Thursday, February 7, 2013

Smash Your Year: January

I'm so excited to share my Smash Book pages with you today. I can't wait to document my entire year...one month at a time. If you think you don't have time for this project, I'm here to tell you that is not true. It took me longer to edit the pictures than it did to put it together.

I've been picking up the goodies to use on my pages at Target and Michaels through the month and there is still more I want to get. The nice thing is that these accessories are under $5 and won't break my craft budget.

My friend Jessica who accepted my Smash Your Year Challenge  (click here to see her pages) gave me a super cute Thirty-One zippered pouch for Christmas.  I was thrilled to discover that my Smash Book fits into it perfectly!  Through the month, I collected pictures and my fun Smash Book Accessories so that when I was ready to put this thing together...I would have everything in one place.

In case you missed it...How to Print Your Instagram Photos.







Can you tell that I love Downton Abbey?


I stacked the pictures from my Whole Foods Cooking Class so I can lift one up.  I really like this technique and will probably use it every month.


I'm also decorating the cover.  I saw this picture on pinterest and it is my inspiration.  I'll be adding to it each month and my goal is to have it complete at the end of the year.   Follow my Journaling Board on Pinterest.




Are you joining us in the Smash Book Challenge?  Please put a link to your post in the comments!  We want to see your pages.

More Pages:

February Smash Your Year
March Smash Your Year
April Smash Your Year

More coming....I promise!

20 comments:

  1. Oh! This looks like so much fun! I used to be so good about printing photos, organizing, displaying . . . now I'm just terrible :/ I take more pictures now than ever before, but they don't make it much past blog or FB sometimes.

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    1. Did you see my post about printing pictures? Super easy and they come right to your house.

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  2. Such a good idea! I used to be an avid scrapbooker - until I got so far behind and gave up trying. :( I should start doing something like this... I have all the tools and supplies, all I'd need is to start developing some damn pictures!!!

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  3. Helpful tool for anyone who is scrapbooking (including people who are putting together adoption profiles).

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  4. I bought the Smash journal and some bits and pieces, so I could do this along with you. It's still in the Michael's bag downstairs! And who said it could be February already? ARGH. Yours is gorgeous! I need to do mine this weekend.

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    1. Get on it Joanne!

      This took me 30 minutes to glue to the page. The glue pen is super handy.

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  5. I love that this is cooler looking than a traditional cutesy scrapbook and I love that it is just brief glimpses so it would be easy to keep up with. I'm working on photography this year but maybe next year I'll do one of these.

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    1. Yes! Next year your little girl will be MOBILE! You will have so many more memoires to document.

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  6. I love this! It's adorable. I like that it's all in a neat little spiral bound book. I used to do scrapbooking years ago - like, truly, in a former life - and I never was crazy about all those plastic page protectors. This is coming out really cute.

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  7. These look AWESOME! You did a great job!! I'm glad we're doing this!

    I just started Downton Abbey. One episode down!

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  8. OK this is SUPER cool! Love it!! I always try to convince myself that I need to scrap again & yet I never do. I think that is where the blog came in. Now of course I need to find the money in my budget to be able to print out my blog so that I have hard copies for my girls to enjoy...Le Sigh...

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  9. Wow, Connie! Your Smash Journal pages look fantastic. I need to work on Shanley's recipe book.

    xo,
    RJ

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  10. LOVE this!!! And I will live vicariously through your book, because I know mine will never get done.

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  11. I love looking at other people's scrapbooks but I haven't taken the time to do any for my family. Boo on me.

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  12. This is so great!! I am off to learn more about this Smash Book Phenomenon ;)

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