Craft for the Month of February

 With Valentines day coming up, I thought I'd post this....

Ever heard of a Smash book?

basically it's scrap-booking the easy way. you just smash it together, no worries about perfect elegant looking pages. some people even journal smash book... journaling and scraping together.

the moment I saw the idea of a smash book, I was like... I want to try that with something!!!



you can buy smash books or a note book to smash book in... I used an old notebook that didn't have very many pages left and added pages from scrapbooking paper, as well as covering up the notebook cover with scrapbooking paper, to form a beautiful smash book. I had it made in 1 hr!

 the cover.... notice I used black marker to cover up the orange near the spiral

and you may notice how few pages it has

 next I took my favourite scrapbooking paper and cut each 12X12 in half, then took off the bottom 2 in, 

this made each new page the same size as my notebook page

 then I glued a scrapbook page to a notebook page by just folding over enough on the edge to make it stick... about 1/4 in

 the finished smash book

what do I use it for? ..... that I can't show you ;) it now holds all our love notes and letters from dating till now as well as a few pictures of my husband and me. A Lovenote Smash book! :D
A treasure keepsake

Happy Crafting


S.L. Kliever