I am a Cricut DIVA today!!!
I took a chipboard/burlap mini album from Michaels, a 6x6 American Crafts Color Crush paper pad (also from Michaels) and added my Gypsy to create this fun mini album.
I flipped every other page so I would have two pages with the same papers together, then two pages with burlap. Doing this makes the pages more bulky, so I purchased bigger rings.
I made this album with my friend Robin in mind. She just opened a shop in March called Robin's Nest where she sells re-purposed items. She is quite talented and her shop is doing very well!!
I used a bird from Sophie for the cover. I sized it to 13.53 inches (2.42 inches using Real Size as this cuts with a bird cage).
I used Storybook for the font and sized NEST at 1.13 inches.
I used a piece of paper from the paper pad that was all different shades of green with a watercolor pattern.
I added the linen lace to the bottom and some gems. It still needed a little something that I found a little later....
I found the sentiment "this nest is blessed" on 3 Birds on Parade for the first page of the album.
I sized it to 1.59 inches and cut it out of pink (light and bright) cardstock.
I pop-dotted it to the bottom of the photo mat so you can slide a photo behind it.
I added a bird from Sophie (shown two photos below) and I also pop-dotted it on the corner.
The next pages showcase birdies from Straight From the Nest sized to 1.25 inches.
I made a pocket using my ATG gun to put tags for journaling. You can also tuck in extra photos and momentos.
I found the leaf wreath with bird on Lacy Labels and sized it to 6.35 inches. I cut the wreath out of green patterned paper and the birds out of hot pink and dark blue-green papers to match the patterned papers in the album.
The word "Family" is from Letter Envy and I sized one for the cover at 1 inch and one for the inside page at 1.47 inches.
I like how the wreath frames the photo mat.
This tree came from the Heritage cartridge. I sized it to 5 inches and cut it out of the dark blue-green cardstock.
The tree was perfect for the back cover!
Here you can see the bird is pop-dotted on the cover.
I added the word Family to the cover. I have a theme with each mini album I make. Even though many people get that a Nest is like a House for a family, I did not want people to assume I lived with all birds!!
I tied some ribbon to the rings to finish it off.
Thanks for being a DIVA with me today!!
