If you know me, you know I LOVE mini albums! I’ve preached on them in the past
(see this post), and swear by them.
Not only do I love to make them from scratch, but I love a good kit, too.
Enter the Spooky Nights kit from The Button Farm!
The Spooky Nights mini album is an accordian album inside of a tin can.
Attached to the inside of the tin is a page with two flaps. The top has the date 2008 on it, in honor of our son’s 1st Halloween. I’ll put a note here about his first Halloween and the experiences he had.
Inside the tin is the cover of the accordian album itself.
The accordian album contains 10 pages. My plan is put a photo best representing each Halloween on each page for the next 10 years. How that for extending the life of a mini album! By the time my son turns 10, I will have a great album to look back on.
The last page of the accordian album is adhered to the inside of the bottom of the tin.
I used my super trusty Beacon 3-in-1 adhesive to put the entire album together so I know it will never fall apart.
Like I said earlier, this was a kit, a what a kit!! Angela, who runs The Button Farm and puts these kits together, does an amazing job at putting instructions together for you to complete these intricate albums together all on your own.
Full page, detailed instructions with photos!
And like any great kit, there are TONS of leftovers!
I had the pleasure of taking a class from Scrap Queen Angela herself last year at the CKC Nashville convention. It was the first time my girlfriends and I ventured to take an intermediate class so we were a bit intimidated. Such a waste of worry! Angela was the most laid back teacher ever, and encouraged us to complete our albums the way we want, not just the way suggested by her (not that her way ended being the cutest anyway…).
Um, yeah, so that’s me totally cheesing in my picture with Angela. She really does rock! She’s holding the mini album we worked on during her class.
So, of course, when I got to her booth at the convention later I knew it would be completely worthwhile to purchase any of her albums. I was on a Halloween kick (I swear 2/3 of what I bought at that show was Halloween related!) so the Spooky Nights album was calling my name!
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Holly says
September 29, 2010 at 4:54 PMThat is a great kit – I love all the details and the styling of it and what you did with it is brilliant.
Lori says
September 27, 2010 at 2:38 PMDon’t you just LOVE Angela?! I just took a class with her this past Saturday in Topsfield, MA. I also took a class by her at CKC Manchester this year (and last year!). She lives about 2 hours north of me (in Maine). She’s such a great person and makes incredible mini album kits.
Envy My Cooking says
September 24, 2010 at 4:16 PMLove this idea. if you need new recipes ever come check out our blog.
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Sandy Ang says
September 23, 2010 at 1:18 AMWhat a great album and the holder is fantastic too !
★All Thingz Related★ says
September 21, 2010 at 7:51 PMYour mini album is awesome! I LOVE it! Thanks for stopping by sharing your project with us at Anything Related!
{Rebekah}
KateB says
September 21, 2010 at 12:28 PMfrom one scrapper to another…AWESOME! Will have to check these mini kits out..I recall having some of these papers in my stash.. Wish my son wasn’t so afraid of Halloween!
Amy C says
September 21, 2010 at 9:53 AMThis is such an adorable mini albums! I love doing mini albums, they are so quick and you can finish them in a day or two. So fun! So Cute!
Amy @ thehappyscraps.blogspot.com
Corinna says
September 21, 2010 at 9:47 AMThis is so cute. I love the green letters! How is it that I’ve never heard of the Button Farm?
Corinna
Amy Meyer says
September 21, 2010 at 9:40 AMSuper cute! I love all the colors and the whole book is just adorable!
Amy
crazycraftbugs.blogspot.com
Nesty Girl says
September 20, 2010 at 2:46 PMLove it! I adore mini albums, and kits are the best! Check out the Bo Bunny kit I blogged about today!
I’m visiting from Just Something I Whipped Up. Have a great week!
Karen says
September 20, 2010 at 2:24 PMThat album is adorable! Love those mini ones. They take less time than the big ones. You did an awesome job! I enjoyed your blog! Saw you on Made for you Mondays! Stop by when you get the chance:
http://www.karismaheartsavannah.blogspot.com
Shayna @ Texas Monkey says
September 20, 2010 at 9:37 AMOH I love this, it is so festive! It would be perfect to link up at All About You Monday, the theme this week is ribbon so this fits perfectly! Would love to have you join in!
http://texasmonkey.blogspot.com/2010/09/all-about-you-monday-ribbon-and.html
Staci J says
September 19, 2010 at 11:57 PMThat is really adorable!! i LOVE the tin it comes in, and the embellishments are awesome!
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[email protected] Not Just Paper and Glue says
September 19, 2010 at 7:47 AMI am so glad you had fun in her class and that you ventured into the intermediate class 🙂
Beverly @ FlamingoToes.com says
September 19, 2010 at 12:04 AMI love this album! I had never seen a mini album before – it’s so cute! What a great idea to have a picture for every year – and that little tin is adorable too.
Such a cute album!!
Alison says
September 18, 2010 at 11:22 PMSeriously. I wish I was a better paper crafter. This album is so incredible!! I love everything about it!!! I wish you could just scrapbook all of my family memories for me! 🙂