12 best smash books

A smash book is a type of creative journal or scrapbook that allows individuals to document their thoughts, memories, and experiences in a fun and unstructured way. It is often associated with the world of arts, crafts, and scrapbooking. Here are some key aspects of smash books:

  1. Concept: Smash books are different from traditional scrapbooks in that they encourage a more free-form and spontaneous approach to memory keeping. Unlike scrapbooks, which typically follow a structured layout, smash books embrace the idea of "smashing" various elements together on the pages.

  2. Materials: To create a smash book, you'll need a blank journal or notebook, stickers, sticker machines, scrapbooking stamping tools, and various arts and crafts supplies. These supplies are used to decorate and embellish the pages with photographs, ticket stubs, notes, drawings, and other mementos.

  3. Themes: Smash books can have themes, but they are not as rigid as traditional scrapbooking themes. You can create a smash book based on a specific event, such as a vacation or a birthday, or you can have a more general smash book that captures everyday moments and thoughts.

  4. Personalization: The beauty of smash books lies in their personalization. They are a reflection of the creator's personality and style. You can use stickers, stamps, and other embellishments to make each page unique and visually appealing.

  5. No Rules: One of the key principles of smash booking is that there are no rules.You can mix and match different elements, use various art techniques, and let your creativity flow without worrying about adhering to a specific format.

  6. Journaling: While visual elements like stickers and stamps are prominent in smash books, they also often include written journal entries or captions to provide context and storytelling.

  7. Therapeutic and Creative Outlet: Many people find smash booking to be a therapeutic and creative outlet. It allows them to unwind, express themselves, and preserve memories in a unique and meaningful way.

  8. Sticker Machines and Scrapbooking Stamping: Sticker machines and scrapbooking stamping tools are commonly used in smash booking to add decorative elements and text to the pages. Stickers are a quick way to embellish pages, while stamping can be used for adding patterns, dates, or titles.

In summary, a smash book is a creative and expressive way to document memories and thoughts using a variety of arts and crafts supplies, including stickers, sticker machines, scrapbooking stamping tools, and more. It offers a flexible and personal approach to memory keeping that encourages individuality and creativity.

Below you can find our editor's choice of the best smash books on the market
  

Vegetable Simple: A Cookbook

Mandy's Gourmet Salads: Recipes for Lettuce and Life

Appetite by Random House

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Vegetables Illustrated: An Inspiring Guide with 700+ Kitchen-Tested Recipes

America's Test Kitchen

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Product features

Transform any vegetable into the most delicious thing on your plate

Vegetables Illustrated is the cookbook for anyone looking for fresh, modern ways to add more vegetables to their diet—in other words, just about all of us. This authoritative and inspirational guide full of 700+ recipes for more than 70+ vegetables could only have come from Cook’s Illustrated. Our easy to master recipes will broaden your veggie horizons in endless ways with reinvented versions of everyday favorites and exciting introductions to everything you’d find at the farmer’s market.

Artichokes

Season: Available throughout most of the year, springtime is high season when all sizes are widely available.

What to look for: Artichokes with leaves that are tight, compact, and bright green.

What to feel for: Give an artichoke a squeeze, its leaves should squeak as they rub together (evidence that the artichoke still possesses its moisture).

Beets

Season: Beets, both with and without their greens, are available year round.

What to look for: Choose medium-size beets for the best return on investment (small beets are harder to prep and peel; very large beets can be woody). Beet greens attached to beetroots is a sign of freshness.

Kohlrabi

What to look for: Smaller bulbs, about the size of an orange (grapefruit size kohlrabi is likely to be spongy or woody). Whether green or purple, the color should be vibrant and free of blemishes.

Store: If you purchase kohlrabi with the stalks and leaves attached, separate them before storing them both in loosely closed plastic bags in the refrigerator. Bulbs will stay fresh for a week or longer; the greens will keep for several days.

Fennel

What to look for: Sometimes labeled as "fresh anise" in the supermarket, look for bulbs that firm and creamy white, with as little discoloration or brownish spots as possible. The stalks should be crisp and firm, and the fronds should be feathery and bright green.

Store: Place fennel in an open plastic produce bag and place in the fridge for up to a week.

Indescribable: 100 Devotions for Kids About God and Science (Indescribable Kids)

Thomas Nelson

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The Complete Cook's Country TV Show Cookbook Includes Season 13 Recipes: Every Recipe and Every Review from All Thirteen Seasons (COMPLETE CCY TV SHOW COOKBOOK)

Cook's Country

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Hit the road with top-rated Cook's Country TV and devour another year of great American recipes.

Discover new recipes from across the U.S. and cook them along with the cast of the hit TV show Cook's Country. The homegrown recipes cover both classic and regional favorites from small-town America to the big city. This cookbook has it all, from fluffy omelets, pancakes, biscuits, and muffins to plenty of desserts, cakes, cookies, pies, and more.

As Good As Grandma's

One-Batch Fried Chicken

Inspired by the covered pressure-frying machine in which Colonel Sanders created his famous fried chicken, this recipe allows you to get full cup-up chicken on the table in one batch.

Fork In The Road Favorites

North Carolina Cheese Biscuits

These buttermilk biscuits found around Rocky Mount, North Carolina, are big, golden, and stuffed with gooey cheese.

Everybody Loves Italian

Eggplant Pecorino

For a more refined take on eggplant Parmesan that showcases the eggplant paired with a rich, bright sauce, we took inspiration for La Campagna, in Westlake, Ohio. For our version, we skipped bread crumbs and instead fried the eggplant in a thin flour and egg coating which created a light, fluffy shell around each thin eggplant slice.

Save Room for Pie

Pennsylvania Dutch Apple Pie

The hallmark of Dutch apple pie is its creamy apple and vanilla-flavored filling, but we didn't rely on cream to achieve it. Instead we added melted vanilla ice cream to the apple filling for extra creaminess and rich flavor that complimented the apples.

K&CompanySmash Folio, Retro Blue

K&Company

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Product description

This is the "unscrapbook" for the person who doesn't have time or thinks they aren't creative. Great way to keep track of your life, remember funny things, inspirations quotes, and project ideas. "Live it up, glue it down, and Smash it in." Your K&CompanySmash Folio stores all of your favorite things with vintage appeal. Includes 40 pages. Book size is 7-3/4 by 10-1/4 inches.

  • Retro Style: Hot-diggety, Peachy-keen typography lounge with vintage images.
  • Embossed chipboard cover
  • Book size is 7-3/4 by 10-1/4 inches
  • Includes 40 pages

User questions & answers

Question: How is this book constructed? Is every page a "pocket" or are there plain pages as well
Answer: It doesn't come with a strap/sling.But it come with a D-Ring Hook.---G4Free
Question: I would like one of these so as to keep each birthday/holiday card we get each year, is there a theme to this book that would clash with that
Answer: My 938 fits, but not with the extended mag. Also an iPhone X.
Question: Do you ship to Australia
Answer: Yes, we think it can be used for CCW gun, such as the Kahr CM9(OAL/Height/Width: 5.42/4.0/0.9 in.).There are two main pockets and each pocket size is 6*4.3*1.19(L*W*H).--G4Free
Question: How would you cover up the cover with something else? I want to complete the inside and gift it, but with my own cover
Answer: Yes, my full sized P229 fits tightly. (3.9 inch barrel). The first rule of a gunfight is “Have a gun”, but that’s the only reason I use it. I wear it to the office gym in the morning, throw it in the gun locker, and on my day off, in the hottest days in South Georgia. The waistband is very narrow, and makes it uncomfortable to wear. I hope this helps.

Vilikya Scrapbook Materials Set 78pcs DIY Scrapbooking Supplies Vintage Memory Scrap Paper for Junk Journal,Retro Stickers for Smash Book,Crafting Embellishments,Collage and Altered Art

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Vilikya Scrapbook Materials Set 78pcs Diy Scrapbooking Supplies Vintage Memory Scrap Paper for Junk Journal,Retro Stickers for Smash Book,Crafting Embellishments,Collage and Altered Art

  • Quantity: 78pcs antique papers, stickers and non-self-adhesive papers mixed media
  • High-Quality: 15pcs 100gsm eco papers (non-self-adhesive), 17pcs 160gsm wove papers (non-self-adhesive), 15pcs 160gsm wove stickers, 21pcs washi stickers, 10pcs 100gsm tracing paper stickers
  • Design: lightweight paper, thick, little repetition, writable, not reflect light
  • Size: elements range in size from 0.8 inch to 6.2 inch in height, the rest size please refer to the picture shows
  • Application: can be used for TN, bullet journal, diary, card making, gift carding, decoupage, album

Vintage Journaling Stickers 70pcs Junk Journal Ephemera Kits Collage Paper for Decoupage Scrapbooking Supplies,Mixed Media,Smash Books,Art Journals,Collage and Altered Art by Vilikya

Vilikya

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Vintage Journaling Stickers 70pcs Junk Journal Ephemera Kits Collage Paper for Decoupage Scrapbooking Supplies,Mixed Media,Smash Books,Art Journals,Collage and Altered Art by Vilikya

  • Quantity: 70pcs retro papers, aged photos and old trademarks tag mixed media
  • High-Quality: 13pcs 100gsm eco papers (non-self-adhesive), 16pcs 160gsm wove papers (non-self-adhesive), 15pcs 160gsm wove stickers, 13pcs washi stickers, 13pcs 100gsm tracing paper stickers
  • Design: lightweight paper, thick, no repetition, writable, not reflect light
  • Size: elements range in size from 2 inch to 6 inch in height, the rest size please refer to the picture shows
  • Application: can be used for TN, bullet journal, diary, card making, gift carding, decoupage, album

K&Company Smash Pad, Word of Mouth

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Product description

Jot down all of your brilliant thoughts on the go in your Pad. All about those great one-liners, mantras and conversations. Includes 30 pages. Package size is 2-3/4 by 4-3/4 inches.

  • Live it up, jot it down, and smash it in
  • Acid and lignin free
  • Package size is 2-3/4 by 4-3/4 inches
  • Includes 30 pages

User questions & answers

Question: Is there only one notepad in the package
Answer: If you want to put a photo or cardstock paper on the front I would buy some scrap book photo corners to use along with just glue.Any kind of sticker will stick to the cover. The front material is very much like cardboard so teat it as such. Id personaly just get some good super glue to use to glue any cover add ons just to make sure it sticks.
Question: Can I ask how long shipping took? I ordered December 9th and still haven't received
Answer: No it will not because of the thickness of the range finder. It will fit but will not close.

K&CompanySmash Elastic Pen Band

K&Company

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Product description

This wide Elastic Pen SMASH band keep your pens close at hand and your journal securely closed. Includes 1 band.

  • K and Company SMASH-for the moments and musings that stick
  • Includes 1 band
  • Cute pola dot design
  • Honoring the roots of modern scrapbooking, smash returns memory keeping to its most basic form--stuff book--in a way that's cool and convenient for today's jam-packed lifestyle
  • Package size is 225-inches-by-85-inches
  • K&Company Smash for the moments and musings that stick
  • Includes 1 band

User questions & answers

Question: What material is this made from
Answer: There are only a few pages that have pockets. The pages also have designs on them, although if you don't like them you can cover them up with scrapbooking paper. This is the older form and is of much better quality than the new smash books which don't have a strong cover. You can buy additional pockets if you want from the same company.
Question: Does this include 1 or 2 bands? The description is confusing. 2nd bullet says "includes 1 band" but the last bullet says "includes 2 bands
Answer: The pages are pre-designed papers that have a slight theme (vintage, modern, nature, etc.). I have not seen one with a holiday theme, that might be what you're looking for.
Question: Is this small enough to be tight on a 4" wide sketchbook
Answer: I can but the shipping might be pricy. If you let me know your address I will check that for you. My email is [email protected]

K&CompanySmash Pad, Special Occasions

K&Company

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Product description

Cool and convenient way of memory keeping for today's on-the-go, jam-packed lifestyles. This is for the person short on time, yet still likes to keep life lists, Ideas from magazines, travel tidbits, inspirational quotes, funny things kids say, cool project Ideas, and so much more! this designer system of Folios and accessories is meant to provide the means to organize life's ephemera to the moments and musings that stick. LIVE it up, glue it down, and Smash it in! 30-sheet special occasion.

  • Now you have a place for the moments and musings that stick
  • Live it up, glue it down, and SMASH it in
  • On-the-go Life lists and happenings
  • Includes 30 pages
  • Now you have a place "for the moments and musings that stick"
  • Live it up, glue it down, and smash it in.
  • On-the-go life lists and happenings
  • Includes 30 pages

Vintage Handmade Scrap Paper for Journaling 59pcs Mixed Ephemera Pack by Vilikya Junk Journal Stickers Scrapbook Supplies Accessories Craft Embellishments for Smash Books,Collage and Altered Art

Vilikya

Product description

Vintage Handmade Scrap Paper for Journaling 59pcs Mixed Ephemera Pack by Vilikya Junk Journal Stickers Scrapbook Supplies Accessories Craft Embellishments for Smash Books,Collage and Altered Art

  • Quantity: 59pcs retro papers and stickers, aged photos and old trademarks tag collection
  • High-Quality: 9pcs 100gsm eco papers (non-self-adhesive), 12pcs 160gsm wove papers (non-self-adhesive), 15pcs 160gsm wove stickers, 15pcs washi stickers, 8pcs 100gsm tracing paper stickers
  • Design: lightweight paper, thick, no repetition, writable, not reflect light
  • Size: elements range in size from 1.5 inch to 6.2 inch in height, the rest size please refer to the picture shows
  • Application: can be used for TN, bullet journal, diary, card making, gift carding, decoupage, album

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