A couple of years ago I designed and created a very sturdy folio mini album, with the nature-themed Time to Flourish collection by Graphic 45. My mother now owns it, and she asked me to fill it up with some of the awesome closeup pictures my father took, mostly of flowers, insects and birds in their own garden.
And since it’s always nice to see a handcrafted mini album filled up with pictures, I thought I’d share it with you one more time 🙂 .
In the video I’ll be sharing some general tips for filling your mini albums with pictures:
- Don’t be afraid to rigorously crop your pictures when your page design or paper pattern requires it;
- Die-cut your pictures into shapes, like circles, rectangles, squares, labels;
- Apply glitter glue or liquid pearl all around the edges of some of your pictures;
- Fussy cut the main subject from your pictures if the background or the rest of the picture is boring or irrelevant;
- Trim your pictures down to miniature size to fit them onto smaller tags – simply find a picture with a small main subject;
- If two pictures don’t fit onto one page, use washi tape as a hinge for one of them and stack them;
- And last but not least, my favorite: color-coordinate between your pictures and your design paper as much as you can!
If you want to create this yourself, check out my tutorial. I also did a second iteration with a masculine paper collection, you can find that one here.
