1) I am so far behind with scrapbooking my family's memories sometimes I feel completely overwhelmed. I have 12 years (YEARS!) worth of photos, all neatly organized and labeled by date in photo boxes on shelves in my scrapbook room. Just looking at them freaks me out. I need to scrapbook them all but between raising my family, working full time and being a half way decent wife I've only gotten to about 15% of them. And let me tell you that other 85%? They mock me! Every. time. I look at them!
2) Sometimes I don't feel creative. Sometimes I don't want to do a sketch. Sometimes I don't want to choose paper, sticker, embellishments or anything. Sometimes I just want to crank out layouts as fast as I can and get through some of those 12 years of photos.
3) Here's the big dirty secret...sometimes I use kits. Not a kit club where you still have to be creative. But those predesigned Creating Keepsakes Hall Of Fame/KOTM kits. Where all you do is follow the instructions and glue pictures where they tell you too. I know! I can't believe I'm even admitting that. But you know what? Those pictures on those layouts created from the kits? They aren't in boxes anymore. They are in an album or in a frame where my family can enjoy them.
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| Created from a CK Hall of Fame kit-those pictures are from 2002! |
Whew. I feel better having shared that.
Of course, I still love creating my OWN layouts too.
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| Supplies: Bazzill Cardstock, Jolee's sticker, AC rub-ons, Silhouette die-cut machine |
Check back later this week when I'll share more of those...and I'll share my process for creating page kits for a crop night.
I say...do whatever it takes to get your memories on papers so that 50 years from now, your grandkids are reading them! Great tip to share!
ReplyDeleteI sometimes use the same template from Cathy Zielske...I print out about 5 of them at a time. And if I were to put them all together in a line, they don't look all that similar, only I would recognize them as the same template.