Saguaro Mini Book

This past weekend I made a quick mini-book about our stay at The Saguaro hotel.

 

I started with a book I purchased years ago. I have a basket full of these. Can you say hoarder?

 

 

 I planned on keeping the color scheme of the book simple, to let the colors in the photos pop.

 

 

But then somehow I painted the pages bright, rainbow colors. Shocking? No. Not really.

 

 

 Then I got all fancy and taped on the photos. Some pages are single photos and others are layers.

 

 

 Next, I added some very simple journaling on top of that fancy artist's tape.

 

 

I ripped out pages from the super cool visitor's guide that I stole was gifted from the hotel. The pages were taped to the inside covers of the book (I covered the chipboard covers first with fabric and mod-podge).

 

 

Ribbon was added to finish off the top edges of the covers. Random pieces were added to the front and back cover for final decorations.

 

 

 

 Then I went back in with an oil pastel stick and added some grey detail to the inside of the white circles, just to grunge it up a bit.

 

 

That's it. A few hours of playtime and now I have a colorful book to remember my night of "sleeping in a rainbow". 

 

 

Hope you have some time to play this upcoming weekend!