I follow a few amazing collage artists on IG and was recently inspired by Savana Ogburn to take a crack at another scrapbooking endeavor. I’ve done scrapbooks in the past and I’m big into collages (and nostalgia). I made a scrapbook for my pug, who was my bff in college. But I’ve never done a scrapbook like this. This isn’t your typical scrapbook. It’s trendy, chaotic, and fun. It’s scrapbooking for millennials, baby.
What do I love about it? So many things. How artsy and colorful it feels. How it makes me feel like a 90s kid again, sitting on a bedroom floor with my sisters or BFFs, cutting pictures out of magazines and gluing them to notebooks, binders, and shoeboxes.
Instead of recreating the wheel, I suggest heading over the Savana’s blog post, where she provides detailed steps on her process. This is the main resource that I used to create my own scrapbook.
Consider what your goals are for the scrapbook. For me, I wanted it to be something that documented where we are in our lives right now and something that will hopefully last throughout the years. A book that my kids can pull off the shelves and thumb through later when they’re bored.
Like Savana, I used a Blurb book. I chose an 8×10 standard portrait photo book. I added pages for a total of 30, which honestly felt like a bit too much as a first go. Next time, I’ll do less. In my inspiration/ideas notebook, I wrote down a general outline of what I wanted to put on the scrapbook pages.
I took some free images from sites like Pexels and Unsplash. Some photos I used were ones I took myself on digital or film cameras. I have tons of crafty stuff around the house that I used. I did buy some Posca markers and glue that Savana recommended.
And I basically went to town after that. Here are examples of a few of my final pages. I didn’t include all of them since some have personal info on them.
Takeaways:
- I would love to try to do a book like this twice a year if I can commit to it
- I started out really strong, but taking it across the finish line was a bit of a challenge
- It’s an endeavor. I think I definitely spent more time on it than Savana does with hers but I tried not to overthink it and push through
- It’s fun to buy stuff for scrapbooks and crafting so I’m sure random, extra things added up making it also a more costly project
- This was a fun activity for all of us. My spouse did his own favorite page and the kids also helped design theirs and I let one of my kiddos pick out the sparkly, blue fabric for the cover
Overall, we had a blast!
I hope you enjoy my scrapbook pages! I’m pretty proud of this project and how it turned out. This definitely isn’t your typical scrapbook. It’s scrapbooking for millennials. 🥰 Massive thanks to Savana for the inspiration and for putting her process out there for all of us to benefit from.
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