Hi, I'm Monika and for this month's mini album feature, I'm going to be kickin' it old school. As much as I love the iPhone and my super awesome Mac computer, I continue to keep a paper address book.
Supplies Used | kate & co. 6x6 Oxford Lane: Designer Paper Pad, Sticker Accessory Sheet, Chipboard Element, Enamel Dots, Decorative Tape, Find Your Wings and Fly Sky's The Limit: Alpha & Word Stickers, Bind-it-All, Stampin' Up Top Note Die, Big Kick, Glue Stick
And now that my girls are school-aged, they often come home with teeny tiny scraps of paper with names and phone numbers on them and no place to keep them. Knowing that I had already designed address book pages {get your download here} that just happened to be 6x6, I was excited to pull out the Kate & Co. Oxford Lane Paper Pad and get crafty. My youngest LOVES blue, so this range of colors was a perfect fit for her.
It's like I was meant to create an address book...do you see that adorable retro chipboard telephone? Using the negative shape left from the shapes I cut for my inside divider pages, I gave it a bit of dimension and popped it off the cover page with another chipboard element underneath and added those fit-with-everything enamel dots.
DESIGN TIP | sandwich a piece of chipboard between your two 6x6 papers to add extra heft and durability to your cover
Since she's seven, I kept it simple and my daughter's address book has just two sections: family and friends. I die cut my bracket shape and adhered it to one of the 6x6 sheets from the designer paper pad, trimmed a label sticker from the sticker accessory sheet then layered decorative buttons before popping on an enamel dot.
The inside front cover has one of the super cute shaped stickers from the sticker accessory sheet. Don't forget the back cover! I like to keep the chipboard natural for the back cover and here I added decorative tape along the spine and at the left edge to add a little interest.
Download a Tips + Tutorial guide sheet here sharing a how-to on trimming your address book pages.
Will you be kickin' it old school with me this month by creating your own address book?
