Friday 3 August 2012

Notts Weekend Mini Book

For the last couple of weeks, I've been working on turning my July Counterfeit Kit into a mini book recording our beautiful Nottingham Weekend. Lots of cutting, corner chomping, stamping and sticking later and I've finally finished. There's a lot of pages packed into one little mini book, so I've only included a few photographs. (Here's the whole Notts Weekend Mini, if you're interested.)

Notts Weekend Mini

I very much wanted the emphasis to be on the photographs and the journalling - and, I've included a lots of journalling cards to make space for those all important stories. There's still a few more stories to add in - and I'd especially like to have The Steve write a few of them. I'm conscious that I don't often include our stories from his point of view!


Because there's so many pages, I've kept my embellishments to a minimum, using my favourite Lawn Fawn sets - Bon Voyage, Bannerific and Say Cheese Too, along with some of the smaller doily shapes from the Unity set Blossom Stackers. There's some teeny bits of bling too, just to add some, but not too much, dimension and some continuity between the pages.

Notts Weekend Mini

Notts Weekend Mini

The Sassafras and Lily Bee Alphas from my Counterfeit Kit were also the perfect sizes to include mini-titles on some of my pages, highlighting important photographs and adding a little bit of texture.

Getting seriously excited by the idea of a new Counterfeit Kit which will be 'revealed' on Sunday. Between you and me, I become a little obsessed with the 'refresh' button on the 5th of each month!

7 comments:

  1. Love your mini Clair! LOL I'm like you can't wait to see which kit is chosen.

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  2. i popped across to see the whole book. Its lovey, i like how the photo fills the page and all the rounded corner look so good..love it x

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  3. That looks fabulous Clair - love all the rounded corners and the emphasis on the photos

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  4. I like the look of this mini. I like them to be not too bulky...like yours.
    Looking forward to the new counterfeit kit reveal as well. I haven't played along since DH had the heart attack but want to get back to it again.

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