Hello everyone! Traci here and today, I’m sharing a Happy Easter Mini Album I made with two of Lori’s fabulous cutting files and the Echo Park, Our Happy Place Collection. It’s filled with spring colors, flowers, and beautiful prints. This little album is perfect for holiday photos and it makes a sweet handmade gift!
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To create this, I used the A2 Easel Card Easter Bunny Basket File (SVG, Silhouette) for the design on the front cover and the Hidden Binding Mini Album Rectangle (SVG, Silhouette) for the actual book.
Here’s the simple tutorial …
1. I resized the Hidden Binding Mini Album‘s pieces to create a book that would be 4.75″ wide x 7” tall. I chose this size so that I wouldn’t need to resize
the Easter basket file.
2. Next, I cut out all of the pieces for both files.
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3. I assembled the card first. The Basket file comes with a base “grass” background that is shaped to help you know where to layer each of the pieces. I added the pink shape on top of the green base.
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4. Then, I layered the yellow basket on next.
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7. How cute! I used some foam tape underneath the feet and tail to give them some dimension.
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8. You can see in this picture that the pink base helps you know exactly where to adhere the flowers.
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9. I added some pretty colored enamel dots to the center of the flowers and the bow for a bit of shine.
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10. Once the card was assembled, it was time to build the album. Above, are the pages
and the binding piece. The binding piece is scored, so I folded along the
score lines to create “mountains” and “valleys”.
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11. I added adhesive inside the “valleys” and adhered the sides together.
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The outside of the binding now looked like this. The cutting file includes a separate piece that will be glued
over these folds to create the album’s spine.
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12. This is the inside of the binding. To add the pages, I adhered one page piece to the front of the first spine fold and a second one to the back … sandwiching them on the “mountain”.
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13. I continued to add the rest of the pages until the book was complete.
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14. To decorate the cover, I adhered the Easter basket piece to the front and added my title.
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15. Inside, I embellished the pages with lots of pretty papers, stickers, enamel dots, and photo mats. To see more of the inside pages … hop over to my Artsy Albums blog.
I hope this Happy Easter Mini Album gives you a little holiday and spring inspiration! Whether you love making scrapbooks or greeting cards, you should definitely give these cutting files a try. I love them!
