Archive for February, 2012

I love mini albums!  Scrapbooking mini albums is my favorite way to scrap a lot of photos at once.  Most of my mini albums are theme-based.  The most common is a vacation theme, but I also have several for holidays like Christmas 2011 or Halloween Through the Years.  The majority of my mini scrapbooks are made with chipboard covers and bound with binder rings or ribbon.  When I saw Heidi Swapp’s 2-part video tutorial on how to make a magnetic closure mini album, I knew I had to try it.

The supplies needed are:

• A file folder
• Cardstock and a few embellishments
• Chipboard
• Adhesive
• Business card magnetics (available at office supply stores)

Check out these 2 videos at My Craft Channel for complete instructions from Heidi Swapp:

Create to Remember: Magnetic Book Part 1

Create to Remember: Magnetic Book Part 2

I’m headed out to Staples to pick up some magnets!

Related articles

• Two Scrapbook Album Projects from Heidi Swapp (intoscrapbooking.com)

What’s your scrapbooking style?  I really should ask “What’s your current scrapbooking style?”  I think for most of us our styles change over time.  I know I’ve gone from clean and simple layouts to fancy, time-intensive layouts and right back again to clean and simple.  I still manage a few fancy or complex layouts now and then, but my main focus is to keep it simple and tell my family’s stories.

I love this video from Webster’s Pages that feature 2 of their new product lines, Sunday Picnic and Clean and Simple.  It also illustrates 2 very different scrapbooking styles.   It sure inspired me to pull out some papers and embellishments and scrapbook!

Welcome Webster’s Pages Sunday Picnic from Webster’s Pages on Vimeo.