In all likelihood, if you are reading this post you are a scrapbooker, like me. I love everything having to do with the art of scrapbooking and telling my family’s stories.
In particular, I love:
- The camaraderie with other scrapbookers (through the forums, galleries, and Facebook groups). The Digital Press is an awesome place to connect with other scrapbookers!
- Shopping for the perfect scrapbooking kit to tell my stories. Do I even have to say how awesome it is to shop the gorgeous kits created by the designers here at The Digital Press? 😉 We all know!
- The process of creating my pages.
- Perusing Pinterest and scrapbooking galleries for inspiration for my pages. Did you know that The Digital Press has a Pinterest board?
- Looking through my scrapbooks and watching other people look through my scrapbooks.
It’s ALL good!
When I thought about writing today’s post about cherishing the art of scrapbooking and documenting our families’ stories, I thought about how many stories I have told on my scrapbook pages. It inspired me to take some time this weekend to pull out a bunch of my scrapbooks, page through each one, and reminisce over some of the stories. Initially, just looking over my collection and really appreciating the albums I’ve created over the years made me happy. And THEN I opened the books. 😉 It was fun seeing my kids grow older on the pages and it was also fun to see how my scrapbooking style has changed and evolved over the years. I decided that I wanted to snap some photos of what my shelves of scrapbooks look like right now to document how much I love this hobby and how happy my scrapbook albums make me! I know years down the road my shelves will have even more books containing even more stories and guess what? I can tell this story again!
NOTE: I created my page using KimB Designs A Little Focus: Elements and A Little Focus: Papers — each of which is available for only $1 this month only, during the awesome The Digital Press Pennysaver sale this February!
How about you? I’m sure you’re in love with the art of scrapbooking too! Have you documented that love on a page? Here are some ideas for pages:
- How about snapping a photo of your scrapbook albums and creating a page, like me, that showcases your albums?
- How about snapping a photo of your laptop on your lap, or your computer in front of you, a favorite beverage and an external hard drive (or two) by your side as you scrap a page and then, when you scrap your page, write about how much you enjoy your scrapbooking art?
- How about having someone take a photo of you scrapbooking? You could ask your family to talk about how they see you sitting at your computer creating beautiful art and and how much you documenting their stories means to them. Wouldn’t that make for a great page?
- How about taking a photo of someone as they look through the pages of your albums? That would make an AWESOME page!
- How about creating a page that talks about all the friends you’ve made in this awesome online digiscrapping community?
There are so many wonderful things we can scrapbook about cherishing our love of scrapbooking! If you’re feeling inspired, I’d love to see the pages you create that document your love of scrapbooking. Come join today’s challenge in the forum! You can share your pages in The Digital Press Challenge Gallery and link us up to your page in The Digital Press Challenge Forum.
Happy scrapping … about SCRAPPING! 😉
About the Author Barbara is a member of the creative team here at The Digital Press. She lives in Minnesota, has an awesome husband, and also has two kids: a son who is a freshman in college (and lives 2 states away – sigh!) and a daughter who is in high school. She also has an adorable soft-coated Wheaton Terrier who loves to snuggle. With older kids who don’t need (or want) her attention at all times, her life seems much quieter and she’s not always sure what to do with her free time. Oh wait … she does in fact know what to do with her free time … she scrapbooks! Life is good!