Ephemera Roundup: Scrapbooking with Tickets

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Nat

Tickets are some of the most-used pieces of ephemera in my scrapbooks. I think I’m the only one on this planet that gets sad when we have to use print-at-home tickets because they’re not nearly as cool for my scrapbook.

I’m always on the lookout for new ways to feature tickets. I’ve looked around before for ideas and I find that more often than not, I see a lot of fake tickets. I mean fake in the sense that scrapbooking companies will often sell old-looking fake tickets as an embellishment. Why use a fake ticket when real tickets are so awesome?

I’ve gathered a bunch of my ticket layouts to show you how I use real tickets in my scrapbook.

Clearly, I like using tickets in layouts. I hope this inspires you to do the same!

To see all of my layouts that use tickets, click here.

Europe Trip Envelope of Ephemera

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Nat

Have a look at the big envelope from our recent trip!

For the uninitiated, I use a system (I always have a system) to collect all of the travel ephemera that will eventually go into my scrapbook. Read more about the envelope system here.

We’ve used this system on every one of our trips since our very first trip together. Mr. P is so used to it that he asked me in Paris, “where’s the envelope?” Damn. it. I forgot to bring one. I finally remembered to grab one when I was in my office in London. Good thing too because it got filled with a TON of stuff.

I sorted out all the receipts and put those with the rest of our bills. I’ll shred them once our credit card bill comes back and we’re fine with the charges.

All the ephemera goes back into the envelope to be scrapbooked later or made into other crafts.

Going through the envelope is the best feeling ever. I love reliving our trips.

Mr. P and I just returned from a 25-day trip to Europe (work + fun). Click here to see photos from the cities we visited.

The Big Purge, Part 2

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Nat

I’ve finished my college scrapbook and gotten rid of extra pictures. It’s also time to go through and throw out any keepsakes I didn’t use. Remember my box of keepsakes? You can catch up on how I organize my box of keepsakes to work on a new scrapbook here.

Even though I keep a ton of keepsakes, I don’t use all of them. Sometimes I decide an event isn’t worth scrapbooking. This happened at times with my college book because I thought everything in back then college was oh-so-important. Sometimes I saved too many items from an event. I used to include everything but am more critical now about how something will fit on the page.

I make sure to go through the box when I’m nearing the end of the book to make sure I didn’t forget something. I keep everything I didn’t use until the end of the book, even if I’ve already done the layouts from that event. Just in case! Sometimes I like to use bits and pieces of keepsakes from the entire album at the end for some wrap-up pages. I’ll consider turning some of the keepsakes into embellishments like Tammy does in this post.

But after all of that, it’s time to say goodbye! I recycle as much as possible but everything goes.

Freed closet space is like magic!