Friday, January 27, 2012

Little Yellow Bicycle Mini Album and Giveaway

I'm back today with another project as a guest designer for Little Yellow Bicyle's new Paradise line. And, wow, what a fun week I had playing with the Paradise Medley Album.

The medley album is an assortment of tags, envelopes and inserts and comes with instructions and color photos to show examples of ways to put the album together.   It's easy to follow along with the suggestions or you can do your own thing. I used the album to document a trip we took to the beach just after my son turned 1 and added several embellishments from the Paradise collection. 



Before starting the album, I did a little prep work.  I added brads and twine closures to the two envelopes and machine stitched a little border around each tag, page and envelop.

I used a chipboard title block to make a wee little cover to the album.  I covered the back with a little strip of patterned paper, used a cropadile to punch a hole then added the chipboard title to the album. Then I set about embellishing each page.

Front of Pages 1 - 3:


Back of Pages 1 - 3: 



Front of Page 4:



Back of Page 4 and Page 5::



Isn't this a beautiful line?  Paradise is one of 6 collections that LYB is showcasing at CHA in the coming week. You can find details about all the new lines on the Little Yellow Bicycle blog.  I love seeing all the new collections!

Now for the giveaway: Little Yellow Bicyle donated one of these Paradise medley albums for a giveaway on my blog.  All you have to do is leave a comment. If you're not a follower of my blog, I'd love to have you join me and I'll be happy to follow you in return. Comments will be open until midnight on Wednesday, Feb. 1 and the winner chosen by random draw. I'll announce the winner here on my blog next Friday, Feb. 3.  

66 comments:

  1. Love it! Starting the countdown to summer. Can't wait to start taking some summer photos to scrap.

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  2. This is beautiful, and I wish I could sew as straight as you do! Beautiful collection!
    Love Penny Scrap-aholic@blogspot.com

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  3. Such an ADORABLE album!!! I am IN LOVE!!!!! I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeee the colors, the photos (CUTE!!!!!) and loving all that yummy stitching! :):):):):):):):):):):)

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  4. Wow, Izzy! This is fantastic! The stitching definitely adds a wonderful touch!

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  5. Beautiful album! The colors are so pretty!

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  6. Seen this on SB.com & so glad i checked your blog to see all the great details! Wonderful work & tfs :)

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  7. Super darling album! Such sweet pictures and papers! I'm a new follower - thanks for the giveaway!!!

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  8. I'm happy to become a follower! I love your stuff and this mini album is just adorable. Love everything about it!

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  9. Wow, what a fun little album!! The stitching is the perfect touch. A wonderful showcase for those darling photos!

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  10. Wowza! That is so cool that LYB donated that album for your blog, Izzy! I love the album you created! Thanks for the step by step instructions, too! Your pictures are so adorable!!

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  11. Love your mini! I'm a follower now, your work is just beautiful!!!!!

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  12. Your mini is fantastic!!! This style of mini is right up my ally! The stitching on everything is just the perfect touch. I think I follow you but I'll go check and do so now if I haven't ;)

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  13. I'm was so excited to see your project. WOW..this is fantastic. I just picked this collection as my favorite. I love your work, and I'm definitely a new follower! So hi...and I'm excited to see what else you create!

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  14. Your album is gorgeous. The stitching makes the album. What a great idea. Your son is also adorable. Love those chunky cheeks! Fabulous job!

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  15. Fantastic mini, Izzy! Looks like you and this LYB Paradise collection were MADE for each other :)

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  16. Oh my Izzy! What a stinkin' cute mini! Just adorable! I love all the different sized pages and folders, CUTE! LOVE LOVE the stitching you did! Faboo work my friend!

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  17. Your album is absolutely adorable! :)

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  18. I love this album, but love the photos of your son even better! :-) What a cutie-patootie! The extras you did to this album really makes it "pop". Great job!

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  19. OMG! What a GORGEOUS mini album! I love it! The color combo is perfect for your photos and I love the different sized pages and little envelopes! This is so sweet - the photos are just adorable! Just became a follower - I love your work - you give me SO much inspiration - thank you. I would love for you to come over to my blog and give me some pointers on what I can do to improve my work (I've only been scrapping just over a year, so I could do with all the help I can get!!!) Thanks.
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  20. This is gorgeous! LOVE the stitching. I am a new follower.

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  21. Ok after perusing through your blog I have so much inspiration from you. Your a fantastic scrap poker/creator. I just adore your album and love it so much I have been inspired to make one even if I don't win the giveaway! Thanks for sharing your fantastic work!

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    1. This is so so so pretty. I would love to have one of my own.

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  23. Izzy, this album is just adorable. I can't believe I wasn't your follower!?! What was up with that? Now I am. I love love love your work! Have a beautiful day!

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  24. How precious is this! I don't own a sewing machine.
    But I love this.. and how cute is here.. just love it to pieces.
    I'm a new follower.
    Monica

    mmlsweet @ sb

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  25. Love your album Izzy! The stitching really adds something special.

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  26. As always...gorgeous work!!! Love the new stuff! Love the stitching Izzy!

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    1. That is amaaaaaaaaazing! Just wonderful! natasha dot poteraj at gmail.com

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    2. Oh my gosh, do you realize how wonderful this is? I hope so. You are very gifted.

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  27. so cute and mini albums are my favorite! i love this one!!!

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  28. New follower from LYB. I love your work!

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  29. Wonderful mini! Well done. Love what you've done!

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  30. Love this... I'm going to call it 'summer twig'

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  31. This is one of the cutest albums I've seen!! I'd love to win it. I am a lover of making mini albums

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  32. What a beautiful and fun album Izzy,great work with that collection!!!!

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  33. OH MY!!! This is GORGEOUS! Your attention to detail is fabulous and I love the stitching. Can't wait to get my scrappy hands on 2 sets of this entire line! (Just in case one is not enough)

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  34. what a creative endeavor! thank you for sharing. rush88888 at gmail dot com

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  35. These papers are so beautiful! I just love the color pallet - super cute!!

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  36. I would be honored to win! Your work is very very inspiring.
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  37. I am a Follower!
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  38. I adore mini travel albums and this one is so sweet and unique! Thanks for the inspiration. I am now a following and can't wait to pop by often to check our your projects.

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  39. Paradise worked great for your trip. The colors blended beautifully.

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  40. Just joined. Really love ur work, thanks for a chance to win this cute album!

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  41. Love your album! So cute! Thanks for sharing!

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  42. i am now a follower - I'm so glad to have found your inspiration!!!

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  43. You know, your album is so adorable but those photos you used are beyond too cute. Wonderful project.

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  44. The album is precious! the pics are adorable...what a great memory to have and cherish! I just started making albums and I am hooked! I am learning new things all the time and want to continue to be challenge...thanks for sharing with us and the chance to win! :) I am a new follower as well so I can learn from you as well...don't you just love LYB! :)

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  45. Came over from LYB because your album was so stunning... serenity indeed - beautiful pictures and great colors!

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  46. Love the album, Izzy. I am a transplanted NC girl. There are a lot of us out there. Pictures were too, too cute. I love the pictures because they take me back to my girls early years. Papers and album are gorgeous. That's what scrappin and snappin are all about!

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  47. Absolutely darling!!! Love it! great pics too.

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  48. This is such a cute album! I love it...
    Really beautifully done!

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  49. So very cute - love the colours and patterns.

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  50. This is just soooooo adorable!! great work!!!

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  51. This album is fantastic! Just amazing.

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  52. I absolutely love what you've done. Mini albums are my passion and this one is perfect. I found your blog by accident on Facebook where I've actually just opened an account and I am becoming a follower. Hopefully I'll be able to figure out how to showcase my work also sometime soon. I'm really very technologically illiterate. Thanks for the opportunity to win something I know that I would love.

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  53. This is so cute, I love all of the "hidden treasures" pockets and envelopes :) Thanks for sharing your creativity

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  54. This is so unique and sweet. You are very talented.

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  55. Your album is darling. It is very creative. I love this Little Yellow Bicycle papers. They are in my top 3 companies. Thanks for sharing.

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  56. This is an absolutely gorgeous mini album....just perfect! I would never think to do mix and match mini album like that but its so cool!! Thank you so much for sharing!

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  57. I forgot to add that I'm already a follower! http://www.scrapyourcrap.blogspot.com/

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  58. Fantastic. Wow. What a great great mini album... and you ROCKED it!!!! WTG! I'm now following you,

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  59. I love things that are out of the norm. LOve this album, it is so unique!
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