Combining Traditional Scrapbooking With Pocket Pages And Journaling + Video

I started my papercrafting journey as a scrapbooker. I have a stash full of scrapbooking tools and supplies. I generally don’t allow myself to purchase scrapbooking supplies at all anymore.

Eventually, I evolved into a stamper and started creating cards. I dabbled with the pocket page memory keeping style for a while and lately I’ve been doing lots of journaling.

Now my scrapbooks are a combination of journaling, traditional scrapbook pages and memory keeping pocket pages.

I have shared my latest album in the video below so you can see it. It’s an album mostly for me and it’s a record of my year so far!

If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that I started doing Ali Edwards One Little Word Project for 2020. I chose the word Journey to focus on this year and it is the theme of my album.

Here is the quick page that I also share in the video:

I like a busy scrapbook page!

I’ve been creating a 6 x 8″ album and I’m loving it. It feels so much less daunting that starting with that 12 x 12″ page.

I started with one of Vicki Boutin’s Mixed Media paper Premade Papers. I made it my own by adding some stenciling, which you see in the bottom right corner. I stenciled in Catherine Pooler’s Polished ink. I also used her Black Jack ink to stamp some 49th & Market images on the page. You can see that with the floral image and with the stamping on the upper left.

I like using premade things, but I tend to add some of my own touches to make it my own.

I’ve used several ephemera pieces from a couple of Vicki’s collections. I just pulled out things that I like for this picture. I am loving the premade sentiment strips. I choose 3 or 4 to add on my page and add a small amount of journaling.

Then I add a butterfly. Every page should have a butterfly!

The background on the page formed a diagonal across the paper and I tried to keep that and focus my ephemera and my photo on the bottom left of the page. I also added some of that salmony pink color to at least 3 place on the page in a triangle shape. You will also see 3 touches of metallic gold on the top, middle, and bottom. I also added a couple of deep blue pieces to pull out the blue of the background that I started with.

Here is the video:

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