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an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Category: autumn minibook

  • Clearly, I lost steam a bit with this autumn minibook. But no worries – I still got the big stuff documented. I will be adding just a few more photos from Thanksgiving and then that's it. On to the next. (See all autumn minibook updates and tutorials here.) I am excited to start my holiday…

  • My autumn book stayed at home while I traveled, so I had a lot of catch-up to do on Tuesday. Pretty simple update this time. Lots of instagram photos. Lots of blog post text. And thanks to the USC game and the race, lots of extra papers to add in. See all my autumn book…

  • 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…

  • I’m continuing to make progress on this autumn minibook even though the San Diego weather is hardly cooperating. I’m looking forward to October and November, that is for sure. I brought the red envelope up to the front because I had a personal story that I wanted to include. I’m not ready to share the…

  • Moving right along with my fall minibook… I added eight instagram photos to the back of the second page. I just uploaded them to iPhoto and printed as them very small a contact sheet. (I am absolutely obsessed with instagram.) For the page on the right, I brought up one of the kraft sheets and…

  • Hooray! It's September, and that means I am working on a season minibook again. During the summer I shared my progress about once a week and I am hoping to do the same again for fall. This book was a fun one to put together. I chose a rich color palette and somehow that inspired…