Mini Scrapbooks & Fried Chicken....

This summer I had the opportunity to visit Savannah. I have always wanted to visit Savannah, and it did not disappoint!
We took a trolley tour of downtown, shopped, & ate at none other than the Lady & Son's!  (btw, the title comes from a story... no one in my family has really been a "fan" of fried chicken before.. including myself.. until we had it at the Lady & Sons! ... so it became our "joke" that we all love it now after our trip!)

I decided to make a "mini" scrapbook of this trip... I'm starting to rethink how I handle scrap booking vacations. I like the idea of mini scrapbooks for trips. Last year I made a shutterfly book of our trip to Europe and LOVE how it turned out (maybe I'll post that one...).  I think the mini book makes scrapbooking a trip sooooo much easier. There is a definite start and a stop, and you finish with a great sense of accomplishment.

I used some of the techniques I picked up at creative escape... and most if not all of the products are from my monthly Jenni Bowlin scrapbook kit (one of my fav's!)

For the cover, I used Grunge paper, (it won't tear, so it's great for a book cover) I painted it red and then inked it brown. It ended up looking like red leather, in fact when my husband picked it up he wanted to know where I got the leather for the cover.  The rest of the products are Jenni Bowlin, with stamps from Close to My Heart...
*** just a note,  I'm not endorsing any products here... no one sent me anything for free (although I would be open to that LOL!!) this is just stuff I had in my "stash" that I pulled together to make my book.**


Here are the inside pages of the book. To keep little hands from ripping them, I secured each page with 1/4" eyelets.

on this page are flip flaps from close to my heart, just attached at the side with staples.

this page is made from polka dot felt... I sewed the photo on at the corners.

The book dimension are 6x9.. for this page, I made it 6x12 then took a 6x6 piece, folded it in half and used ribbon to "bind" it into the fold of the larger piece of paper, then attached photos into the "flaps"... a good way to get alot of photos into one page...

also not shown, I typed a whole page with our "story" from the trip and put it at the beginning of the album

Now on to make a mini book of our other trips this summer... San Diego... that one should be fun huh!