enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: minibooks
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I'm back in San Diego! With access to my own printer! Quick book update with photos and text from NOLA and a little blurb about HP7. Which, by the way, was the greatest ever and my favorite of the series. Yep, typos. Should read summers and fifteen but rolling with it… Simple enough. I turned…
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Back again! I am still up in Sacramento with my parents so I am still sort of working "on the road." I always feel out of sorts when I am not at my desk with my stuff, but so far, I am keeping up pretty well. I added a clothing tag right into the book…
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Still working… I ended up adding most of these travel updates after we got home. As always, the end of the trip got away from me. It worked out though because I was able to add some printed photos. I put together a video tutorial for creating photo grids like the one above awhile back.…
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Right now, my plan is to make a minibook focused just on this Palm Springs / Desert trip once I am back with all my supplies and have all my photos printed. It's going to be a monster, similar to our honeymoon album. But maybe styled different. Not sure. Jury is out. Either way, I…
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My book is growing! On the backside of the sunglass box cardboard, I added a silhouetted photo of some flowers. My rule with silhouettes is if the shape is simple or the background is distracting – chop it. Next to that, I stuck in the packaging that my sample of kate spade twirl perfume came…
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Moving right along. I filmed a video for this next update that walks through the pages. One thing that I mentioned in it was how for me it's important to not re-invent the wheel with every new page spread. You'll notice a few "repeats" in photo and text layout this time around. I like that…
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Moving along… lots to include these past few days. I added letter/number stickers from an office supply store to both sides of the grid transparency to represent how many miles I ran in the half-marathon. I like these letter stickers because no matter what letters you're working with, they are the same size. This was…
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Moving along with this album… I reformatted my "hello june" graphic from Wednesday into a 4×6 image and printed it out on plain white paper. I backed it with the orange patterned paper from the album (it was further back and I just pulled it up) and part of a photobooth strip taken at the…
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Hooray! More progress! I talk about this a bit at the beginning of the video, but I want to mention it again : I am putting no emphasis on “daily updates” to this album. Whatever says “SUMMER” (in all caps) gets in. And whatever doesn’t say “SUMMER” stays out. This is keeping the pressure off…
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More than likely, your summer is going to include an event or two where you take lots of photos. My first one happened last weekend at the wedding we attended and we have a few more little trips scheduled the next few months. I am planning on making a grid similar to the one shown…
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