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Baby's 1st Christmas Mini Folio

November 09, 2018

Hi Everyone! It's Cathy here with a little project that I made inspired by the new "Baby's 1st Christmas" stamp set.

I've had a passion for making mini-albums for about 10 years now and when I saw this new stamp, I knew I wanted to make a little mini-folio for baby's 1st Christmas pics.

This is a fairly simple 5x7 album and holds up to 6 photos. I constructed the covers from two 5" x 7" chipboard pieces and a 1/2" x 5" chipboard piece for the spine, all wrapped in cardstock. I added a fabric-like embossed specialty paper on the spine with a little pom-pom fringe for a softer effect for baby and there's an ivory ribbon closure to match.

I chose the Graphic45 "Twelve Days of Christmas" papers for a traditional Christmas feel and based my Copic coloring of the baby stamp off of them.

I die-cut the label background using a Spellbinders die and inked it with Vintage Photo distress ink. The holly is die-cut from velvet paper and also a Spellbinders die.

I heat embossed the sentiment from this stamp set using Recollections "champagne" embossing powder.

Let's take a look inside...

There's a flap on the inside of each cover with a magnet closure providing space for 3 photos on each side and I had a lot of fun coloring up a bunch of adorable animals wearing Santa hats!

A closer look at the inside of the front cover featuring a little koala from the "You're Koalafied" stamp set. I've stamped a Santa hat on all of the animals in this album using a stamp from an MFT stamp set, so be aware of that if you want to make them Christmas themed animals like this.