Scrapbooking: New-Baby Mini Album

I made this little "new baby" mini album for my sister-in-law, Carleen. She is a scrapbooker, but hasn't had time to scrap in awhile due to her new job -- raising little people.
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I bought a plain, wooden album with cardstock pages, something like a 10 x 8. I chose this playful paper (Paper Studio's Baby Animals) for the cover and used mod podge to adhere it. I replaced the posts with rings to bind the album and covered the rings with tons of ribbons.
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I inked up the edges around the outside and inked the inside cover completely since I didn't cover it with paper.
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Then... I stole this frolicsome idea from Ali Edwards' mini album: "3 + 1 = 4 times the fun." Isn't that cute? Carleen and Steve's family has increased to four, so the album focuses on that. The numbers are from K& Co. except the 3, it's an American Crafts Thicker that I colored a little with my chalk ink.
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The remaining photos have sticky notes that I put on to tell Carleen what size photos to add. I should have removed them for these photos, but I forgot, sorry!
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Page one is for a 5x7 family portrait. Paper Studio Alex's Alphabet, Scenic Route's Blue Grid Graph, & a Scenic Route die cut arrow. I emphasized the 4 with a leather number probably from American Crafts.
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Pages two and three are for documenting Carleen's labor process, I'm all about journaling. Left page -- my favorite -- introducing the new "Say It In Pearls" 3D embellishment, you can barely see it, a pearl flourish along the bottom. Mmmm, I love that thing. It's by Prima Marketing.
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The right page has an hour by hour to-do list sheet from a daily planner refill pack. Carleen can document the day of labor, hour by painful hour. The triangular rub-on at the bottom made me think of the new heartbeat entering the world. Paper Studio's Graph Dots. The ugly bright blue is just background to frame a photo.
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The next page I did in my preferred antique vintage style, which is not very baby-ish. I included a vintage claim check with hospital, date, etc. info. for Steve and Carleen to claim their item (a new baby). I included a vintage waitress order form that details out the various appointments Carleen had with her prenatal care. Then there's a spot for a photo and the opposing page has a vintage envelope for Carleen's memorabilia, a Bible verse and room for another photo.
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One of the pages contains a mini-mini album in which to document one week in the family's new life. I took the title from a Creating Keepsake's classname "A Peek into our Week." The paper is Paper Studio's Alex's Plaid and the opposing page paper is Alex's Random Dots. For the mini mini album, I used a Starbucks Red coffee sleeve. Under the place for a circle photo, it says "Do something good every day." I used Paper Studio's flocked brad in a heart shape (Yum-O!) with black thread to connect to the other brad & secure the book when closed.
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When open, this book features one day of the week on each page with places for Carleen to add 2x2 photos.

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Letters for "A Peek into our Week" come from Bo Bunny, Rusty Pickle and American Crafts.

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Flowers in the mini album are Bling Blossoms from Bazzill.

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I usually make these coffee sleeve mini albums as gifts for women to carry in their purse as a brag book, it's a little too thick to put in an album like this.
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These two pages are DaisyD's Lullaby papers - Lullabye Checkerboard and Patchwork Yellow. The envelope for memorabilia is covered with Paper Studio's Baby Words and I added some rub-on quotes at the bottom.
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The last page is for the 4 year old big sister, Emma. It's covered in yummy My Mind's Eye Graceful Circles paper. I love this new line of paper! I distressed an index card that pulls out and lists Emma's favorite things such as snack, game, outfit, place, friend, book, etc. Just a page to acknowledge what Emma's life is like at this moment in time. Gosh, I love that paper, I'd like a scarf in that pattern.
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There ya go. 8,552 hours later, you, too, can have a lovely little baby album. OK, you can probably do it quicker than I, the time is just an estimate.

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Ready? Set? Go! Link back and show me your mini albums!