Happy National Scrapbook Day!

Happy National Scrapbook Day everyone!! In honor of this scrappy day I thought I would share more of the Heidi Swapp album I made at her class at the Scrap Etc. event. I am also doing a giveaway with some Heidi Swapp product that I have put together...so leave a comment on this post with your plans for NSD, and I will pick a winner on Monday! This album is titled "To your HEART be true."
This is her brand new product that hasn't even been released yet. It's a mirrored album and it was very fun to work on (mine is still not completed, working on that though.) We album just came with the front and back cover and we added pages made from her new lines of patterened paper and file folders and even transparency overlays!

She had a sheet of the journaling/quotes/sentiments printed out on glossy photo paper for us to cut out and use throughout the book. I thought this was a very fun idea! So next time put some of the photo paper from your stash to use for your journaling. (That by the way is my scrapbook room chair...which I am in love with...I could sit and create for hours in it. I'm sure I'll never be able to part with it. I bought it at a flea market and recovered it.)

This is an example of one of the transparency pages, the ghost heart and bird sticker are attached to it, but the page behind peeks through just enough to give you a glimpse of what's next in the book. (I think the pink heart paper is my favorite right now.)

This page has a tab that says "commit" with a quote by Kobi Yamada on it.

Another transparency with a ghost butterfly on it...
This is a photo I took of myself. When I edited it for printing, I zoomed in close so that you could only see a portion of the original image. I like to change things up, it's more interesting visually.

Another transparency (brand-new with the butterfly image) that we trimmed and then sliced in half to make 2 pages. Here is where I will add some journaling with the round Heidi Swapp journaling spots.
Another transparency page with a ghost flower and brad to secure it.

One of the requirements for our homework for her class was to take a picture of something that we saw as "flourishing" and so I added my photos accordingly...now if I just would add the journaling, all of this would make sense.
This is one of her photo folders cut in half. This is where she recommended puting our pictures of challenges. I liked that this was a book about being "real" and let's be honest...we all have challenges, so why not document them. Looking back you'll see how you met those challenges and overcame them.
Another transparency page with a ghost star and a quote that says : "Shine: you are so fabulous" I think it's fun to make a book about yourself...but especially one that let's you tell yourself how fabulous you are!

This is the part of the album for what inspires you. This next page has a little pocket for pictures, but you could just as easily add bits and pieces of anything that inspires you.
Some of the pictures I tucked in were of my children interacting and playing with the children in Asia at the orphanage we help to support. Can it get more inspiring than that??? I don't think so.
I love what this last page says: "See things as you would have them BE instead of how they are." Good reminder that we can be the change we want to see in the world! Hope this inspires you today and that you have a wonderful National Scrapbook Day! Don't forget to leave a comment to enter the giveaway!