Funeral Home Baby Books

 I've been making baby books for my local funeral home for over a year now. They knew I scrapbooked so they asked if I would do these for them since they couldn't buy them anywhere for babies. I pretty much copied the book they had but with a lot less pages and I added a place for a picture and pocket for keepsakes and the newpaper clipping in the back.

Bible Verses

I saw this idea on the zutter sisters website and thought it was so cute. I made one for my desk at work. I printed out my favorite bible verses and used the cricut to cut out the shape using center point. It can be a little tricky getting it exactly even, as you can tell in some of these picture's but I don't care. I love it just the way it is.

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This page is my favorite one of all. See the little mustard seed?

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Junk/Trash/Smash Journal

It's been raining here, so I've been couped up in my scrapbook room playing for hours on end. I had made plans to make cards but after watching some videos on youtube, I decided to make some junk journals. The idea behind it, is to use all of your scraps! {Which I love} Brilliant idea, because we all have tons of scraps! Whenever I create, I always go for my scrap pile first because I have to be very economical nowadays. I ended up making 3 journals! :) I will share the others later.

I used a transparencies for the front and back covers.

I cut a vellum envelope and used some of my smash products that I bought at Archivers the other day. I bought the pen, tabs, large and small pockets. I wanted a smash album but they were all sold out.

The other day I used the last bit of Zatarain's seasoning mix {we buy it in bulk at SAMS CLUB} so I washed out the container and put my ribbon scraps in it. I love it!

Here are a couple of video's that I liked on youtube.

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Books

The canvas that my daughter done for her room. I am so proud of her. She's very crafty and is now starting on her very own smash album. I'll post some picture's when she's done.

I took all the free idea pamphlet's that I always collect from Hobby Lobby and made a little book out of them. I'm tellin' ya, I am having a crazy, fun time with this bind it all. Can't ya tell? :))

 For the pages that are trifold, I took the the third page and folded it out a little bit so I could punch the holes. Easy peasy.

Below are most of the handmade cards that Cathy has given me through the years. And once again.  I made the cutest little book. :-}

 

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I {heart} bind it all!

I won a set of chipboard and inner pages from the bind it all blog! I am a happy girl today!!

In loving Memory

Well, since Cathy gave me the bind it all as my birthday gift this year, I've been going CRAZY with it! I've made soooo many things with it! This project is album that I made of my mother. She passed away on Mother's Day 2006. I wanted to create an album that I could treasure as well as my children when I'm gone. It is very special to me since I don't have many pictures of my mother. I included facts, like my parents wedding day, birthdays, date of deaths, etc. On the last page I am going to type up a little page of stories and etc. That is the only thing left to do.

I used the Affinity paper pack from hobby lobby. Along with the matching Affinity brads, ribbons, etc.

For Internet safety reasons, I can't post every page because some have personal info on them.

In this envelope I have letters and cards from mama. I cherish her hand writing now.

 In this envelope I have extra pictures.

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SMASH

Here are 4 pages out of my smash album that I could post. I wished I could post the others but they have personal info on them. But you can get an idea of how I done mine. If you have made one I would love to see it, just share the link in the comment section or if you decide to make one I would love to hear that as well!

Ideas for your smash album:

I can be ANY theme you would like ( I did one about me)

Books you read

receipts

tags

pictures of your home, where you grew up

your camera (I did this one) how much it cost, etc.

Candy you like

pictures of items in the newspaper like eggs, milk, bread (how much they cost)

Your hobbies

family photos

Things you like, dislike

Bucket lists

random cool stuff

I could go on and on but you get the idea!

Happy Smashin' :)

New Projects

I've started a new project! My smash album. I wanted to do this last summer and never got around to it.  So I finally got it going today. I went out and took pictures and started collecting things to go in it! I'm super excited about this project! I am still loving my BIA!!! I'm also working on another mini album. Hopefully I will get pictures up soon.

SMASH BLOG 

They have tons of ideas!! You will be inspired!

One of the picture's that I took today for my smash album. This sign is close to my house and it represents the miles that I walk almost everyday. I've been walking 3-4 miles everyday for the past 6 weeks! Yah me!



A very special birthday card for a very special Aunt of mine. 

P.S... I edited this post to add one more video. I got the idea for my smash album from this girl. I loved her albums when I saw them and wanted to make one myself. :)