First Day!

I finally found time to start my project! In between catching up for my MBA class I started my wedding card album today!! I started with an empty album and a bunch of new supplies. What's sad is that new scrapbooking supplies give me goosebumps! I found a fun black and white pack that has stickers, cut-outs, alphabet letters, and lots of antique papers. I think it ran me about $15 at Wal-Mart.



Here's what I started with. About 60+ cards and an empty album.



Here's the album I decided on. It's much smaller than my normal albums. I normally use a 12 by 12 album with plastic coverings to protect the pages. I was looking for something a bit different for this project. I went with a smaller 8 by 8 with no plastic coverings. I might end up adding them later to protect my work, but for now...here's where it stands.



I thought about leaving the cover blank, but decided it needed some work. I did go a tad overboard, but it still ended up okay. I used black, pink, and gray stickers to add some color to the page. The white hearts and flowers are puff up cut-outs from my book. I also used the see-through black and white paper to put behind the picture to make it stand out.



Here's page two. I did a little less on this one and went for the simple approach. I took one of my favorite wedding pictures and framed it. Then added vintage alphabet stickers to fill out the page.



On this page I used the gray and white vintage paper for the background. I cropped the handwriting page and rounded the corners to give it a more sophisticated look. In the right hand corner I used stickers and puff-up stickers to add in some color. I then took one of the sayings from the left side of the card and pasted it over a black cut-out to fill in the space.



I used two different cut-outs of the black and white paper for this page. I cropped the yellow card because it was just too big. I added the family sticker and the butterfly cut-out to give a circle/square illusion, which someday I'll explain on here.



On this page I used both black and gray papers and gave them a cross pattern. I cropped the front and handwriting pages and then added in some decorative detail. I LOVE the black block letters too.

Here are the first five or six pages from my album. Stay tuned as I add some more!

New blog

So I already have a blog depicting my life. After spending time with friends I realized that I really want to start a hobby. And then I realized that I already have a hobby, scrapbooking. I haven't done it for awhile, but I've been wanting to get back into it. A lot of people think that just having photos is enough, but for me I have so many awesome pictures of friends, family, and various other things that I can't possibly display them all.

I already have about four completed scrapbooks, but have tons of photos that I meant to scrap. Which basically means I have about three years of stuff to catch up on. I've set a pretty large goal for myself considering I'm already balancing work, school, the dogs, and other household duties but I'm excited for this new journey.

My first goal is to scrap our wedding cards. I got the idea from an awesome blog I read a while ago. I bought an individual scrapbook with tons of supplies to get started. If you're anything like me, you try to keep your birthday cards, etc. but there is really no real use for them. We got a lot of really nice cards for the wedding. Some including beautiful messages from friends and family. To me, having them all compacted into a little book will be the perfect way to display them.

I think the hardest thing I'll have to do is wedding pictures. I have a complete wedding album already that holds all of our professional wedding shots, but I don't have any place for all of the FABULOUS individual snapshots from the weekend. Right now we have tons displayed, but now that we've almost been married a year we've been thinking about printing up some more photos and switching some of them out.

Basically this blog will be filled with tons of photos and how to's on scrapbooking. I plan on taking tons of photos to keep up with the process.

Here's to project one: Wedding Cards!