Sharing Your Story : New Book Giveaway

Mini books have completely changed the way I scrapbook, finally liberating me from thinking everything had to be done chronologically. Recently I worked on one that I gave to my parents highlighting their recent anniversary party. I loved putting it together and reliving the fun of the event.

I plan on making a minibook about preparing my classroom and supplies for my first classroom!

A mini book I'm trying to get started is my college graduation book. So many photos of our senior show and the graduation ceremony. Where to start?? :)

I can't wait to see the new book. I am multi tasking and working on 3 mini books. The 1st is a 3 day vacation to Fla. we took to see the shuttle launch. 2nd a mixed up mini we did at Windy City (love it) on my kids 1st 30 days of H.S. and lastly the mini from cocoa daisy I'm doing a recap of their fab summer.
whew tired thinking about it. Donelle

I'm planning a minibook about my grandmother who died in 1995. I have various pictures of her, her house, her yard, etc. Until recently I had no idea what to do with them. I'm inspired to put them together to tell her story so my children know this person they'll never meet, but who helped make me who I am today.

I just finished a mini book of my daughter's 5th birthday party. She had a penguin beach party and I used the Shore Thing product line, so much fun. Good luck with the release of your new book.

My favorite mini is one I just made for my friend about our trip to Chicago for the 4th of July. I had gotten a really cool mailer from l'occitane. It had all these neat little flaps that just kept opening, so neat to transformed into a mini. Since it was a mailer the back was a postcard set up that I just modified to mail to her. Seriously so much fun! I mailed it on Friday so I havent heard the results yet :)

I can't wait to see this book! My favorite mini book project I've completed was from a trip I took to Paris with my 5 year old niece. I included tickets and little snippets from our trip! I love it!

Hi Ali,
My favorite Mini-book is the one that I made for my Mom and sister. It was one of my first ones that I made for my daughter Kyeli Isabella. It was perfect for them b/c it had a lot of pockets and tags that they could pull out as well as flip through the photos.
I plan on making another one for my best friend's daughter. Since our daughters were best friends and they moved away, I wanted to capture their last night together and all the fun photos I captured of them giggling all through the night.
Thanks for all the inspiration!
Hugs, Vida

I've just made my very first one...using almost all recycled materials. I'm thinking the next one will be detailing a senior year or a sports season.

My favorite minibook project chronicles my son's Kindergarten year. I'm looking forward to creating a favorite photos minibook and one about our summer vacation as soon as the kiddos return to school. Thanks for sharing. The new book looks fantastic!!

i'm just beginning the adventures of "minibooking".
my first one (that is currently being worked on) is an ABC album of my son. each letter stands for something - A = aunts, B = buddy (grandpa), C = crawling, etc. i have a picture and very little journaling (basically a word or phrase) for each. i originally thought of doing this in his baby book (a 12x12). thank goodness, you always inspire me, ali!
congrats again on your new life!

This weekend I have been planning a mini book of my daughters webkins. Since they aren't allowed to take them to school I thought a little book would be fun to have to talk about them with her friends. My idea is coasters on ball chain with photos of each webkin, embellishments, papers etc...

I love mini albums, and the one I am working on now is my current favorite. It's one of me and my husband and our dates!

Oooh, I'm dying to have your new book! I am currently working on a vacation minibook from our trip to Wisconsin this summer. I'm using your July Cocoa Daisy kit. I love the stamps and clear/chipboard album!

I have a set of photos from my dd's princess tea party birthday that I am planning to put into a minibook. I am excited to have it made for her to flip through whenever she wants.
Love the idea of minibooks and can't wait to see your book.

For my mom's 72nd birthday, I threw a party complete with decorations, table setting, presents, flowers, etc., and invited six of her close friends. I took lots of pictures, had each lady create a mini-book page, and interspersed those with pages for the pictures, and sentiments about my mom. I made it very frilly and feminine, and the last page is a "Thank you" from me. She LOVES the book and shows it to everyone!

I am currently collecting my little guy's favorites at nearly three. The small mini album features his loves for right now. Uploading pictures and pulling supplies to make during his nap this week while big brother is at Kindergarten!

Our family was baptized all together Aug 10 and I want to make a mini book for each of my daughters to have of the event. I don't have a ton of pictures because I was getting baptized, too, but I do have some good ones from friends. A mini album would be a perfect thing for my daughters!

I'm about to do a minibook for a very good friend of mine to put some wedding photos in. I have a pile of them and she has a pile of nice ones too, so i'll fill in some of them and leave the others for her to fill in along with some journaling spaces for her to record her memories and thoughts. It's going to be a suprise for her and I hope she likes it!