Scrapbooking Made Simple

Here are the photos of the album I made at my first class at my LSS. I was reminded by one of my readers that I'd completely forgotten to show you the finished product. (see previous blog entry: http://cheap-scrapbooking-ideas.blogspot.com/2007/04/attended-my-first-lss-class.html ) Well.... work in progress.... you see I've decided to use it to showcase the yearly photo of the kids so it will take a while to fill all the pages but here are some photos of what I've done so far... This is a very simple project to make... make a little book and then make the covers the shape of a bag. Just remember that if you give the binding a good flat surface the purse will stand up on its own for display purposes. I love the papers we used in this project I think they're fancy pants designs. I haven't done too much to each page as I wanted the photos to be the centre piece here. A few words and poems and the odd embellishment is all that is needed.

Well I finally did it! I've been wanting to do this ever since I started scrapbooking (nearly 3 years ago now). But there was always a reason I couldn't manage it. 1. Not enough Money 2. Not enough Time 3. No Baby Sitter 4. Class was full 5. No Classes I liked the look of....... Anyway long story short this time the planets were aligned perfectly and everything was perfect for me to do a class. The class I did was "Scrap a handbag mini book" at my LSS: Passion for Paper. We used the Fancy Pants range of papers and Bazzil Bling. I also found my scrapmiser tendencies came in very handy! Everyone was cutting off thin strips of paper and throwing them away and I was gathering them up just as fast as I could. This was used to cover the strip of un-designed paper where they write the name of the paper and it's code etc at the manufacturers. All in all it was a great day! So I think today's tip is never throw anything away and when scrapping with other people check w...