Thanks for being born, Sweet Baby Jesus, so I can have a day to be with my family (which includes my mom and step-dad this year). I get to watch them open presents and play and be happy. It’s also an excuse to eat cinnamon rolls and a bacon/egg/cheese bake and drink Starbuck’s Christmas Blend coffee. I think I’ll even attempt to make a turkey this year with some easy fixin’s.
It’s also a day I will be scrapbooking for relaxation (“relaxation” also means accomplishing something to me, but that will all change someday and I will “retire” and take naps and learn how to be still with myself and go for long walks and watch every movie ever made like my dad does)!
I discovered scrapbooking right after I got married in 1998, but I slacked off on it. If I had known that simply finding a way to pee alone and having to write “take a shower” in my planner would become issues, I would’ve worked my butt off back then on getting the backlog scrapbooked.
I used to always get doubles of photos so I could give a picture to someone else in the photo besides my kids. The problem was that I had WAY TOO MANY leftover doubles that were not great, were a little out of focus, etc. I had been happy to use them in my albums (those pictures are of my BABIES and I have trouble doing away with even ONE of them), but what to do with the doubles?
So I got out my Creative Memories square maker (like a punch), which has two sizes, and started punching out things like Joel’s little feet hanging out from his high chair, a cute side view of Michael’s face, Callie from behind picking up a pumpkin. You could also use a circle maker or any shape you want. I just like the way the squares all go together.
Someone gave me a top-loading album (which I don’t normally use), and I decided to make it a “My Favorites” album and used the squares to make some border pages to begin new sections:
Joel's section:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNnfqmL6_4l_984nca1QSFK5Rs1bCCHhrm-lD6tJU1RBexMI1i0U6bbbIPS8DnYj24TSc4zR6l6x_f1MEzkqRuY2Pa-UWmFcE61Po7mZUo6atZFLelvenZDiT8PQjklos8EOXj3b3pXPfs/s320-rw/122508+joel+scrap+squares.jpg)
Michael's section:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX0sYeAW6AyS4vVt_MbMlnmGqbxlNx8U5zc2znRQGRK0des5y7K9Ab4h0VqnDe3X7ejNbtbwQZ4jgiCdJNxjZjDMpHtHa8EUf8yVfFqcen3e6PT23j3O1kk1BerpMzX14LudpajAlpEHDz/s320-rw/122508+michael+scrap+squares.jpg)
Callie's section:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWtwmbtiDYoiqjWABYvjqdIGgYQpcu4CBCz8fRMSszzkM_sQnUi_7y_tM1FkNm9FTfTzTP3WL31u5QnbadxMWhftBgNVyT157GTqw4awPPTcksoIo8SftKjGxFuQ7rhaUSvszjlOd7JF6A/s320-rw/122508+callie+scrap+squares.jpg)
One problem with digitals is that, because I only get the photos printed that I need, Eva will only have a page like this at 12 cents per print! But you know I’ll have to find a way to make her one.
Chris is probably having a fit right now … I’m pretty sure she just pops in digital photos from her computer into a nice layout on the computer screen and then somehow prints it out or else takes it somewhere to be printed.
I seem to always make my crafting harder than it should be. This is evidenced by the number of projects I have going on right now, which we’ll go into tomorrow.
Merry Christmas!! I am not exactly having a fit, but I am anxious to share my "way" of doing things! I am not nearly patient enough for paper scrapping, so I have turned to digi!! I am working on the guest post and should have it done soon!
ReplyDeleteThose look great! I like to try to scrapbook, but often have a hard time knowing how to start!
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