Mini Album Revisited: Flip-Through + New Add-Ons for More Photos & Extra Embellishment

 mini album refresh

This post is a follow up to a video tutorial I recently did and is now living on my YouTube channel called: 

Mini Album Revisited: Flip-Through + New Add-Ons for More Photos & Extra Embellishment

It's a mini album walk through + tutorial. I wanted/needed to add even more photos and embellishments. It's part flip-through, part tutorial. Yes! Wonderful creative play.

Have you ever wanted to revisit a mini album? Refresh it a bit? Give it new life? Well then, today is your day!

Watch the full video tutorial HERE

Why is this so fun? Why is adding even more creativity to a mini album, or any project for that matter, such a fun time? It's always satisfying to open up a past project and give it a good perusal. I do that ALL the time. It's a whole other thing to also give it a new layer of meaning. Perhaps you have new photos. Perhaps you never finished putting all the photos in place. Maybe your perspective of the story is now different and you need that story to live in the album.

And is it not fun to simply re-work embellished layer ideas and try our imagination with some fresh building up of the elements we love? I for one am here for that.

Not only that...perhaps you just need some creative play that is not only fun but low pressure. I hear you all out there. A little overwhelmed that you are behind. Behind in telling your story. Maybe you need to revisit a previous project just to simply remember why it is you started this beloved past time in the first place.

Creating with the things we love is part of why we do this in the first place. We have our favorite brands. Our favorite collections. Our favorite ways to put it together. As I added to this mini album I did just that. I pulled together:

• leftover ephemera from the original collection (which was 49 and Market Summer Porch)
• I refreshed with a pop of good color
• added lovely new layers to create a new page
• curated leftover photos that were creatively added in with an interactive technique

Even if one is revisiting an older make, use the thing that you love. Which was just what happened here in this album refresh.

Now, as always, I preach the 'gather'. If you want to create good creative flow, it's best to gather all the supplies first. It works so very well to have all the elements I think I am going to use within arm's reach to keep me focused and on task and actually getting the project to completion.

For me this includes:

• SortNStack trays to hold ephemera and laser cuts and die cuts
• not to mention all my crafting essentials at the ready
• and then all the pattern scraps of paper organized just in case I need more paper

WATCH THE PROCESS

In the video walk thru and tutorial I will:

• walk through the original mini album
• show a new embellishment process
• share a fresh interactive technique for adding in more photos without adding more pages

Have you ever revisited a mini album?

Do you like to go back and finish unfinished projects? Or do you leave them exactly as they were and say something is better than nothing? Would love love to hear from you and how your mini albums take shape.

Be sure and watch video linked HERE.

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