One of the items on my 30@30 list was to make a mini album of my 30th birthday and over the weekend I did it.
In the January sales I picked up some red polka dot manilla folders at Typo (I love that shop!) with the idea of cutting them up. And that's what I did for the base of this book. I cut a folder down into 4x6 sections (leaving the tab on one so I could write on it).
I picked some favourite photos from my birthday weekend and got them printed in smaller sizes. To be honest they are not the best quality photos but the reason I picked them was because they help tell the story.
I used a Simple Stories Happy Days 6x6 mini pad and some stickers to decorate the album as well as some Jenni Bowlin alphabet stickers.
Here's a look...
The cover with the tab left on so I could write the date on it...
Most of the pages have a title starting with "The". This first page is "The day" and it's a list of everything we did on my actual birthday...
"The Gifts" with a list of presents I received. Looking back I didn't get any pictures of my presents all together (must remember to do this in the future) so I used a pretty flower picture I took on the day instead...
"The Zoo" talks about why I chose that activity for my birthday...
"The Red Pandas" - I had to give this experience a full page spread as it was AMAZING! (I used my blog post about the Red Panda Encounter for the wording for this page)...
"The Bolton" talks about where we stayed overnight...
"The Cakes" features a photo of my birthday cupcakes that I'm really pleased with and talks about how the cakes came to be...
As it was an overnight stay it was like my birthday was extended so I had to feature what we did "the next day"...
And the last page "Being 30" lists my birthday favourites and some notes about how now I am 30 it doesn't seem that old anymore!
And the back cover with my name and the date the book was made...
So there you have it. A lovely little reminder of my 30th birthday. It will be interesting to look back at this on my 40th :-)
And now I just need to do something similar for Mr Mischief's 1st birthday as on my 30@30 list I listed "make mini albums for my 30th and baby's 1st birthday" - silly me, why did I lump them in together?!
This format is good though - once you know what you want to include, using the same format for each page (i.e. photos on one side, text on the other) means it comes together quite quickly so hopefully it won't be long before I'm sharing that minibook too!
You can see all sorts of lovely creative projects here.
Love this! It'll be great to look back on.
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