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Good evening.  Today, I am going to finish sharing my Toy Box Mini Album. I shared part one on Wednesday. Click here to read part one. So let’s return to our Toy Box mini album reveal.

Spread Five.

Spread Five primarily consists of photo mats and has an interactive flap that reveals additional photo mats when opened.

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Five

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Five With Flap Extended

Spread Six.

Spread six features a vintage rocking horse chip board accent from the Crate Paper Toy Box collection along with a Maya Road library pocket and journaling spot.  Opposite page has two bookmarks tucked into a page pocket.

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Six

Toy Box Mini Album Close Up

Toy Box Mini Album Close Up of Pocket Page

Spread Seven.

This was a fun spread and I admittedly went a bit over the top.

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Seven

The left hand side page of the album features a notebook embossed card that has spaces to place photos or journalling inside the card.  I used Tim Holtz’s Notebook Texture Fades embossing folder to emboss the card front and attached a mini journaling card from the Toy Box collection with a mini paper clip.

Close Up of Embossed Notebook Card

The opposite page has a pocket and holds a keepsake Toy Story coloring book.  I made the coloring book using my Your Story Mini machine and Toy Story coloring pages purchased from Target. The color book’s cover focal image is a Toy Story sticker that I purchased at Michael’s.  Inside and alongside the color pages, I added a dimensional Crayola sticker embellishment that I also purchased at Michael’s. See Below for close ups.

Close Up of Keepsake Toy Story Color Book Cover

Close Up of Keepsake Toy Story Color Book Pages

Spread Eight.

This album spread features a dimensional train embellishment from Jolee’s Boutique and car embellishments from the Crate Paper Toy Box collection. I die cut the road using my Cricut machine and the My Community Cricut cartridge.

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Eight

Toy Box Mini Album Close Up

Toy Box Mini Album Close Up

Spread Nine.

This spread features another extended flap page in order to accommodate additional photos.

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Nine

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Nine With Flap Extended

The fire engine is a dimensional Jolee’s Boutique sticker.  The airplane and the John Deere tractor are chipboard embellishments from the Toy Box paper collection. I used a Martha Stewart border grass punch for the grass and found the dump truck embellishment in the patches department at JoAnn’s. I cut the dirt hill by hand.

Spread Ten.

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Ten

The left hand page features a centrally placed photo mat that is surrounded by various sizes of Lego’s that I hand cut from Lego decorative paper that I purchased at Archiver’s.  I used pop dots behind various Lego bricks for added dimension. The right hand page features a complex pop up block element.  I say complex as the block took me several hours to figure out it’s proper assembly.  The block is a Karen Burniston 3D twist cube pop up die. I love how it turned out, but will admit that the process of trying to place the interior rubber band inside the cube totally frustrated me.  This band allows the block to twist and pop up.  Once assembled, I secured the block to the page with a brad which allows the block to spin.  I embellished the sides and the top of the block. I die cut the word PLAY and the star using my Crricut machine and the Mickey Font Cricut cartridge.

Close Up of Pop Up Twist Cube Block

Close Up of Pop Up Twist Cube Block

Spread Eleven.

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Eleven

Both pages feature a corner pocket page design and each pocket contains a removable, interactive A2 flap card.  The cards were die cut using a Sizzix A2 Card w/Flap Die.  The cards provide room for 4 photos. I used a Velcro hook and loop fastener for the flap closure and added a button for added detail. Afterwards, I tucked in a few journal cards from the Toy Box paper collection.

Spread Twelve.

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Twelve

This spread is all about vintage toys.  I had each of these toys in my own toy box as a child. The embellishments are from the paper’s collection with the exception of the moon tickets and and rocket advertisement which came from October Afternoon’s Rocket Age collection. The advertisement is mounted on a mini file that opens to reveal two additional photo mats.

Toy Box Mini Album Close Up

Spread Thirteen.

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Thirteen

This spread features popular games that children play.  The checkerboard paper was purchased at Archiver’s as a single sheet and I apologize that I can not recall the manufacturer.  I embellished the page with a couple of authentic Checker pieces from a well loved game that I purchased at a garage sale. The opposite page features a set of I Spy cards that are held together with a decorative brad.  This page is actually a flap that opens and features two more of my favorite childhood games, Monopoly and Domino’s. The domino’s are purchased embellishments as real Domino’s would have added too much bulk to the album.

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Thirteen With Flap Extended

Inside Back Cover of Toy Box Mini Album.

Toy Box Mini Album Back Cover

The End.  In all, the Toy Box mini album has places for over 50 photos and journaling.  No doubt that this album was labor intensive and expensive to make.  I am almost certain that the intended recipient will cherish this album and that the gift will become a keepsake for her son in the years to come.

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and for allowing me to post this jumbo mini sized album into separate blog posts as each post took me several hours to compose and post. I tried real hard to include each page’s details and source’s, but if I forgot something, please do not hesitate to email me or leave a question in the comment section.  Thank you again for visiting and I hope that you come back again soon.

Michelle

Welcome bloggers.  Happy National Scrapbook Day! In honor of this special day, I have several scrapbook pages from my dog’s (Elvis) scrapbook that I finished earlier this year while at a crop. My dogs are my children that I never had, they are spoiled rotten. Today’s pictures are primarily eye candy and will not include directions or additional information regarding each layout as this post would be too long.  If you have a question or comment regarding any of the pictures feel free to email me or leave a comment and I will answer.

Elvis Scrapbook Page 1

Elvis Scrapbook Page 2

Elvis Scrapbook Page 3

Elvis Scrapbook Page 4

Elvis Scrapbook Page 5

Elvis Scrapbook Page 6

Elvis Scrapbook Page 7

Elvis Scrapbook Page 8

Elvis Scrapbook Page 9

Elvis Scrapbook Page 10

Elvis Scrapbook Page 11

Elvis Scrapbook Page 12

Elvis Scrapbook Page 13

Elvis Scrapbook Page 14

Elvis Scrapbook Page 15

Elvis Scrapbook Page 16

Sadly, Elvis passed in September 2010. I still miss him very much. He was such a smart and cool hound!  He lived to be 15 1/2 years old.  He was a daschund/beagle mix.  We still have Kujo, a Rottweiler, who turned 13 in March but I have yet to make his scrapbook.  Thanks for visiting. Have a great day and hope to see you again soon.

Michelle