My Crafting Smash Book

I finally started My Smash Book! I am so excited to bring this to you. I started this book to document/journal about the things that I love seeing and doing. My Gardens and Crafting for starters. I haven't worked up to my gardens but I did start with my crafting pages!!
How it all began to pictures of my craft room and all the things I love.
I found an awesome Imagine Cartridge called Word Of Mouth. It works fantastic using these images in Smash books. I will also be posting about on my other blog Mary's Crafting Spot since this is about using the Imagine Cartridge Word Of Mouth. I also used products from K&Company and CTMH. I was able to get a good start on this book and I have been having a ball working on this book today. I will try to get all the products used listed below.

I am just thrilled with this cartridge and how well it works for using them with Smash Books.

When I started flipping through the hand book. I just kept getting more and more excited about the possibilities this cartridge has!!

I started out my book with pictures of me and  my craft room and words of inspiration.

On these pages I used:

Cricut Imagine Cartridge: Word Of Mouth - All Images cut at 2.5"

I used CTMH rubons - X7149C - Lucy

CTMH buttons - Z1370 - Pink Assorment

CTMH twine

I used K&Company - Stickers

On these pages I used:

Cricut Imagine Cartridge: Word Of Mouth - All Images cut at 2.5"

I used CTMH rubons - X7149C - Lucy

CTMH twine

I used K&Company - Stickers

DCWV -  Vellum Quotes Stacks

On these pages I used:

Cricut Imagine Cartridge: Word Of Mouth - All Images cut at 2.5"

CTMH Stamp Sets

I used K&Company - Stickers

Things I want to have in my smash book about crafting

• Pictures of me and my craft room
• Things that inspired me to craft
• Some background to when I first started crafting as a young girl to now.
• How crafting evolved over the years.
• Things I want to learn
• Tips and Tricks 
• Stamping Techniques
• Coloring techniques
• Pictures of projects I've made

As I'm getting more into making this book I get more and more ideas of what I want in it.
Since I am getting more ideas I see a book 2 in my future.
I don't have a lot of time to work on scrapbooks. I thought this would be a good way to keep crafting.
I'm also using this book to experiment a little more with the Smash book concept and other techniques.
Then bring some things I do in this book to my scrapbook pages and cards I make.

Trendy Alternatives - Smash Books

If your on a budget and you want to get in on the Smash Book trend. I haves some Trendy Alternatives to making your own.

You can use memo books or journaling books. The pages are thinner but you can glue 2 pages together to make your pages stronger. It  is a good idea if your going to put brads on your pages to skip  pages so when you glue the two pages together the back of your brads don't show onto the next page.

Another Alternative is to make your own using your binding system or book rings.
Here's one book that I made myself to personalize the event I am documenting.
I prefer making my own with my binding system using cardstock. This makes makes your pages strong so they won't easily bend or fold.

Smash Book Review

I'm giving the Smash Book Line a 2 Thumbs up!

I received my Smash Books awhile ago and they are awesome. I just love the books and all the things that go with the package. I wanted to do a review on them and give you some ideas on what you can do with them. I like them so much better then the journal book I tried when these first were released. The paper is a heavy cardstock and your pages are strong. The pages are not flimsy like journaling books.

I think they are a great way to put those pieces of memorabilia into and document the event.That is how I intend to use them. Then when your ready to scrapbook the event all the informations is right there in your smash books.

They are a great size that you can bring along on your vacations and write down what you did each day. The places you went and things you did.