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this i know minibook: part two

May 13, 2016

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For (Inter) National Scrapbook Day, I finished off my This I Know minibook. I wanted to get this little book done before NSD, but alas, my life just didn’t let me. But it’s completed now and I’m so happy with it! I just wanted to share the last few pages here. Please forgive the messy desk. That’s a piece of white poster board I have on top of my desk that I work on so I don’t ruin my desk with all the paints and such. All the decorations I had in the previous photos I ended up using in the book (which I’m so proud of!). So I didn’t have anything to cover up the mess and to be quite honest, it didn’t even phase me when I took these photos. Oops!

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12. be open to new and different possibilities.
13. collecting memories is the best souvenir.
14. make mistakes

I always find that when I get half way through a minibook, I tend to loose momentum. I think that sort of happened here, as I found myself running out of ideas, but I tried to play around with my paints as much as possible. So for this first spread I went back and used my watercolors and did some fun spatters on the page, which I end up covering a bit with a flower die cut. I also added in some pen scribbles, which are my favorite.

For the next one, I just scribbled all over the old book page before covering most of it up with a collage of some of the pieces I pulled out specifically for this little book. My whole goal was to use up all of the bits and pieces I had originally set aside for this minibook and not add anything else from my stash, only to keep the book looking consistent in terms of papers and embellishments. So I was basically stuck with whatever I had on hand.

This last one was another one I played around with my watercolors. It’s super simple and I think the paint splatters are what gives the spread interest as well as movement, since it creates a contrast with the papers and colors I used. And who doesn’t love a good paint splatter?

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15. there is always time
16. when life gives you lemons plant the seeds and grow your own lemon tree

For this next one, I used scraps. Quite literally, that gold foil circle outline piece is the scrap left over from when I punched a bunch of gold circles out for my “Be True” spread earlier in the minibook. I don’t know what it was, but I couldn’t throw that piece away, so in it went into my book!

The following spread I played around with watercolors again, using the gold washi tapes that I cut into strips and bits as masks of sorts. Once the paints dried, I peeled the washi off to reveal a bit of the white paper underneath, then I kept the washi tape on the page, but just positioned them a bit off from their white shadow.

This next page I did on the go. I took a few things with me one day when I had to babysit and take the kid to his swimming lesson. Since I was waiting around for an hour, I decided to work on my book. It’s very interesting how long this particular page took me! It took me the whole hour I waited, mostly in part because I felt so limited in what I could do without my paints and other mediums. I basically used paper, my tape runner and a pen.

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17. being alone sometimes is not always such a bad thing
18. travel the world

I kept this last spread pretty simple. Again, I had this pink polkadot vellum paper that you can see through to the next page, so all I did was a little collage of scrap paper strips on the old book paper and added a flower die cut to accent the page. On the vellum I added a gold glittered tag and journaled on it. For the next spread, I cut a globe image from a piece of map wrapping paper I had and glued that down before adding my journaling and the black paint splatters.

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19. what’s your currency?
20. you only need one true friend in your life

For this next one, I basically played around with all the scraps I had left over. I glued down some random bits and wrote “what’s your” with pieces of the gold foil washi tape. I then wrote “currency?” with black India Ink. For this last spread, I took the remaining flower die cut and the left over half circles, and just collaged them on one side. On the other side, I did my journaling with some vellum alphas to highlight the main point and the rest was written in black ink.

Anyway, enjoy the little flip through video I have below. In it, I go through all of the pages and spreads in this little book and basically explain my fact for each one. It’s the first time I really did a flip through like this and I do hope you enjoy!

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