march of minis

Part one:

At the beginning of March I made a quote mini album with some square cards i'd made at the office. I forget how much I enjoy the process of a fast mini album. The term "March of Minis" came to mind and I was off.

Of course in my mind i saw myself making 100s of minis and i would need tiny shelves everywhere to house them all, but...

I made one per week. I'm going to go backwards, because I am a "save the best for last" kind of person. (the quote one is my fav)

Made this one in two nights. One making the book, the next adding the pretty.

Aside from actual product, all of the materials here are "recycled"...the cover was saved from flower shop packaging, the labels and paper are saved from the newspaper. The cool scalloped and cut out pages are the free Silhouette cut file from a few weeks back.

Papers used: GlitzDesign. Studio Calico. Basic Grey. OLD KI Memories

alpha pearl paper.

All other credit goes to: more Basic Grey pockets, Cosmo Cricket tiny text words, Bazzille words, magazine words, and My Minds Eye tiny words. (I have a thing for word stickers, we go way back).

The book is "bound" together using the stamped white labels you can see, with some help of a little washi. Look around you, you have EVERYTHING on hand #RIGHTNOW to make a mini. have fun and stay#INSPIED xoxTIFF

On devouring paper

In the last 4 years or so, in my world, patterned paper had made a
HUGE comeback. It all started
 when they introduced double sided
papers, and hired actual

artists to design paper.

Even though it sometimes hurts

my feelings to choose sides, it has

become a staple in my scrapbooks.

6x6 pads are the ultimate.

Especially when you LOVE an entire

 collection and investing in the entire

line would cost a bazillion dollars.

Recently I won a slew of products on Instagram from Basic Grey's new line "Hipster"...I really really like it,

and all the paper is double sided,

 which of course I think is incredible...

When I love a paper, I want to use every piece. Both because I'm obsessed with a pattern, and bc I'm very thrifty

and that stuff gets expensive. ;))

So. I started with this page:

It's a cover for a binder where I can keep notes for a project I am working on, and I was really just playing with paper.

I had A LOT of scraps left over.

So I got a cameo cut and kept going:

.....and after that I had all these cute little odd shaped strips left,

so I kept glueing:

remember all of your favorites? All those little squares and rectangles you have stashed away, saving them for someday?

Get them out, have a glue party, and

stay #inspired, loveTIFF