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Angie Tieman wrote this weeks tutorial. It is on how to make a Mini Photo book. And when we say mini, we mean small. LOL  I had to try it out right away. My pages are super simple because well….it was late at night and the pages are small. LOL It is so adorable though. You really should make one!

The finish book measures 2 1/2″ x 4″.

I used Chocolate Chip for my cover. The corner was rounded with a long retired large corner rounder from Stampin’ Up!.

The designer paper is from the Spring Silhouette Designer Paper Pack.

It measures 2 1/8″ x 2 1/2″, was layered on a 1/4″ bigger piece of Very Vanilla cardstock and paper pierced (of course) on the top and bottom.

Chocolate Taffeta Ribbon was tied around the top. Over it I adhered a chipboard heart from the On Board Accents Pack (There is a special on any Chipboard item going on right now with Stampin’ Up! Talk to your demo for more details). that heart was first covered with Tea Time Designer Paper and paper piercing was added. On the lower left hand side a Vanilla button was added. The Vanilla ribbon strip that is tied through the button holes is a piece of Vanilla Taffeta ribbon.

My title comes from two different stamp sets. Fabulous is from Many Happy Returns, daughter is from Wonderful Favorites. I stamped the words in Chocolate Chip on Very Vanilla Cardstock and punched it out with the 1 1/4″ circle punch.

The coaster pages on the inside were covered in the same patterned paper from the Spring Silhouette Designer paper pack that is shown on the front.

All I did was layer my pictures on a Very Vanilla cardstock base and tape to the pages.

The tabs were punched out with the Round Tab Punch and adhered to the back of the pages with Sticky Strip. The back of the last page holds the journaling.

Rebecca and every other third grader at her school got to practise on a violin every week in music class for a while. Then each class played three songs on their recital. I was very worried about going. Violins can sound horrid if played wrong. 20 violins at one time playing wrong…oh my imagination was running wild. But the kids did an amazing job.

I know, I know….I am super late with this.

I totally spaced yesterday! I thought I was so caught up with everything.

Then I remembered while falling asleep! Yikes.

So here is the winner of the last sketch challenge (two days late).

Random.org picked #50, that is Jill, aka jillmacd on SCS.

I got to check every entry this week and I have to say they all turned out fabulous.

Thank you so much for playing with the sketch! I hope you had as much fun with it as I had checking out all the uploads.

Hugs and smiles

I received this beautiful card from Leanne Stover.

You can see more of her great work on her blog leanne: { all natural }