The Sea Of Galilee

This is probably one of my favourite scrapbooking pages from our 2009 Travel Scrapbook. I love the texture. The buttons, and the wood letters all stick up from the page, adding depth. I also really love that each photo has a word on it- breaking away from the traditional ‘title’ look.

The journalling says: “The church of the Beatitudes celebrates Jesus’ sermon on the mount. Matthew Chapters 5-7“

Buttons give great texture...

Letters standing off the page...

Tags: buttons, embellishments, galilee, israel, letters, scrapbooking

Organised Scrapbooking…

Have you ever heard of such a thing?! It seriously was not in my vocabulary until I started buying more emellishments and journal tags, and didn’t use them on the pages they were perfect for becuase I forgot about them/coudn’t find them!

So this is my little way of being a bit more oranised:

Glad bags that seal at the top! I write a description on the front, something like, “Christmas” or “Journal Tags” and just keep them all together- so if I need something, I can look!

I put ribbon, buttons and other embellishments in there…

I even use them for specific events. The one below for my Uni graduation, so in here is the tickets, and maybe a few embellishments I’d like to go with that page.

I’ve also started using them for other things, like putting on my special buttons in them, and things like that.

I use the big A4 clcear folders to put more ‘major’ pages into. Things that might take up a few pages, like the stuff for our wedding prep (lists, invites, samples etc).

And I also put all of Luke’s memories in these, categorised, so that when I do his scrapbook I will know where each is.

So what sort of organising techniques do you have?

P.S Menu Planning is a bitminimal this week, but here’s an outline:

Mon: Toasted sandwiches

Tues: BBQ @ the beach with Luke’s family (his Nonna is up for a few days)

Wed: Fish & Chips (I’ll be having fish and a salad)

Thurs: Chicken Nuggets from a WW cookbook (will post recipe soon)

Fri: Lentil salad with zuchini and tomato from last week which we didn’t end up having

Sat: Pizza with Bonnie!

Sun: TBA

Card Scrapbook

This is what I was talking about the other day. Did you guess it right?! It’s a little ‘scrapbook’ of our Engagement cards.

I got the idea from over at The Creative Place, but modified it for engagement/wedding cards instead of Christmas. I don’t know about you, but I don’t get a whole lot of cards at Christmas that I just want to keep forever… but these cards from our engagement party have special messages in them and are really quite beautiful, so I want to keep them all.

The cards are in pretty good shape, considering how long they’ve been in the box, so if you’re getting engaged/married any time soon, then this is something to do to keep all those memories. And if you’ve been married for a few years like me, or even a lot more, like my Mum and Dad, then you can still make it happen! If my parents still have their cards I’ll definitely see if they want me to make one for them.

I imagine it would be really nice with some photos mixed into it too… If you try this I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to see some pictures of what you do.

Okay, so steps on how to make it:

1. Put your cards into two piles- the ones that are already the way you want them (postcards, or cards with writing on both sides), and then ones you need to modify.

Cards that stay the sames are ones that are just one piece of card (like a postcard), have writing on both sides of the inside of the card, or sometimes the ones with the paper insert in the middle, though I did cut some of those up. Cards that you cut are ones where people have just written a message inside on one half of the card (usually the ‘back’ half).

2. Cut the cards you’re modifying in half so that the back and front are seperate. The half on the left is part A, and the half on the right is part B. Put your glue on the top side of half B and glue it to the bottom side of half A. Does that make sense? You’re basically just glueing the card together so that it doesn’t open, and the reason you cut it is so that you can see the front picture, and the message people wrote.

If your card had writing on both halves inside then it should have been in the ‘leave it’ pile.

3. Once all your cards are either glued together or left how they are get a hole punch and punch holes through all of them. I purposefully put the holes in different places so that all the cards weren’t straight at the ends. If you prefer things more clean cut you might want to measure. Do keep in mind though that you probably have a pretty huge range of card sizes.

4. Next get some ribbon and tie it through all the holes of all the cards.

With the ‘title page’ you can either just leave a pretty card at the front and add a tag, or, you can make a cover like I did. I decided to put a few bits of paper/ribbon into a laminating pouch, and laminate them! Then I cut the side with scallop scissors.

I also added a cute envelope to it, and took some dried flowes from my bouquet and laminated them into it too!

Also, you’re not limited to just the cards… exhibit A:

I had to mod the envelop a little, cause once the holes were in it the card didn’t go in all the way. I just re-folded it to suit.

Make sure you tie some bows in the ribbon to join it all together… and Wolah! You’re done!

Tags: engagement cards, hole punch, scrapbook