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Scrapbooking exercise books

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If you are a beginner scrapbooker or even an advanced one, today I am sharing one of my scrapbooking ideas.

See recently, I found some exercise books and titled each one a different topic so I could brainstorm each topic and let the thoughts out of my mind. You can see why I did this at my blog post here: https://melanietoyeshobbies.blogspot.com/2025/03/sometimes-you-need-to-get-organised.html?m=1.

Now like any exercise books, they are looking rather dull. So I decided to scrap book one of those exercise books. The front cover and the front title page and here are the results: 


I didn’t go all out and use stickers or washi tape. I just found it was enough to just using cut out images. With the first image, which is my new front cover, I used a fairy image out of a calendar. And then from my cut offs ice cream container, I literally found other images and just patterned paper to create the rest. 

Now what do I mean about my cut offs container? 

Well it all fits nicely in an ice cream container inside my paper tub. And when I use part of a scrapbooking paper or cut out a smaller image from a magazine I place it in my cut offs container. 


As pictured, you can see a wide range of patterned paper, even small pieces I don’t chuck out, I just place it in the container and it holds a lot. Plus, it’s not hiding in my big tub filled with paper so I literally take out the container and search through it to find the right piece I want in that moment. 

Personally, I love it. I do think it’s quite nifty. 

I will scrapbook the rest of my exercise books but I thought two pages before dinner was a good start. Also don’t pressure yourself to do more than you feel like. Scrapbooking is like a self expression of art. And if you feel tired from it, take a break. Put all your materials back so you don’t feel more pressure to come back to it in the same day. But trust me you will come back to it. It’s just fun and relaxing and creative. 

I would love to hear if you have a cut offs container and what type of container it is and where you put it for easy use. So please comment below what you do. 

For my second page, I decided on making pink the theme, which is my favourite coloured theme. But as I kept pasting down more scraps of paper, I realised it didn’t have to be all pink and yet it still feels matchy matchy, which I like. 

Seeing this book makes me want to use it for ideas because it’s inspiring and fun itself and it’s no longer this boring exercise books. It is something unique that I made. Which is all you need to do, just do something you enjoy. Don’t put pressure on yourself in the hope that other people may like it. This is for you so make it for you. 

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