Scrapbooking a busy life

I know I’ve mentioned this a time or two, but I’m a little busy. And I know that I am not alone in this club! One thing that gets lost in the business of life is my scrapbooking. I used to be a “super scrapper” staying up all hours of the night, even keeping up [...]

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Scrap booking with Old Photos

I have many, many old family photos. Somehow I became the un-official family historian. Partly because I enjoy old photos and the stories they contain, and partly because I enjoy scrap booking. I spent many hours with my grandma, listening to her tell stories from when she was in the military, about history about everything. [...]

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Doing some scrapping: procrastination at it’s finest

If you know me, and are around much you can tell I have a lot of homework I need to get done by the amount of other stuff I do! So this week I grabbed some photos, and stuck them to paper. Kept the layouts pretty simple, tried not to worry over the “design” and [...]

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help for a scrap book page

Had this photo of my dad and my little guy working on an ancient car. Really wanted to scrap it, to tell the story about how these two guys hang out and do stuff. Also wanted to cut into my big pack of Sweet Pea DSP for the first time! (all supplies Stampin Up!) Excuse [...]

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Reasons to Scrapbook-updated

Looking back through old posts I found this one from May 2007. It’s hard to remember where I was at in my crafty journey but I think this was an attempt at writing my own creative creed. And even though I’ve dabbled in various styles the basic heart of why I scrapbook still stands. I’ve [...]

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using my DSP and catching up on scrapping

I’ve been working a lot, trying to get my yard cleaned up, painting, chasing kids, cleaning out kid clothes and toys, and just trying to keep up with the daily chaos of my house. It’s been a long time since I’ve scrapped in fact I can’t remember when I last scrapped. Maybe last fall? Anyway, [...]

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lots of scrappy goodness ahead!

Last weekend I decided to do something with all of those photos I’ve printed. Ali Edwards inspired me to do my week in the life book which got me going to do more scrapping. Some of these I really love, others are needed a little bit extra. But here are 9 layouts with multiple photos [...]

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scrapping with junk mail

I am a pile maker, and when my pile gets too big I just move it or make a new one somewhere else. The problem with this is that I end up losing things -like a tin of cute Stampin Up felt flowers- then I replace the item only to “find” it later on. My [...]

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