My One Evening Scrapbook Design

Today I want to share a template for creating a whole scrapbook in one night. What I love most about this design is that the photos really stand out. I wanted something timeless and simple for these wedding albums I made for our moms for Christmas. I actually made two albums in one day. I used 8x8 inch albums. Here are the layouts that the albums incuded... 

I ordered photos in the following sizes (some had to be cropped down) and repeated these three layouts throughout the entire book. I love that most of the pages in the books were completely covered with photos! The only hard part about making these books was narrowing down which photos to use...

I used a few letter stickers on some photos to add words and labels, like the date on this page. You can add as much detail as you like. I kept it super simple. 

Here's an example of Layout Style 1. I ordered 8x10 photos and cropped them to 8x8. Full page photos are my favorite, so I ordered a lot of these. 

Here's an example of Layout Style 2 and 3. I used fabric on the background of a lot of the pages with 5x7 photos. I think textured elements are really pretty. 

Thanks for taking a peek at these albums. I loved giving them to our moms this year! I hope this easy method makes scrapbooking seem more do-able to some of you too. Happy Monday, elsie 

Note: My wedding photos are by Arrow & Apple Photography.

Comments

[Maria]

This is such a sweet and lovely gift idea!

[Tanja]

This is so amazing. I have been wanting to put our wedding photos together and I am so in love with this scrapbook. Thanks so much

[Tanja]

would also just like to state how absolutely stunning you look and the wedding day looked so special and unique. Congratulations

[Mary Chandler]

This is such a great idea! It makes it professional with a homemade touch!! It would make a good mothers day gift!

Mary
http://theloveliestlittlethings.wordpress.com/

[Francine]

This is a great album, but bad news for scrapbook supply purveyors like me. We'll show it in our blog this Friday, nonetheless.

Oh, and if you're curious:
http://www.scrapbookingsuppliesrus.com/blog/article/recent

[taylor aidibi-dotson]

This is absolutely amazing! It is simple to do, yet the templates are definitely a breeze. Thanks for posting this! You're always so creative!

[Cori Preston]

I have never been big into scrapbooking. but this is so cute and seems simple enough for me to handle! I might have to try it.

[The Parkers Blog]

Lovely scrapbook! I'm not usually so creative with our photos, but you can't really get much easier than this can you?

[Amanda // Simple Street]

Love this! We created those photo books and ordered through Apple, but this is a great alternative if you want to really make it handmade!

[Liz]

I LOVE the idea of using full page photos- never really thought to do that!! I'm getting ideas to make our wedding scrapbook (we got married in November!) and I want to include lots of actual things from our wedding- dried flowers, invitations and RSVP cards, save the dates, pieces of the buntings I made, etc. Thanks for this idea!

[elsie]

Thanks for the kind words! I print all my photos at Sam's Club. The people at our local Sam's are SUPER nice and easy to work with.

The book is %100 handmade. There are no digital layouts in there!

Hope that helps! Elsie

[Kate]

I love the clean and simple scrapbooking for these photos, it really celebrates and best show cases the beauty in them. Thanks for sharing!

Cheers!
Kate

[Meghan]

thanks for this simple idea--I always get stressed out trying to make scrapbooks creative and interesting. I like the idea of the letting the photos do the work instead of worrying about all the other fluff I feel like I'm "supposed" to put on the page!

[Linn]

This was a very nice and simple way of making scrapbooking! I'm so behind when it comes to printing and organizing my photos but this gives me inspiration! :D Thank you for your wonderful blog full of inspiration!

[Elizabeth Beattie]

I love this so much!!! I have an 8.5 x 8.5 scrapbook that is just begging to be done like this. Now I just have to figure out what pictures to use. Maybe I will do my wedding too.

Warmly,

Elizabeth

[GawgusThings]

Simple gets my vote every time!

Emma xx

[itziar]

Love love it!!!!!!!!
adorable!

www.mykitschworld.blogspot.com

[Deanna]

Thank you so much for the wonderful post! This really inspired me! On Friday I was at Micheal's trying to find stuff to make a really simple one for our family. I got totally overwhelmed when I actually started looking at things. It went from very simple in my mind to wanting to "scrapbook, scrapbook" in a matter of seconds. I like how you added little dates and things here and there. That is exactly what I want!

[natalie]

So sweet x

[jen]

this is cute and it's such a unique gift idea for your friends and loved ones.. :) i wanna have this too!