Hello Summer Mini Book

Hey everyone! Andrea here with you today to share a fun board book made with the Good Day Sunshine collection from Simple Stories. The wood grain papers and embellishments in this collection give it a “beachy” feel that make it great for your outdoor summer photos.

This book is made from chipboard pieces cut to 5 1/2 x 10, and is held together by O-rings. Once I had all my pieces cut, I covered them with papers from the collection and sanded all the edges to give it a weathered look. I added SN@P! Cards on the ends of some of the pages and tied ribbon around the entire page to add an extra element.

The cover has some paper flowers attached to the ribbon by a decorative brad, and I hung some beads and a button off of that for visual appeal.

Once the pages were covered I added my photos. I matted them on white cardstock so they would stand out against the background. The photos show how we spend our summer days, and this album will be our summer “coffee table” book.

Once the photos were added it was on to embellishing, and when it comes to that, all I can say is, “LAYER, LAYER, LAYER”! There are so many items in the collection to choose from, and all those embellishments around a photo really draw your eye to the focal point of the page. The SN@P! Cards are great for this; place them behind the photo, and layer embellishments on to them.

Did you notice all the Simple Stories Silhouette cut files I used in this book? Simple Stories has a TON of files to choose from, and they are great additions to ANY project. I especially love the new “tickets”!