Christmas gifts mini album

I saw the idea for this mini album in an issue of Scrapbooks etc. magazine. This is the first mini album I have created so I liked the simplicity of having just a photo on one side of the page. I decided to do it about the Christmas presents that Grace received this year so that we would have something to look back on. whether I will manage it every year is another question.

I began by printing all the photos out of the presents. Where she received multiple presents from people I created collages with Picasa

I then cut the co-ordinating papers in 5" squares and glued them onto the backs of the photos. The tags were made from the same range of papers and simply state who bought each gift.

I finished the book off by rounding all the corners and punching down the left hand sides.

It was my intention to attach the album with rings but they have not arrived from ebay yet so I used ribbon. I think I prefer that because it adds to the whole gift wrapped idea.

The only problem with it is that it is quite bulky with each tag having a ribbon tie so the pages do not lay flat but never mind.