A Little Bit of TLC: 11/1/09

Friday, November 13, 2009

Brag Book in a Mint Tin

I have a fun and inexpensive gift idea for you. : ) How about creating a brag book that can fit inside of a mint tin?

Let me first preface this post by saying two things… I did not come up with this idea on my own and please excuse the poor photos of my projects…hee hee. ; ) I have been admiring the tin albums from Shabby Miss Jenn Designs for some time and decided to try my hand at making a couple of them!

Here are a couple photos of the first tin album that I made…

The tin is an empty Altoids tin. : ) All of the little pages fit neatly inside of the tin. This album set me back $4.50. Four dollars and fifty cents!! 1.50 for the Altoids and about 3 dollars for the printing (I already had the digital graphics to make the album). How cool is that?

How I created the album:

1. Using the size and shape of the “pages” that are used in Shabby Miss Jenn’s tin album kits, I digitally scrapped each “page” for my tin album using Adobe Photoshop Elements and digital elements and papers from two digital scrapbooking kits that I already had on my computer (Grandma’s Scrapbooks and Birthday Sweet Treats by Shabby Miss Jenn Designs). I saved each page as a individual .jpeg.

2. After all of my pages for the tin album were digitally scrapped, I created a blank 12x12 inch, 300 dpi page and using Adobe, I placed all of my little individual tin album pages onto the 12x12 page and I saved that page as a .jpeg.

3. I saved the 12x12 page that contained all of my album pages to a disc and I took the disc to Costco. I printed out the 12x12 page for about 3 bucks. This is what the page looked like after I printed it:

4. I cut out each individual page from the 12x12 sheet and I hot glued the cover page to outside of the lid of the empty Altoids tin. I hot glued a decorative page to the outside bottom of the tin and then with fine grit sand paper, I lightly distressed the edges of the lid of the tin.

Here are the individual pages…

Besides the pages above, I also used one of the cut out pages as a template and I made a couple of additional pages using a few of Emma’s drawings and I included them in the tin album as well. : )

Shabby Miss Jenn has several pre scrapped tin albums available. I scrapped each individual page for the album that you see above myself (inspired by SMJ)…however, using pre scrapped pages does save a lot of time…you just insert your photos and text using Adobe Photoshop and then you are ready to print! If you are new to digital scrapbooking, a project using pre scrapped pages is a fun way to “get your feet wet”. The second tin album that I made was created using Shabby Miss Jenn’s pre scrapped Love Shack Mint Tin Album.

Here are a couple of photos of the pre scrapped album…