Random Blog from 2Peas

Look at your first batch of layouts, afterward look at your latest layouts. How are they different in your eyes? How have your grown as a scrapbooker? Would you re-do/update your older pages?

Oooooooooh how did this hurt......

So - I knew this, I knew it for a long time. I started scrapping when Natalie was born. That was EIGHT years ago. Now I know there are others out there who have been scrapping longer. I started scrapping and then stopped when she turned two. EEEEEK. I just didn't have the time.

I dabbled in it over the next four years, getting hung up in CM - and having fun - but never took off with it.

When I moved to Chicago I moved close to my FAVORITE ALL TIME LSS. I went in there a little over a year ago to start making Christmas cards. The store was SO AWESOME that I got hooked again on scrapbooking. Within a few months I was taking classes, completing layouts and albums galore. Trust me - if it wasn't for my

LSS - Windy City Scrapbooking

- I would not even be blogging about scrapbooking.

So - when I got hooked back up into scrapbooking I started to organize my scrapbooks. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK, Oh Mi Gosh, you have got to be kidding, what the??? Was what you heard. I am so embarrassed by my first pages. Very primative, blocks, circles, pastels, solid colors or pretty pathetic patterned paper. NO embellishments, very little journaling and (I am so embarrassed I am mentioning this....) I CUT OUT MY PICTURES. You know like around people, plants, furniture, babies... eeeeek.

I choose NOT to post pictures of my primative layouts.

Now - the difference between my layouts from a year ago and now are drastically different as well. I have probably scrapped more in the last year than I did in the first eight. I started out very basic, little embellishments, no altering, no ink, no paint, no out there patterned paper and very little journalling. NOW - I see ink, tearing, crumpling, rippin, journaling, embossing, UTEE, stamping, altered letters, altered journaling, wacky patterned paper, VIVID colors and one picture layouts. Yes, one picture layouts. When I first started scrapbooking again I thought several pictures had to go on a page... Not anymore. I am happy with one big photo and maybe a couple of smaller photos that relate or none at all.....

I also got out of the 12x12 box. I can make 8x8, 6x6, 5x7, 4x4, 2x2 or whatever I want for an album. I LOVE making albums - especially albums of different sizes.

Chipboard has also become integrated into my layouts.

I can't wait to see how I grow in the next year....