Best Scrapbook Idea Ever!

This idea comes from my niece, Tanya, and you can use it whether you are the one making scrapbooks or not! Tanya made a beautiful large scrapbook with pictures from my son's wedding. After the large scrapbook was completed, she took the pages to the office supply and had them make color copies on card stock of each page. They experimented a little until they were able to reduce the images of each page to the perfect size to fit an 8 X 8 scrapbook page. I think it was between 68% and 72% reduction in size.

Then, I was able to trim the pages and put them back-to-back in 8 X 8 scrapbooks, and you could hardly tell they were not the originals. We were able to send one to my son in Afghanistan (his wife in Germany got the large one), and also give one to each set of parents and grandparents. The picture you see is my copy. All the beautiful work Tanya did on the original scrapbook was suddenly multiplied for many people to enjoy. The bonus is, if anything ever happens to the original, we've got backups!

Now Tanya has copied some of her older scrapbooks for other family members. So, if you are a scrapbooker, or have someone in your family who is, start multiplying!

**Extra hint: the large office supply companies often put color copies on sale - watch the ads and save a bundle. The scrapbooks go on sale quite often, too.**