So scrapping is like cheap therapy for me. I really enjoy getting pages done and looking at the finished creations – and the kids drag out our scrapbooks several times a month too. We have a little running family joke about calling them the “Books of Knowledge” – if we can’t remember when something happened or what we did for someone’s birthday party, we just consult the books of knowledge for the answers LOL. I saw a funny quote the other day that sort of goes along the same lines -
If it’s isn’t in the scrapbook, it didn’t happen.
It’s not quite to that level at my house but I honestly can’t remember things like I used to be able to and looking at our pages brings back all sorts of fond memories.
The other thing I enjoy almost as much as scrapping is doing it from an organized stash. I have spent many, many hours tagging my supplies in ACDSee Photo Manager. When my hard drive crashed last year and I lost some of my supplies I was still able to get up and running with a slightly older backup of my stash and a backup of my tagged database. What a relief. It keeps me from spending too much money (or buying duplicates). Now I’ve organized all my templates too and I think it’s really going to help a lot. I always pick the photos I’m going to scrap first – before I ever choose a kit or color scheme or any other supplies. To me, the photos are the most important thing on a page. But I do like to use templates at least part of the time just as a time saver. I had them all tagged with one tag – “templates” in ACDSee but recently, I went through and tagged them all by the number of photos the template has room for because that’s how I look for what I want – basing it on the number of photos I have. If I can’t find one I like with the right number, I go up 1 and see if I can put a piece of paper in one of the photo spots. I am excited about this improvement in my scrapping system!
If you don’t have ACDSee, you could make folders for the number of photos a template holds also.
So here are a few recent creations:
Dream of Spring The Bundle by Angie Young
Essential Digital Stitches - Pink by Christine Smith
template - Gotta Pixel blueprint challenge (Nov 09)
template - March Template by Aprilisa
Hey Diddle Diddle: Creations by Rachael (paper)
Peace Tree kit by Christie Lemmon (papers)
You've Been Framed by Tara Dunstan
A Winter's Frost by Spinky Dink Scraps (ribbon)
Peanut Butter Jelly Time by Bella Gypsy (rick rack)
Lonely by Studio Ziska (foliage)
Classic Beauty flowers by Amy Martin
Essential Digital Stitches Grey Squares by Christine Smith Digital Design
Naturness by BibouScraps (tag)
Puddle Jumping by Amy Stoffel (string)
LetterPress Wood Block action by Atomic Cupcake
papers and ephemera: Random Thoughts by Michelle Underwood, Heart and Soul Collab by Mari Koegelenberg, Old School by Rhonna Penner, Digitals NSD Mega Kit (clock piece by Dea Spina; newspaper by Amanda Thorderson), Indian Summer Collab by Andrea Burns, A Winter's Frost Collab - Spinky Dink Scraps, Elemental Scraps Back to Basics mega collab, Autumn Gifts by Tarayn Connors, Christmas Elegance by Bette Duganitz, alphas: Country Kitchen by Farrah's Designer Scraps and Boys World by Melissa Renfro
papers - Simple Happiness (LorieM), Free to Dream (Bella Gypsy), A Week in the Life (Elemental Scraps Collab)
Atomic Cupcake Colored Chrome Action (for title)
52Pixels Week 13 Gotta Pixel Challenge template by Crisdam Designs
just pictures, a gradient and display font – pure digi LOL
Thanks for reading
