Photo Booth Photo Album

We had a lot of issues with the photo booth that we rented for my stepdaughter's wedding. I wont go into all the details but there was a ton of editing that I had to do on the photos that were printed from the photo booth to be able to use them. 

I knew that I wanted to make a photo album with the strips that were printed from the photo booth but I wasn't sure what kind of photo album I wanted to buy.  I couldn't find an album anywhere specifically for 2x6 photo booth strips. The larger sized photo albums didn't make sense to me because the photo strips are so small and I didn't want a lot of wasted space. I began to search for 6x6 photo albums. I figured I could fit three strips on each side so each page would hold six photo strips. I finally found what I was looking for at Hobby Lobby. 

Unfortunately the only solid color the photo album came in was black. I decided I was going to paint the album green, as close to their wedding colors as possible. 

This is the album, front and back, inside and outside after painting it green.

Since I was not as careful as I should have been painting the album I got green paint all over the white liner on the inside covers of the album so I painted the inside completely green as well. To cover this up I decided to print Strike a Pose...Say Cheese...Smile Pretty or Pucker Up...Anything Goes, over and over again on white glossy paper and attach it on the front and back inside covers as a liner. 

Inside front cover-

Inside back cover-

The album came with 10 post bound pages. I order two additional packages of 5 pages just in case I messed anything up. I planned on using my Fuse by We R Memory Keepers to seal the photos in the pages. I never really used my Fuse so I wasn't sure how it would 
turn out.    

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After ruining two pages from the album trying to seal the pages, I became a pro at using the Fuse. The pages came out really cute.

The outside was too plain for me.

Front

Back

So I used my Spellbinders and Cuttlebug and cut two frames out of Chipboard. I wanted it to have some dimension so I glued them together and then painted them green to match the album. 

Inside of the frame I inserted Amanda & Mike's Wedding Photo Booth April 22, 2017, which I also printed on the same glossy paper I used for the inside liner.  I then attached the frame and label on the front of the album. 

Front view fully assembled

Side view fully assembled

I love the finished product.  

Wedding

For my stepdaughter's wedding on April 22, 2017, I helped her with formatting, printing, and assembling her wedding invitations. Her colors were hunter green and white. She purchased green pocket fold invitations with white inserts online. As I mentioned, I helped her with formatting and printing the invitations, and the inserts with all the details. She used a piece of white satin ribbon with a piece of green ribbon as a band around the outside of the invitation. Along with ribbon she added a tag that she embossed with a bride and groom using the Cuttlebug.

Close up of the embossed bride & groom tag

She stamped flowers on the invitation and used the 

Cuttlebug to add a little something to the inside 

pocket with embossed champagne glasses. 

Close up of the embossed champagne glasses

For the envelopes for the invitations, I created a monogram and printed them on glossy white paper, then cut them out on my Silver Bullet Cutter to fit inside the envelopes as envelope liners. 

For the ceremony programs she liked this style. 

As soon as I saw this I knew that embossed paper 

would be much nicer than the lace in the picture.

I searched the internet for embossing folders that would 

be large enough but also have an elegant look to them. I 

knew Anna Griffin had to have something and sure enough 

I found these on HSN, Anna Griffin Cuttlebug Embossing 

Folder & Dies - Beautiful Trimmings.

I chose a wide border. There is so much detail in the 

embossing folder that thin cardstock would crack and not work 

so I purchased 110 lb white cardstock. I cut 3" strips of cardstock, then used Anna Griffin's dies and embossing folders on the 3" strips. After that I scored a line and folded the border so that 

most of it appeared on the front but about 3/4" was folded 

over the back of the program. This covered the staples. 

Program cover printed on 110lb card stock 

before attaching the embossed border.

For the inside pages I printed all the ceremony details, doubled sided, in booklet form. This is a just a view of the first inside page. 

Front view of the ceremony program fully assembled and stapled.

The back of the program after the border was 

scored and folded over covering the staples.

I absolutely LOVE how these programs turned out. They were 

my favorite project out of everything that I made for the wedding.  

The bride wanted to do gift bags for the bridal party and guests 

that were staying at a nearby hotel and she wanted to include an itinerary. She liked the look of this wedding weekend itinerary.

I designed three different versions of this itinerary in green and white similar to the one she liked. I made one version for the female members of the bridal party, another version for the male members of the bridal party, and the last version was for the hotel guests. I thought it would be cute to attach the itinerary to the gift bags that way it could be large, and hopefully would not get lost. 

This was the bridesmaids version of the 

itinerary attached to the giftbag.

Inside the bag was a jar candle, door hanger, two bottles of water, and snacks. I decorated some glass jar candles that were purchased incredibly cheap from Michaels on black friday. Again sticking with the green and white theme. I cut some strips out of green cardstock and attached them to the candle. Then I cut strips out of white cardstock and printed Mr. & Mrs. Wray with a heart. I attached the white cardstock with the printed wording on top of the green cardstock. Then I cut a label out in matching green card stock using Spellbinders and my Cuttlebug. I cut a smaller version of the same label out in white cardstock with All You Need is Love, Amanda & Michael, and April 22, 2017 printed on it. 

Candle Front

Candle Side

Candle Back

Candle Other Side

Then for the lid of the candle, using my Spellbinders 

and Cuttlebug, I cut and embossed a green circle, and 

a smaller white circle with a monogram printed 

on the white circle. I used this same monogram 

on the dinner menus, and envelope liners. 

View of the lid 

The bride liked this style of door hanger to include in the gift bags. 

This was my take on the door hangers she liked. 

For the water bottle labels I designed the labels in green 

with a white border that wrapped around the entire bottle 

and then white lettering that said, Eat Drink & Be Married 

with their names and the wedding date. 

Font

Side

Other side

I also designed the dinner menus. I used the same 110lb thick 

white cardstock that I previously used to make the ceremony programs. Flimsy cardstock would not have worked for the 

menus. I printed two menus on each piece of cardstock. I incorporated the same monogram on the top of the menu 

that I used on the candles, and the invitation envelope liners.

The last thing I made was inserts to go inside the 2x6 acrylic frames that her dad and I purchased as souvenirs for guests to take their photo booth pictures with them. I wanted these inserts to say thank you to the guests, include the bride and grooms names, wedding date, and somehow include butterfly's. The bride incorporated butterflies into the wedding in various ways. 

These are the inserts inside of the 2x6 frames