On Heidi Swapp's blog we're celebrating it by posting some new layouts as well as sharing some of our favorite projects. We were asked "WHY DO YOU SCRAPBOOK?"
Happy National Scrapbook Day everyone! It's amazing that in one day or weekend we can all come together whether it be physically or virtually to celebrate what we all LOVE to do.... SCRAP!
Why I scrapbook? Well, I scrap simply because it makes me happy. I scrapbook because life is short and I want to remember the big moments as well as the little things in our everyday lives. Funny, I just watched the other day this 80's movie where he says " Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, You could miss it." -Ferris Bueller. I thought at that moment YES, that is why I scrapbook! I notice the little details in our lives more. I believe that the stories is what matters. I scrapbook because it is my therapy. I love making pretty things and I need to create everyday. I scrapbook because I want to remember. I want them, my family to know how much I love them because if I don't then no one else will.
Here's one of my favorite memory file project I created early in 2012 that celebrated my daughter's 12th birthday. As the school is coming to an end and that means my daughter will be a high schooler. Yikes! This memory file album documented what she was into at the time. It documents her first concert, favorite tv shows, favorite clothing stores, what size she wore, when she got her iPhone, how she takes pictures and post on Instagram and her first trip ever to Hawaii. Life surely does move fast but with this album I've frozen time to what it she was like back when she was 12. I will forever cherish this! Now stop and look around and scrap your memories.
Here's just a few favorites of mine. This one is from CHA Winter 2012 for Heidi Swapp's booth I made using one of those wood frames you get from your local scrapbook stores and created a shadow box type deal in the frame area to house this cute Heidi Swapp flip book of our weekend trips to San Francisco.
The top portion I created a pocket for my memorabilia like our ticket stubs and cut out a CD holder from my Cameo to hold a CD full of our photos from our trip.
In the box holds more memorabilia such as menus, maps, coffee sleeves and vials of sand from the beaches we visited.
To the right is a mini album that folds out.
thank you for looking and hope you have a very creative day.
