A garden minialbum on a snowy (!) morning

This morning I woke up to this!! Can you believe it? On April 7th! So depressing!

There was nothing else to do than to enter the craft room ;) Hehe!

I've long wanted to make myself a Garden book and so here is my first attempt at a mini album - and my first ever project using the Zutter machine!

I used some Zutter front covers which I cut into size 6" x 8" and did some very simple stamping and embelishment with washi tape, brads and chipbord letters on that front cover.

The brads are from My Minds Eye and I am glad I finally found some use for some of the products I have been hoarding ;))

 

I made the inside pages very simple with some lined papers taken from an old note pad and some inexpensive plastic pockets were cut into smaller pockets to fit almost every second page - for storing seed pockets (to keep the original info & such) ...

On the next page (the lined pages) I am then able to write my notes related to those seeds or plant label, as I go a long. For the first time I am trying to grow my own chili and tomatoes from seeds.

I added some extra kraft pages with pockets (used some cute mini pads for those pockets).  I also added some huge manilla tags and I plan to do a bit of stamping or other decorations (the flat kind) inside,  later on.

Now I will try to use it for the next months, to see how it works and then I can always adjust the layout and order of pages on next years book ;) If you have any tips I'll be happy to hear about it? ;)

And luckily the snow quickly disappeared as the sun came out in the afternoon - but it is still cold and it will be freezing againg tonight! Lets hope for some Spring soon!!

Have a great Sunday!