Easy Vacation Album

Design by Dana Smith

Scrapbook your vacation photos in a flash as Dana did with her 8x8" album. She kept it lively from the start: Her cover features a painted metal frame, a tied-on metal-rim tag, and an epoxy sticker.

SOURCES Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper. Patterned paper: Karen Foster Design. Font: Task List by Two Peas in a Bucket. Rub-ons, album: Chatterbox. Twill: Scenic Route Paper Co. Metal frame: Artistic Expressions. Metal letters, rub-ons, acrylic paint: Making Memories. Photo corners: Kolo. Punch: Fiskars.

For each page, cut the following: an 8" and a 7 1/4" square of cardstock, and a 7 3/4" square of patterned paper.

Print your journaling vertically along one edge of the smallest cardstock piece, making it no more than 1 1/4" wide. To include more info on her title page, Dana ran her journaling horizontally and made it 2" deep.

Layer your papers and add photo corners. Embellish each page with punched cardstock circles, a metal-rim tag tied with twill, an epoxy sticker, and metal letters as shown.