Festive and bright using Cabana Stripes and Dots from the Paper Salon collection. Bo Bunny flowers. Buckle Thing from Queen & Co. Ribbon from Creative Impressions.  This is a simple Mini-book project that you can put together in 10 minutes. Using your white paper stock that you've been saving, because you don't use white paper for scrapbooking, cut six 5.5 x 6 inch pages and two 6x6 inch pages. Cut the cabana stripe paper to 2.5 x 6 inches. Cut the Cabana dot to 5 x 6 inches. Use one of the other coordinating Cabana collection papers for your backing in a 6x6 piece. Adhere the stripe and dot pieces to the "front" 6x6 white piece as shown below. Slide the "smile" buckle thing onto the ribbon and adhere it to the seam between the two colored papers. Add the two orange silk flowers (2inch size) to the striped section. Adhere your 6x6 back piece to the other white 6x6. Put your mini-book together with front cover, back cover and 5.5x6 white pages in between. Stack to one end. Use your Crop-a-dile, to easily punch through all the pages along the edge 1/2 inch in. Add brads or eyelets to secure and now you have created your own little mini-book to give as a gift or to fill with your own precious memories. Samples of other mini-book projects follow using the same instructions with different papers and embellishments.

 We R Memory Keepers BoHo Chic Papers Mini-Book:

Bo Bunny - Back to Class Mini-Book:

Paper Salon ideas:

Here's an example of how to incorporate myriad printed papers into an adorable layout that resembles a quilt. We recommend using Paper Salon's Baby Collection available in our Shoppe. Cut your papers into approximately 1 1/4 inch squares. Use blue or pink ink pad to color the edges of each paper square by dragging it across the edge. Adhesive tabs will secure the squares to your page once you've decided how you want to place them. A Bo Bunny flower, some tags and ribbons help to complete the layout.  All are mere highlights for the center of interest--a photograph of your pride and joy...

Also from Paper Salon are the Meadow set with various patterns in green, blue and white set against a spring green background. Here, the patterned papers are cut into approximately two inch squares and then clipped at the corners using a corner rounder. A splashy way to show off photos of those precious moments...

Paper Salon Cabana collection with Bo Bunny 3.5 inch Flower at center:

Starting with Thumbprints 12 x 12 paper and some of my own mat stack pages and glitter, I added Bling Rings and tiny beads from Queen & Co. Ribbon from Creative Impressions and My Girl stickers from Bo Bunny.