Memory lane visits through scrapbooking!
…submitted by: Dawn in Logan, UT
Ever think about how you have such great photos of your precious children, but now – would they just give you a free moment to do something with those photos?!? I got into scrapbooking when my daughter was just a newborn. Despite the time-thief a baby can be, it was easier to get photos into albums when she hadn’t started crawling! I loved doing things the old fashioned way (this was 2000) with colored papers, stickers, and photos. I was fortunate that someone introduced me to the home based business of Creative Memories, and I soon got lots of supplies and ideas from my Creative Memories consultant. Soon after, my daughter was crawling, and I had my hands full only taking photos and just keeping her out of trouble! My scrapbooking time became limited to when I could leave the house to participate in scrapbooking crops, or when she was asleep (though I never trusted her that I’d leave out my supplies!)
Over the past eight years, the scrapbooking industry has boomed and changed. Now one can do digital scrapbooking pages, send them to a local printer and slip the colored printed pages into an album, or even pay a company to print out an entire album for you. There is software (both free and for sale) from various companies to aid in the process of digital scrapbooking…you don’t have to use scissors, just a mouse! I haven’t totally converted to this new age of scrapbooking, as I still have a closet full of scrapbooking paper, stickers, pages, and tons of photos!
My scrapbooking time is still limited, but at least (most of the time) photos don’t go bad! And whenever I finally get photos into albums, my family loves them!
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I used to make cards: stamps, inks, ribbons, the works! Then I became a mom. I would consider myself lucky if I could even just stamp “Happy Birthday” on a piece of paper. Now I just have Miranda make the cards for special occasions. She gets more “oohs” and “aahs” anyway.
As for scrapbooking, I used to do all the stickers and cut my own papers and be creative and crafty, then I discovered digital scrapbooking. What a time saver!
I’d really like to try this, of course, finding the time is the hard part. At least with digital photos you have a creation date so if you go back after the fact you can at least put them in the right order. I almost feel like I have to take a week vacation to do something like this. The daily things in life seem to suck the time away, but I think it’s an important thing to do for the future.
I have lots of pics from over the years but never managed to do more then put them in an album. I’ve always admired when people take the time to really make them special. I’m hoping my daughter and I can do this as she gets a little older.