Robin's Creations of Joy: At Home with Nature Mini Book

Wow, What a summer! Trying to keep up has been a challenge. I post on my first blog
chatteringrobins.blogspot.com every wednesday, things that
I have created with products from The Robin's Nest,
a company I started 15 years ago.

Earlier this year

I created this book, and even taught it as a class at Treasured Memories in Utah.

Each month I teach a book class in Alisa's Scrapbook Store.

This month on the 27th of July

the book I am teaching is the Cabo San Lucas Mini book posted

under Robin's Posts.

We would love to have you come and join our class.

At Home with Nature Mini Book

This is the cover of my Nature Book. Dana and I love to take our RV up to the

Uintah Mountains

we can see from our home.

Just to retreat! Which is where we are this week.

This Book is such a classic and can be used for

Camping, Hiking, Campfires, Nature lovers, and just about anything Nature

you can think of.

Products used on the cover half page:

Glitter Getaway Leaf CS

Camping Sticker

Trees Cricut cut from B/W Pinetree CS

Leaves Cricut from Stencil Green/Plum

Mountains diecut from Glitter Witch Accessories

Other elements from my scrapbook stash

This is the edge of the book, you can see that the first page is half page with the

Robin's Nest Camping sticker

coming out over the edge. Each page is labeled from where the photos are taken.

I have used many elements and different papers in this book.

You don't necessarily have to use Nature or Woodsy papers

to create a Nature look.

Letters are from my scrapbook stash

I love this pocket page created on the back of the half page.

Journaling paper is attached to the tag inside the pocket page.

I created a full page look with a Cricut shape cut to 8" then framed it.

I then created a swirled leave motif with dew drops and tear drops.

Products used on these pages

Olive Daisy CS

Olive Fleur CS (retired)

Brown CS

Glitter Getaway CS

Tree motif Cricut from B/W Pinetree CS

Tree motif background Cricut from Brown Herringbone

Small tag from my stash

The dew drop swirl leaves are created with ff-mini dd's(brown)

and leaf green tear drops. All adhered with the Best Glue Ever.

Page 2 is created with great balance.

I love how it looks, and that you can fit 4 pictures on one side of the book.

This is a fairly simple layout.

Products used:

Camping Sticker

Brown Glitter Chipboard (punched birds)

Adventure Ribbon

Leaf Cricut from Brown Herringbone CS

Glitter Getaway CS

Green Mini Dew drops

Clear Large Dew Drop

Again, just a simple layout, and I used the excess of paper from the die cut pages to frame my photos.

To create the edge on the oval tree sticker, I stuck the sticker down, then I pulled up the edge of the sticker

with my fingernails, then the white edge shows, and it looks dimensional.

Products used:

Getaway Glitter Leaf CS

Camping Sticker

Glitter Green Journaling tag

Brown Tear drops

Leaf Cricut from Brown Herringbone CS

Mushrooms!

They grow so good in the forests!

Products used:

Olive Green Velvet Ribbon

Leaf Stripe CS

Getaway Stripe CS

Glitter Getaway CS (borner)

Glitter Green Journaling Tag

Camping Sticker

Leaf Green Tear drops

Leaf Cricut from Brown Herringbone CS

I so love texture in my books.

Burlap is added to this page layout to add this texture

I used a Halloween paper die cut out in the mountains shape for the look

of mountains on this page.

Products used:

Natural Burlap

Glitter Green CS

Glitter Green Journaling Tag

Leaf Cricut from Green Stencil

Mountains die cut from Glitter Witch Accessories

Glitter Brown Chipboard (Birds)

Leaf Green tear drops

This is another fun pocket page.

I used a simple layout technique, with 3 of the same size photos on each side but I put the trio of photos on the opposite sides of the layout, and then,

used different shapes to complete the balance of the pages.

I used a circle punch on the edge of the pocket.

So true confessions, I accidentally punched my holes on the wrong

side of the page, but I put twine in the holes

and it looks like

I planned it!

Wish I was that smart!

Products used:

Getaway Stripe (back side)

Glitter Getaway CS

Camping Sticker (popped up)

Trees Cricut from B/W Pinetree

Brown 6mm Dew drops

Leaf Green Tear drops

Leaf Cricut from Green Stencil

Small tag from my stash

This book is full of very simple layouts. This too is one of them. It also has great texture. A piece of brown linen is behind the picture on the left, then topped with 2 Spellbinders bird shapes cut from our Glitter chipboard. This is the opposite side of my ooppsy holes, but they just make the page look complete!

Products used:

Glitter Brown Chipboard

Glitter Getaway CS

Brown CS

Chocolate Dew drops

Dark Green Tear drops

Extra pieces of Glitter Getaway Stripe