You will need the following supplies for this project:

• thin chipboard
• glue stick
• die cut machine
• Crop-a-Dile (recommended)
• Large Eyelets
• Patterned Paper
• Embellishments of your choice
• Circle Ring or Chain
• Ribbon

This mini album was originally created for a review of Spellbinders' Nestabilities Scallop Circle Die for the Wizard Die Cut Machine. I found some thin chipboard and cut it into pieces to fit the largest (4 inch) circle die. After I had the chipboard and die set up I ran it through the die cut machine 5 or 6 times. This will vary depending on your machine and the thickness of your chipboard.

Once all of your cicles are cut you are ready to repeat these steps with your patterned paper. To save time you can die cut two pieces of patterned paper at a time.

Glue the patterned paper to the chipboard.

Once dry, apply your photos and embellishments to each page as desired.

Punch holes in each page with a hole punch - a Crop-a-Dile is highly recommended for this step.

After you punch the first hole line up the page with the next and make a mark through the hole to see where to punch the next hole. That will help make sure your album pages line up correctly.

Set the eyelets and bind the pages together with a circle ring or a chain as I've done here. Your final step is to add ribbons to the circle ring or chain.

This is a very quick mini album to put together and it feels like a great accomplishment to make it entirely from scratch. It can be adapted for any theme you wish. Enjoy!

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