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Dec 23, 2015 minialbum, scrapbooking Post a Comment

minialbum: December Daily 2014

In 2014 I did a December Daily for the first time. It was fun to see it grow everyday bit by bit. Some days I made one double page, other days six to eight pages. All filled with pictures of good, christmasy memories. I challenged myself to take every day at least one photo and if it was simply a photo of a choco santa. When I now look through it I get goosebumps from those beautiful days, the craftiness I had last year and all those little magical moments.

Before I started, I prepared numbers for everyday in advance. I chose red, green, white and black numbers and stuck them on glittery white circles. The colors I used in the minialbum were: red, green, gold, silver, white, black and all in glitter versions. I bound the book with my favorite kind of band: red velvet. I painted some filler pages in advance, but the pages added up so fast, that I had to make some more. Not that I did mind doing more…

May 08, 2015 crafts, minialbum, scrapbooking, washi tape Post a Comment

minialbum: what a surprise!

What a night, what a surprise! I got this surprise night gifted to my 30th birthday. I had no idea what this night would bring. My friend picked me up and we ate at my favorite restaurant. Afterwards she even put a sleeping mask on my face, so I wouldn’t see, where we were going. It was a fabulous surprise.
We saw the unbelievable wonderful a-capella choir Perpetuum Jazzile live in concert. If you never heard of them, please watch this video. This is the one song, that got them famous. Now they travel the world.

The book I used as minialbum, was a little journal with golden stars printed on every page. It was much too thick to add the photos, so I ripped a third of the pages out from the middle. That way the book with the photos was almost as thick as original. At the end of the book I added a CD with videos and music from the concert, thus I have everything together when I want to reminisce about this amazing night.

Are you looking for more inspiration? Find more minialbums here.

Jan 19, 2015 crafts, minialbum, scrapbooking, washi tape Post a Comment

minialbum: be grateful

In November I had a low, thanks to the darkness and my thyroid problem. To get myself out of this low and focus on the good things in my life, I made this little minialbum or notebook. I put it on my nightstand and as soon as I would go to bed, I would write everything down, that made me feel good on this day. It helped getting me to sleep with positive thoughts in my mind and maybe even let me sleep a little better. After a month the pages were filled with positivity and good thoughts. I felt better thanks to the medicine and Christmas time, so I didn’t fill it up with new pages. But I really liked it. Maybe in time I will do it again.

For the minialbum I used mostly Project Life cards from Stampin’Up and made some myself with stickers and washi tape. The minialbum is 4’’x4” and has around 30 pages.

Looking for more inspiration? Here you can find more minialbums.

Jul 23, 2014 crafts, minialbum, scrapbooking, stamp, washi tape 2 Comments

minialbum: photo booth fun

My newest mini album creation. It is one of those projects I started over a year ago but only finished now. Last year I had the idea to use neon in a minialbum and created pages in 4×6 size from grey cardboard for it. Then I used neon tapes (in orange, pink and green) and neon markers to draw patterns on the pages. Sometimes messy, sometimes almost ordered. Because I hadn’t any specific photos in mind to fill in, I created a whole bunch of pages, not knowing how much I would need.

The pages sat almost a year in my backlog until I stumbled about the photos of my 31th birthday party with the photo booth. Perfect for this fun kind of mini. Additionally I found this beautiful neon rainbow string to bind the mini with the japanese stab binding. Although I changed the traditional way up and did it with five holes. I knotted the long loose ends of the string along the book spine with simple knots. Everytime I met a string crossing the spine I integrated it into the knot, therefore the knot string is fixed at the spine. Really treasure this little fun minialbum.

Do you have any questions? Tell me in the comments. Here you can find more minialbums.

Apr 01, 2014 crafts, minialbum, scrapbooking, stamp 2 Comments

minialbum: inspiration 2014

After the big move I was tired of sorting through endless rows of boxes and putting everything into place. So I did a little scrapbooking. On Pinterest I had a collection of motivational posts and quotes for the new year. Because I couldn’t choose between all these helpful and inspiring quotes, I decided to select more and turn them into a minialbum.

It was fun to use my two stamp and all of my sticker alphabets for this project. I love most about this mini, that it’s that simple. Just typography plus a little color and black & white patterns on the left side for contrast. Now it stands on my shelf above my desk and reminds me of my mantras for this year. Now and then I turn the pages to choose another quote for some time.

If you have any questions, write me an email (blog [a] momentstolivefor.com) or leave a comment.

Feb 07, 2014 crafts, notebook, washi tape, what's on my craft table? 1 Comment

what’s on my craft table?

Although the last weeks were mostly filled with putting up new furnitures and working at my new job, I managed to craft almost every day a little bit. Here you can see some of the things that wandered through my hands the last weeks.

I used the chance to organize my craft table new, so I had more space to work and for example get an overview of all the missing pens. My cats love the empty space on my desk and sit most of the time next to me, watching carefully what I’m doing. As long as they don’t run over the still wet surfaces of something painted or glued, I love to have them by my side.

Although I love my iPhone and find it more than useful for many, many things, I still need a physical notebook to write my thoughts and ideas down. I love the feeling of a pen and paper and therefore I always carry at least one with me. The covers of these two notebooks I decorated with washi tape. One is my private everyday notebook, the one with the triangles, the other is for my notes at the office. Moleskine notebooks are my absolute favorites, perfect size and not too many pages. I don’t like to write into one for too long. I just need a change of scenery from time to time.

Two weeks ago I decided to try one of those DIY’s of my ever growing collection on Pinterest in the sense of ‘stop pinnning, start making’! The ‘decorative power cord‘ idea is from the inspirational Bri from Designlovefest. I had this DIY on my mind for some time. Sadly after only two days the ends of the tape didn’t stick anymore. If you have an idea, how to fix this, please write to me. The power cord of my iPhone is so pretty, I want that it stays this way.

This is a minialbum I crafted for friends I left behind in Bremen. It contains 1000 little beautiful moments I had with them in the last four years, recorded on 1000 photos. It was such a fun time with them… really miss them.

And what are you crafting at the moment?

Jun 19, 2013 minialbum, scrapbooking, stamp, summer love Post a Comment

minialbum: summer manifesto 2013

I love Ali Edwards idea of a summer manifesto and her idea to write down a goal on one side and leave the other side for the proof with text and photo. You can download the cover of her new summer manifesto here and purchase the entire pages here.

Although I find her pages lovely, I decided to make a similar book without printing pages, but using my beloved stamps and scrapbooking papers instead. The layout is similar to Ali Edward’s pages: left side the goal, right side room for proof. Here are some pages of the minialbum. If you want to know, what my other goals for this summer are, then read on here.

For the minialbum I used Amy Tangerine‘s Alphabet stamp set, the ‘I love’ stamp by Elise Joy and papers by echo park paper & co (from the set Summer Days, Playground and Little Girl) and by Bella Boulevard (from the set Sunshine Happiness and Socialite).

have fun creating your own summer manifesto minialbum

Here you can find more summer inspiration:

May 16, 2013 minialbum, scrapbooking, spring fling Post a Comment

spring fling: minialbum ‘i love spring’

Spring is here and I had the urge to create something beautiful to honor spring time. Because I love my Summer love minialbum, I tried to craft something alike for spring. And this is the pretty result, naturally in light and bright spring colors and with lots of washi tape:

I thought about things, I’m happy to see or experience in spring. Little details like spotting the first snowdrop or the first ladybug of the year. It was more than inspirational to go through my photo collection and search for spring photos. Although the raindrops and snow crystals are monochrome pictures, they bring out the statement pretty good – that changing weather from snow to rain means, that spring is back, don’t you think? What do you love most about spring?

For the minialbum cover I used simple cardboard and covered it with washi tape. The pages are grey and white papers, which measure 10 cm x 10 cm. The stamps are from Elise Blaha-Cripe and Evalicious.

Do you need some more spring inspiration? Then look over here:

You can find my other minialbums here:

Dec 11, 2012 minialbum, scrapbooking Post a Comment

december minialbums

Click on the pictures to go to the source sites.

It’s time for a little minialbum inspiration. 🙂 Do you participate in this years December Daily challenge? I would love to, but I don’t have time, sadly. But I hope I will find the time on this years Holidays to create a December minialbum. And these ones, you see here, are definitely an inspiration to me.

I really like the color combinations the scrapper used:

gold, white, grey, black
white, red, grey
white, light blue, red, gold
light green, light blue, red, white

Can’t decide, which one is my favorite, but I will definitely use a lot of glitter on mine – silver or gold. It’s time to sparkle! 🙂 What’s your favorite color combination for your winteralbum?

You can find more inspirational winter and December Daily minialbums on my pinterest board
MINIALBUM | winter minialbum.

Nov 16, 2012 minialbum, scrapbooking Post a Comment

fast & simple minialbums

In my shelves there are tons of boxes with even more photos from all those years I took pictures with my analog camera – not to mention my digital backlog, but that’s another story. So my big task is to put them all into nice little or beautiful big photoalbums and that’s as fast as possible, because I don’t want to spend so much time with my past, while I could make new memories at the same time. So big wonderful scrapbook pages aren’t an option.

Inspired by Elise Blaha’s saying that she put 600 photos within a short time into photoalbums I searched the internet for more ideas to achieve this goal. And that’s what I found so far:

Make an instagram photobook like Elizabeth from Dear Lizzy did. Let it be printed at your favorite photobook shops, but leave some empty pages for journaling. It’s one of the fastest ways. You just choose the photos and pull them into the digital draft of the book. Take one picture at a page. That’s easy, isn’t it? And so lovely 🙂

Or use some old paper scraps for making a quick and easy minialbum like this one from lovely Elsie from A Beautiful Mess. She used old instax photos and her favorite lyrics to create this little one. The pages bound simply by washi tape. It can’t get any easier, can it?

This little heart photobook is crafted by Yvonne & Susanne from Papierwerkstatt and needs only a simple shape, some papers and photos. And then you only need to cut everything into shape, add maybe a little journaling and you’re done. A technique I already used with my zoo minialbum.

A polaroid frame minialbum, this is so cute. Can’t wait to do this with some of my photos too. And I love the simple use of colorful paper and a quote on the left page. This one was created by Christina Heeren from capture.create.inspire.

And the simplest minialbum of all times: white paper, photos, ribbon and glue. Maybe a little journaling next to the photo. Done. Love this. The minialbum is by Randi from Swoon.

let the scrapbooking weekend begin 🙂

Sabine

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