Scrapbooking Fun: Mini Camping Photo Album

If you’re looking for some easy scrapbooking inspiration, then this miniature photo album just might motivate you to break out the page protectors and print some photos. It must be all of the Instagramming I’ve done lately because I’m obsessed with square photos. They just offer a more interesting look than typical rectangular photos. So, I’m really excited to share this 4X4 photo album I made featuring photos from a recent camping trip. Here it is! The most difficult part of making this photo album was printing the photos. That’s what always takes the longest. I had to sort through all the photos I took while camping (a lot) to find the best ones (not as many), and then I edited them and sent them to be printed. My favorite way to print photos is the PostalPix app for iPhone. (It’s also available for Android.) I can order photos directly from the app and they’re mailed right to my house. Of course, I also love that they offer the 4X4 option. You can order prints in these sizes: 4X4, 4X6, 5X5, 5X7, 8X8 and 8X10. PostalPix also offers aluminum prints, where photos are infused onto 1mm thick aircraft grade aluminum. I...

Weekend Things: Photos, Thoughts & Happenings

This weekend, I played the recluse. My days were filled with cooking food, scrapbooking with what I had on hand and enjoying our first real—and probably last—snow of the season. Winter is fading. I can feel it. Even though the air is still biting cold, it’s coming. I’m ready to start seeds and watch them grow. I’m looking forward to hunting morels. To being in the woods. To getting my hands dirty. But for now, snow. So, I stayed inside and made a mess. It felt really good to just have time to get creative. To flex my creative muscles. I was inspired to do a couple of projects that I’ll show you soon! Otherwise, I’ve been getting back into scrapbooking and trying to contain my hoard of paper from college, travels and everyday life. I also received some beautiful postcards in the mail from The Noisy Plume. I spent probably too much time just moving them around to different spots. (I do that when I really like something.) If you need some life-spiration, you should definitely check out The Noisy Plume. She makes me remember to appreciate the simple, the beautiful and the real. How was your weekend? Good?...

Scrapbooking Fun: Christmas Card Scrapbook

It’s February, so you’re probably wondering why I’m doing a Christmas post. But it’s more of a what-to-do-with-your-Christmas-cards post. If you’re like me, then around this time of the year you’re wondering what to do with your Christmas cards. Do you throw them all away? Or, toss that pile of Christmas cards in a box and forget about them? I can never bring myself to throw them away. It feels like I’d be tossing out all of that happiness, cheer and memories. But I always have a hard time figuring out what to do with them. And I have quite the paper pile up. This year, I decided to scrapbook my Christmas cards. It’s been a while since I made a scrapbook. When scrapbooking first got popular, I was obsessed with it. But making a big 12×12 inch scrapbook got tiring. Every page started to feel like a huge project. So for my return to scrapbooking, I experimented with a smaller size. It’s 8×8 inches. The hangup a lot of people have with scrapbooking is the expense. Buying a bunch of scrapbooking supplies can definitely get pricey. So for this book, I challenged myself to use what I had. The only supplies I bought for...