Scrapbook Pages with Memorabilia

I love it when I can include a piece of memorabilia on a scrapbook layout! As I've worked on sorting my photos these past several months, I've also been sorting my memorabilia. The memorabilia that I want to keep but not include in my scrapbooks goes into a storage box in my closet by year. The memorabilia that I want to include (or think I might want to include) on a layout goes into a small file box that sits on a shelf above my storage binders. When I organize photos in my storage binders, I place a sticky note with the photos to remind me that I have memorabilia in the file box. I love these reminders and have created several layouts recently where I've included memorabilia on the page.

On this layout showcasing photos from our 8th anniversary evening out, I've included the front of the playbill, our tickets to the show, and the restaurant name that I cut from a takeout menu. I also used one of the new techniques I learned in the Dimensional Details Workshop - I created my own transparencies! I used a swirl stamp and StazOn ink to stamp on transparencies, then fussy cut around the swirls and adhered them to the layout. I used a sketch by May Flaum, the teacher in a new workshop I'm taking at BigPictureScrapbooking.com, Camp Scrap, for this layout.

I've had the idea for this next layout since I took my old scrapbook apart at the beginning of the year. I have quite a few Vacation Bible School certificates and bulletins from special church programs that I want to preserve. I created a pocket page to hold all the certificates and bulletins and then used a sketch by Becky Fleck that was included as a bonus in the Dimensional Details Workshop as the inspiration for the layout on the pocket.

This layout from a weekend crop I enjoyed with friends in the summer of 2008 also includes a couple of pieces of saved memorabilia - the card and ribbon are from the bouquet of flowers Robbie had delivered to the bed and breakfast where the crop was held. This layout was inspired by a sketch from Trina McClune that was also included as a bonus in the Dimensional Details workshop.

My favorite new technique from that workshop is creating embellishment clusters like the one at the bottom left of this layout. I am using items I've had in my stash for a while with new items and loving the way it all looks together. Of course, it takes a while to pick which items I want to us - I don't think it'll ever come naturally to me like it seems to for Nic Howard, teacher extraordinaire! But I am certainly having fun trying!