I finally got around to sitting at my crafting table to actually craft. Half the time I sit here to work from home, so it was nice to change it up. For whatever reason, I am an extremely slow scrapper. I print the photos and then I tend to take too long to choose a […]
I have a degree in journalism and always thought I would be a magazine writer, but times have changed. I still love magazine and maybe one day I will work full-time for a publication, but now I can write when and what I want and freelance when I can. As my blog is coming up […]
I finally picked some photos from our summer road trip up Pacific Coast Highway to highlight in this California scrapbook page. The drive up was slightly gloomy, but still breathtaking. Though the sky looked slightly dull in my photos the colors from the ocean and hills were still bright. So I knew that the paper […]
Every trip inspires a page or two in my scrapbooks. There’s nothing more I love then crafting on a cold winter day. Which I’ve been doing a lot of the past few weekends. Yes, it does get chilly in Southern California. I also have to shout out my best friend Abby who helped me decide […]
Our trip to Thailand was better than we expected: it was affordable, adventurous, and beautiful. We had so many stunning photos it was easy to scrapbook. Henri said it perfectly when looking at these pages, “You always appreciate a trip more once you let it sink in.” And that’s why I love to document memories […]
Even a weekend trip deserves to be preserved in scrapbook pages. I have so many pages from before I started blogging that I thought it would be fun to do a new series of articles dedicated to my past scrapbook pages, so welcome to the “Past Papers” series. This is a simple one page, three-photo […]
Every use of our passports turns into pages of papers because every good vacation deserves a place in our adventure book. Here’s Europe:
After taking hundreds of photos on a trip, I pick my favorites to print and embellish them in a scrapbook. It’s one of my favorite hobbies because it makes the trip feel like it lasted longer than it really did. And once the scrapbook is done the vacation will live on forever. Here’s a look […]
Whether you’re new to scrapbooking or finally cleaning out you craft area here’s my suggestion of the essentials all serious scrapbookers need. I have been scrapbooking for 10 years now and I have quite the collection, but there are a handful of items I always use when I do a page. 1. Paper You can’t […]