You can find the complete minibook here.
Last year, my sister and I went to London for a week. We explored the city and made wonderful memories. About seven months ago we started working on this minibook. Each of us made their own one but because my sister has no experience in creating minibooks I showed her how to do it and she followed my guidance. The whole creating process took us three whole days over the course of seven months. (one, two, three)
THE FOCUS
Unlike my minibook on the road this time the focus is on the photos and not on the text. This is simply because I didn't work on it during the trip but afterwards.
THE WORDS
During our trip we sat down every evening to write down what we did that day. Otherwise we would have forgotten everything. These notes helped us while we worked on our minibook.
THE PHOTOS
Because of the huge amount of photos I didn't print them at home but ordered them online through ifolor.ch.
THE PAPER
We almost only used white and kraft Cardstock from Bazzil. The few patterned paper you can see in the album were pulled from my stash.
THE SIZE
The photos we ordered are 5.25x4 inches so we made our album 5.25x5.25 inches to be able to include the horizontal and vertical photos.
THE PROCESS
We took our notes and all the corresponding photo from one day. Then we decided which photos we wanted to include in our album and added some text to tell what we did on that day and to explain what you'll see in the photos. We didn't use many embellishments. Mostly we just stamped something.
TECHNIQUES (these are just a few photos from the minibook, view the whole minibook here)
BUSINESS CARDS: I like to include business cards into my albums. They hold some useful information and mostly look really good. In the first photo you can see that I made a hole directly into the card. It floats on it's own in the album. In the second photo I stapled it down directly to my page over the photo. I use the second technique whenever I can easily cover a part of my photo.
WRITING ON PHOTOS: I like to write directly onto the photos. I used this technique here on the right side to mark those buildings.
CUT DOWN PHOTOS: The photos we ordered had all the same size: 5.25x4 inches. To create that fake polaroid photo on the right I cut it down to 2.75x3.5 inches and glued it to a piece of paper which I cut down to 3.5x4.5.
TEXT ON A 3X4 CARD: I created a 4x6 canvas in Photoshop Elements where I added two 3x4 boxes on top and wrote my text into the 3x4 box. (We needed two boxes because we made two minibooks) My printer (HP Photosmart C5280 All-in-One) can print onto 4x6 cards. If you don't have the option to print onto smaller pieces of paper, Paislee Press has a great tutorial on how to print onto journaling cards.
I like to use this techniques when I don't have to say a lot but need to fill a big space. The white paper works as a great border around the yellow card.
TEXT ON SMALL PAPER STRIPS: Instead of writing directly onto the photos I wrote those words on my computer and printed them out. Then I cut them down to small paper strips.
USE ITEMS FROM YOUR TRIP: On the left I cut down the map of the subway (or tube how you call it in London) to fit my page and glued it down onto the paper.
That oyster card on the right is a card you can buy to pay less for transportation. There is a £5 ($7.5) deposit on the card and we would have got it back if we returned the card but we decided to keep it to add it to our album.
You can find the complete minibook here.
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