1st Mini Album | work-in-progress

We just had a short trip to Surabaya on 4th to 8th of June' 2012.

We were excited because it’s our 1st trip together. It’s our son, Michael, first trip, first ride on the plane, first time he’ll use his stroller, and lot’s of other first experiences.
And to keep memories of this trip, I’m going to make a mini book of photos, all the places we went, people we met.. (I missed some photo taking moments, but I still love what I got) and lots of other things. I’m going to take a note of lessons we learned on this first trip with baby

This is how it looks so far.. can’t wait to finish this soon :-)

Updated June 16th' 2012

A page I did while waiting for my hubby to pick us up to Church this morning.
This left me with three more pages to finish and a little bit of finishing touch here and there.. then the book will be ready for viewing.. of course, hubby and sister in law will the first audiences. And I can’t wait to show all of you & expecting your inputs & critics.

I use a lot of washi tapes here.. hahaha.. just made myself a washi addict & joined a washi workshop at Studio Calico. It’s fun!!!

I’m still waiting for more washi packages to arrive at my door :-p

My Pregnancy Mini Book - WIP Sneak Peak

This is a sneak peak of the project I currently working on.. a mini book of my pregnancy :-)

It all started when we brought home a lot of ultrasound photos after a visit to the doctor. I was about to put it in a photo album, but then I thought.. hey.. I bought a lot of paper and embellishment supplies already, why don’t I try make a little journal for my pregnancy.. ;-) right?! So I started cutting 12″ x 12″ scrapbook papers in to 4″ x 6″ and yap.. it’s too small for the 4D ultrasound.. :-(

I took some A4 thick plain papers and divided them in two for the pages.. and stick the 4″ x 6″ papers I cut before on them.. I thought they will make a nice accent.

Then, I started to stick photos, a little notes about each visits, made a little envelope for memorabilia (such as my pregnancy test-strips), made a semi-accordion page, etc..
These are some of the pictures of the projects.. I don’t know how to explain each thing I did on the mini album, so I hope the pictures can tell :-p

This page is going to be the cover, I haven’t attach any embellishment tho.. still looking for an inspiration, I guess :-p




















The first page.. 1st visit to the doctor..
We went to two doctors, the first one did an ultrasound (USG), but we couldn’t see anything because the baby fetus was still so small I guess, so I took the urine test.
The second doctor (only) touched my stomach and said.. “ahh it’s still too small to be seen on USG, we’ll have it next month, ok? For now, just do the urine test.”
And yap, I have a few strips of self pregnancy test, hahaha.. two I did by myself and another two from the doctor.. I kept them all in that tiny envelope ;-)




















This one is from the 5th month, when we finally figure out the baby’s gender.. and it’s a BOY!
My husband wanted a girl at first, but when we found out that it’s a boy, he couldn’t help to be happy too.. since he’ll get a tiny sidekick playing games (and probably doing some mischief), hahahaha..

I just bought some clear stamps, so I decided to try it on this page :-) pretty satisfied with what I did.
I can’t wait till the next doctor visit and the labor time.. I surely going to treasure this one. :-)

I’ll post some more details on the pregnancy mini book next time, so you’ll be able to picture how it’s going to look like when it finished. *so excited* (the baby just kicked, I think he’s excited too >.< ).

Good night ya’ll.. have a wonderful dream..

Mini Book #02 in Progress

I’m currently so into mini books.. well, honestly because sometimes I have no idea what to put on 12″ x 12″ scrapbook paper..
Yea, I know I have saved a lot of layouts, people’s works on the web as an inspiration, but it’s still a bit hard to execute the ideas sometimes.

So yea.. I had these mini chipboard albums I bought when I went to Surabaya the last time, I feel like making something out of it..
And yap, the idea got stuck again..

This is what I came up so far..
I’m going to find some embellishment and plain card stock to go along with it. I hope it will come up good..

Oh yea.. if you notice, I wrote Mini Book 02 on the title, so where’s no #01??
I made a baby boy mini album for my soon coming (Feb’2012) baby boy, it’s not yet finished also because I want some of the embellishment to be on top of the photos (whish I don’t have yet, because the baby is still in my belly :p ), but I’m going to take some photos to share here.. soon..

Ok then, back to work.

Enjoy your day!