This week's Scrapbook Sunday is all about the summer vibes inside the August Messy Box. I fell in love with the ombre, tie-dye effect on the paper in this kit and loved the marbling. I may be hoarding the rest! The oversized alpha were really fun to play with, and I put the lip stickers and dots to work for a bit of that pop art vibe. One of my favorite things about the smaller paper options in this kit is that there were prints on both sides. So this would be the perfect set of papers for a summer mini album!
The gold overlay on this card meant it needed to be one of the focal points of this page. I paired the pink with some sherbet and mint colored photos and then added in some photos from last summer and an Instax from our vacation to So Cal. The crystal illustration was a postcard that I cut down to size, and I used a ledger paper from this pack as well.
I wanted to see how I could customize one of the larger alpha, so I rubbed it directly on an ink pad. It had kind of a watercolor effect with some ink pooling. I let it dry to see what would happen and it has a little depth to it. It almost looks like a swimming pool. I thought it still needed something, so I just added some journaling on top of it with a messy pen and it didn't bleed or smear. So it was a win!
For this page I wanted to include specific photos that didn't necessarily fit into designated pocket squares. I cut an Instax down on the sides and just stapled a larger print from Artifact Uprising centered over four empty squares without stapling the inserts closed. Then I added a few of the smaller cards from the Messy Box and a few more photos.
I didn't alter the large alpha for this page because I wanted the white to help balance out all of the busyness on this page. I was going to use the blue sky for a journaling spot but then filled it up with some fun stickers from a previous Happy Mail package.
I was thinking of another way to customize the alpha die-cuts when it occurred to me that they would work really well as templates. I found a full bleed page in a catalog I was hoarding that didn't have any text and decided it would be perfect for cutting out my word. It had three layers of color and wasn't so busy that the shapes of the letters would be hard to make out once cut out. You could also use a personal photo printed as an 8" x 10" or larger and cut out your text. Once I had my letters traced and cut, I stapled them onto the transparency with the gold marbling effect. I'll add this in to my album and layer the other two pages behind it.
It's so much fun to get lost in a project like scrapbooking and I love that it's helping me think ahead to print out more photos and get these memories off my camera and into an album! Have you already started scrapbooking your summer memories? –Rachel
Credits//Author and Photography: Rachel Denbow. Photos edited with A Beautiful Mess actions.
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This is so cute. I can’t wait to scrapbook my pregnancy (when it happens! haha) xx
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I have been trying to buy the photosleeves for your bigger photo albums (specifically the Westwood sleeve), but they have been out of stock for almost two or three months now (or so the shop tells me). This means I cannot use any of the items in the messy box as of yet. Will you ever restock the photosleeves?
This is so pretty – it’s given me inspiration to start my own scrapbook of my summer travels!
-Mx
this is great, I love scrapbooking, its such a fun way to remember all those fun times 🙂
Alison At Home!
At first I wasn’t sure I like the large alphas now I can’t wait to get mine and stencil out a bunch of letters then use the white originals to pat ink over. This was such a good post full-on great ideas thank you!
Okay why can’t my scrapbook pages look as amazing as yours? Ha!
These are such great pages…definite inspiration for using my messy box when I get it! 🙂
This really opens my eyes about scrapbooking, it might have to be a thing I try in the near future.
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I keep seeing all of these cool scrapbook ideas. It’s about time I make one. I love the ombre one. :]
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LOVE the summer letters idea!!
Thanks for these amazing ideas! It’s so important to think outside of the box.. Just because I have photos that won’t fit in the sleeve doesn’t mean I can’t make them work on the page!
I think you just convinced me to start scrapbooking.
Hi:) I was wondering when the photo sleeves for the Messy Book will be back in stock?? I am super excited to scrapbook with my Messy Box but I don’t have any more pages.
Hi:) I was just wondering when the photo sleeve pages will be back in stock for the messy book?? I am super excited to use my Messy Box but I don’t have any more pages.
So much inspiration!
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This looks like a fun subscription box!
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I wish I lived in the states so I got a messy box!
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Loving the summer vibes you included in this month’s scrapbooking. So perfect.
–Samantha
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Hi Devan! I’m sorry about that. Contact our customer support team here: http://shop.abeautifulmess.com/conversations/new and they can help! -Jacki
I’ve been wondering the same as Michelle! When will you restock?
So beautiful and inspiring!!
I love the August Messy Box!!! Cant wait to receive mine in the mail.
Im quite new to the blogging workld and would love some feedback on the pages I display on my wall. Im new to scrapbooking too, so my pages are fairly simple and Im using it as a hobby to distract myself from eating, trying to shed some pounds.
My first scrapbooking post will be on Wednesday!
I liked how this month’s box has a very coherent theme. I’ve been mixing in some gold details from past months (the paperclips and large gold alpha) and it looks great! I would LOVE to see how you or some of the other ABM ladies keep their supplies in order. I was using the messy box sleeves to hold the extra cards so I could flip through and see them all at once, but now I actually want to use those sleeves, ha.
Yes! I love my Messy Box items, but I am so annoyed I haven’t been able to use much of it. Where are the slevees?
So cute! I love the idea of cutting out the letters from a photo! Looks great!
Laura
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