Travel mini-album - end of the year gifts for my son's teachers. Simple Stories - Summer Fresh Collection.

Hello everyone..

Today's post is dedicated to my son's teachers Miss Natali and Miss Donna!..

I prepared 2 travel-mini-books for them to record their happy summer memories.
Here is how it looks like:

The mini-book size is 4x6 inches (10x15cm) - which is the size of regular photo print from lab. It's done like this because of the papers I used and because of the convenience.

The gift set consists of mini-book, white gel pen, set of alphabet stickers and word-art stickers, extra pair of large rings.
















The pages, which will serve the purpose of divides, look like that:

As you can see, there are space for the smaller photos on the pages as well. (These photos could be printed on demand in any lab). Usually it is 2 copies of the same photo fitted into regular 4x6 print).

There are some envelopes with hidden message cards. Stickers will keep them closed.

All the space on the cards can be used for journaling. The white gel pen could be used on darker backgrounds.

Front and back of the mini-book are protected by transparent film.

The idea of using index cards is taken from here. 

 Some ideas how to use word and alphabet stickers:

 Word stickers could be applied directly on the photos.






Image source here.

 Alphabet stickers could be aligned ..or could be looking "jumpy"..

Stickers could be mixed (big and small, different colors) 

Or used together with handwriting..

Images 3, 4, 5 source - internet.

 How to insert the photos :

 Update:  I would recommend using wide double-sided tape (I got it from Daiso, not Geant)..

Two regular photos are stuck together using double-sided tape back to back, holes punched in it and photos are inserted into the album. It can take as many photos as you like. In case, mini-book becomes too thick, rings could be changed to bigger ones - very easy. They are in the kit as well.

For example: 

The process should be very straight forward. The mini-book can fit in any size bag.

For those who are interested which papers I used for creating the mini-book:

Simple Stories - Summer Fresh Collection  - I loved working with this collection!!!

I really hope you like my project, if so, please let me know in the comments section!!

That's it for today, thanks for reading, 

xx Marina..