3 Inch Meandering Mini-Album

 This was so much fun.  It is a meandering mini-album made with one 12x12 inch piece of double sided scrapbook paper.  I used paper from Graphic 45's Birdsong collection.   Meandering Mini tutorial is the youtube video that I used to learn how to make this album.  I love taking my iPad to my craft table so that I can stop a tutorial while I fumble to catch up. 

I was inspired by Ellen Bee to make this 3" x 3" album for my bucket list.  My BFF tried to get me to join her in making a bucket list a few months ago, which was inspired by a different project from Ellen Bee.  I just couldn't come up with anything for my list, and I was not even in a crafting frame of mind at the time.  However, yesterday I was good to go. 

This mini is a lot of fun to decorate.  For my next one I will use solid color cardstock for the album and save the decorative paper for photo mounts on each page.  A couple of tips: make front and back covers for the album from chipboard; cut the covers a little bigger than 3"x3".  I will use washi tape on all of the cover edges next time so the tiny bit of cardboard edges aren't visible.  Make an album spine from coordinating paper.  I glued my spine over the top of the album covers after I had attached the covers to the mini.  I use liquid glue, The Ultimate, for everything. 

 You can't have a album without tags.  Each album page is a pocket for a tag(s).  There are 7 pockets.  Good things come in small packages. 

As usual with me, Graphic 45 collections are my go-to decorative paper.  Lets see; I have maybe a dozen of their 12x12 pads.  I've learned to buy the pad rather than individual pages.  I was shocked with myself to discover I had NOT bought Le Cirque pad.  Because it is an older collection no longer available in stores I was lucky to find 1 set of the papers on eBay.  Lesson learned!