Well, now it's time for a more silly post. :)
So...I am a scrapbooker. Yes, a scrapper. It annoys me how cliche that is but I have to come by it honestly. It's not enough for me to take pictures, I want to get the stories that go with my pictures recorded as well.
I started scrapping not quite 9 years ago when I was pregnant with Alex. I have from 1994 to 2003 scrapped in 12x12 paper albums. The style of those pages ranges from very simple to very embellished. In retrospect I wish I had stayed more on the simple side of things but what can you do? In 2004 I started digital scrapping and that changed my scrapping a *lot*. I now create all my pages on my computer and just print out a finished copy of them. This has made my life so much easier! No mess, less expensive, easier to store, easier to print extra copies, it goes on and on.
Occasionally I feel a bit tied down by my scrapping - I get tired of it and need a break and start looking at Kolo albums and envisioning the ease of slipping photos into books and doing nothing more...but then I remember that it's not just the pictures, it's the stories. And I see the kids pouring over the albums, Alex reading the journaling to the others - and I remember why I love it.
I won't make this post too long by posting all my recent layouts here; but I will post one of my recent favorites:
if you'd like to see more of my recent pages you can check out the album on the top right sidebar of my blog. I tend to jump around scrapping whatever strikes me so they aren't all recent pictures but the majority of them are from 2008 as I'm trying to finish that album. I add layouts to that album as I go, so if you ever want to see what I'm scrapping check it out.
And let me know if you need help getting started digital scrapping, I love to spread the love of scrapping - despite how cliche it makes me. :)
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