Sometimes there’s just not a lot of time to scrap but you want to have a little memento of your travels or a special day and a little badge book is a quick, easy and inexpensive way to do that!
You can pick up a package of plastic badge holders in horizontal or vertical format at your local office supply store for just about $3.00.
Using either Word or an image editing program like Adobe Photoshop Elements, make a new document sized 3.5” x 2.375. Bring in your photo and scale to size. For my overlay I used Ali’s Travel Memory + Title Photo Overlays – scaling them 55% to fit onto my badge document.
I changed the colors of the overlays to maintain readability over each photo (view a tutorial from Ali on how to do this in Photoshop Elements here) and added a little note about what we were doing in each photo on top of the overlays. I saved each page as a JPEG file and then created an 8.5×11 letter-sized document and arranged all the pages for printing.
A nice thing about this type of mini book is you don’t need to have a large format printer. I can get 8 pages on one letter-sized paper.
After printing trim your pictures, insert them into the plastic sleeves, wrap up with some ribbon and call it done! Simple as that! A perfect way to document your spring break!
ABOUT KATIE : A professional graphic designer for over twenty five years, Katie Pertiet turned her passion for scrapbooking into a full-time business at DesignerDigitals, an on-line source for digital scrapbooking products. Her layouts have been published in Creating Keepsakes, Simple Scrapbooks, Memory Makers, Legacy, and BHG Scrapbooks Etc. Katie also designs products for Autumn Leaves, Creativity, Bo Bunny among others and licenses her designs in the home decor market. Her blog is called Cherish Each Day, her gallery can be found at DesignerDigitals, and her products are available at DesignerDigitals.
I’m going to Office Depot today! I love this idea. Thanks for sharing your talent.
Thanks for the great idea Katie. I’m heading to the beach in a few months and was looking for a gift to give the family I will be staying with. This will be perfect and easy to mail. Thanks again and Designer Digitals rocks.
Wow! What a fabulous idea. Thank you!
Brilliant idea, love it
I made album like this with random photos for Christmas and everyone loved it! I like the idea of a certain theme. Thanks for sharing
Love this idea! Especially good for sharing pix with grandparents.
Awesome idea love love love
Love this idea!
Great idea. I have the paper version of this in my purse with all my grand children’s pictures
fabulous project Katie!!
Wow, that is so cute and easy! Thank you
Katie – what a great idea – makes me wanna run right out and grab some badge sleeves! thanks!
Love it!! I am SO gonna do this!
How much fun is that? I have some badge holders just waiting for a project like this! Maybe this will give me the inspiration to do one!
Can’t wait to get some badge holders! I’ve been wanting to do a mini for my little granddaughter, and this is just the thing. Thanks for another neat idea, Katie (my granddaughter’s name, by the way).
this is my kind of project. Thank you Katie, and Ali.
Hi Katie! Love the mini. Any tutorials on your Designer Digitals site that might show us how to place that many photos on one sheet of photo paper to print? I use an Epson R1900, too.
I made a paper version using some holders from Wal-Mart for our Mom’s (and me) to carry as brag books, but I love this digital version for the journaling. Thanks for sharing your ideas with us.
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very cute!
What an awesome idea! I will be heading to Staples to pick up the badges. This would make a wonderful quick gift for a friend or family member.
Elaine Allen
Wow! This is too cool, I love the idea. Thanks for sharing with us.
This just goes to show my obsession with office supplies DOES tie in with my obsession/hobby of scrapbooking! ; )
What a COOL idea. How simple is that? Thanks for the idea. I’m going to have to make some up.
This is SUPER-cool!!! I’m running out to get one of these for each child, so they can make their own mini-books with the photos they take from our upcoming get-a-way…thanks so much for this fabulous idea, Katie!
Super cute. That is a great idea for a weekend trip to Duluth
Totally going to make this! Thanks for the wonderful inspiration:)
What a cool idea Katie! That’s one that’s so doable, and great for gifts!
Oh holy cow this is CUTE!!! I can’t wait to do this on our little spring break trip next week, yippee for easy, digital and macbooks that can go on vacation with us!!
This would also be very sweet as a going away present or a quick memento that you whip up after a party, shower, etc. Thanks, Katie!
This tag book idea is brilliant!!! Thanks for sharing.
Love this idea!
Wonderful and simple! Thank you!
so, so cute! what a good idea!
Awesome tutorial! This brings to mind the little business card holder I’ve had for eons…now I know just what to do with it!
Oh my gosh, so cute, can’t wait to make one
Great guest post
Fantastic idea, thank you so much for sharing!
That is such a great idea!!! Thanks for sharing it!
Love this idea! Thanks for sharing. I can’t wait to try it.
bellissima idea!
grazie
I love this idea! So simple yet so creative! Thanks.
This would be great for toddlers to carry around as well since it has the plastic cover! I think I look more at the little books I’ve made for my grands than even my own.
This is a great idea! I actually have everything I need to make one of these cuties! Thank you for such a great idea!
Fabulous way to do this little album. I did one before and while I resized the pics I scrapped the layout. This is so much easier and fast and still looks great!
What a great idea. I love it!
This has got to be one of the coolest ideas ever! I love that it’s small and totally portable. Thanks, Ali, for hosting Katie Pertiet. Way to go, Ladies!
The 12 pack of badge holders was $5.49 at the Office Depot here.
Now that I have it I need to make something fun with it.
I bought some at Wal-Mart in January and I believe they were cheaper…just and idea for next time. Have fun!
Looks great, thanks for sharing!
What a great idea and it could be used with many themes.
Love this idea! I will be using this one for sure! Thanks!
Katie: I love your projects and have gotten quite a few of your products on DesignerDigitals….I got acquainted with your work when I did Jessica Sprague’s online class “Up and Running with Photoshop”. As a new digiscrapper I love the looks of your designs—they are fun and classy and pair up super well with Ali’s stuff….together you both INSPIRE me to be creative—thanks SOOOOO much.