How did you get started with scrapbooking?
September 30, 2008 by Christine Gooding
Filed under Home & Living
I’ve often been asked by friends and online buddies alike how I got started with scrapbooking.
I have always loved to jazz up my photo albums even before they became an actual ‘hobby’ with all the glitz and glamour it now entails where you got archival-safe products and all that. I loved crafty endeavours even as a child and all my photo albums will have little notes of where it was, what we were doing (similar to what we call ‘journalling’ now) and cut the photos up to make some sort of collage. I also used to cut up designs from old gift wrappers and newspaper clippings to jazz up my ‘layouts’ — We call them embellishments now.
I got into the ‘real’ scrapbooking mania complete with all the materials (cardstocks, embellishments, journalling etc) around about late 2003 or early 2004 when an online friend of mine, Gem showed her layouts to the e-group. I fell in love with them and knew that I had to do them as well.
The first few layouts I did where not inspiring at all but it did inspire me to even have my own craft room at home. It was great! The layouts above were one of the very first layouts I made.
I don’t get to dabble in my layouts as much as I want to only because of my work and family commitments but I’m hoping that I’ll be able to have more ‘me’ time to create more scrapbook layouts.
What about you? How did you get started on scrapbooking?
That is cool. I did similar “scrapping” way back in high school but, I didn’t actually get into it until my youngest son decided to join the Army. That Christmas I made sure we took lots of pictures and I have scrapped them since, along with all the shots taken @ all his graduating ceremonies since…. We have experienced great losses before and we all knew how important it was for us to take lots of pictures… they are windows to our souls…..