Dot & Whimsy : Happy Harvest Mini Album

Happy Harvest Mini Album

Tuesday, October 13, 2015 October 13, 2015

The Fall harvest season is upon us and I’m sharing an adorable

mini book that I plan on using to highlight some of our favorite autumn memories!

I've incorporated the "Story of Fall" Collection from

ECHO PARK PAPER

and the house die and enhancement dies from Top Dog Dies.

Using prompts from the various stickers and die-cuts (such as pumpkin patch, falling

leaves, etc.) I’ll be encouraged to take certain photos throughout the fall months.

For the front cover, I die-cut the sweet fox and pumpkins from papers found in the

6X6 Paper Pad. I used a little pink chalk to blush up his cheeks and a burnt orange ink

to add some shading to the pumpkins. After assembling all of the pieces, I added

them to the front with foam adhesive.

Between a few of the pages, I also added 3X4 journal cards so I’ll have

some extra room for journaling!

And while preparing my pages, I precut mats for each page to measure 3”X4.5”.

To some of them, I adhered a strip of various washi tapes for extra color and pattern.

The mats were machine-stitched into place before gluing onto the chipboard base.

Mix and match ephemera pieces with chipboard and stickers! Adding enamel dots or

small brads is like icing on the cake, so an embellishment never goes without one!

Sometimes adding a brad is an after-thought, such as to the center of the chipboard
flower to the left. I used a pair of steel snips to remove the prongs from the brads
and then attached the brad to the center of the flower with a dimensional glue dot.