4x8 MiniBook : I Love You Today Because (Includes Free Download + Video Tutorial)
Yesterday I introduced you to a new minibook I had in progress. Here's a look at the finished project and a quick video tutorial on working with these mini line stack word art pieces (supplies are listed at the bottom of the post):
Inside cover :
Throughout this minibook I used some of my mini line stack products from Designer Digitals.
Here's a short video that will show you how to place a variety of .png files on one canvas for easy printing. Click through to Vimeo to view larger :
Ali Edwards' Mini Line Stacks Tutorial from Ali Edwards on Vimeo.
Ali Edwards' Mini Line Stacks Tutorial from Ali Edwards on Vimeo.
Intro photo :
Section One :
The embellishments I used next to each printed element were from a collection of miscellaneous products that had lost their original packaging. This is a great project for giving products like that a home.
For the page opposite each photo I created a series of journaling strips that talk about each person.
Here's a look at the page when it was first printed:
FREE DOWNLOAD : You can download the journal strips here (8.5x11): AEdwards_ILoveYouTodayBecauseJournalStrips
I completed each sentence and then used my trimmer to cut out strips.
Section Two:
Love any chance I can get to incorporate some of his writing. This one I
scanned in and printed on the same cream cardstock I used for the word
art.
Section Three :
Section Four :
Section Five :
Last Page :
Pink Paislee 4x8 Natural Artisan Canvas Album : Two Peas | Scrapbook.com
Jenni Bowlin Large Rub On Butterfly : Two Peas | Scrapbook.com
Ali Edwards Mini Line Stacks : Life | You | Memory | Love | Baby
Basic Grey Fabric Brad : Two Peas | Scrapbook.com
Hamby Transparency : Mod Circles | Grandma's Wallpaper/Cream Pattern | White Butterfly
American Crafts Chipboard Letters Plain
Pattern Papers: American Crafts Adobe Crestview Court (yellow dots) : Two Peas; October Afternoon Sunday Dishes (grey dots) : Two Peas; other specialty paper from Paper Source
7gypsies Naked Color Mini Label Stickets : Two Peas | Scrapbook.com
This is lovely...I am going to use my favorite photos and make myself one - TODAY!
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I love how in the drawing one child is holding a ball and it looks like a peace sign. Inspiring.
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Ali,
I love you today because you shared this wonderful mini wih me.
I love you today because you gave me a great free download.
I love you today because you are you.
I love you today because you have (unknowingly) taught me soooooooo much about scrapbooking.
I love you today because you have the Greatest Blog!
I love you today because I can't imagine life without you.
{vicki}
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Ali!!
Awesome! Thanks for the video! New at all of this and that really helped!! Thanks have a great rest of the week!
Larissa
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amazing and simple. I love it!
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Love the colors in this so gorgeous!
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Beautiful, Ali.
When you find an album you want to use, do you buy several for future use or just one for the project you are planning now?
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Ali this is so beautiful ~ I've fallen in love with mini albums all over again ~ your clean style is perfect for my Iceland weekend trip so I sat down and got on with it today (its been sitting on my workbench since February). Thanks so much for the inspiration yet again.
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Love it! So sweet & of course from the heart as always!
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What a wonderful album!! I love the way you mix transparencies, cardstock & chipboard- it looks effortless and amazing!!
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I'm sorry if I'm missing it from looking at your supply list, but do you remember at all where you got the paper that you used for the last page with the "E" and heart? I LOVE it! Might have just been a scrap I know, but thought I would ask. :)
thanks!
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I might have just answered my own question...is it the Bertini Plumes from PaperSource?
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I am so inspired to write about love! thanks, Ali
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What a gorgeous album. Thank you for sharing.
One question for 4x8 photos, do you print larger and then crop them, set them up in Photoshop first, or some other method.
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oops forgot the question mark... the question is how to you print and crop 4x8 photos? thanks
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Hi Donna - I open the photo in Photoshop and change the height or the width (just one or the other first) to 4 inches or 8 inches and then I crop so that the other measurement is 4 or 8. Sometimes I do print larger but this time I did the exact size and trimmed.
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Yes :).
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Both :). Sometimes I see one that I just love even though I have no project in mind I will purchase it to use in the future. Other times I have a specific project in mind and will go looking for something to work with my ideas.
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wow Ali...I just love this ...your style...awesome..helps to have cutie patooootie kids lol...but really like the album and your stamps!
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THANK YOU so much, Ali! I was able to see the video and it was very helpful :-) Off to Designer Digitals now...
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Love it Ali, maybe this will help bring my scrapbooking mojo back.
And we have the same sandals me here in Australia and you in the USA, how cool is that!
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Awesome! Thank you so much for inspiration!!!!!
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Thanks for the awesome tutorial and freebie d/l Ali! I love how your album came out and I'm going to have to go look for those mini line stacks....so cute!
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it's a lovely book and a great idea, but isn't one member of your family missing? you are a part of the whole, and maybe in ten or twenty or more years when simon or anna or someone else flips through this, they'll be wondering what _you_ were loving, eating, enjoying, thinking today ... just wondering where the "I love myself today because ..." page is. :)
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Wonderful album. Thanks for sharing.
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