Sharing Your Story : New Book Giveaway

wow great giveaway! i just discovered your blog last week, so happy that i did! can't wait for your new book, i'm planning to do mini books for my daughter. she's 14 months and loves pictures, so hopefully little chunky mini books full of family pictures will get her attention!

I have so many projects just starting, but my favorite minibook was probably the 2007 Year-In-Review - I did it because I was so "behind" and didn't want a year of big changes to get overlooked until I could "properly" scrap it. It turned out to be a great overview and much better than I anticipated!
Thanks for the giveaway!

I can't wait to get my hands on your new book. I love mini albums, I especially love the feeling of completing them rather quickly. My favorite mini album was one I made for my girlfriend after returning home from our cruise together for my 40th birthday. I loved the album so much I made one for me too.

I just completed a mini-book through a class I took with Shimelle Laine. The class was called My Freedom. Great class and I love the little book! Love that "this one's done!" feeling.

My favorite mini album that I've completed is the one I created for my best friend as a graduation present. It had pictures of us over the previous four years and cute little notes throughout. He loved it! I'm looking forward to buying your book, but if I can win it, all the better! Thank you!

My favorite mini-book..hard to say...I love them all! I think my favorite has to be the "Paper Bag" albums I've made from various places I've lived. They highlight friends from that area. They've helped with the transition of moving. I've made them right away. Quick, easy and emotionally helpful!!!

My favorite mini-books are the Ali-inspired fabric valentines book. (I made 3 as love letters to the 'men' (DH, 2DS) in my life.)
And my next favorite is a mini I did of our Hawaii vacation- just looking at the pics takes me back!
I am planning a couple mini-books at the moment- one from our first summer trip to Boise, and one for our last summer trip to Seattle. LOVE THEM Mini-books!

I'm in the process of creating a mini album featuring schoolwork and art projects for my oldest son, who just started 2nd grade. When the little one starts school next year, I'll make one for his stuff too!

I just completed a mini-book through a class I took with Shimelle Laine. The class was called My Freedom. Great class and I love the little book! Love that "this one's done!" feeling.

I'm currently doing a mini album called Love Birds about me and my sweetie Isaiah. It is a book about our relationship how it started to where it is now. I have pictures on my blog.

my favorite minibook is the first one i ever made--it was for my son on valentine's day and included everyone in his life that he loves. he saw it in my scrap room just yesterday and said, "you know mom, this is mine."

My favorite mini-book was a "Happy Book" I put together last year. Positive quotes, books, things I love (both written and visual like food labels etc.) It is made mostly with memorabilia and other things + words. Hardly any traditional photos. I love it!
Can't wait to read your book!

My FAVORITE mini book project was a fabric album that I made from scratch (with help on the idea) regarding this spring that turned out to be quite interesting involving graduation, floods and trips. Yee ha!

Well Ali,
That would be the minibook Why I love Nova Scotia, which you may have seen;) I am currently working on one for my 18 year old on HOUSE RULES(all the things he CAN do as he enters his 1st year of University!!!) It's just about finished.... after that I want to create a minibook about my Mom for my brother & sisters to have. I love minibooks from scratch!

One of my favorite mini books was inspired by one of your acrylic books. I made a book of the St. Paul Winter carnival for my son. He loves it.
I have a copy of your book on order w/Cocoa Daisy but I have a friend that is just getting into scrapbooking and I"d LOVE to give her your book for inspiration!!!

Can't wait to devour your new book! I love minis! My favorites are the ones I make my husband for Father's Day each year. They incorporate pictures of him and the kids from the previous year. I love looking through them to see how everyone has grown and changed.

I've been reading your blog since February and have been trying to get up the nerve to create a miniBook ever since. I want to be crafty, I'm just not sure that I am.
I'm getting married in October and have decided that I'll make a miniBook all about my Honeymoon. fingers crossed. I'll let you know how it goes.

I have been inspired to make alot more mini's than usual. My favorite one to date is the one that is always in progress. I took inspiration from a project that you created in Life Artist. It is pieces of my life and I have words and photos and journaling all in there separated alphabetically. I love to flip through this book to see what I have currently in each category, and see where I was, and see where I am going. Everything in that book is a representation of me. My likes and dislikes, my family, career. It is ever changing just like me. And it was about time I had an album focusing on me.
Thanks for all your inspiration, and congrats on your new baby. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
:) Jen

My fav was a book I did of a eulogy a friend did for her janitor friend. It had no photos at all, just the hand-written words I wrote of the eulogy. I presented it in book form to her a few days after the funeral. The lady, though a janitor, was "Jesus" to her in the flesh. Her caring, her demeanor, her servant-heart. It spoke to me at the funeral, her words and the testimony of the elderly ladies life...never married, no children, just a life that testified to greatness.

I would like to make a mini album/journal about my mission trip to Africa. I want to include pictures of the people I met and what I learned through the process.
By the way Congratulations on your baby on the way.