{"id":41,"date":"2013-01-27T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2014-11-09T11:56:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T19:56:42","slug":"diy-photo-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"DIY Photo Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I’m sharing the photo albums I made for my lovely bridesmaids. \u00a0In addition to the typical thank you card, I wanted to thank my girls with a photo album filled with pictures from all of the wedding events (bridal shower, bachelorette, rehearsal dinner, and wedding.) \u00a0Here’s what I used for the albums:<\/p>\n

-Four photo albums (I feel like I lucked out finding these at Walmart for $5 each! \u00a0They are sturdy and came in great solid colors- meaning they were ready for me to decorate. \u00a0I also liked the fact that they were meant for 4X6 pictures, but the album itself is larger and square. \u00a0They were just what I was looking for!)
\n-A package of silver gems (I found mine at Walmart in the craft aisle. \u00a0I don’t remember the exact price, but they were under $5.00. \u00a0Possibly $2.99)
\n-A package of scrapbook letters (I got the hot pink glittery ones that I used from Target’s scrap booking aisle for $.99! \u00a0They were perfect!<\/i>)
\n-A hot glue gun<\/p>\n

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My plan for the albums was simple. \u00a0I knew I wanted each to have their name, and I knew I wanted each to be “bedazzled.” \u00a0When I was ready to make them, I started by sorting through the letters and spelling out each girl’s name. \u00a0I wanted to make sure I had enough letters before I did any gluing. \u00a0Once I saw that I wasn’t going to have to make a last minute dash to the store for more letters, I started with the first album. \u00a0I placed the letters evenly spaced below the picture slot on the album cover. \u00a0Then, I took out my gems and played around with their placement. \u00a0I arranged different sized gems in the left hand corner and liked the simplicity, but I still thought that something was missing. \u00a0Light bulb! \u00a0I quickly ran to my box of stuff used for the wedding and found leftover lace that we had used to wrap around mason jars. \u00a0I thought that it would be the perfect touch, since lace was such an important aspect of my wedding. \u00a0I wrapped lace around the right hand side of the cover, and knew I had finalized the album covers. \u00a0It was time to glue!<\/p>\n

Here are the photo albums after decorating:<\/div>\n
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Note: I had not printed any pictures for the albums yet, hence the lame picture that comes with the albums.<\/i><\/p>\n

Another great thing about these albums was they came with a blank page (like a cover page) right when you open them. \u00a0I used this page to write heartfelt thank yous to each of the girls.<\/p>\n

After the albums were decorated, I went through all of my pictures and ordered the ones I wanted online through Costco’s website. \u00a0I really like their quality and prices, plus it’s convenient to order online and pick up at my local Costco. Here are a few pictures showing the albums after I had filled them with photos:<\/p>\n

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I really had fun with this DIY project, and I adore how they turned out.<\/div>\n
Thanks for reading!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I’m sharing the photo albums I made for my lovely bridesmaids. \u00a0In addition to the typical thank you card, I wanted to thank my girls with a photo album filled with pictures from all of the wedding events (bridal shower, bachelorette, rehearsal dinner, and wedding.) \u00a0Here’s what I used for the albums: -Four photo… [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,44],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crafty","tag-give","tag-wedding","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_2906.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42QGB-F","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1471,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/1471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}