One of the items in the kit is a policy envelope from Bazzill. That's what I made the mini-album out of. A few years ago, I had bought a little mini-album thingy from Making Memories (I think it was called inner pages or something like that). It had a cardstock cover and little page protectors. I have held on to that thing thinking that some day I may actually use it. I wanted to do something different with the policy envelope so I folded it in half and adhered the inner pages to the inside. I folded it so that the envelope opening would be the back cover so I could undo the enclosure thingy and put extra photos or whatever in there. I used Lime Rickey for the patterned paper. The pics of the little pages below the mini-album pic are the pages inside the album. Since Caden has only been to Kindergarten, he only has the one page done. I really liked how it turned out!
I've been using a lot of collages for my layouts lately too. I just have too many pics that I want to scrap and I don't really like doing 2-page spreads anymore so the collages have become my new best friend! I use Picassa sometimes to make them but I like having more control over it. (Picassa is a free photo software from Google.) I found a BUNCH at Scrapbooks, Etc's website. I've been making some of my own too. I'm about to do a tutorial on making your own for Photoshop Elements at Crop Addict. I hope to have it done in the next couple of days. So head on over there, if you're interested!
Have a happy 4th!!!
