Scrapbooking Made Simple

A little while ago I showed you some finds I found in the kids bedrooms that were due to throw out but I saved them to make mini books. Well here is the finished project of the little fish board book. I have made it into an album of my daughter and the last year. Her journey through "3". I saved money here by using old papers from my stash (I wasn't allowed to buy anything new). My chipboard pieces are all used cardboard (though using my opals embossing powders on them isn't the cheapest way to alter them it is WAY COOL!) Next the flowers.... I did use ones straight from my K & Co Pad but am comforting myself with the knowledge that the cut outs have formed templates I can use to cut more or paint some..... lots of ways to reuse! The rest of the embellishments and rub-ons all came from my stash and were left overs from other projects. I could of saved alot of money on this book by making all the paper flowers from scraps of old papers and using stamps and stencil...

While I was at my SIL's house last Sunday I was saying how I don't really like doing a full 12 x 12 layout for just one 6 x 4 photo so she gave me this really great 8 x 8 album. So the first photo I've done for the album is this one of our MIL and FIL at my SIL's wedding (confused?)... this is my husbands' mother and father at his brother's wedding. This is probably one of the nicest photos' we have of my mother-in-law as this was before the illness that took her life, though she wasn't hugely healthy at this point either but it's still one of the nicest photos' we have. I loved this saying: "We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together." - Brian Andres. It's a very simple layout. The patterned paper is from the DSWV range and a 12 x 12 sheet cost me around $0.38c. The plain paper is from the same company and also cost around $0.38c for a 12 x 12 sheet.... so I still have heaps left as I only used a...