What to do with overwhelming scraps

I wish I could say I thought of this but alas tis another

"steal" from soaphouse mama.

As you can see below my scrap box is overwhelmingly full

and quite annoying.

I decided that something needed to be done.

I took assorted scraps and tossed them into this adorable little album.

No rhyme no reason - just folded papers

I thought would work and then stitched them down the middle.

As I was sewing this one - I must've stuffed it too full

because in the middle my poor sewing machine lit up like a

Christmas tree and stopped.

I made some adjustments and managed to get it stitched but the 

back was soooo messy I added that binding to

make it look pretty.

Here is the inside and sorry for the blurries

I can't redo because I gave it to my friend Holli

who is in the process of scrappin it.

 As soon as she posts it - I'll link you up.

 Since there was still a lot of papers in that box

I threw together another one (for me) and didn't go quite as

crazy out of respect for my poor sewing machine.

Using scissors is not my friend right now and 

I gots the pooch mouth because my arm is out of commission 

more or less (tendonitis)

I am so not in the mood to do anything right now.

However, 

I was still not satisfied with the amount remaining in the scrap box

I decided to toss together a 6x6 album for the

little trip we'll be taking next month.

I was debating on using the album above, but I would

only have a finite amount of pages and then I would

need to be careful so I didn't run out.

I'll be seeing grandkidlets so who wants to ration pages.

 I used some chipboard for the cover that I need

to snaz up and then tossed

different bits and sizes of papers and PL cards in it.

 It really looks cool and some papers

have a white back that I'm totally fine with

as I'll have a place to journal.

And in this case I can just keep adding paper or PL cards

if I need as we travel along.

And ta-da.....

Here's what's remaining and it does look a bit

more manageable now.

Whew.

However, that adorable old basic grey baby paper

there maybe enough left of those papers 

to eke out another small album.