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Today I want to share a shaped mini book that I made for a friend. The base is a Maya Road chipboard shaped album and because the book contains photographs of her boys playing in the snow I thought it would be cute to use the mitten shaped book and all the tags and the front cover are completely covered in ultra fine glitter

(Supplies: Sleepy Sheepy by Cristy Lyle, Frolic Words by Shawna Clingerman, Word Jumbles Winter by Penny Springmann, Chipboard book - Maya Road, Glitter - Glamour Dust, Crystal swirls - Zva Creative)

News From The Sweet Shoppe ...

Today sees the launch of the February Challenge Portfolio at Sweet Shoppe Designs and I have been responsible for the big hybrid challenge. The challenge system works like this: at the start of each month the challenge portfolio is rolled out, it's a variety of inspiring challenges each worth 1, 2 or 5 points and these build up to a gift card for up to 40% (for 30 points) to spend in the store. The big hybrid challenge is worth 10 points so it's big business.

The February hybrid challenge is to create a '10 Things ...' mini album. I chose to do 'Our Summer In 10' and it's a record of what we saw, places we went and what we did during the summer. But it's open to interpretation and anything you'd like to record in 1 - 10 format would work for the points.

Winter Mini Book ...

I loved those photographs that I took of Haggis playing in the snow and from when we went for a walk in the beautiful snowy countryside so decided to make them into a mini album. It's more of a tag book than an album as I've added bits and pieces into it and printed my photographs back to back to create phototags.

My album base is a set of 3 wooden houses from Craftshapes which I covered in a selection of papers from Zoe Pearn's Winter Wonderland kit

I added some of the elements from the kit - journalling block, tree and snowman - that I trimmed and covered the backs of to make tags and I completely covered them in ultrafine white glitter.

I added some KaiserScrapbook rubons that I had left over from another project to the journalling blocks before covering them in the glitter and they work brilliantly and look just like those chipboard elements you can buy to go with some makes of paper. I used my Cropodile to punch holes in all the tags as well as some wooden snowflakes that I painted silver and they got the glitter treatment too.

I turned my photographs into tags by printing them wallet sized (nine to a page), trimming them and glueing them together back to back before punching a hole and adding them into the book. I joined it all together with some ball chain that I pinched from some of my Maya Road chipboard albums and then I added lots more glitter to the edges of all my wooden shapes just in case there wasn't enough and also went a bit mad with my new purchases of the Zva Creative pearl and sparkly swirl and snowflake stickers :lol: