SUMMER FUN ADVENTURE MINI ALBUM | with Conny

Hello Crafty Friends! This is Conny from The Daily Life of Creativity with my second project using the Summer Fun Collection by Doodlebug Design. If you missed the first project, watch the process video here. I created another beautiful mini album using this same collection,  this time using the cards and envelopes - no chipboard needed!

I used the Summer Assortments Card pack, which comes with six card bases and six envelopes. I originally planned to create an accordion-style mini album, but I wanted to give it a little twist. I started by making the accordion-style base, using both smaller and larger card bases. For the front section, I used the smaller card base measuring 5½” x 4¼”. You will need two of these. For the back section of the accordion, I used the card base measuring 4½” x 6¼”.

Inside the back card base (4½” x 6¼”), I added another smaller slim card measuring 3¼” x 6¼” for extra layers and interaction. On top of the slim card in the back, I layered a blue envelope, perfect for tucking in fun little bits and pieces. Behind the envelope, I adhered a piece of yellow cardstock from the coordinating cardstock pack, measuring 6” x 4”. On the opposite side, I used a sheet from the 6x8 paper pad featuring 3x4 cut-apart cards. I folded the sheet in half across the 3x4 cards and attached it to a flap, creating an opening pocket so you can slide items inside. To finish it off, I added coordinating cardstock to one side of the 3x4 cards to create a dedicated space for photos.

For the cover page, I started with the Seashells by the Seashore patterned paper, cut to 5¼” x 4”. On top of that, I layered the coordinating orange cardstock, cut to 3½” x 4¾”. Next, I added the Summer Fun circle sticker using foam adhesive for dimension. The little umbrella from the Odds & Ends pack was also popped up on foam adhesive. To the right, I placed the Palm Beach Doodle-Pop sticker, and the word Adventure (from the Chit Chat Ephemera pack) also adhered with foam adhesive for extra lift. Finally, I tucked in a few small flower stickers from the mini sticker sheet to complete the cover design.

For the next page, I used a Summer Fun patterned paper and cut it to 10½” x 4”. On the 10½” side, I scored at 5¼”, then adhered it directly onto the card base. On the front flap, I added the “Best Vacation Ever” sentiment from the Chit Chat pack, along with a palm tree from the Odds & Ends pack. I also included the Paradise tab, a small crab sticker from the Mini Icons sticker sheet, and the Aloha puffy sticker. This flap opens by pulling the Paradise tab. When fully opened, there is space for two photos. Inside, I placed a “Life Is But a Dream” ephemera piece to complete it. 

For the Thinking of You page, I matted the base with a piece measuring 5¼” x 4”. I used the Water Babies patterned paper from the 12” x 12” sheet, which is also available in the 6” x 8” paper pad. I decorated the page with a small crab from the Sticker Book and the “Thinking of You” sentiment from the Chit Chat pack, adding a little fish sticker for a playful touch. The sentiment is only adhered to the corner, so you can easily tuck a photo underneath it.

For the Hello Sunny Days / Happy Birthday page, I started by matting the top section with Water Babies patterned paper (also found in the 6” x 8” paper pad) cut to 5¼” x 4”. Along the bottom edge of this panel, I added a floral border strip for a pop of color. At the top, I placed the “Hello Sunny Days” title from the Chit Chat ephemera pack. On the right edge, I attached the Hello Beautiful tag from the Odds & Ends pack, allowing it to act as a decorative tab. For the bottom section, I matted a piece of coordinating patterned paper to 5¼” x 4”, then layered yellow cardstock on top, cut slightly smaller, to serve as a photo mat. At the bottom, I added the Happy Birthday sentiment from the sticker sheet, along with the adorable little octopus sticker.

Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope you’re inspired to recreate this project. This album is completely chipboard-free, so if you’ve ever been intimidated by building albums with chipboard and wrapping paper, this one is right up your alley! You can use any card bases you have on hand or even create your own and decorate them with the Summer Fun Collection by Doodlebug Design. As always, thank you for visiting, and I love you all! With love,  Conny

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DOODLEBUG PRODUCTS USED

8925 Summer Fun 6x8 paper pad 
8943 summer fun solid assortment 
8927 summer fun- this and that cardstock stickers 
8937 paradise palms double-sided cardstock
8929 summer fun double-sided cardstock
8936 seashells by the seashore double-sided cardstock
8933 beach picnic double-sided cardstock
8932 water babies double-sided cardstock
8924 summer assortment cards & envelopes

8906 summer fun, mini icons
 8923 Summer Fun -Bits and Pieces 
Palm Beach- Doodle-pops 

OTHER

Double-Sided Tape
Liquid Glue 
Cutting and Scoring Board  
Foam Adhesive 
Scissors 

FARMHOUSE ACCORDION ALBUMS | with Niella

Hi crafty crew! How nice to see you today! I hope you've had a beautiful Thanksgiving celebration and had a wondrous time to reflect, reconnect and relax with your friends and family! How stuffed did you manage to get with all the yummy trimmings! With December only a couple days away, let's have some Fall inspiration to get you memory keeping - enter my next Farmhouse project; mini accordion albums! And there is a fun video showcase at the end my friends!

These sweet gems are 4x4.5" and 3.5x4" each. I made each album by starting with three pieces of chipboard and wrapping each with a strip of 12x12 Farmhouse patterned paper. The papers I used for the covers are Farmhouse and Fall Floral. The smaller album is covered with Fall Floral and Country Calico. I love all the papers, but these ones I used were destined to be! So fitting :-)

After I made and decorated the covers, I grabbed a couple sheets of white 12x12" cardstock and cut two strips to fit inside the album. You'll need to bind one edge to the other, creating a long 24" strip. This will serve as all the "pages" in the album. Score each page evenly and fold. Secure one end inside the back cover. You can then have the pages in and out of the cover. Next I decorated the pages with tabs and bits from the Bits & Pieces ephemera pack. Look how cute those wee tags look!

Once the cover was completed and the strip of page was folded into "pages" then comes the BEST bit ever of decorating! There is so much happiness enclosed in each Doodlebug collection, and Farmhouse is no exception! I can't tell you how much I love opening the Odds & Ends, Bits & Pieces and Chit Chat ephemera packs. You will never be short of goodies!

Here I made pop up pieces, tuck spots, tuck in areas and used Shaped Sprinkles here and there. Look how cute the kitties look all nested on the padded chair.

I Hope you've found inspiration today! Please remember to tag us in our your Socials when you create with Doodlebug so we can all admire your creativity! We love seeing your creations. Thanks for stopping by y'all, until next time doodle dee!

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DOODLEBUG PRODUCTS USED

Farmhouse collection

OTHER

chipboard

foam squares

cardstock

DOODLEBUG SHAKERS MINI SNOW GLOBE ALBUM | with Traci

Hello everyone! Traci here and today, I'm sharing a new shaker mini album I created with the DIY Snow Globe Kit and the beautiful Hello Again Collection. I'm a mini album girl and can usually find a way to turn anything into a little scrapbook and fill it with photos. Any size, any shape, any theme - I got you! So, when I saw the adorable Snow Globe Kit my brain immediately thought of this ...

It's a snow globe shaped holder with a round, removable mini album inside! Oh, how I love Doodlebug. They have so many cute supplies that inspire fun projects. 

And speaking of fun ... I started by decorating the outside of the snow globe. I used flowers from the Bits & Pieces, some gold enamel heart sprinkles, the 6x6 aqua Forever Flowers print, and the gold title sticker from the This & That sheet.

I designed the album's cover to be a shaker and filled it with the cutest little Spring Flowers Shakers from the Bunny Hop Collection. The colors of those flowers are so pretty! 

The album's pages were created in an accordion style, so ... there are no rings or binding clips that would prevent it from fitting inside the snow globe.

I love the Hello Again Collection and thought it was perfect for this spring mini. I used the 12x12 Pink Poppies print on the rim and inside the shaker, the 12x12 Spot of Spring (Bunny Hop Collection) and the Green Thumb paper. Then embellished with some mini icon stickers and two little trees from the puffy shapes.

Let's take a quick look inside the mini, then I'll walk you through the steps of how I made this project.

I covered all the white card stock pages with 12x12 pattern papers, except for the one pink page above where I used a 6x6 sheet of the Pink Poppies. I also added the cute vase of flowers from the icon stickers.

To make the photo mats, I used a 3" scallop circle punch and a 2.5" circle punch. On this page, I chose the pretty Patchwork Plaid for the mat and added a butterfly icon sticker.

This cute little rainbow icon sticker has a pretty gold foil scalloped edge that I just adore, but ... it also mimics the scallops and the shape of my photo mat! 

Time for the tutorial ...

1. Using my Silhouette Cameo 5 machine and card stock, I cut out the following:

• 1 pattern ring (4.25”)
• 6 white rings (4.25”)
  
• 10 white circles (4.25”)
• 10 pattern circles (4”)

2. I stacked and glued the 6 white rings together to provide dimension for the shakers. Then, I glued a 4.25” acetate circle (that I cut out by hand) to one side.  

3. I added .25” foam squares around the edge of the paper side of the rings and set that aside.

4. For the pages, I adhered the pattern circles to the white circles. I laid 5 of them out side-by-side, glued a long piece of ribbon across them, and glued the remaining 5 circle sets on top (white circles facing in & sandwiching the ribbon). Trim off the excess ribbon on either end.

5. On the front side of the first page, I created the scene with mini icon stickers. I sprinkled on some cute spring flower shakers and adhered the acetate frame (from step 3) on top to create the cover.  

Slip the cute mini inside the Snow Globe, replace the backing that comes with it, and voila!! My spring album project is done. I can't wait to add some spring photos to this little album. 

I hope today's project with the DIY Snow Globe Kit and the Hello Again Collection inspires something wonderful! Until next time ... happy crafting 😊

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DOODLEBUG PRODUCTS USED

DIY Snow Globe Kit

Hello Again Collection

Bunny Hop Spring Flowers Shakers

12x12 Spot Of Spring (Bunny Hop Collection)

OTHER

White Ribbon

HELLO AGAIN ACCORDION ALBUMS | with Niella

Hi there my fantastic crafty crew! How fast is the year going already? It's late July and we have so much more crafting to do right! Today I am so excited to showcase the newest collection by Doodlebug Design - Hello Again! So much prettiness + cheerfulness in one collection! I've decided to take inspiration from one of the collections features which is books! Here I'm created accordion paged books with a twist, so cute!

These books are sized 3.5 x 4.25" and 3 x 4" by 1.25" thick. Cute right! But how do you embellish each page you may ask? Well, here's the twist...it's all one 24" in length page and you simply pull one end out and it spreads across your tabletop :-) I adore different ideas and takes on a classic project and you will too!

Once you pull out the full length and you can go wild decorating each as much as you want or gift as plain and let your lucky recipient decorate! These books are all decorated and ready to add photos and journaling too, even better that the back is all plain so you can put hidden journaling on the back if you wish.

You can have your one page as long as you want or as short; each page folds up against each and I've decorated with everything I could add :-) I've used the 6x6" paper pad, Odds & Ends, Bits & Pieces, Chit Chat ephemera and dotted around sprinkles and shape sprinkles. Sweet! I've even die cut a wee window and lined it with the Gold Dot acetate in the Hello Again collection, double joy!

And have you seen the extra pieces this collection has? The Little Charmers, which come with bonus matching gold links - I've added one to each of the outer spines, too sweet! Once you've finished styling your "pages", you simply tuck the page back in and it'll hold in place as the cover doesn't open all the way out and it keeps it's shape :-)

Hope you've found inspiration today! Please remember to tag us in our your Socials when you create with Doodlebug so we can all admire your creativity! We love seeing your creations. Thanks for stopping by y'all, until next time doodle dee!

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DOODLEBUG PRODUCTS USED

Hello Again Collection

OTHER

chipboard

foam squares

CUTE & CRAFTY ACCORDION MINI ALBUM | with Traci

Hey Doodlebug friends! Today, I have a fun accordion style mini album to share with you that I made with the Cute and Crafty Collection, some 4x4 Doodlebug cards and that adorable little shaker pops. I was so excited to finally use this with it's colorful sequins!

I started with some Doodlebug tri-fold cards I found in my stash. They came from various card and envelope packs. Since Doodlebug's color schemes have been the same for 20 years, you can mix and match products from various collections and they will always match beautifully. I 💗 that!

 

To make this accordion album, I used 4 cards in bubblegum, limeade, swimming pool & cupcake. I adhered panel 3 of the tri-fold card to panel 1 of the card after it, until all 4 cards were connected.

 

 

I used a mix of the 12x12 patterned papers, 6x6 paper pad and white cardstock to cover each side of the card, creating a cute page and mat on both the front and back sides. Then I added die cut pieces and sprinkles throughout.

 

 

I love the new Bits and Pieces. There are 95 different die cuts in the package and I may have used half of them in this mini, lol! The flowers, leaves, cute tags and different shapes are the perfect accent with the colorful prints.

 

I used the window on the front of the card to act as a frame for the cute jar die cut and a 3x4 card from the Precious Posies paper to make a fun flip-up.

 

For these pink pages, I cut 2 die cuts (from the Bits and Pieces) in half for added interest and embellished with some adorable little enamel flower sprinkles. Love!

 

The Perfectly Plaid paper on the page above is so pretty and on the reverse side, there are 25 squares with adorable images. That's where I got the cute little Polaroid card from. I love adding folding elements to my albums and these are perfect for them.

 

I hope this mini album and the colorful Cute and Crafty collection inspires you to create a fun mini for your own memories. Happy crafting!

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Doodlebug Product Used:

Cute & Crafty collection

Sequin Jar Shaker-Pops

Bits and Pieces

Odds and Ends

 Bright Bouquet & Love This! Sprinkles

Chunky Twine - swimming pool