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an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Category: minibooks

  • creating a simple & graphic mini album cover.

    Summer books launch tomorrow and I am so excited about them. I originally planned on NOT making my own this year because of Project Life and all the other stuff I have going on. But then the papers I ordered arrived. And they looked so much radder together in person than they had on my…

  • on the american crafts blog.

    Hey! I am sharing a project on the American Crafts blog today! It's a minibook I created a few months ago using lots of instagram photos and an Amy Tangerine Daybook. You can see the full book here.

  • holiday minibook complete.

    Wrapped this one up yesterday after getting some photos printed. I ended up documenting this season pretty well, but my updates were certainly not done daily. I actually sat down and worked on this book four times which made the journaling a bit…random. No worries, though, it's complete. It will join my other Christmas books…

  • holiday minibook update #2.

    I feel like "Christmas" is really going to kick into high gear when I drive up to Sacramento next week and spend time with my mom baking and getting Christmas Eve dinner ready. But until then, I have a few festive things happening, so I added them into the book. I got my Christmas cards…

  • holiday minibook update.

    Safe to say, December has been a bit busy. I didn't really get started on this book until last Wednesday, but that's alright. Eventually I will be glad I documented this crazy season where Paul was deployed and I was redecorating a town house. I am totally going to add something to the cover to…

  • a short & sweet NYC minibook.

    I am trying to figure out what would be the most fun and interesting minibooks to actually make in the workshop and this is experiment number one. I have done this zig-zag binding technique before and just love it with the sewn details. While I was in New York, I ended up taking very few…

  • in progress.

    I'm making stuff again. Look for photos of the full book on Monday. And because a similar photo got a lot of questions on twitter : I got my instagram photos on paper by uploading them to iPhoto and then printing a contact sheet. For more information on how to print a contact sheet, please…

  • i’m teaching minibooks in real life.

    I am so excited to be teaching MINIBOOKS at Teahouse Studios in Berkeley, California. Minibooks are special to me. The city of Berkeley is special to me. (It's where Paul went to college and home to many, many shenanigans for both of us.) The class is two full days (November 12-13) of instruction and includes…

  • wrapping up the summer book.

    I'm finished with my summer book. Yep, it's still August. Yep, I know that means it's still summer. But for me, this book seems done and this chapter seems complete. I'm excited that I kept it up and I'm thrilled to be done. As for what's next : I'll be spending the next week or…

  • palm springs minibook.

    I knew when we went to Palm Springs & Palm Desert a few weeks ago that I would want to make a minibook of the trip. I wasn't sure how it would come together but figured I'd fall back on my usual stand-by which is a 4×6 horizontal album in a limited color scheme with…