Mini For A Friend

On Thursday I was able to meet up with a friend I hadn't seen in five years, as she was taking a week to visit Victoria from Calgary. It was so very nice to see her again. I wanted her to have something to remember her trip here by, and thought a mini album would be nice. Since Victoria is often referred to as "The Garden City" I decided I had enough Graphic 45 Secret Garden paper left to create one.

I did something else too. I decided to time myself from the conception with sketches and measurements I figure out, to the completion of the Mini. It took me 13 1/2 hours. That's without inking any paper, lol. I also decided to create eight pages, rather than the traditional six, and because I knew I'd be punching and making flowers, the spacing between pages would be 3/8" rather than the usual 1/4". This made for a very thick Mini with a spine of 4"! The whole Mini measures 6 1/2" w x 5" h x 4" thick. I used two envelopes, glued together, back to back, for each page, thus creating two pockets with each page for the photo tags and the bottom pockets for journaling tags and stuff.

Because I finished the Mini just minutes before meeting up with my friend, I was unable to take a bunch of photos. But, I did have time to make a quick walk through video of the it and later made snapshots from the video. So the photos are not the best.
















So here is the walk through video of this mini.


Thank you so much for joining me today. It was so fun to use one of my favorite old papers again. Hope that you are having a wonderful weekend. Happy papercrafting!


4 comments:

Pet73 said...

This is sooo pretty! Love it!

Sabrina said...

Thank you Pet73, so nice of you to say and glad you like it. Hugs & happy papercrafting!

dreamer said...

What a wonderful mini album, the time it must have taken you to make, and made with love for your friend, I would be blow away if a friend made me one of those. Just so fantastic Thank you. Regards Wendy from Australia

Anneli said...

This is such a pretty and beautiful mini album. You are very talented and give so much inspiration. Have fun crafting. Hugs Anneli