Butterfly Mini Album featuring Katie Pertiet Designs In The Leaves collection.

 I just adore creating mini albums, and when I found this butterfly die set at a local garage sale for 1 dollar, the visions of what I could do with it ran through my head!!! Immediately, I knew I wanted to create a fall themed mini. Sorting through my Katie Pertiet Designs digital collections, I picked In The Leaves, which was originally designed as a paper collection for 49 and Market. It truly is a fabulous collection with all of the warm vibes of Autumn. Having the digital collection means I could print up what ever I need for my projects. 

I recently discovered Mix2Mold which is a ceramic resin powder that you mix with water for your silicone molds. I think I own all of the Prima Marketing Moulds, so I was excited that Mix2Mold created perfectly crisp castings. And I didn't even have to prep it with paint or gesso, I just mixed Lindys Gang Magical Shakers using Katie Pertiets Laurel Garden collection. The colors were perfect with the In The Leaves Collection!! Gorgeous rich fall colors! The Frames and leaves castings took the Magicals perfectly!! I am so excited at this finding! 

This is a view of the mini album opened up front, spine and back. I am so pleased about how it came together. 

This is the spine. Printing and fussing cutting was so easy to do. I also created printables with the digital  elements for my Silhouette Cameo. But I do find fussy cutting is relaxing to me, so I do it often. Nothing else to do while sitting in the carloop line for an hour!!

Here is the first page of the mini. I backed the frames and most of the elements with chipboard to give it a little dimension. I also did a lot of splattering on the pages with the Magical Shakers. This also leaves a bit of shimmer. 

I love all of the sentiments. In The Leaves also has a great collection leaves, butterflies and frames! 

More frames and butterflies!

The little acorns are so sweet as well. Mixing them in with the fall leaves makes the perfect little clusters. 

There are different styles of frames. Perfect for those little fall photos you might have.

I did use some Elizabeth Craft Design die cuts and tucked them here and there in the album. Angelica Turner designs the best floral dies for Elizabeth Craft Designs. And the Greenery Fillers are awesome. And if you know me, you know I love making flowers!! Once again, I colored the die cuts using the Magicals. Laurel Garden is a must have color collection. I love my Magical Shakers. 

More leaf clusters. 

For the little circle elements, I punched a hole on the top with my Cropadile, set an eyelet and strung some string through it. 

I love the little filmstrip frame. The beauty of digital is you can size the elements to any size you want to suit the size of your projects. 

You can also cut apart the sentiments to fit your space. 

Thank you for joining me today. I hope you shop Katie Pertiet Designs and start printing your favorite digital collections. 

Katie Pertiet Designs has hundreds of digital collections to choose from, for printing. There are many already designed for printables that will save you the work of doing it yourself. So many of the collections can be mixed and matched for a wide variety of projects. The possibilities are endless. 

In The Leaves digital collection is what I used for this mini album. 

Lindys Gang has  the most beautiful colors from Sprays to Magical Shakers and Powders to embossing powders. I'm obsessed!! Get Laurel Garden. It is a delightful collection of shimmery colors. 

Mix2Mold is now my go to for casting my molds. Mix with water and pour into your molds. Perfection!! 

Katie Pertiet Designs Curated Studio Mix 40 digital collection./Fall themed Mini album

Sometimes, digital papers can be printed to create your projects. Katie Pertiet Designs has the best digital collections that can be printed on paper to create with. I love creating mini albums. This mini album was created using Katie Pertiet Designs Curated Studio Mix 40. I love Autumn, and there are so many collections to choose from in the fall theme. I used Scrap Diva Designs Acorn die set. It is such a great die set. I'll have to make another!! So off to find another beautiful Autumn collection at Kate Pertiet Designs.

I love creating my own flowers because it gives me control over style and color. Printing up digital paper from the collection and printing the same color on both sides saves  me from coloring the flowers. I do enhance the colors using inks or my go to is Lindys Gang colors. Magicals are my favorite. And Katie Pertiet has her own color set that matches this paper collection perfectly. Laurel Garden has those colors that give you the Fall Vibes. The colors are beautiful and I have used them throughout this mini album. Even if they are just splatters!! 

There are 8 pages that include a front and back cover. Each page was such a pleasure to create. The collection I used had plenty of ephemera. If you are Photoshop savvy or familiar with a similar program, you can create printables and resize your ephemera any size you want. And if you have an electronic cutter, you can cut out the printable even faster. But for this collection, I fussy cut some of the elements while sitting in the carloop line at my granddaughters school. It passes the time quickly!! 

You can be as creative as you want with dimension because the book ring allows the pages to be as thick as you want. I adore the Melange stones I used for the cover. They are backed with the sweet green polka dot paper from the collection. I used a clear adhesive to the bottom of the stone, and cut around the stone when it was dry. Or you can cut the circles to size then adhere them to the stones. Great way to create a matching embellishment. 

I love the sentiments in the collection. I used many throughout this mini.

 

I used Prills and rhinestones on the cover as well. I also spattered some of Katies new Magical Shakers  collection with Lindys Gang, called Laurel Garden. The colors are rich Fall colors. A must have Magicals collection to have in your stash. I can see using it over and over again. I die cut the flowers from paper that was printed on both sides. That way, there is no white showing underneath. I enhanced it with the Magicals and placed some stamen  for the middle. I added more sparkle with a fine clear glitter that resembles German Glass Glitter. 

Each one of the pages has a tuck spot for a photo. Some of them are pullouts, and some you just cut your photo to size and tuck them in. Besides the digital elements, the smaller leaves were die cut from the Acorn die set. Cutting them from scraps of paper were perfect!! 

Here is a list of all of the products I used to create the mini album. The joy of using your own stash to add to the printable digital designs is that the possibilities are endless when creating.