Taylored Expressions November Sneak Peeks: Pockets & Pages

It's release week for Taylored Expressions, and today we start off our Sneak Peeks by introducing you to a new product line we're super excited about! As I'm sure you've observed, pocket scrapbooking is everywhere in the world of papercrafting. I'm a lapsed scrapbooker (that's how I was introduced to the obsession that is stamping), myself, and have long felt guilty about letting my photos languish on my computer. Yet, I enjoy card-making so, I don't want to give it up, and I only have so many crafty hours in a week. TE's new POCKETS & PAGES is the answer to my quandry: a quick-and-easy way to personalize pocket scrapbooking with stamps and dies that can also do double-duty with my primary hobby of card making. Let me show you what I mean...

Here's a super-fast 12"x12" scrapbook page I made of photos taken at an award ceremony last week. Do you know how long its been since I actually printed out a photo of myself?! YEARS, literally; my descendents one day will question whether I ever existed, there's so little photographic proof of me. I used stamps and dies from TE's Pockets & Pages collection (specifically the stamp sets {Documented}, {InstaFun}, and {What a Day}, and the P&P dies Bars of the Year, Essentials 3"x4", Label It, and 3x4 Bubble In) to tell the story of what was going on in the photos and deliberately kept it as simple as possible. After all, if it takes me too long, I won't stick with it and I'm determined this time to do so.

Here's a close up of the center strip:

I'm a big believer when it comes to scrapbooking, captions should be hand-written when possible. After all, when people see your handwriting, they hear your voice in a way that computer generated font just doesn't capture. The fact that my handwriting is not the neatest doesn't bother me -- it's mine and I own it, just as I own my baby-fine hair and near-sighted vision. It is what it is, and it be what it be!

So that's how I intend to do it -- quick and easy! Pockets & Pages products work with all pocket scrapbooking products currently on the market (for example, my page sleeve came from a Project Life kit I bought over a year ago but was too intimidated to try out when I received it; Pockets & Pages came to my rescue!). Be sure to visit the rest of the Baker's Dozen to see how they've used Pockets & Pages, especially if you're interested in making your pocket scrapbook pages gorgeous and not Plain Jane like mine. :)