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Originally, I planned to make a digital album for our honeymoon photos. It was going to be in the same format as our engagement and wedding albums and fit into a Russell+Hazel mini binder. I scrapped (no pun intended) this idea for a bunch of reasons :

  1. the photos from our honeymoon were taken with my little point and shoot at a much smaller resolution than our professional photos. They were not going to blow up and print as well in large format.
  2. I attempted the digital album twice and both times was very un-inspired.
  3. there was not as much story to tell with text – it was our honeymoon. It was amazing. But that's sort of it.
  4. Bora Bora was tropical and vivid and deserved a bit more of a mess than the clean lines of our previous albums.

And so, I decided to go with a thick, tactile book but I was still stumped on what size and style to go with.

Then a few weeks ago when girlfriends from college were in town, I pulled out my minibook from our spring break senior year. It had been years since I'd look through it and I loved the textures, the transparencies and the simple color scheme.

So basically, I copied myself from a few years ago to make this album. It came together in about seven hours over two days. Below are the photos of most of the page spreads. At the end of this post is a complete supply list.

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Supplies used : Hambly transparencies, Office Depot write-on transparencies, staples, yellow & white cardstock, yellow & teal fabric, white thread, striped paper (from Paper Source but unlisted on the website), Paper Source label, vintage lace, letter stamps from Micheal's, American Crafts fine point slickwriter, stars from Crate&Barrel last holiday season.

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Thanks for looking!

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62 responses to “our honeymoon album.”

  1. ali Avatar

    beautiful pictures, beautiful album!

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  2. Sunny Avatar

    beautiful!!

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  3. Ann-Marie Avatar

    I don’t think anyone can whip out a mini book quite as effortlessly and fabulously as you! Gorgeous!

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  4. andrea Avatar

    this is such a cute and original idea! I love it!

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  5. Faye Avatar
    Faye

    i’ll have to bump my ISO down. i think i thought that more light was better? who knows. sometimes i want to throw my camera (canon a series powershot something-something) through the window.

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  6. lauren Avatar

    um wow, got ahead of myself… i just commented on your sd post saying it would be good for a vaca… should’ve scrolled down a little first, duh:) love this one too!

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  7. Tammy Wesolowski Avatar
    Tammy Wesolowski

    You have such a wonderful style of preserving your memories. Very elegant but approachable.

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  8. gina Flores Avatar

    LOVEEE LOVEEE IT!!!! Im engaged too, and we will DEFINELLY go to BORA BORA on our honey moon, can you give me a little review Elise, pleasee??? thanks
    CONGRATSSSS, all the book design is amazing!

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  9. elise blaha Avatar

    we loved it. But it was much more expensive than we thought it would be. Complete paradise though. Amazing honeymoon spot. Congrats on your engagement!

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  10. Natalie (QSOgirl) Avatar

    Wow, you are the QUEEN of fabulous mini-albums. I love your style. Please take it as the most sincere form of complement if (but hopefully when) I try to copy the fantastic way you put albums together!

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  11. shannon b Avatar

    This is so awesome! I love every frickin’ inch of it. Yes, it makes me THAT happy & inspired. And NO I’m not nuts. 🙂

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