Hello Friends! After months of letting my photos sit on my phone, it was time I got crafty again and I had the perfect project in mind to get me creating….a hybrid scrapbook album dedicated to my love of hiking. I have spent a good part of this year on the trails and have taken lots of photos along my journeys, but not yet really documented the details. Before too much time passed, I decided to dive right in and get those memories documented!

I love the physical, hands-on aspect of traditional scrapbooking but also love the ease of “shopping” my computer digital scrapbooking collections, so I opened my digital scrapbooking kits and found so many there were perfect for my themed album. Happy dance time!

Knowing what I wanted to create and having found the perfect digi supplies to use, it was time to get crafting and bring my vision for this memory keeping album to life.

I found a basic 3-ring binder in my craft stash that, while great on it’s own, wasn’t quite what I wanted as it was plain, and a bit too large for the pages I wanted to make. So I cut the album to fit 5.5′ x 8.5″ paper, covered it with fabric, and lined the inside with paper printed from a digital file. I love how it turned out!

After I finished that, I printed several journaling cards, patterned papers, and elements to use in my album. I cut out the elements with scissors and created many cards for journaling spots, photo backgrounds, and to use as design elements in my album. Since I was feeling crafty, I created some papers with inks and paints, added stamping and stitching, and had a great time playing around with all of the digital designs from the designers at The Lilypad. Using digital papers and elements for hybrid scrapbooking really allows me to get creative and make unique pages for my memory keeping projects.

I used many different scrapbooking kits from Paislee Press (Wilderness, Room to Breathe, Summer Adventures, Scenic Route, Travelogue, Sahin Designs (Notes from the Road, Woodnote), Allison Pennington (Inclination), and Designed by Soco (Take a Hike). Even with so many different kits, they all worked beautifully together and gave me the variety I was looking for. After printing all the papers and elements I had so much fun adding physical touches with washi tape, stitching, stapes, and ink. Plus, I love being able to handwrite my journaling – I really love the human element it adds to pages. Even though I can be a messy scrapper, I adore the handmade touches and feel to hybrid scrapbooking albums. I decided to not use page protectors for this album as I want to be able to flip up photos and have a variety of page sizes in the album for interest, texture, and interaction.

Here are the pages from the a recent hiking trip that I created for this album.

I created many extra journaling cards, papers and elements and have them in a stash ready to go when I want to create a new entry in my hiking album. Having these prepared in advance will make it so much easier to create and get quickly caught up on my hikes this year – something I want to do before all of the details of those hike slip my mind!

I love creating hybrid scrapbooking projects and memory keeping albums and I hope this inspires you to use your digital scrapbooking supplies too!

– Lori/aka Lcpereyra