For the past three years, a couple dozen women have met in their clubhouse one night a month. They giggle. They gossip. And they scrapbook.

Between noon and midnight on one Saturday each month, women from ages 11 to 60 work on layouts filled with pictures and embellishments and creativity.

"A lot of us have kids at home and lots of other things to do," said Kristy Bonham, 27, of Pleasant Grove. "This is our only time to scrapbook."

The Amiron Scrapbook Club, named after the condos where the group meets, has become something that each one of them looks forward to each month. It allows the women to leave their husbands, children and to-do lists at home and take some time for themselves.

"Twelve hours isn't long enough," said Colette Smith, of Orem. "The clock starts turning faster and faster, and then it's over."

Almost exactly three years ago, Bonham and her mother, Colette Smith, started the group. They had been scrapbooking together, as mother and daughter, for years and wanted to have friends over to do it, too. They made invitations and delivered them to a handful of their friends' doorsteps. They all had so much fun that they did it the next week. And the next. And each week there would be a new face.

"It was impressive how quickly it picked up," said Stephanie Beard, one of the first in the group, who now lives in Montana. "I never imagined it would be where it is now."

Every September, Beard flies to Utah to meet with the club as they wake up early in the morning to be the first in the door at the Scrapbook USA Expo in Salt Lake City. After spending hours meandering through aisles of ideas and supplies, they collect all their bags of goodies and new tools and scrapbook until midnight the following evening. For 48 hours, they scrapbook.

Like Beard, several women have moved out of Utah County and out of the club, but they continue to scrapbook on the same days. They wear their club T-shirt in their own home and, in spirit, put pages together as if they were in the Orem clubhouse.

"I probably laugh and eat more than I scrapbook," admits Bonham.

Some of the women don't even scrapbook. They bring another project, whether it's recipes, knitting or other work, to do with the company of the ladies.

"Sometimes a lot gets done," said Smith of Orem. "And sometimes nothing at all, but it doesn't matter because it's therapeutic."

For Smith, scrapbooking has become more than just a hobby. She is a self-described scrapbook-aholic, who has completed more than 70, 8 1/2-by-11-inch scrapbooks for each of her five children and her family. She also works at Pebbles in my Pocket in Orem in order to support her habit.

"I used to tell my children that if we ever had a fire to grab all the scrapbooks and run," she laughed. "But I don't think we could carry them all."

After all the years that Smith has been scrapbooking, styles have changed, tools have gotten better and she has redone several of her old scrapbooks.

"The industry has evolved so much that I look at some of my pages now and say 'ick!' " said Smith.

Scrapbooking has also become a family affair for Smith. Each month she scrapbooks with three of her daughters -- between the ages of 11 and 27 -- and two of her daughters-in-law. They get to spend the time together, doing something that they all enjoy. Through the club, they've all made new friends from all over the county -- and country -- as well. The club has connected a lot of women with a common bond.

There's something about it that is addictive, even for the veteran scrapbookers. Whether it's the camaraderie or the late nights of laughing and gossiping or actually putting together layouts each month, it's a given that these women get together and scrapbook.

"Once you come, you're hooked," Smith said.