How to reuse board books (ya know for babies!!) to make a chipboard album!!

I saw this on our creative peep Carolyn Riders blog (girl, you've been holding out on us!! LOL!!) and it is SO Spectacular, that I had to share it here!! Do you have old board books from when your kids were toddlers?? Or, you can get these at a yard sale or the dollar store and turn them into fab chipboard albums!! Check out this video....
how to make a recycled chipboard album

Tags: album, board, books, chipboard, recycled, scrapbooking

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Permalink Reply by Kris on May 5, 2009 at 11:56am: It's yard sale season, so I'll check it out!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ashley Housing on May 5, 2009 at 1:07pm: I've got my eyes peeled to Kris! I love the metal rings with the cute ribbon tied on them that coordinates with the paper. I could have FUN with these!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kris on May 5, 2009 at 4:13pm: Think of what great gifts they would be!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ashley Housing on May 7, 2009 at 9:27pm: Tomorrow is Friday Kris!! You know what that means?? Garage sales! Let's see who can find a board book first and put together one of these chip board albums! Come on.... everybody can participate! :o)

It doesn't need to be complete with pictures, just scrap paper and embellishments.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kris on May 8, 2009 at 4:32am: That sounds like fun! Don't know if I can find a sale today, though! Darn! And tomorrow I am at Cross Roads, so I can't go to "the cheap store." That's a thrift store where you can find some really neat things. I got the best display rack for Cross Roads for ten bucks! The problem is, they are only open on certain days for about two hours at a time.
Anyhow, I've got my daughters on the look out for the books, too. I won some girlie embellishments, etc., in a Chinese auction, so I was thinking of doing a book with them.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ashley Housing on May 8, 2009 at 2:06pm: Well, I FOUND a board book at a garage sale today!! Lucky for you Kris, it is a fuzzy feel book that is gonna be too much of a pain to remove all the fuzz and then recover! ;o)
So, I bought it anyways for .50 and will give it to my daughter because she loves animals and it's full of fuzzy polar bears and it's an easy reader and she loves to read :o) Off to the next sale to look for books :o) Race you there........; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kris on May 8, 2009 at 6:26pm: Didn't see any sales in my travels today....boo hoo! But, my friend is going to one of those all-community sales tomorrow and I gave her my list! I might be able to get to the thrift store next week sometime if she can't find any books. Wouldn't it be fun to find some that are shaped (cars, ice cream cones, that kind of thing)?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kris on June 20, 2009 at 8:18pm: Ok, Ashley...I finally posted pictures of my book. It's not fancy, by any means, but since it's about camping, it doesn't have to be!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ashley Housing on June 20, 2009 at 8:39pm: Kris you are So AWESOME!! You totally beat me and your book is super cool! I loved absolutely everything about it!!; ▶ Reply to This