Author Shannon Mullen-Dennis recently created the most adorable brag book using our Ready-to-Go!® Blank Board Book Purse. She made the book to celebrate the birth of a new baby girl, but suggests it would also be perfect for weddings, birthdays and more. Keep reading for her step by step instructions to make your own brag book. 

Materials:

• 2 sheets of 12” x 12” floral scrapbookpaper
• 7 rectangles 3” x 5” for photo frames
• Poem printed on cardstock and cut into five sections
• 12 sheets of 8 1/2″ x 11” sheets of solid pink card stock
• Assorted grosgrain ribbons, 3D flower stickers, stickers, and words for decorating
• Glue
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Blank Board Book – Purse shape

Instructions:

1. On your floral scrapbook paper as well as your pink cardstock, trace your purse shape using the blank board book as a guide.
2. Cut the shapes from the paper.
3. Glue the paper purse shapes onto the blank board book with the floral paper on the front and back of the purse and the 12 pink shapes on the inside.
4. Glue the 7 photo rectangles in place, centered on 7 of the board book pages. Cut pictures down to size and glue in place.
5. Decorate the remaining pages with the poem, 3D flower stickers, words, ribbon and crystals.
6. Use a piece of grosgrain ribbon to tie closed.