Book Scrapping...

One of the crafty things out there that I have never had a desire to get into is scrapbooking. Now don't get me wrong... I've seen many beautiful scrapbooks in my day... and every time I think, "Wow, that looks great! But that is just not for me!"



Scrapbooking seems too high maintenance for me. The thought of sitting down and cutting out all of those little bits of paper, gluing them onto the page, picking which picture you'll put on the page out of the hundreds that you have... I don't know. Not to mention, I'm a cheapskate. It seems like it's a hobby that requires a lot of money on ribbons, paper, little clips...you name it!!!

So there you have it. Please don't hate me! But that is why I have never gotten into scrapbooking...



With that being said, I have so many pictures that I want to put into an album that are just sitting in boxes. I also am a pretty sentimental gal so I have lots of coaster, napkins, ticket stubs, etc. that I also want to put into an album. So I've been trying to tackle this project in a non-scrapbooking type of way. I wanted to give you a sneak peak into my idea on what I'm doing here... I came up with a few rules to making the book that I am following.



1- Absolutely no glue or tape will enter the book. Every item that is attached to the page has to be sewn.

2- The "sewn" page only contains items that have meaning to the particular day or situation. Either pictures, fabric from clothing, little sentiments that have been kept from that day.

3- Each page has a typed out description as to what was important about that picture or that day. I like attaching the memory of why this was important or what was meaningful for that day.



I'm working on putting my wedding album together right now. Here is a peek at the first description page that I put together...

This is from the day that we got engaged. I have a picture of us smiling from ear to ear, a tree that I sewed onto the page since we got engaged in the mountains on a hike. I also saved the bandanna that I was wearing when we got engaged so I cut it up and sewed that onto the page. Total cost for the page - $0.29!! That's all the the piece of paper that I sewed it on cost. The rest of the items I already had.

I found these great page protector refills that have 4x6 pockets to store the rest of the pictures from our engagement on the following pages. This way I can put all of my pictures into the book and I don't have to make a separate page to highlight all of them.

I am so excited about this project! Each page has only taken me a short amount of time to put together. I have a few more to do before I finish the wedding album so I'll show that when I get it all done.