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Summary: Adding a little bit of decoration and design is a great way to finalize your Mother's Day mini photo album. Learn useful finishing touches you can use for your Mother's Day mini photo album from a craft expert in this free video series.
Janet Casto is an independent Stampin' Up! demonstrator. She offers classes and home parties to teach her decorating techniques. She's also able to sell both stamp and scrapbook...read more
"We have all of our paper applied to both the inside and outside now. Now we have to worry about the pages on the inside. It comes with ten little sleeves. And I'm going to cut my real rust paper 3-1/4 by 3-1/4 to go in each of those sleeves. So 3-1/4 by 3-1/4, and again, I'll need ten pieces of this. And I use this just as a background for my photos. I could stamp on this, I could use the wheel, I could use, you know, any kind of brads or any kind of embellishments you want. It depends on the pictures. And, because I don't know which pictures I'm going to give to my mom on this yet, I'm going to leave that part alone for now. But, what I can decorate is the outside of the box. And, what I'm going to use is this old olive twill ribbon and I'm using a slider. It's called a flower slider and it's from the new Hardware Hardware that is sterling in color, and I'm just going to slide this on and wrap this all the way around on the outside of the box and I'm going to tie them. Slide my slider a little bit further down, hold this around to the back, tie a knot, again right over left, left over right ties you a good knot. And, just pull that through, give it a little tweak, flatten it out, there's the front of my box. My designer series paper with the flowers on the outside the stripes on the inside, it'll have the coordinated really rust pages on the inside, and then, of course, my photos, and a little bit of journaling. And then this just slides right in here, and you have a perfect gift to give to your mom or anybody on your special list."
eHow Article: Mother's Day Mini Photo Album: Finishing Touches