are easy on the pocket, yet important gifts. And the best part is that because of their size they can be completed very promptly – you still have enough time to create one for everybody on your list for this Christmas.
About the Author
Melanie Smith is a regular writer at
merrychristmas24.com
. Read more of her articles and get gift ideas by clicking on this link
merrychristmas24 – Christmas cards
|
|
Record Drink Coasters Set of 4 $7.51 This set of 4 novelty drink coaster look just like miniature LP’s and will add some rock n roll style to your home or office. Hate unsightly rings from mugs and glasses ruining your poor furniture? Pop some of these silicone drinks coasters down and protect your surfaces!Great for day to day use or 50′s themed parties, our Record Drink Coasters come in a set of 4 and provide a non-slip surface for… |
|
|
Godinger Colored Enamel 4X6 Baby Album $23.49 Godinger is a unique company that specializes in handmade silver, pewter crystal and elite gift items. From wedding gifts candlesticks barware bakeware tea sets and frames you are sure to find the ideal item for any special occasion. Godinger’s goal is to provide you the customer with a piece that expresses a “one of a kind” sense of style and quality at affordable prices. The Godinger Silver plat… |
|
|
Godinger Silver Art Heart Album with Swarovski Crystals 4×6 $30.85 4X6 SILVERPLATED ALBUM WITH SWAROVSKI STONES… |
|
|
Final Fantasy VII – Advent Children [UMD for PSP] $14.94 The question facing any viewer of the Japanese CG feature Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is: do you have to know the games on which it’s based in order to understand the film? And the answer is: it certainly helps. But even complete novices (i.e., most parents) in the Final Fantasy world will find some entertainment in its wealth of fantasy-based action, and the animation never fails to astoni… |
|
|
Moonwalker [VHS] $9.98 … |
|
|
School Years Mini Florals Deluxe Scrapbook Album Girl Book Pocketful of Memories with Stickers $21.55 This deluxe album is beutifully designed by Dena Designs and published by New Seasons Publishing. Compare to other books of same series, this book is the only one that contains more than 200 stickers and everything else you need to preserve your child’s favorite school years in unique and creative way! It has a hard cover with 9 photo frames: 8 small and 1 large. The photos are insert from the ba… |
|
|
The Beatles Anthology $53.74 Initially broadcast as a TV miniseries to go with the series of three Anthology double-CD albums, this set of eight documentary tapes has the heft and scope of one of Ken Burns’s expansive projects. Still, unless you are either a historian or a truly committed fan, you’ll find yourself with way more material–particularly about the Beatles’ early lives as lads in Liverpool–than you’ll want t… |
|
|
Elvis $12.45 Well it’s one for the money (John Carpenter), two for the show (Kurt Russell), three to get ready (Ronnie McDowell’s uncanny vocals), now go, cat, go! This legendary and elusive 1979 made-for-TV feature was the first Elvis biopic, and it remains the best. Presented for the first time on DVD complete and uncut (thankyouverymuch), Elvis was produced less than two years after Presley’s death. The scr… |
|
|
The Jacksons: An American Dream- The Complete Miniseries $21.09 The miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream begins in the 1940s, when Joseph Jackson (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs) and Katherine (Angela Bassett) meet and fall in love, and ends in the 1980s, when their sons reunite for the 1983 Victory Tour that brought them back together as the Jacksons. During the first part, “The Early Years,” the couple starts a family, and although times are tough, Josep… |
|
|
Sweet As Can Bee Ceramic Honey Pot with Wooden Dipper $2.99 Absolutely darling for children’s tea parties, baby showers, and bridal showers, our “Sweet as Can Bee” Ceramic Honey Pot with Wooden Dippers are a charming addition to any occasion! Although they are tiny, these dippers are large enough for actual use. Adorable gift packaging features colorful flowers and bees, the honey pot itself is adorned with little bees, and is sure to “bee” a hit at your e… |
|
|
Deck The Halls 6-inch Holiday Mini Album $8.99 Contains one 6×6 inch mini-album: two 2mm chipboard covers; twelve double-sided inner pages measuring 6×6 inches; one vellum scalloped page measure 6×6 inches; two velum envelopes measures 6×6 inches; one file envelope and two jump rings. |
|
|
Clear N Chip Purses/ Shoes Punch Out Album Pages $8.79 Clear N Chip mixed pack contains an acrylic sheet and an accompanying chipboard sheetMix and match the pieces to create a unique mini albumTwo versatile materials will allow embossing, hole punching, inking, doodling and more |
|
|
Clear N Chip Trucks/ Boy Punch Out Album Pages $8.79 Clear N Chip mixed pack contains an acrylic sheet and an accompanying chipboard sheetMix and match the pieces to create a unique mini albumTwo versatile materials will allow embossing, hole punching and more |
|
|
Outstanding Mini Albums $16.23 Complete with more than thirty projects, step-by-step instructions, fifty albums, and two hundred color photos, this guide offers tips and techniques for creating unique and stylish mini albums that can tell a story all their own. Original. |