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Easier Intricate Mini-Books – Paperclipping 174

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My favorite mini-books are the most intricate interactive three-dimensional ones! The ones that really wow you!

But I have a few different tricks up my sleeve that allow me to finish these in just a handful of hours or two to three sittings!

Do I dare share them?

Well, maybe just with the Paperclipping Members. ;)

We’ve just released the newest episode of Paperclipping on mini-books that are intricate and stunning, or at least that create the illusion that they are intricate — though the “stunning” part is no illusion!

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If you’re not a member, maybe it’s time you join us!

Before you scream “YES!” and jump on board, keep in mind that the Paperclipping Video Tutorials are very rarely step-by-step hand-holding tutorials. They’re full of concepts that work over and over again for all types of layouts and projects.

To benefit, you have to be able to apply principles, as opposed to exact instructions of what goes where.

So if you think you’re up to the task and are ready to have the concepts for why things work and how to make them work for you — if you’re willing to be an independent self-reliant scrapbooker with your own stories to tell– it might just be your time!

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mini-book snea peek

A note for those Members who have already watched the tutorial (it’s in the Member’s Area and your membership iTunes feed), these pages go in the dancer album and I used the same tactic for them that I did for the bird mini-book pages. Basically it’s that third “trick” I talked about, plus my task-batching method from Paperclipping 150.

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The supplies for this book are top-notch. I’ll share as much as I can…

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  • Lisa M.

    Beautiful dancer mini book!  I just wanted to say thanks for the coupons!  Used them!

  • http://www.paperclipping.com Noell

    Yay! Thank you for your membership! :)

  • Ashley Moseley

    I love your mini books!  Also, I thought it was cool at the end that your hand gestures evoked the same emotion/feeling you were talking about- for example- when you said “dramatic” your hands bounced and exploded (hard to describe) and then when you said “simple” you moved your hands in close and kind of rigid.  I thought that was pretty cool!

  • Becky E.

    Noell, I want to tell you that I haven’t seen anything of yours that I don’t like! I’ve never have been good at putting embellishments on a page but you have inspired me and have given me great new ideas. Now, just to actually try to compelete them on a page and not just invision it in my head. I do have a question about your mini albums, what do you do to decide how you are going to ”bind” them together?

  • http://www.paperclipping.com Noell

    That was 100% sub-conscious and impromptu choreography! ;)

  • http://www.paperclipping.com Noell

    My personal preference has always been spiral binding. But I usually end up doing book rings because my books get fat and I haven’t been able to find the largest bind-it-all spiral rings where I shop. :(

    This purpose of this book is not so much to tell a story but to give my daughter a pretty book of her dance pictures. So I finally get to use my Bind-it-All because I can make just enough pages to fill my spiral rings!
    So, that’s basically how I choose — whatever will work with my books.

  • Crista

    Noell, this album is gorgeous, I LOVE the texture of the black flowers on the front, espeically combined with the pearls.  I just joined as a paperclipping member and I’m loving the content!  Why didn’t I join sooner?

  • http://www.paperclipping.com Noell

    I don’t know, Crista! Why didn’t you?! Ha ha, just joking. Thank you so much, I appreciate your membership and your very kind words!! :)

  • http://www.BackToPaper.com Linda Tieu

    Great episode! I’m definitely getting more into minibooks and little project based-groups of photos type of scrapbooking these days. Wondering if you might want to do an episode on various ways to bind books up. I know there’s the generic rings and binding machines… but thinking about using ribbon, although it doesn’t hold up nicely. I’m currently running into this problem of having a too big minibook!

  • http://www.paperclipping.com Noell

    Thanks for the suggestion!

    BTW, when my mini-books get too big (all the time) — I usually default to extra large book rings. They’re the easiest solution I currently know of for super fat books.

  • http://www.BackToPaper.com Linda Tieu

    I’m having a hard time finding really huge book rings…not sure how large they go or if you can get a custom size… time to do a bit of online shopping I suppose :P Thanks!