Jewellery Box Mini and a little Competition

I've been seeing quite a bit of chatter of forums about people making mini books for 18 year olds and I realised that I hadn't actually seen alot of projects aimed at teenagers, especially girls. I saw this as a challenge and decided to create something that would be suitable.

I created a jewellery box with a mini book inside. I used the gorgeous Bo Bunny Garden Girl collection for this. Here's a few pics.

This is the outside of the box.

Inside the box with minibook
A sample of one of the pages.

Once this was finished I decided to do a masculine version. I did it in the style of a poker table and it is this version that I demonstrate on my videos below. The box is so versatile that it can be turned into anything; a school desk for students or a writing table for the literary aficionado. The possibilities are endless.

I am a complete novice and actually demonstrating making something on video. I was really terrified because it's a one take job - you can't undo what you've done if the video goes wrong, so I apologise in advance if the camera work isn't all that nifty or for any other recording errors. I had to do it in three parts because it took longer than anticipated.
First a few pictures of the poker table. As above the pics are of the outside of the box, the inside and a sample of one of the minibook pages.

For some reason the last picture insists on displaying the wrong way and I don't know how to fix it.
The mini book in this version is from Laura Denison's Envelope Pocket Mini Album. Here is her youtube video.



Here are the videos. The videos are a demonstration of how I made the box rather than what one would call a class. I did a lot of preparation in advance so as to keep the videos short ... well... shortish.







The written instructions are below. They show pictures of the girls version and the instructions on how to make the mini book inside the box are also included:

Jewellery Box


Now for the Competition

Leave a comment on this post for a chance to win the Jewellery Box together with the mini book. I will pick a comment at random on 01 October 2011 and send the box to the winner. Make sure to check back here on 02 October to see if you have won!!

Onesie Mini Album

Hey all, It's been a long time since I last updated this blog of mine, but then again, life has been kinda hectic at times.

Anyway, I have this fabby mini album to show you. My sister-in-law had a little baby girl and I designed and created this little album for her. I don't have full instructions for this, but it's pretty easy to make. I created a onesie template for the pages and then added on 1/2 inch all around the template to create the pocket pages. Once I had the basic pages I embellished as desired.

Binding was a little tricky because of the shape of the book. What I did was to make "binding flanges" (or whatever they're called). I cut little strips of cardstock into 4 x 2 inches and folded them lengthwise to get a 4 x 1 inch double thickness strip. I then punched holes with the BIA in the strip and inserted one of these flanges in between the pocket pages. I was then able to bind as normal.