Why scrap?
Why create memories?
Who or what is it for?
Would anyone ever say they don't like memories? or don't have any special memories? I don't think so...but can we really remember them all...good and bad? probably not.
Creating and preserving MEMORIES is not just a hobby, or a delight for me, but a passon for me...or my mission. I love to spend time looking over pictures and creating a visual story to help tell that story, like going to WDW for the first time, or Rachel at age 1 having surgery, or of Christmas pasts. I enjoy seeing what I produce in paper and glue produces even more smiles and joy as my children and family look back at the pictures of these moments and so many more.
Scrapping also is social...although I may not get as many pages done as I would alone, I always enjoy the mini scrapbooking weekends I share w/ my girlfriends or going to Archiver's (scrapbooking store) w/ my sisiter in law Angie. It is fun to work together and talk about our memories together and bounce off ideas and share some paper or pens.
Scrapbooking is also a gift...a gift I give not just to my children and family but to others. And for 2011 that is what I intend to do. A girlfriend of mine shortly into January posted on Facebook a post challanging crafters of any kind to create a personal item from your own hands and give to the 5 people who first commented they would do the same.
Pay it Foward 2011...
so I commented to her I was in and 5 others replied to my post. I am very much looking forward to creating a special keepsake each uigue to the 5 ladies who are also taking up the challange.
Here is a look at my goals to inspire and challange me this year...
2011…My year to get up to date…sort of :)
Overall Goals:
*Finish albums in progress (Rachel)
*Create smaller digital albums (Spectrum trip, N gr 3-5, Vegas)
*5 2011 Pay it Forward Crafts (Jess, Cheri, Patty, Mom, & Laurie)
*Special baby keepsake for Dan/Angie
*Update anniversary album
*Finish scrapbook frames
*New Oct and Jan ’12 Disney trip things
*Scrap monthly page-calendar
*Add pictures into mini Disney books
*WORK on kids albums!!!!
*Monthly Breakdown:
FEB:
*Finish Rachel album (age 3-4)
*Scrap Jan page
*Do #1 pay it forward craft (Jess)
MARCH:
*Update anniversary album
*Create digital book
*Scrap Feb page
*Start designing next pages for Bekah age
APRIL:
*Finish frames
*Add to Disney books
*Do Pay it Forward # 2 (Cheri)
*Scrap March page
*Start on Bekah’s pages
MAY:
*Work on Bekah’s pages
*Scrap April page
*Work on digital book
JUNE:
*Make baby keepsake
*Finish Bekah’s book if needed
*Scrap May page
*Do Pay it Forward Craft # 3 (Patty)
JULY:
*Start designing new pages for Nathan age
*Scrap June page
*Do Pay it Forward # 4 (Laurie)
*Catch up month
AUGUST:
*Start and Finish Nathan’s pages
*Scrap July page
*Digital book
SEPT:
*Do Pay it Forward Craft # 5 (Mom)
*Scrap Aug page
*Disney things for Oct. trip
OCT:
*Figure out things for Jan ’12 trip
*Design pages for Rachel age
*Scrap Sep Page
*Catch up as needed
NOV:
*Work on Rachel’s pages
*Design pages for Naomi-Ruth and work on
*Scrap Oct page
DEC:
*Misc items?
*Work on girls pages
*Scrap Nov page
*Work on Disney trip items
I hope you will come back and see how I am doing and ejoy my projects and that I inspire you to creat and keep your memories.
Julie
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Getting back on track...
Wow I really have neglected my BLOG here...but I have been busy making memories and keepsakes since I last posted last summer. I also have gone on two, yes TWO trips to my happy place WDW since last June as well. One was in November of 2010 to celebrate 2 of my daughters' birthdays Rachel turning 8 and Naomi-Ruth turning 4. It was a really great trip (despite some early mishaps) and we just LOVED seeing all the Holiday lights, decorations and wonderment that Disney does so well. My second trip was just shy of a month ago in January of this year 2011. I went w/ 6 other amazing ladies who not only share my Love for Disney but we all share an even greater bond, we are MOMs of Autistic children. This 4 day adventure was wonderful, it was so great to meet many of them face to face and just have some real fun together.
As to not go back too much and share all the new things I created to help capture the memories of these trips I just want to highlight a couple new things. I have to thank the Disboards and fellow Diser Natalie for her inspiration and creating some really great "disigns" that were the base for several of the special things I created for our November trip.
She made some really nice and vibrant character pages that you could use in autograph books and that is what I did.
As a family we really enjoy stopping to visit the characters in the parks and have meet and greets as they call them. Some of our fondest memories are usually w/ the characters...like the time we just walked into Mickey Mouse (05) or Stitich and Bekah played a trick on me (08) the excitement of meeting about 12 characters at once at the Studios (09) and so many more.
We usually just use the Parks simple autograph book, but for this trip I decided to surprise my 4 children w/ unique and custom autograph books designed for each one of them and the characters they like. Now we didn't feel them up this time, but no worries we know we'll be back...
I used a basic chipboard spiral book and covered each page in cardstock. I inked the edges of the pages and then added the character pages on top. The character pages were the space for the actual characters to sign and I left a blank page across form it for us to add a picture later. I also added one other detail of writing a little saying or comment about each character.
It was so fun to see several characters at WDW react to the pages saying "that's me" or "I did say that" or "look I have my own page"
I was really glad I put forth all the effort of making these special books they will be a wonderful keepsake when full of signatures and pictures plus it just added that extra special touch to each meet and greet.
For my January trip I enlisted myself in making two special things for the ladies. We shared a 2 bedroom villa together and like most hotels all the towels are white. The question came up "how do we keep track of who's towel is who's?" I said let me make little clips for them. As we wrote about going on the trip we each pick a color that designated us on the forums we write on (and met through) so that was the starting point...plus anything I make for Disney has to have a little Mickey in it :)
They turned out so cute!
I also said I wanted to make some cool Dis-tags which each of our Diser names on them. On the forums each person has a special username. The name, color, and Mickey plus the puzzle piece all cam in to use and were my inspiration for these tags. Plus for my birthday last year, my parents treated me to a Cricut. I put it to good use!
After figuring out the right size and order of telling the computer how to cut the design, I backed each tag in white. Laminated them and then trimmed, I made the extra puzzle piece tag and attached it w/ string. I punched a hole and used a grommet to hold the ribbon in place for each lady to tie the tag on their bags. It was a fun project and we all looked pretty cool w/ a new matchy tags.
Well I hope you enjoyed this little sneak peek backwards and will stay tuned to read and see the new things I hope to create and make MEMORIES for in 2011.
Julie
As to not go back too much and share all the new things I created to help capture the memories of these trips I just want to highlight a couple new things. I have to thank the Disboards and fellow Diser Natalie for her inspiration and creating some really great "disigns" that were the base for several of the special things I created for our November trip.
She made some really nice and vibrant character pages that you could use in autograph books and that is what I did.
As a family we really enjoy stopping to visit the characters in the parks and have meet and greets as they call them. Some of our fondest memories are usually w/ the characters...like the time we just walked into Mickey Mouse (05) or Stitich and Bekah played a trick on me (08) the excitement of meeting about 12 characters at once at the Studios (09) and so many more.
We usually just use the Parks simple autograph book, but for this trip I decided to surprise my 4 children w/ unique and custom autograph books designed for each one of them and the characters they like. Now we didn't feel them up this time, but no worries we know we'll be back...
I used a basic chipboard spiral book and covered each page in cardstock. I inked the edges of the pages and then added the character pages on top. The character pages were the space for the actual characters to sign and I left a blank page across form it for us to add a picture later. I also added one other detail of writing a little saying or comment about each character.
It was so fun to see several characters at WDW react to the pages saying "that's me" or "I did say that" or "look I have my own page"
I was really glad I put forth all the effort of making these special books they will be a wonderful keepsake when full of signatures and pictures plus it just added that extra special touch to each meet and greet.
For my January trip I enlisted myself in making two special things for the ladies. We shared a 2 bedroom villa together and like most hotels all the towels are white. The question came up "how do we keep track of who's towel is who's?" I said let me make little clips for them. As we wrote about going on the trip we each pick a color that designated us on the forums we write on (and met through) so that was the starting point...plus anything I make for Disney has to have a little Mickey in it :)
They turned out so cute!
I also said I wanted to make some cool Dis-tags which each of our Diser names on them. On the forums each person has a special username. The name, color, and Mickey plus the puzzle piece all cam in to use and were my inspiration for these tags. Plus for my birthday last year, my parents treated me to a Cricut. I put it to good use!
After figuring out the right size and order of telling the computer how to cut the design, I backed each tag in white. Laminated them and then trimmed, I made the extra puzzle piece tag and attached it w/ string. I punched a hole and used a grommet to hold the ribbon in place for each lady to tie the tag on their bags. It was a fun project and we all looked pretty cool w/ a new matchy tags.
Well I hope you enjoyed this little sneak peek backwards and will stay tuned to read and see the new things I hope to create and make MEMORIES for in 2011.
Julie
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