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Friday, February 14, 2020

Make a Valentine's Day Album that looks like a Children's Book

KB and Friends' Retro Valentine's Day Mini Album Cover
We love mini scrapbook albums that use children's books as the cover. But when you don't have the right book on hand, you can make one using KB and Friend's Valentine's Day book covers!

For the mini album above, we used printables from KB and Friends' Etsy shop, and the rest of the embellishments were from our stash of scrapbook stuff.

We started with our printable retro children Valentine's Day books covers.


We chose the book cover with the title "We 'auto' be together," featuring an adorable boy and girl in a red convertible. We printed the front and back covers, then used spray adhesive to glue them to 5" by 7" chipboard.

The inside pages were also adhered to 5" by 7" chipboard. We used store-bought papers to cover some of the pages. For others, such as the bingo card page, we used printables from KB and Friends.

Before embellishing the book pages, we used our Zutter Bind-it-All to create the wire binding.

The fun part was decorating the book. We used a mix of our own printable Valentine's Day embellishments along with store-bought embellishments that we already had.

Make sure you check out the vintage shaker full of mini retro Valentines. The shaker is attached to the inside cover page using a metal binder clip.

Here is the finished product:

KB and Friends' Retro Valentine's Day Mini Album Front and Back Covers

KB and Friends' Retro Valentine's Day Mini Album Inside Cover

KB and Friends' Retro Valentine's Day Mini Album Bird Inside Page

KB and Friends' Retro Valentine's Day Mini Album Deer Inside Page

KB and Friends' Retro Valentine's Day Mini Album Inside Flower Page

KB and Friends' Retro Valentine's Day Mini Album Back Cover


We hope this inspires you to make your own mini album using KB and Friends' book covers and retro ephemera.