Artbooking Made Easy: Baby Mini Albums

Hello, friends! Thank you to everyone who left a comment from last week’s post. I loved all of your clever, creative ideas, and I’m happy to announce the winner of a Cricut^® Artbooking Collection: Stefanie Haluk! Please send me an email with your mailing address to me@jeanettelynton.com, and make sure to put “Crush on Artbooking contest winner” in the subject line.

Today’s Artbooking Made Easy features one of the most darling mini albums I’ve seen! Anything that has a baby theme is cute enough to begin with, but this one is just plain adorable, and it features the cutouts from pages 50–51 of the Artbooking booklet. So let’s take a look!

Was I right? Doesn’t this mini album just make you want to relive all those special newborn baby moments?

Let’s start with this cover. Monica already pointed out the white-on-white overlay interspersed with little pops of color behind, which is such a great idea! The artist simply cut out the overlay in three different colors, so that the colored inserts would fit perfectly inside. It’s always fun to play around with colors and see what works. Have you ever tried pairing the same color and then just using accent colors here and there? I also love the title. The artist only used the “baby” from the “Oh baby” cutout on page 50. You can always break up titles and just use what you need and the save the rest for another project. She used two different colors for the title and attached each of them using 3-D foam, which gives much more dimension to the title.  

I love the stamping technique on this page. It’s called 2^nd generation stamping—stamping multiple times without re-inking to create an ombre effect where the imprint gets lighter and lighter—and it looks so great on this page! The artist repeated the technique in sets of three with these chevron arrow stamps, but you could make your own patterns however you’d like!

When it comes to creative crafting, it’s all about thinking outside of the box! I love when people use objects other than how they were meant. On this page, the artist has taken one of the pocket cutouts and just flipped it on its side to use it as a photo mat.

Monica showed us in the video how to get a different color for the flap on the envelope, which turned out so beautiful, but I also love the little embellishments that she added—the Keyboard Uppercase stamp set is just right for labeling little things like this. I also love how she used a paper clip from the Laughing Lola assortment and combined it with just a circle cutout and a gem from the Lollydoodle assortment. 

Don’t you love when pages are cute and functional? This page has so many great features. The artist used the “BABY” photo mat found on page 50 of the Artbooking booklet, but she cut it out in Daisy White as her base color, and then cut it out again in Lagoon and Sorbet so she could cut out the letters and make them really pop! The pocket on this page is also from page 50 of the Artbooking booklet, but the extra detail has been cut off to better display the card tucked inside. I love the mix of the alphabet stamp with the handwritten information on the card. There are so many details of a baby’s birth that you never want to forget!

Also, notice that there’s another white-on-white overlay here, this time accented with a few Aqua Dots.

One feature you know I love: journaling! The precious photo on this page hides a little journaling card for all of those sweet newborn moments you never want to forget!

I hope some of these techniques have inspired you to create your own mini album! There are so many important moments with a newborn baby, and you want to make sure to not forget a second of it!

Recipes

Baby Mini Album:

Z1906 Cricut^® Artbooking Collection

C1584 My Acrylix^™ Feathers

D1578 My Acrylix^™ Flight of the Arrows

B1416 My Acrylix^™ Keyboard Uppercase

G1079 Workshops on the Go^™ Ivy Lane Cardmaking Kit

X7183B Lollydoodle Paper Packet

X7177B Skylark Paper Packet

X7183C Lollydoodle Complements

Z1702 Baker’s Twine Paradise Assortment

Z1852 Aqua Dots

Z3006 Lollydoodle Assortment

Z1932 Silver Geometric Washi Tape

Z1850 Lagoon Houndstooth Washi Tape

Z1923 Smoothie Stripe Washi Tape

Z1844 Color-Ready Trinkets Wooden Shapes

Z1854 Laughing Lola Assortment

Z1837 Mini-Medley Accents Wooden Collection

Colors used: Cocoa, Whisper, Sorbet, White Daisy, Cotton Candy, Lagoon, Slate

Little One Card:

Z1906 Cricut^® Artbooking Collection

C1501 My Acrylix^™ New Arrival

X7183B Lollydoodle Paper Packet

X7180B Balloon Ride Paper Packet

Z1939 Paper Fundamentals Basics Assortment

Z1754 Sparkles Black & Grey Assortment

Z3002 Ariana Assortment

Z3006 Lollydoodle Assortment

Colors used: Juniper, White Daisy