The Scrapbook Garden - Birthday Book

This is my 8th design from the Scrapbook Garden

kit 3

Ive tried to make this birthday book completely

from papers form the Basic Grey Sweet Threads pack.

With the exception of the actual book which was made

with my Bind-it-all , some Prima flowers

in vintage green some liquid pearls of which you can find a fab selection here

and some rubber stamped quotes from my collection

all of the pages have included die cut shapes using the

Basic Grey Sweet Threads paper pack.

Ive often been asked to make a mini book that is ready

 to just accept some photographs by people

who are not crafters, but then thought this was

actually a good idea to make to give someone as a gift

enabling them to choose their favourite pictures to be included in it themselves.

The pages dont need alot of decoration like a Scrapbook

just something to enhance the photos , whatever the size.

I used a bind-it-all perspex cover so that the design

on the front page could be seen.

I thought a birthday book would be a good idea

as I for one am always forgetting birthdays .

I started by punching the holes in my pages , I chose black pages

so that the colourful papers from the Basic Grey Sweet Threads

stood out well.

I cut out some months of the year to put onto the alternative pages

to record the birthdays .

I decided to make these pages all very similar and added

the flowers and some punched butterflies to each

of them. I added the liquid pearls to the centre of the

flowers and left them to set overnight.

I also cut a selection of long tags to have between the pages.

I decided to put my quotes on these just in case

when the photos were added the quotes didnt quite match up.

I fastened them into the bind-it-all wire and placed them at

various heights in various pages. I also added some ribbon to them to finish them off.

I then went on decorating the pages with various die cuts using the

colourful papers.

I tried to keep the die cuts to a minimum

leaving plenty of room to add photos if needed

I finshed by adding a handmade label to the back cover.

Im pleased with my little birthday book Im sure it will come in very handy.

I imagine I will make more of these for little gifts

Thanks for stopping by my blog as always its

much appriciated.