Use old supplies and everyday items on your scrapbook layouts.

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I’m all about saving things and using them in my scrapbooks instead of leaving them in a drawer for 50 years, ya know?  So there are times in my personal scrapbooks when I don’t worry so much about something being acid free.  I just use it anyway or I spray it with Archival Mist to take the acid out so it will be safe for the photos.

So this time I finally got around to using these photos from 5 years ago.  Yeah, I know.  I’m trying to NOT let that bother me!  The photos are not some of my favorites, and I didn’t have a whole lot to say about them, no whole page of journaling or anything like that, but I did want to put them in the scrapbook for Summer to see something that she enjoyed when she was 3 years old.  She actually went on afterward to get pretty good at gymnastics.  I had gotten her at one point at the Dollar Tree the ribbon that says “Star Gymnast” so I stapled it to the layout as an embellishment. 

Also, there’s the matter of the title block and the line of gymnasts going across the right side.  Those are at least as old as the photos and I have purged and given away stuff from my studio dozens of times but always kept those elements because I knew I had gymnastics pictures to scrap.  This is not really my style anymore and not something I would buy at this point in my scrapbooking life, but I kind of like the way this layout turned out mixing the old with the new.