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Another hump day and my list of to do’s is definitely piling up. Even with some pressing items, I just couldn’t help myself and started working on a scrapbooking mini album. Sometimes you just have to take a break, right? I recently discovered tissue paper roll minibooks and posted the beginnings of my obsession on BackToPaper.com – my papercrafting blog. A 3-inch by 4-inch book seems pretty small and easy to complete, but it actually takes quite a few steps from preparing the photo layout to embellishing. At one point I had to get on the computer and create a journaling design. I need lines to journal on because I can’t handwrite straight and the easiest thing is to design and print journaling tags at home! My design will go on the back of photo tags that slide into the flattened tissue paper rolls. My design idea is a vintage telegram look, but I can’t decide if I will print it with the old paper background or print on white paper and distress myself. Either way I thought it would be nice to share the design with all of you. Perhaps you will find a good use for them – collaging, art journaling or maybe a few tags like me.
Click on the images to download the hi-res JPGs (For some reason some people don’t see the images, so you can download the ZIP file here.) I would love to see what you create with them as well, feel free to post a comment. Here’s a peek of the my minibook in progress…wish me luck on getting it done, so perhaps I can finally get back to work!
Posted on May 5, 2010 at 6:01 pm | free goodies, work in progress
Hello fellow explorers and creative minds! My name is Linda, aka tortagialla - a nickname my adorable husband dubbed me meaning "yellow cake" in Italian. I'm your not-so-typical Californian girl who took the plunge and moved to the Tuscan hills of Italy. Now I'm living my dream designing, illustrating and crafting full-time. You can contact me via email linda [!at] tortagialla [!dot] com
I saw your post the other day and now I’m intrigued. I went around the house yesterday collecting the rolls. I have four since I was able to use a paper towel holder for two of them. THANK YOU so much for these downloads. I saw in the video someone used a cute stamp and I didn’t know how I was going to make mine look decent and NOW you’ve given us these. THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I look forward to following the progress of your book…more idea for when I finally start mine!
I’m glad to have inspired you – we can share how our minibooks look for sure. Yeah, I’ve collected these rolls forever…so many!
I clicked on the pictures above and just got a page with a box and a red x so I don’t think the links are working. I tried right clicking and saving the picture but when I tried to use it, it was very hard to read so I’m not sure that’s right either. Any suggestions?
Hi Lori – Hmm…the links are working, maybe it didn’t load right the first time…eek! Let me just send them to you!
linda
Hi Linda,
That and meeting nice people like you! Love your blog. So much to explore still. Speaking of blessings, I spent three weeks in Italy in 2003. Beautiful…
Thanks for stopping by my blog for the counting my blessings stitchalong. I’m sorry to say I haven’t stitched a thing since that post! I’m looking forward to it though
Thanks for stopping by Debbie! I’m actually stitching on andfeeling.com…but yeah, I haven’t gotten very far myself. As you can see I distract myself pretty easily! Glad you liked your time in Italy…there’s definitely so much to see in this world
So many blessings!
It’s so cute and mini–I love mini! Great look to the tags.
Thanks Gretchen! It’s funny how mini just makes everything cooler!
The telegrams are lovely! I especially like the one on old paper.
Off to check out your other blog!
Thanks for stopping by and checking out my other blog…gosh, I have too many!
[...] designed a telegram-looking journaling tag and thought I would share it for download. Check out my post on tortagialla.com to download the telegram journaling tag. [...]