ever since i saw my friend amanda start her summer minibook i was super jealous and wanted one for myself. seemed like a lot of work and i was living with my parents for the summer so i didn't have my art supplies with me. as i saw amanda's progress i was even more certain that i wanted a summer minibook of my own. by the time she posted her last installment here i was inspired. but by then the summer was pretty much over and collecting all my pictures and ticket stubs from the summer seemed overwhelming so i decided i would just wait till next summer. then i thought, heck, i can make a minibook for any time of the year that i want. i got some more inspiration from amanda's inspiration at minibook by elise and then got started.
i used all my favorite ideas from amanda and elise. and a couple of my own. not much has happened to me so far (besides school), but i'm excited for more picture-worthy stuff to happen this semester so i can add it to my book.
i think i'm going to redo the cover bought cool stamps and some cheap ink. learned my lesson.
really enjoying the lamination but i don't actually know if the colors will last. we'll see. lamination $1.99 for 8.5"x11"
like to start off the month with my horoscope. usually i get my magazines so far in advance that by the time the month starts that the horoscope if for, i have forgotten what it told me. not that i believe in that kind of thing...but for instance, if it said "on the 6th, you will compliment a guy on his jukebox picks and hit it off..." then i will make sure to be at a bar that has a jukebox on the 6th. just in case.
look how cute addy is!
photo montage on the right is me making it through my most hated high ropes challenge. made it through again with a little coaching. i sewed the photo sleeve into 4 different compartments. idea compliments of elise.
i bought an embossing label maker! the picture on the right is of me being stuck because my safety line got stuck and i lost my momentum. left hanging in the middle there. not a big deal of course because of my safety harness, but sometimes you forget about that when you're hanging up there.
the picture across two pages thing. i'm a big fan.
date stamp!
things i like this month in cosmo + horoscope.
half pages...i'm working on using more of them.
- Be more creative - channel my inner "elise". it's hard to get past traditional scrapbooking and really be creative. i'm good at copying though so i'll do that for now.
- More words. Besides telling a story with picture...I want to actually tell a story with words. this will be half journal/half scrapbook/half mementos keeper (so maybe each a third). i want this to really be a memory.
- i went with the 2" rings so obviously i plan on my life getting way more interesting. thanksgiving and Christmas break will be in there so it shouldn't be a problem to fill them up. should change the title to "fall semester twenty eleven" ?
- use more circles. have a circle cutter now to make this possible
- use more sewing. only used it the one time. need to master sewing paper first...not the same as fabric turns out.
- possibly find more things to laminate because lamination makes me happy
- would like to get my own printer working so i don't have to pay through the nose for all the prints.
- use more "clear paper" patterns (apparently they are called overlays), like this one except for vet med and especially these or some even cooler ones that are in my head, but don't seem to exist in real life. will have to check the scrapbook store in Pullman, Michael's is deficient in overlays.
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