Scrapbooking Made Simple

I used an old sticker book here to make this little book with "highlights" from DS's first year. I used a Bella Kit so I didn't have to think too much (lol). I love using items that would otherwise be thrown away and giving them a new lease on life. Plus I love to do a book for DS every now and then.... DD gets lots of cool stuff made for her cause I get lots of pretty papers and such so have to use them. So a book all about him was a great little surprise for him. I'd love to do a book of DD's first year but unfortunately I didn't have a camera at that point so I don't have many photos of her as a baby. Only whatever family and friends have given me.

I recently had a clean out of the kids bedrooms. As usual there were lots of things to be thrown out and lots of things to give away but this time there were even things to go to my scrapbook room! These board books are an excellent example. The jigsaw pieces are all missing from the jigsaw book and the sticker book has long since lost it's stickers.... but the really interesting one is the one with the circle cut out of the middle. This was one of those books with a sound module that sat in the middle and as you read the story there were symbols showing you to press that sound.... well needless to say the sound module has gone to goodness knows where? But I thought these would be great for my scrapbooking. Instead of throwing these out I thought i could paint and alter these as mini albums.... I'm also wondering how I might turn the circle cut outs into shaker boxes.... I'll work on that one and let you know! The bit I like most is these were all gifts so they didn't c...