Do you need a last Mother's Day gift, or maybe there is a birthday coming up? Or maybe you just want to create a brag book of your children or grandchildren. This post is about creating a mini book using Mosaic Moments™ 12x12 grid paper.
Here is what you need to create a Mini Album:
- 2 sheets of 12x12 grid paper
- A ruler
- A pencil
- A good quality eraser
- An Exacto Knife
- A Hole punch or Bind-it-All
- Photos
- Embellishments of your choice
Here are the Directions:
Step 1: First you will need to measure each of the blocks you will use to create your mini album. look at the photos below. This is what the final result should like on this page. These images shows how many square lengths you will need to cut out. (I darkened to the lines so you can see them easier).
You want to measure out each of the Squares as shown below.
Here is how you measure: (click image for a closer view)
Notice where the Red circle. Wherever there is solid lines you will measure 1/8th of an inch.
Take your ruler and measure 1/8th of an inch from the line. Do this in a couple of spots and draw a line lightly with your pencil so you will know where to cut. Make this line reaches all the way to the edge of the grid paper so you get the space where your binding will go.
Notice where the red circles are on this image. In these spots where there is not a solid line you will measure 1/4 of an inch. This line will line up with the backs of the squares outside of this box as shown below.
Put your ruler in a couple of spots and draw a line just like before.
When you get each part of the grid paper lined up, cut each piece using your exacto knife and use your ruler to keep the cut straight. Afterwards, stack each piece placing down the largest first, until it gets to the smallest piece (this will be the front of your mini album).
Note: The front page's squares are upside down. The photos will still line up correctly even though the lines aren't in their usual spot.
If you plan on using a hole punch, draw circles along the edge so you will know where to punch. Make sure all your peices are straight to make sure the holes are punched through correctly. You may also used a bind-it-all (this is what I ended up using).
Take a 4x6 photograph and cut it into one inch squares. Put all the squares on the outside row of each of the sheets to get a pretty mosaic as shown here:
Next, add all the embellishments and photos you would like and you are done! This is my finished Mini album:
supplies used: To create the album I used 12x12 Mist grid paper. The embellishments on the front cover were a 2011 Cornerstone, and Blueberry Pie Paper Tiles, A scalloped mat, and Basicgrey alphabet stickers.
I decided that I would show each Disney park on a different page. Here is what I did on the inside of my Disney Mini album:
Here I used our New Wish Cornerstone in Ivory.
I was able to spell out Disney with the Monogram Cornerstones.
For this page, I used Blueberry Pie and Sand Paper Tiles, and a Blueberry Pie Magical Row Cornerstone.
If you would like more inspiration on a Mini album you can look at Sandi's Christmas Mini album (also has directions) and Elizabeth's Mount Vernon Mini album.
Let me know if you have any questions by leaving a comment. I hope you enjoyed learning how to create a mini album!
