My outdoorsy take on the Beginners Mini Album
OFFICIAL DATE MAR • 21 • 2026Save the date!! 🎈🎉In-Person Class Ticket Includes8 hour class • 1 Free Month • YBM Kitchen Collection • Food & Drink • Podcast Conversation • Class PhotoMORE INFO ON THE WAY ( Stay tuned in )I'll Be designing the simple project that we will be making for this in-person class this next week 🎉
🌈 Hello there, it's Francės! Welcome into the YBM Community. I'm so happy to be here with you! Here we can share our YBM project pictures & videos, give showers of compliments and spread the love of confetti 😄 Before you begin, please comment on this post if you agree with our Community Guidelines after reading them thoroughly. I will also be sharing my projects, as well sneak-peeks! If you'd like a little tour of the our community and want to be learn how to make your first post, Journey Here. I'm so excited to see everyone's creativity here, if you ever need a thing you can always direct message me here or email me at: yourbookofmemories@gmail.com Francės Long 🤍🌱
January 16
• Edited (Jan 30, 2025)
\\\Update\\\ A baby was finally born 🥰. Foster James Geers arrived at 3:46am this morning. Both Mama and Foster are doing great, if not a little tired 😊 He was 8lbs, 1 oz and 21.5” long.
Soooo, here I am, waiting for my grandson to be born. He’s taking his own sweet time, lol. Mama was induced at 5a this morning and so far, not much is happening. However, I finished the baby book for his mama and daddy yesterday and can’t wait to give it to them 🥰!! Maybe I can update that he’s been born later this evening, or tomorrow morning, but for now, here are photos of his book 🩷🥰 - This is the Beginner’s Mini Album
March 20
Everything!
46 %
The front cover spine wrap
8 %
The peek-a-boo window
15 %
Learning how to do cording
15 %
All the pouch photo space
15 %
13 votes
November 15, 2024
I’m working on a baby shower gift using Frances’ Beginner’s Mini Album tutorial. This is the album I always make for a quick baby gift. It’s super easy to follow directions make it my go-to every time for this kind of gift…however, the mom is decorating her baby boy’s nursery in baby safari animals. I didn’t have a paper collection that fit that, soooo, I had to wing it. I used Mintay’s Playtime paper collection to use the patterns out of, and then ran to Joann’s for some solids, along with some Stampin’Up solids I had in my stash. I’m hoping it will come together once I add the animals, which I downloaded and will now need to print and cut on my Cricut. Playtime has a circus theme, so I really didn’t have a lot to work with. There’s a lot of repetition, but it will just have to work. I’ll post additional photos when it’s completed.
October 24, 2024
Hey everyone...how are you guys doing on your Move My Mojo Challenge Album? So...I have decorated MOST of the album and just need to work on a few inserts and photo mats. Because I am giving this to someone here in Brasil, my photo sizes are a bit different and I had to make some adjustments. But, I love it!
December 17, 2024
• Edited (Dec 17, 2024)
🎉The Bring It On Holiday Challenge book has been completed by Shayne! Isn't it just beautiful? You can see the rest of his wonderous book here!
He followed the Fall Album tutorial. If there are any specific additions you see in his book that you'd like to learn, comment below and I can include the techniques in a new album class!
January 31
Made my Abstract Folio!! Last weekend we went on a walking tour in Sāo Paulo with a photo club and I decided to make the Abstract Folio with a photography theme. I had to make this quickly and did not do all of the cutouts that Frances did.
I made a blog post with links to everything I used, more photos, and a link to the walk-thru on my YouTube Channel -
https://tinyurl.com/s62mst8z
Enjoy the rest of your day everyone.
March 18
• Edited (Mar 18, 2025)
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Estoy muy enamorada del Slim fotofolio! Fue el primer proyecto que hice de Francés y lo volví hacer con esta bella colección!
Translation : I’m very in love with the Slim Folio! It was the first Frances project I did and I did it again with this beautiful collection!
February 09
To all crafters. I have been asked to make 5 different albums for males from age 8 to 21. Can anyone share some page samples? Can't wait to see what your ideas are.
All albums will have 4 interactive pages.
Thanking you in advance.
Brenda