how to make a smash book from scratch
How to Make a Smash Book from Scratch
A smash book is something that is similar to a journal or a scrapbook and is a great way to store the varied elements and memories of your life in. In this Buzzle article, we will provide you with the basic steps and instructions of how to make your own smash book.
To Save Some Time
There are many companies that offer smash book kits. These have all the essentials like the book, the decoration supplies like glitter and marker pens, stickers, and other decoration items.Making a Smash Book
Things You Will Need
For the Content
• Photographs
• Cut-outs from magazines
• Movie stubs
• Stickers
• Any other memorabilia
Instructions
► Decide upon the size of your smash book and buy ready sheets of thick paper accordingly.
► Next, choose the kind of cardboard paper you want―the color and the texture.
► Make sure that you use a slightly bigger-sized cardboard paper to make the front and back cover. This will not only make the book more sturdy and help to accommodate any decorations that go beyond the sheets placed inside, but will also help to better protect the sheets from wear and tear.
► Use a paper punch to punch holes into a sheet of paper. Use this sheet as a reference, placing other sheets under it and punching these as well. The same goes for the cardboard covers too.
► Once the sheets have been punched, use a binder ring and take it through the punched holes to secure the sheets together. The skeleton of your book is now ready.
► Once the book is ready, you can start decorating it the way you like.
► To start off with, you can use a construction or cardboard paper to cut out your name or a favorite quote and stick it on the cover.
► Take varied magazine pages or crepe paper (for example) to make a base for your smash book pages. Because it is not a fixed design, you don't have to follow a pattern. Each page can have a pattern and quirk of its own―completely different from the first.
► Your smash book can be a mix of a diary and a photo album. Write about important events, dates, functions, movie reviews, and then stick movie stubs and photos, along with other memorabilia onto the pages. Once these are done, stick magazine pictures, stickers, and other elements onto the pages to make the pages stand out. Make liberal use of markers and pens to write comments and add color.
► There are varied types of smash books. People turn these into diaries, but instead of using an entire page to relate the day's events, they make small slots for each entry and write down a small snippet of the day, then decorate it with other related elements.
► There are exclusive travel smash books which are made as well; these are used to highlight the varied travel expeditions that are undertaken. The elements that are used for the decoration will then change accordingly.
► Another great idea to use is to make small envelopes with paper and stick these in the book. These are then used as pockets to store photographs in.
► You can also divide the book into different sections like photos, or greeting cards, quotes and poems, and then use small post-it notes to mark the different sections.
Here's How It Will Look