081218 Myrtle Beach 2018 Vacation Mini-Book

I've been working on recording our memories from the 2018 annual birthday trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to celebrate the peaches birthdays. The twist this year is that we camped out in the trailer! I'll start out showing you how I made the book & then the pages (photo heavy post.)

I found this perfect 2017 BoBunny/Life in Color "Discovery" paper for the cover at the local Scrapbooks by the Sea shop. I chose a 6x9" format intending to make a simple folder-style book stitched together in the middle. When I counted up the number of pages I needed I decided to make three individual signatures (groups of pages) instead so I needed room for a spine.

That meant I needed a little added width so I used a doubled over edge for stability out of Maggie Holmes/Gather "Beautiful" paper. The rear cover continues the image from the front.

I dressed up the spine with a spangling of sequins in the stitching.

So! Let's get to the inside story...

 

I love how the large format photos look!
I have a few more vacation books to work on while I'm inspired.

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083017 2nd Annual Myrtle Beach Trip Album

Soon to be followed by the 1st Annual Myrtle Beach Trip Album, lol!

Oops! Forgot to add the date!

I used a set of clearance bin fancy file folders to make my book.

 I knew they wouldn't lie flat when joined together, so I used some techniques from this book

Amazon link HERE

to stitch them together with a little give.
The purple stitching is visible in some of the page photos.
I added a decorative paper to cover the bound edge.

left page view

right page view

As I had used the back page I wanted to protect it, 

so I added a vellum book jacket to the binding paper. 

It folds inside to keep it in place.

Enjoyed the whole process of putting this together & am so happy with the result!

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