Shell mini 3x3" album

These little things are so much fun to create - made from only one sheet of 12x12" cardstock, they are quick to score and fold and then very easy to embellish - it doesn't take much to making it look like a 'giant' of a gift.  The tags are optional, but they compliment the book and add a convenient place to journal.  It is a bound book and the cover is made from chipboard. I got the photos out of order again too; at least I'm consistent....lol.  Enjoy!
Love and blessings,
Linda (with joyinmyday)

Sharing a fancy mini and box

My granddaughter and I altered this box and made the inside of the album with just one sheet of 12x12" cardstock cut in a special way.  Enjoy!  (Sorry the pictures got a little bit jumbled in the transfer - I bet you can figure it out...LOL)
Love and blessings,
Linda

Quick Mini Album about 6x6

I saw this one on a tutorial on youtube 'late' one night and decided to make them for favors for my granddaughter's birthday party.  It is made from 4 sheets of 12x12" paper and added ribbon and embellishments.  Enjoy!  It is sooo easy to do and you can look up the tutorial by searching youtube for: cardstock mini album or tkdgal5ann.  If you can glue and fold paper, you can make this.  Have fun!
Love ya'll,
Linda (with joyinmyday)

Here's another one similar to my very first album and box - enjoy!

I'm still posting like crazy - hope you enjoy seeing what I've been doing.  I'm busy trying to cook, clean, shop and hold down the fort (just like all you other 'crazies' out there).  Scrapbooking gives me a break from the everyday toiling around the house.  (I also read on occasion - love Nicholas Sparks books.)  I 'love' a lot of other writers too.  I recently read a book by one of my high school classmates  - GOOD GOING, Mike.  It is a very good book - anyone can take away something good from it.  I have this mini album and box to show you today - it is another fun, fun to do project - puts joyinmyday, a keepsake, one-of-a-kind, hidden places, treasure for mementos and treasured photos and journaling.  It features an altered brown paper sack, an explosion card, a slider card, lots of photo mats, tags and hiding places for the 'little things' that mean so much to us girls.  Hope you like it!
Love and blessings,
Linda (with joyinmyday)

Shell Box and Album

I decided, while I'm on a roll and my computer is able to be online (we will have bad weather tonight and for the next few days); I better post while I can.  This is a shell-seaside-theme box and album.   It has a lot of space for photos and journaling and more photo mats can always be added later.  These are just a few photos (maybe when I get on youtube you can view it in it's entirety), until then, you can get a good idea. It is a 5x7" album and a 10" box.  It features a slider card and a wave card and lots of tags.  There's oodles of hiding places for photo mats, etc.  I'm having joyinmyday every day.  Hope you are too.  I remember an old caricature I used to have at work - it was a duck and the caption said "To be enthusiastic, you have to act enthusiastic" - the little duck was the cutest drawing.  I'll look for it and post it sometime.  I have found that to be true about a lot of things other than enthusiasm.  Hope you have a wonderful rest-of-the-weekend.
Love and blessings,
Linda with joyinmyday