Paper Girl: A Mini Book...

I'm not a scrapbooker...while I admire the work of those who put together fabulous albums documenting their lives, I get a little too overwhelmed with all the detail and options involved in getting a final product. Despite that, I do have a desire to gather reminders and photos from various events into something I can look back on in years to come. I've been inspired by the mini books I've seen several bloggers create, so I decided to try my hand at one for a weekend getaway that my guy & I went on back in July.

We went for a long weekend over the 4th of July weekend to Burlington, VT. We did some hiking, watched some fireworks, and checked out some sites. Along the way, I saved everything and took lots of pictures. A couple of weeks ago, I finally set aside some time to work on a mini book for our weekend.

Here are a few pictures of how I put it all together:

A few notes on what I did:

I created a tabbed page for each day and listed out the itinerary for the day. All photos, memorabilia, etc. that I gathered from the activities for that day were organized in chronological order by day.
I adhered photos back to back so the back of the photo is never exposed. This also gave the "pages" a bit more substance.
For any ticket stubs, I just punched holes in them and added them into the book.
I added journaling through various manners: washi tape on the photos, created tags for longer journaling, used other diecuts to create journaling labels

*EDIT* I've had a couple of questions on how I made the tabs. Apologies for forgetting to mention this originally! Papertrey Ink's July edition of the Color Couture set included templates for mini tabbed folders. I printed those onto Kraft cardstock and cut out the half of the folder that contained the tab. Here's a link to the Color Couture page (HERE), just scroll down to July to find the one I used.

Once I figured out how I wanted to organize this, it came together rather quickly, which is ideal for me. I definitely like this better than a traditional scrapbook (since it's so quick) and I like the simplicity of this little book.

A few weeks ago, we went up to the Berkshires for a couple of days, so I have another mini book I need to put together! I just got my pictures back from Shutterfly, so hopefully, I will get this done in another week or two.

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