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This round mini album has a St. Patrick’s Day theme. It’s a gift for a friend of Irish heritage, and it’s all about her dog, which she spells “dawg.” The title of the little scrapbook is “Dawggone Irish.”
The back cover (shown in the middle photograph) has a three dimensional shamrock shape which contains a picture of the dog, and the text “Dawggone right I’m Irish.”
I used Photoshop CS to edit the photo, bu you could do the same with Adobe Photoshop Elements 7
To make the shamrock shape, I started with a shamrock shape from Microsoft Office clip art. I copied and pasted the shamrock into a new file in Photoshop, then resized it to the size I wanted my printed picture to be. I think this was about three inches wide. I also converted the clip art to a resolution of 300 dpi, which is the resolution I planned to use for printing. Then, I resized my photograph to the same size as the shamrock.
I used the magic wand tool to select the inside of the shamrock. Then I selected the photograph and copied it to my clipboard. Returning to the shamrock image, I used the “Paste Into” command to paste the picture of the dog into the shamrock. I used the Move tool to move the dog picture around to get the best display.
So back to the mini album. The third picture shows the mini album standing upright and fanning open like a flower. Despite having only four pages, this little mini album has plenty of places to put pictures, journaling or other artwork.
And, because no ready-made album or kit is used, its an economical project. it uses only four squares of card stock, some chipboard from a cereal box and whatever papers and embellishments you choose to add.
I embossed the card stock and paper with the Allegro Embossing Folder
Here is a video tutorial showing how I made the round mini album:
I did a Google search to find the various Irish blessings, sayings and proverbs that I included in the project.
