22/05/2010

A Mini Book Blog Hop

Good morning, welcome to my little post showing you the mini book I've made entitled 'It's all about me'.
This project was the idea of Mel over on her fab blog IspeakMelsh. It was based on a class over at Big Picture Scrapbooking.A group of us have all joined in and made our own interpretation of the theme.and we will be bloghopping around to each one to see what we've all come up with..
I'm guessing you have found your way here via the lovely Sian and have been inspired by her lovely blog.
So, let me tell you how I went about this.. I kind of followed the idea of a mini book and kept to the size that was suggesed,so it really is quite mini.Anyway, I wanted it to be snapshots of all the things in my life that I enjoy.
It's not easy photographing the whole thing so there are some snippets and a couple of the whole thing. I used mainly 'Dear Lizzie ' papers.I used some of my favourite stamps,including a flourish and swirl that I love  my favourite butterfly stamp,and a friendship flower stamp. I haven't done lots of long journalling, just a few captions.I used a Heidi Swapp round mirror with glittery American Crafts letters for my initials on the front cover.The little flowery blue flourish on the front was stamped and then I painted the leaves with some green shimmery Inca Gold.
I could go on for ages waffling,but know that you will want to be hopping off to the next blog, so here are the photos of my little book...


so there it is, and now I'm sure you are anxious to get on your way to the lovely lady who has a starring role in my book - Deb,Thank you for stopping by and thanks again Mel for organising this whole thing.Enjoy your hopping !

24 comments:

debs14 said...

Can't believe I made it into your book - Thank you! This is so absolutely YOU - I can confirm to everyone that you have captured everything that makes you who you are. Lovely project!

Amy said...

I thought I saw another familiar face there!

I'm blown away by how detailed your project is Denise - fabulous!

Cherry said...

What fabulous detail Denise with the most gorgeous use of textures and colours. Thanks for sharing this. Hugs Cherry XXX

Heather said...

Absolutely beautiful Denise xx

helena said...

beautiful - love the stamps and the friendship flower

This West London Life said...

This is absolutely lovely, just beautiful!

scrappyjacky said...

A lovely book....love your page titles.

humel said...

Oh gosh, this is lovely! There's so much to look at :-) Really beautiful xx

Nancy said...

Great mini... love all the papers and embellishment you used.....you should be very proud.
x

emhowl said...

This is lovely, Denise, especially the friends page.

Deb @ PaperTurtle said...

Oh, Denise, I just love the way your book turned out! Funny, as I was scrolling down and looking at your pictures I thought, "Hey. That's Deb..." So now I know your connection. :o) Very well done on the project. I love it!

Sian said...

This is absolutely gorgeous Denise; you have packed in so much demensional detail, I have loved looking at every photo. Great to see the one of you and Deb together too :). A wonderful project.

Unknown said...

Lovely mini - very detailed. Very creative!

Cheri said...

Love your blog! It is beautiful. And great job on the mini book.

Anonymous said...

Your colours are so pretty!

Mrsjobee said...

Love all the detail you have included - a gorgeous little book.

Anonymous said...

What a fabulous mini Denise - I absolutely love it.

SANDRA said...

This is beautiful, you have put lots of work into it, and it shows how much you have enjoyed doing it. Love Sandra x

♥ Liz ♥ said...

Denise it's absolutely perfect. It's so detailed and I love the butterflies on the front. :0)

Maria Ontiveros said...

Love so much in this book! The little flags, butterfly and choice of papers in particular!
Rinda

Cheryl said...

Lovely little book so detailed x

furrypig said...

loving how you have combined stamping, punching, pics and jouranlling to make your lovely mini book

Anonymous said...

Lovely, lovely book. I really like the Dear Lizzy papers and they work perfectly for this.

JO SOWERBY said...

what a lovely paper range. i love all the little embellishing details uve used especially the bunting and butterflies. a really beautiful album to keep
Jo xxxx