A Present for ME!

So, I posted earlier how I had been reading all over my favorite blogs about Stacy Julian's challenge to Give Yourself a Present. She said to use the Bazzill Mini Mono 3" x 3" albums for this, but honestly, do they even make those anymore? They're certainly not on the Bazzill website that I can see! I don't have any in my stash either.

Fortunately, I am pretty dang clever (if I do say so myself) and I figured out how to make them from scraps a few years back, back when only Kolo made them. Also, since I'm cheap (haha) it just makes more sense to make them from all the scraps I have on hand instead of going out to try and find and buy one.

Here is my finished album:

Instead of punching out photos with a square punch and hand journaling, I laid it all out in Photoshop and then printed them on one sheet of photo paper. It did take a while, but I think the end result looks nice and polished.

I used a 12" x 3" scrap of Imaginisce cardstock, a metal Making Memories frame, and a little bit of May Arts sheer ribbon.

These are my pages. If you click on this, it should show you the larger, readable version. The digital brushes were found on a website called Brusheezy and are called Room 122 Hand Drawn Florals. I did end up just using photos from my blog for this project. No stress, just sitting down and making something. Sometimes, that's just what you need to do, you know?

I posted directions for this album, as well as the simplified version, with photos to follow.