life of a scrapper

Life of a Scrapbooker
Scrapbooking for me is a way of life…it is a way to remember loved ones who have passed on from us, a way to remember special days in our lives, a way to relax well for me anyway, a way to spend time with family and friends who scrap. I tend to scrap moments that include those I love, areas or locations I have been to or seen, special moments in my life, like my graduations from high school and later college, the birth of my son, birthdays, holidays and family celebrations. I tend to use colored papers in dark colors and earth tones, prints that aren’t too wild. I love some of the stamps I have and use them frequently on pages. My mom and I have scrap nights on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights with her two sisters that scrap. We have so much fun. I tend to listen to a variety of music when I scrap so I never or try to never leave the mp3 player at home on scrapnights . I get my layout designs from a wide variety of places, including the three great books I got from Close To My Heart that not only show you the layouts but give you the cutting dimentions and instructions on how to put them together…for some reason a lot of the time my pages never turn out like them lol I either have left something off or added something different usually based on my own preference. For Halloween I made three kits with instructions on how to cut the papers and how to do the lay out for my mom and her sisters and thinkin that they all would do the same thing but needless to say they have their own different styles cause all of the layouts were different from one to the next. Just goes to show that every one has their own distinct personality when it comes to scrapbooking. So it’s all good.In this life of a scrapbooker there are lots of trends, but I definitely try to do my own thing. I use different products from different companies for different pages. I tend to look at different catalogs for items I want…got lots of wish lists lol. Keep thinking one of these days I am going to have it all but then I also get to thinking if I did that it would get old. Not to mention I would probably run out of money as well lol. I think if we all used the same products day in and day out we would get bored with it all and just stop scrapin’. I definitely don’t want to do that I love to scrap. I have started to make premade books when a friend of mine asked me to do one for her wedding, I said sure why not. Was the only book I didn’t take pictures of the layouts I done, well not the only one I didn’t . Shoot. But did hers in different shades of purples, white, and grays. Sure turned out pretty even if I do say so myself, lol. She wanted to give me some money for that one and I said no this is my gift to you for your wedding. You only have one of those in your life if you are lucky to have found your mister or miss right. She liked it so much she had me do another one for her. This time I had her pick out some papers from a Close To My Heart catalog. Once we got those picked out the book just came together quite nicely. Her stepmother has had me make several for her as well. One time I made a Halloween book for a raffle that the company I used to work for that was really cute. Another book I forgot to take pictures of after I got it finished. At least I knew the winner of the book made good use of it, she’s got pictures of her grandson in it dressed in his Halloween costume. Now if I could figure out a way to sell some more I would have it made. I got a fall one I am sending to school with Hannah for her fall festival at school. And I have one done for me that when I find the right pictures to put on it. Just don’t know. I put an ad on Craig’s list at my cousin in law suggested so who knows. Would say that the life of a scrapbooker is never dull. There is always something to scrapbook about in this thing we call life.