Big update today.
Someone mentioned last week that this book is turning more into an art journal than a scrapbook and I couldn't agree more. While it was my intention to make this book more textured, I think the "art journal" mood is coming out of the season & dealing with Paul's deployment. My past attempts at art journaling haven't always been so successful but I hope this one countinues to work and inspire me.
Some of this update was done in the moment. Other pages are done all at once when I have a chance to print photos and do some computer journaling. I am going to be working on adding more "right this second" pages because I think it's an important time to capture.
Pretty simple. I used a lot of these text pages in my summer minibook. For more information about the text, check out the video in this post. I printed that photo as a square at 2.25×2.25 and then just freehand cut so it fit inside the patterned paper.
Self explanatory – this would be my "in the moment" work. 🙂
And the follow up… It was important to for me to show in the book that I got through those rough couple days so I jotted that down as well as this quote. I picked some favorite instagram photos from the past few weeks for the next page. For a tutorial on how to get your instagram photos in a 4×6 inch grid, check out this video.
This is the first of two "glittered" pages. When I picked dark papers to work with in this book I knew that would allow for some fun embellishment techniques. There is a short video at the end of today's post that shares how I used glitter to create patterns on the dark papers.
I sewed tulle from the tutus on to the cream tabbed page. That frame is cut from a sheet of Amy Tangerine for American Crafts paper and adhered right on top of the tulle.
Pretty self explanatory. That label is from Paper Source, but was discontinued a few years ago.
I sewed fabric pieces from my quilt onto the scalloped page and used the white quilt block in the photo as a journaling spot. I wrote right on the photo with a Sharpie pen.
And my second glitter page. This was a fun one that I wasn't sure would work out. I am so happy it did. The text on the left is from this morning's blog post. That crocheted flower came from the pixiepetals etsy shop a few years ago.
using glitter in the autumn minibook by elise blaha
Above is a video where I show a quick tutorial for how to get glitter incorporated on your minibook pages. And let's not talk about the awkward screenshot vimeo captured.
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And, good news :
If you think you're going to need additional pages for this album, I have a few bonus paper packs available. I had limited supplies for these, so when they are gone, they're gone. Click here to shop them. Thank you!
enJOY it 
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