Monday, March 31, 2008

My Home Town...

...that was the subject for Friday's prompt of the "Home" class that I'm taking. Making a minibook featuring photos of your home town. Not the easiest to get photos with me being in a different country (!) to my home town, but some old photos together with my friend Google solved that pretty well :)

But I wasn't going to make it that easy for myself now was I? Instead I had this "great" idea of double-challenging myself. Silly girl!! LOL! So not only did I have the minibook prompt to guide me but I also decided that it was a great (?!) idea to challenge myself into NOT cutting into a single sheet of new paper or cardstock. All I could use was my scraps.

I wanted to see what I could make using only minimum supplies. So I created a book using only paper and card scraps, stamps and 4 alphabet stickers! And I kinda surprised myself with what you can actually achieve with such limited supplies - which was great :) Try it - it makes you feel great :)

The last picture shows a few sample pages from the book. It has 20 pages/photos inside and I just couldn't be bothered to take photos of them all - sorry. LOL!
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6 comments:

  1. Fay aka Beautifullily3/31/2008 11:53 am

    Looks lovely and bright

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  2. Avital3/31/2008 2:30 pm

    Cool idea - beautifully made. I was also thinking about preparing an album using only scraps (and have written a blog post about it). It is so great - it's faster, as you don't need to cut everything and it's very economical, good value for the dollar (as most of my supplies were purchased in the US :) ).

    I'm also living away from my hometown. I'm thinking about making a mini album, juxtaposing my hometown to my current home in Dublin.

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  3. Anonymous3/31/2008 4:08 pm

    Great mini book!!

    And I also love the idea of using scrap paper; I don't have too much of it but I do have a few mini stacks that I could use :)

    Thanks for the idea!!

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  4. Rachel3/31/2008 6:00 pm

    ilovely book really well made

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  5. malaryush4/02/2008 6:31 pm

    Lovely book! and the stamp on the back is just adorable. Where is it from?

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  6. Anonymous4/07/2008 12:06 pm

    Another great project. By chance did you use the Bind-it-All to put your book together?

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