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For all you out there who have your August Main kit in hand and need some ideas on what to do with you mini-book … here are a few ideas on what you can do with that adorable butterfly album from Chatterbox.

Trace’s mini-book

For the bag:

“I used one of the chipboard butterfly pieces as a template … I placed it on the front cover of the bag, used a marker to mark along it, and then using a needle and thread (I CAN’T sew … lol) I hand stitched the butterfly design onto the cover. Like the August guest designer I too adore spray paint, so I used it to spray black on the front and back covers of the bag.

For the album:

Front cover: I applied a rub on directly over the printed butterfly design and then using a black pen, I outlined the butterfly so it would stand out over the rub on design. I added a lot of doodling to the album … a little bit on each page. I used mini pictures on each page, along with some fact journaling and not much else. The book is so beautiful that I didn’t want to over embellish it. I added a few flowers, thickers, ribbon strips, paper, etc to the inside of the book.”

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JJ’s mini-book

“You get a mini-album with every main kit at Crazy Daisy Kits, and the August kit was no exception. This month it was a fun mixed media / mixed shape album from Chatterbox, with a butterfly theme that perfectly matched this month’s kit. With such a sweet feminine album, I had to choose pictures of my baby girl (I know, such a chore for a mother, right?)

On this page I also used a portion of the recipe card from the kit. The little flower and fairy were so cute, I wanted to include them in the album. My butterfly punch also saw some action here, as I used it to make butterflies from the Jenni Bowlin paper.

More acrylic paint, and border punch usage on this next one. The paper is from one of the Pink Paisley sheets. And the flourish? Look familiar, but a little smaller? I actually cut it out from the packaging on the Heidi Swapp stickers that were part of the kit!

Did you know that you can use glimmer mist on transparencies? You just need to allow it a lot more time to dry, but it works great. On the transparent butterfly page next, I used a white Sharpie paint marker, and glimmer mist in “Patina”.

On the next few pages, I incorporated more of the same techniques — glimmer mist, cut outs from the Heidi Swapp packaging, acrylic paint, border punches & rub ons. These are all fun ways to add flat embellishments to a mini-album. I hope you give them a try. I painted the back of this transparent cover with white acrylic paint, and added my title to the front, along with some Distress Stickles in “Broken China”

The inside cover was then a perfect place for a sub-title (P’tite Princesse is french for “Little Princess”). Of course, I had to use the crown rub-on from My Mind’s Eye (included in the kit). I painted the edges of the cover in more of the white acrylic paint. The next page I used Distress Stickles around the entire shape of the butterfly. The “Broken China” colour was a great match with this book.

On this page I painted the edges white again, and tucked some Prima flowers (from my stash) around the photo. I added one of the cute butterfly sequins from the kit, as well. Do you remember that I cut apart a title tag from My Mind’s Eye for an from this kit? I didn’t toss the middle part of the tag. I cut out some of the shapes on the tag, and I’ve used them here in the mini album. The flourish you see below, and the pink flowers on the next pages were all part of that tag.”

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