3 posts tagged “mini book”

Cover In Progress

I continued to torture the glitter glue pen today, and forged ahead with the creation of the K & Company Mini Book. I have to say that after this experience, I am a big fan of the mini book, and let me tell you why.

First of all, I've always felt like paper scrapbooking limited my style. The alphabet sets were always slightly or extremely smaller than I would have liked, and having done a lot of digital scrapbooking, I am extremely spoiled by being able to resize letters to their proper HUGE status in my layouts. I strongly use what I call my Wonky Letters (TM) style, which consists of me taking gigantic letters, and aligning them on my layouts like a set of crooked teeth. "First letter tilts to the left, next letter tilts to the right, third letter tilts to the left and drops down an eigth of an inch...", etc. My Wonky Letters (TM) style works wonders in the mini book format. This was a pleasant surprise.

Creating a mini book has also forced me to do something that I've always been terrified to do. I have been stretched creatively, and forced to cut photographs with scissors. Cutting up my photographs was probably the number one barrier of entry between me and the wonderful world of scrapbooking, and definitely the reason I chose to dive into digital instead of paper scrapping. When you're creating a digital scrapbook, you simply crop, resize, and save the original version of your photo on a nice hard drive that gets back up nightly to an external back up drive. Cutting a photo? It's like asking me to cut the fingernails of a two day old baby. What if I screw up? Somebody might get seriously injured! I might chop off an arm, or a head!

I had to throw caution to the wind and cut those photos because they were too big to fit on the mini book format. I feel like I've been liberated! I even cut one of the pictures in HALF, and used it in the center of a two page layout. It was like walking on the moon!



Something that I have noticed about the mini book is that my pages are warping. I am not sure if it is the glue stick I'm using, or because the paper is thicker than normal, but the pages are buckling inside. It must be the glue stick. I'm using Scotch Scrapbooker's glue with 2 Way Applicator. Fancy, I know! I don't think I'll be able to do my normal "Three Days with Shakespeare" scrapbook pressing routine where I place the book underneath my college edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare for 3 days, in which anything under its crusing weight comes out flatter than a flapjack. I have a good many 3D elements in the book. But I'll give The Bard a shot, and see if it flattens up before I give it away on Friday.

Today I started a K & Company Mini Book. I combined it with a set of Brenda Walton 3 dimensional flower stickers, and various alpha packs. You know I can't resist mixing it up. While I was out shopping today for a dinner party, I wound up wandering down the craft aisle at Target. Luckily, Target's craft aisle leaves a lot to be desired, so I was not tempted to empty the entire contents of the aisle into my shopping cart. But I did manage to walk out with a couple of 25 cent glitter glue pens.

I've never experimented with the glitter glue pen. Tonight all of that changed. The K & Company mini scrapbook kit comes with a variety of lovely papers, alphabets, tags, stickers, and other scrapbook goodness. It's turned out to be a perfect marriage with my 25 cent glitter glue pen.

I started out using the glitter glue pen to create simple curved lines off of the Brenda Walton flower stickers. Behold the glitter glue pen madness that soon took over my pages. I think I have found a new signature scrapbook supply that screams Beth Berry, Scrapbook Evangalist!

Enjoy. You've been warned. Glitter glue at your own risk.