Scrapbook Artist Feature for National Scrapbooking Day

With this craft, I was able to create this beautiful butterfly layout. I arranged different sized butterflies using PrintWorks Pastel Cardstock in the light blue and green. For added detail to the larger butterflies, I cut the details overlay using PrintWorks White Glitter Cardstock to add a lovely detail to them. I simply love how they layer on top of each other. These butterflies are special on their own but clustered together around a photo of my daughter and I together makes this layout special. The background paper is from a 12×12 paper pad and it has the blue and green watercolor effect already on it. I kept the wings of the butterflies dimensional to keep the layout seeming luscious and full. Hope you love it as much as we do!”

What does scrapbooking mean to you?

“Scrapbooking is a part of who I am. I am able to document my story that corresponds with the photos I select. I have always been sentimental and I have always taken tons of photos. Scrapbooking is a way to get those photos off my camera or phone and record the memories with them. I love scrapbooking in any version possible, I am trying out different size albums lately and travelers notebooks too. At the rate I am going, albums will soon be taking over all the shelves in my home. I do enjoy flipping through older albums and recalling all the memories. That is also one of the best parts for me.”

Evi used our Glitter Cardstock and Pastel Cardstock in this layout!

I love to scrap using sketches as a guide  because I am a visual person. I need to be able to see something in order to spark an idea and get my creative juices flowing. I like to be able to see something and interpret and manipulate it to my own style and liking. I get to add my own personal touches and embellish a layout to tell my own story and how it relates to my memory or photos. Sketches are a great place to start when you need a starting point or direction.”

What does scrapbooking mean to you?

“That is a loaded question with simple, yet complicated answers. There’s always so much I want to say about it, but I never articulate it well. Scrapbooking is everything to me— that’s the short, sweet answer. But really it IS more than that. I love the idea of passing something tangible down for generations to come. It means telling our story from my point of view in a way that expresses and highlights my creativity. It’s my way of remembering and documenting the special and mundane things in our lives. It’s our personal story of the people we love, the things we did, the places we went (or lately, how we’ve enjoyed our time at home), and to show how we have lived our lives and existed and where we came from.

However, it’s more than that too.

We live in a day and age where we constantly connected, yet there is still a disconnect with the important people in our lives. In way, that’s very sad. We are becoming a world where we are always connected to our social media accounts and always snapping photos with the camera in our hands— our phones. And while I think that is great, what is done with the photos? We send them to a cloud and back them up. I want to take those quickly snapped shots and print them and remember them. I want them in a place where they are accessed from the shelf in our home where my kids are able to pull an album out and look at it anytime they want.

Having that ability to recall memories instantly is incredible! I love seeing the smile on my boys’ face when they remember something special to them. I love to hear their animated stories of the photos from their point of view that I didn’t particularly document. I love getting their input when I’m assembling a layout and picking items to piece together to complete a layout. It could be picking a piece of paper, or a color of thread, coming up with a title, or choosing one picture over the next. I love engaging with them and seeing their interest in my hobby even if it’s small. As parents, we spend gobs amount of time investing in our children and their activities. It’s very rewarding to see them reciprocate that while learning a sense of family pride. It’s just a small extra way to connect with them. So, yeah. Scrapbooking really is everything to me.”

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