bittersweet symphony: 1st page ever and recent pages

I went to Archiver's friday night with Jamie (the assistant band director @ Highland) Within the 1st couple minutes of meeting her at a football game last year - she asked me the question -do you scrapbook? Since then we have shared time at Archiver's, drinking cafe mocha's from Borders (must have the chocolate stir sticks)discussing the Twilight series (I told her she needs to read the books -and she read them in record time)talking about babies,photography, pets,layout details (she needs directions - she has a small goto becky higgins sketch book that she DOES not deviate from- and I give her a hard time about that) It's been fun getting to know her and see Eddie thru her eyes.

So known as the hoarder among some scrapbooking circles (shelly,marie, missy & erin also make up this group). I have been trying to use up the many Jenni Bowlin kits I am hoarding because they were too pretty to use.

I think this one used Oct kit from 2008 or it could have been 2007...

supplies:bazill scapolled cardstock, basicgrey's naked chipboard letters& brown thickers, daisyd's cardstock stickers and journaling spots.

i took xmas 2007 to the crop with me. I am trying to work on Brady's baby album also. This was a random piece of xmas paper won from kellicrowe, thickers, 1 7gypsis sticker, some daisy d buttons, ac red journaling pen(i won a set of 5 american craft journaling pen at the crop). The middle picture just makes me laugh out loud. Brady was literally chewing on everything that he could get his hands on - but still was a happy guy.

brady's 1st christmas. basic grey's patterned paper, archiver's cardstock, thickers, daisyd button.

8x11 layout of baby laney oct 2008. stampin up cardstock,and stampin up card kit circa 2006 used at a stamp camp.

before & after (bottom left hand corner of the scan is a little wonky - but okay IRL). I found these 2 pictures in my xmas pictures at the crop. I had this layout in mind and promptly misplaced the pictures. This was my 1st page at the crop- Jamie has this huge box of 12 x 12 paper I forget what mfg. But she has a boy and kept telling to use the girl papers. I used thickers, misc green ribbon, JB journaling spot, pink puffy hearts from JB kit, and white cardstock and my stampin up scalloped punch.

They aren't magazine worthy - but I love them. simple and basic. I am glad to be back in the groove again. And Studio Calico could be my motivation. Good thing their June kit is sold out. I would hoard that too. Serious question out there for any Kit buyers...how do you store your monthly kits? Do you keep it all together or break it up and store with the rest of your supplies?

And over at write.click.scrapbook - they are sharing their 1st pages. Well I remember my 1st page - it was 9 years ago. My future to be sister in law Nancy - had a creative memories party at her mom's house. I remember there being like 20 ladies there! I sat with Susie Souders from church and was excited to play with paper, glue and stickers. I remember we got to pick out 2 colors - it was strips and triangles class. And I threw the coordinator Brenda for a loop - are you sure you want 3 different colors? Remember the stencils? I used the stencils, deco scissors,corner rounder and the circle cutter all on the same page. With some mrs. grossman birthday stickers. Love the bold pen title.

I used to keep an album count - 20 creative memory 12 x 12 albums, 1 - 7 x 7 album, I have made 6 albums as gifts and a couple mini albums. I recently made the switch over to 12 x 12 american craft albums - so I can have different sizes all in one place. I am going use the stacy julian way of storing them - people we love, things we do, family, etc.

I will be forever grateful for Nancy and her invitation. It started everything.

It's almost time to put the boys to bed and hopefully I will have enough energy to get the ideas in my head on paper tonight. A nice cup of hot tea and some lifetime movies should do the trick.

Comments

First - I love the before and after page of Missy. I'm stealing that! :) Second - love that you shared your first page! You should post it on the Flickr group!

Posted by: Erin | June 08, 2009 at 10:51 PM