I rarely ever make mini albums anymore. During 2009, I loved making mini albums and made so many of them that they filled up my shelves and I decided I could not do one more minibook because I had nowhere to put them. I think I was just tired of making them.
That was until Caroline asked me if I would create with the new canvas album. She knew canvas is my weakness. I just absolutely adore playing with it. So I relented.
I decided wanted to make this album just for fun. Not to preserve a birthday or a trip, but just to get to play with paint and texture and art. So I chose one of my favorite poems and created this album:
I misted the cover of the canvas album and then misted two pages of the heart canvas album and stitched them to the canvas cover. A few alphas and my cover was done.
I covered the inside of the album with some washi tape and then sprayed all the canvas pages and stitched around them. I then wrote a line of the poem on each mini kraft tag and attached one to each of my pages.
Here are all the other pages:
For the chipboard pages, I stitched on the paper first and then glued it to the chipboard.
I tried not to think about all the details so much. Just wrote my tags, put the twine and then had fun with the rest of the page. Just put down the little bits and pieces I loved.
And, of course, it's most important to give credit where credit is due and I wanted to make sure to honor the amazing poet.
And there you go, my first mini in a long, long time. I hope you enjoyed it.
Fantastic album! I haven't worked with canvas yet but would like to. Thank you for the inspiration.
Posted by: Amber M. | August 01, 2011 at 11:36 PM
Will definitely give this a try. Love how you've made an album out of a poem, it opened so many ideas for me. Thank you so much for the inspiration!
Posted by: Mayol | August 02, 2011 at 06:36 AM
Love Love Love this!!! So, precious! Thanks for sharing and the inspiration! How sweet a gift for a friend or loved one would this album be! Great idea!
Posted by: Karen | August 02, 2011 at 07:12 AM
Amazing . . .
Posted by: Michelle S. | August 02, 2011 at 10:56 PM
Such a sweet mini album. I love that poem - my husband and I read it at our wedding, so this post really made me smile. Great inspiration!
Posted by: PsyPenguin | August 04, 2011 at 08:09 AM
Gorgous!! You came back strong!!
Posted by: TeeCee | August 05, 2011 at 06:16 PM
Crazy cute. I love that you used the poem and made it so special.
Posted by: Lisa P | August 06, 2011 at 10:21 AM
So glad you relented, because this is an amazing project! Just beautiful, and with the quotes, so touching too. Thanks so much for sharing!
Posted by: Cynthia B. | August 06, 2011 at 01:21 PM
Loving this project! So many wonderful ideas on each page. Thanks for sharing this.
Posted by: Fran Heupel | August 06, 2011 at 02:17 PM
That is so special......I love this project.
Posted by: Helen Marshall | August 06, 2011 at 04:33 PM
Fanastic just love everything about it!!!
xoxo
Posted by: Angella Peardon | August 06, 2011 at 10:08 PM
I love this mini album, each page is amazing
Posted by: Lois | August 06, 2011 at 10:11 PM
love all the colors - this is a great album
Posted by: veronica johnson | August 07, 2011 at 11:06 AM