A mid-size scrapbook ready for pictures can make a perfect gift. It can also be a great way to use leftover embellishments from earlier projects and give you something to create in a short afternoon. Take for example this album.

Chipboard Baby Album Beginner Project by Mindy Gibson Zoom in to view this project closer Make this project: Step-by-step instructions Mail a link to this project to a friend

 

While on the Keep In Touch Card Shop design team, I received a chipboard album that I needed to alter. First I selected some coordinating papers from my earlier project kits, and then it was just a matter of digging through my stash of paper scraps and embellishments to complete the scrapbook. Total project time was less than four hours. The end product is an adorable baby album that I gave to a friend who had just give birth to her daughter.



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I started scrapbooking in 2004 after a friend introduced me to the hobby. It wasn’t until 2007 when a local scrapbooking shop opened nearby that I started to consider this a serious hobby. That’s when I joined the online community and began sharing ideas with others who share my passion of printed paper and embellishments. Over the last three years I have expanded my horizons and started selling my work on Ebay under the name mindyinky. I have also been hired to create albums, cards and invitations on several occasions. Last year I joined the Design Team at Keep In Touch Card Shop and in December was selected as a designer for The Shaker Box. If you would like to see more of my work, please check out my blog “Restless Creativity” at http://gibsonmindy.blogspot.com/.