Hey everyone! I’m excited to be back with another project Guest
Designing for Cocoa Vanilla Studio! This time I have made a mini album. It is a
box in the shape of a rainbow, with an arch shaped mini album inside!
To make the box, I started with the front and back covers. I
hand drew a rainbow onto a piece of scrap cardstock and cut it out and then
used this as a template. I traced around it onto lots of different papers from
the A5 paper stack and cut them all out, then distressed the edges and layered
them all together. I then mounted this onto a piece of white card and cut out
leaving a white border. I added pink hand stitching around the edge using
embroidery thread I did all this twice so I had identical rainbows, one for the
front of the box and one for the back.
To make the clouds I did the same: hand-drew a cloud onto a
piece of scrap cardstock and cut it out to use as a template. I drew around it
onto that super-cute ditsy heart print which I cut out and mounted onto white
card. I added pick stitching around all of the clouds, then added them to my
rainbows.
To make the inside part of the box, I used yellow cardstock
to make an insert. I make these really simple, just two pieces of cardstock cut
and folded – you can see more details on the process video.
With the box assembled, I moved on to making the mini album
itself. I again created a template from white cardstock for the pages and cut
that out. I then used this as a template for all pages. I drew them onto more
papers from the A5 Paper Stack and cut them out. I then stuck them all
together, back to back, to make a super-easy album, which I secured around the
outside with ribbon.
I embellished the front of the box with a Chipboard Title, a
few pieces of Floral Ephemera, a fussy cut butterfly and some phrase stickers. I
also added the title ‘Rainbow Run’ using those adorable Mini Puffy Alphabet
Stickers, to one of the clouds.
To embellish the album itself, I wanted to include the
wooden medal from the Rainbow Run (this mini album is all about a sponsored run
I took part in) and the actual ribbons from the medals at the event. I managed
to incorporate those onto the front page and the ribbons are what tie the album
together I think it’s really great to include momentums like that within albums
if possible and these were perfect!
The album itself is quite interactive – I have 40 photos to
include, so it had to be! Some pages have photos that flip up or flip out,
there is a ball-chain containing 11 photos, there is also a pocket page. On one
of the pages, I made a shaker pocket: I cut a piece of acetate to the same size
as the page, pierced holes all the way around the edge and chain stitched with
the same pink thread used for the album covers, trapping the sequins inside. I
love how this looks!
I used more papers from the A5 paper stack throughout the
album to decorate the pages and mount my photos. I’ve also used lots of Floral
Ephemera, Phrase Stickers and several of
the puffy heart stitchers throughout the album. I also used some of the other
Chipboard Titles to make feature pages.
I absolutely love how this turned out, it is just adorable
and so pretty to look at and I had the perfect photos for a rainbow album! I
really hope you have enjoyed it too.
Happy scrapping
Niki
@nikiclairecreates
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