A Peek Inside My Scrapbook
When I was a kid, I decided to make my first scrapbook. I took all the family albums down off the shelves and started picking the pictures I wanted. I cut them, glued them, colored them and glittered them and was so proud of my finished product. Understandably, my parents were not! My latest scrapbook experience is 100% parent-approved (I hope!).
I love scrapbooks. As a photographer and a crafter, scrapbooking is speaking one of my love languages. I hadn’t had time since college to do it, so I was out of supplies and unsure where to begin when I decided to give it another go this year. After doing some research, I decided to go with a Project Life book. I liked the simplicity and variety of it.
If you aren’t familiar with Project Life, it’s basically a simplified scrapbook. The layouts are mostly premade for 4×6 or 2×3 photos or cards and you can buy kits with cards that all coordinate together. It could be literally as simple as printing photos and sticking them in the sleeves with cards.
I printed photos from our Europe trip as soon as we got back, but since we were finishing our remodel and moving I’ve just recently been able to put it all together. I’m planning on doing some tutorials in the upcoming months, but I thought it’d be fun to share what I’ve done so far with you guys!
Have you all done any scrapbooking? It’s so fun. I can’t wait to do even more! I’d love to hear your favorite tools and supplies! 🙂
Tania Griffis is an accomplished writer, blogger, and interior designer with a Journalism degree from the University of Oklahoma. She started her popular blog, Run to Radiance, in 2011, demonstrating her design expertise through the personal remodeling of six houses to millions of readers across the globe.
Tania also owns The Creative Wheelhouse, a respected ghostwriting agency for bloggers, further showcasing her talent for creating engaging and informative content.
Your scrapbook is so cute! I haven’t done a scrapbook since high school, but maybe one day I’ll do another one.
Thank you Katie! I know, it had been a long time for me, but it has been so much fun!
I love all things scrapbook but man, it takes time, work & a lot of money for cute add ons… but its worth it for memories sake 🙂
Rebecca you are SO right. It can be an expensive habit! I just tell my husband it’s for our future great-great-great grandkids to enjoy, so really it’s an investment! 😛
Those are beautiful! I love the finished product of scrap booking but I have enough trouble keeping up with my photo books!
Chrissy I’m just glad you are doing a photobook! The important thing is to print those pictures! 🙂
I love scrapbooking!!! I haven’t done it in a really long time because to be perfectly honest. I haven’t really printed pictures since college. BUT!!!! It was a lot of fun when I did do it!! I even did one for a senior project in high school and got an A+ on it. I still love to look back at it because it is basically my entire childhood in one place 🙂 I love your pictures up there and the cute stuff you used to craft it!
A+? Girl you have to do one again!! And print your pictures!!!! You will so regret it if you don’t!! I lost sooo many photos because my computer broke, it was so sad!!
All the cool kids are doing Project Life….I feel like I should hop on board because all the bloggers who have posted about it make it look so fun and straightforward. I’m not an especially creative person, so my attempts at scrapbooking have always fallen a little short.
Your scrapbook looks awesome!
I think that’s kind of the nice thing about project life. It literally could be as simple as buying a kit, printing photos and putting it all in an album, no embellishments required! Plus there are so many great ideas online to help! 🙂
LOL, yes its beautiful!
i love the idea of scrapbooking, but i don’t think its for me. i’m much more of a simple photo album kind of girl lol. love yours though, looks fabulous!
What kind of scrapbooks do you use,i am so far behind becausw i am very fussy and alittle ocd,i need a quick and cute way to get caught up. Marcia