Blog: Creating a Travel Themed Mini Album | Geralyn Sy

I always start with choosing my photos. I printed 2” photos by putting six of them on a 4x6 canvas in Photoshop and then printing it out. It’s easy to trim the photos to size. On the left, I have my pile of 2” photos, and on the right, I have my pile of business cards I collected during my travels.

I began arranging some of my 2” photos on my 6x8 page protector that has 2” pockets until I was happy with how they looked. I’m using a page protector I have on hand, but the Studio Calico 6x8 Page Protector Design 5A is identical.

Once I’ve chosen my photos, I move onto my pile of memorabilia. I picked a couple of my favorite business cards and cut them down to 2” squares.

I arranged my business cards onto my page protector to get a feel for the spread. While I do have more photos and memorabilia, I decided to leave some of the pockets for journaling and embellishing.

I have lots of patterned paper from the Project Life 4x6 paper pads, and I chose a few to cut down into 2” squares.

For two of my patterned paper squares, I chose to embellish them with stamping and a bit of journaling. I love how they turned out.

I also wanted to use the wonky hearts die and picked some red cardstock to cut. It is super simple to run the die through my BigShot.

I embellished one more patterned paper square with one of the die cut hearts and a word sticker.

As a final step, I used the fun Fairground Project Life kit stamp set to add a few words to embellish my photos. It was the perfect touch to complete my spread.

I hope this tutorial gives you a bit of inspiration on how to combine both scrapbook supplies and memorabilia in your mini-books and projects! Thanks for reading!