Created large, obvious titles for every page. I used to be title-obsessed, and felt every page had to have a title sort of like a newspaper headline. I ended up with pages that simply state the obvious: Now I put my energy into telling the story behind the photos. Do I ever redo those old pages? I consider them to be benchmarks in my progression as a scrapbooker. Yet one thing I always tell new scrappers is this: Scrapbooking magazines and idea books are great inspiration, but many new scrappers are more intimidated than inspired.
The people who create those pages have usually been doing it for a very long time, and have access to lots of supplies and techniques. Scrapbooking is for fun and personal fulfillment, not a chore. Enjoy the pages you make, and the things you learn as you go! How to Build a Scrapbook Page.
Where can I learn more? FREE project ideas - Join our email list. Check out our original tutorial post for tips on how to make the bottom secure: I am curious about the printing. I do love the scrapbook look! I agree about the book hanging over on the shelves. Because we have adjustable wall mounted shelving in our office, all I would need to do is buy longer brackets and deeper shelves to make it work.
But — no matter which format people choose — the most important thing is to back up your pictures and then print them off and enjoy them — and record the memories!!! I see teens making scrapbooks because aside from enjoying on it, scrapbooks can keep their memories until the reach older age. Scrapbook making can also be enjoyed by moms and their kids. Are you still doing Project Life style pages too?
Also, would you be able to do a tutorial on your photo editing process? I love this idea, especially the emphasis on photos, which is the most important part of the scrapbook, anyway. Although this took you less time than anticipated, do you think you will always spend a couple weeks scrapbooking or will you begin to make your new volume little by little as the year goes by? I love your fresh take on scrapbooking! What paper do you use to print your photos? The way you scrapbook helps me to believe I can do it, my style.
I love your modern, simple, photo-centric album…Thanks for sharing the loveliness. Between What camera have you used to take these pictures ,they are beautiful.: You have seriously inspired me! I have regular photo albums from the time my daughter was born through roughly her 4th year. Then I started making photo books on Shutterfly — our wedding albums, annual family albums for and , and various big vacations. I used PL for and I got bogged down. Thank you so much for showing that simple can be beautiful! This is so inspiring! Also, the fact that we probably have over a 1, photos, yikes!
Thank you so much for sharing, this is amazing! I just envision children and grandchildren discovering these years from now, and enjoying how much your love shines through the pages. Due to a move and family sickness, life has been a bit tough lately. My wonderful friends got together and gave me a box of cards and letters to help cheer me up when I need it the most. I was trying to find a way to keep everything together in a neat, beautiful way and this is perfect. Thank you so much for posting this! How often are you needing to replace your print cartridges when you are printing photos.
That is always my biggest concern. It seems like it would be often when you are printing a bunch. La la la love this post. And your not cuckoo. I am so excited you posted this! These are my absolute FAV posts of yours! I have the photo edition with the tablet for writing, but not sure if that is enough for the collages you put together…. I absolutely love this! Love this post today, Elsie! I want to do something similar with Project Life — one month at a time. I love this idea, the images are so clean and bright! I am in love with Dolly!
I have a sausage of my own and love him very much, I feel small dogs have big personalities. I have been following your blog for ages now and just wanted to let you know it is very beautiful!! Your book and blog have got me to be creative again! I love this post. Do you have any suggestions for another good quality printer? I first discovered you in my scrapbooking magazines years and years ago.
I was drawn to your creative, colorful, whimsical and warm page decorations. Your new scrapping style reflects growth and change in you personally as well as the probable shortage of time to devote to just one enterprise like scrapbooking now, which certainly can easily become very time consuming when you let it. I appreciate the practicality, cleaner lines and faster assembly of this method, especially to help us busy people get started or keep up, but I must say, I do so miss that early Elsie style too and would love to see some of those type of pages too! I used to create scrapbooks also as a hobby, and I loved it, these are great memories to look back on!
Oh my goodness I am so far behind on scrapbooking. This is a great post and I definitely need to re-read this and then sit down with a plan… and a huge clean floor to sprawl everything out on! I adore this and YOU! I want to do more of the layout you are using, with handwriting and self-printing at home. I love this post! This is so helpful! Thanks so much — and I absolutely love the way you did yours!
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Have a lovely weekend! So hang on… scrapbooking can be what I want… not what everyone else does? I have so many incomplete scrapbooks calling my name. My son is graduating from high school this year and I keep putting off scrapbooking. I love it as well, but it can be so overwhelming and hard to get started. Thanks for the inspiration!
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Thank you for sharing some of your album! I enjoy the peak in to your process too… It makes me want to start working on my Europe photos to get them into an album! Best scrapbook i have ever seen!!!!! You are such inspiration to me, Elsie and Emma! I wish I could be as artistic, creative and resourceful as you two are! I wish I could meet you both in person!! I got your Core Kit for Christmas this year, and have been having fun mixing it in so far! This post is amazing!
May I ask you what pen you use? This was absolutely precious.
So lovely and inspiring!! Thank you for all the inspiration! Thank you so much for sharing your scrapbooking journey! I was so inspired I went out and bought the whole Project Life system to get started! Love your blog, love your style, and look forward to reading ABeautifulMess every day!
I love how simple, yet special you made your album. Love the simplicity of the album in general…. And should get to it…. How did you create the photo collages? This is such a cute scrapbook! For me, capturing the everyday moments is harder than doing the actual scrapbooking. I love what you have put together, its given me heaps of inspiration! I discovered your blog a few weeks ago, I was really interested by your tips on how to get beautiful pictures. Thankyou so much, you guys are now one of my biggest inspiration.
Have a great day! Thank you for this, I am so inspired! Can you please tell me where you bought your scrapbooking book and papers in 8 x 11? I love this so much Elsie. I am so excited to see you scrapbooking again! I just rekindled my love of it after a few years and I am so in love with it again. Thank you for posting such and awesome article. This is really an interesting idea. Oh, these are lovely!
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When I saw your story about erasing most of your honeymoon photos, I was so sad because I know what it feels like — I did the same thing! We had just gotten a new digital camera in for photos of the wedding and honeymoon and all. We thought, why not? I never want to hear that song again, but for very different reasons than most people have! So, all this to say: Do you recommend any alternatives for making a collage to print out? You make it seem so easy… What paper were you using to print the photos? Do you think its possible to get this with a regular printer that allows photo printing?
I was going through my SB stash the other day and came upon my all-time fav collection — the pink, black, turquoise and white collection you did. So many years ago. You had such a distinctive style I see carried through to your current pages. Just makes me happy to see! I have been umming and ahhhhing about how to put all of my photos into something I can hold for so long. I too wanted to do it in yearly increments, but kept thinking do I want albums, or a scrapbook or what.
But I had in my head something like what you have done. But it was a lot messier and incomplete in my head. I can do this. This is just perfect. And Dolly is adorable. This inspired me to start one as one of my goals! Thank you so much for the beautiful example and inspiration! This post is truly amazing! This has really inspired me to start compiling all of my photographs in one place! I rarely comment on anything, but this I just have to say! I LOVE these albums, and it looks wondeful! I got online and bought an album right as I saw this.
Personally, I have made lots of your projects, and sooo many has complimented me on them. I really do recommend this site for everyone who is looking for inspiration. Most scrapbooking looks like way too much work.. Would love to know where you got the stamps for your lettering from?
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Keep up the beautiful work, you are lucky to be so on top of it! I Thanks for this post! I love your work! As a longtime reader, that is definitely something that I miss seeing you do! I keep meaning to start a scrapbook and never get round to it. Thank you for sharing your lovely scrapbook. And thank you for give me one..
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Write a customer review. Showing of 17 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. I am a scrapbooker and I have twin girls 5 that LOVE when I get my scrap supplies out because they want to make their own pages also. I often found that this was really distracting, and I had to constantly watch over them to make sure they weren't getting into my good supplies because, well, let's face it - scrapping is NOT an inexpensive hobby.
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I was thinking to myself that I needed to create their own kits so they wouldn't get into my supplies when lo and behold, I found this on Amazon!!! They get to make their own pages with their OWN supplies, right next to me and I don't have to worry about them getting into my stuff.
The actual kit itself is inexpensive and the quality is what you would expect from the price point. There are a lot of fun pages to complete.
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The crayons are really odd, though, so we actually just donated them, but other than that this was a big hit!