2018 Year in Review Scrapbook Album

With 2018 just around the corner, this is the perfect time to take my

2018 Challenge:

Commit to scrapbooking at least a page a month

 featuring highlights from that month!

The perfect way to get started?

(this article has links to my CM website where I sell Creative Memories supplies)

Creative Memories NEW All-Occasion "My Memories" Fast2Fab! 

This versatile Fast2Fab specialty was inspired by Boho, nature and natural textures, and designed to accommodate everything from theme-specific albums to a "2018 year in review."

The Fast2Fab album color is Cobalt blue with foiled hearts in an assortment of colors on the cover.  It comes with pre-designed pages inside (and page protectors are also included).

The pages feature classic designs in hues of sage green, sand, slate blue and mustard.

If you get the Gift Box Bundle, you will get the Album, Pages, Page Protectors

AND you will also get 

Daily Dockets Embellishments

a Tape Runner (32 feet of adhesive)

Brown Dual-Tip Pen (fine tip on one side, bold tip on the other)

and it comes in a beautiful gift box that makes it great for gifting!

The album is also available separately (not as a coverset though, this particular album comes with the Fast2Fab pages inside).

If you haven't tried Fast2Fab yet, ohmygoodness, they have been a game changer for me! I get albums done soooo fast now because I just add my photos and journaling and I'm DONE! I love Fast2Fab!!

These are what the page layouts look like in the album: (you can also flip through the pages for a better look when you visit my website)

Whatever album you choose to use, I hope you'll take my

2018 Page a Month Challenge!

Creative Memories Owner, Caleb Hayhoe

I'm so grateful to Caleb Hayhoe, Creative Memories owner! Here is your chance to virtually "meet" him and see his vision for Creative Memories. He knows what we love and he has brought back all of our favorite "Made in the U.S.A." scrapbooks and paper (without any drama). 

He scrapbooks.

He "gets" it.

He listens to what we, the customers, want. 

What a concept!! ;)

Enjoy and Happy Scrappin'


To visit my website and see what's new:  creativememories.com/user/donnalyn

2007 is DONE!!!

 

 

Yahoo!!! Another truly completed album on my shelf!

 

 

 

Today I finished journaling and adding memorabilia to our 2007 scrapbook!

 

Here are some of the highlights -

 

Funniest page:

that boy could eat!!

 

 

My favorite Simple Page Spread (just photos and journaling):

 

Another favorite simple page - just photos and stickers...(a little bit of journaling)

 

 

Favorite photo:

Favorite memory:

(when My Hero returned from his deployment to the Middle East)

 

Another favorite photo:

My 3 girls and a prince hung a link to a paper chain for every single day that My Hero was deployed. We wrote little messages, diary entries, etc inside of each one along with the #. By end of his deployment our downstairs entry was completely full and the paper chain was traveling all over the house! This photo shows My Hero taking it down and reading the inside of each one.

 

 

2007 was a year of survival, homecoming, the passing of our beloved grandmother Doris, and a year of firsts: our oldest got her ears pierced, started middle school, and started competitive cheerleading. Our 'Jelly-in-the-middle' bridged from Brownies to Girl Scouts. Our youngest daughter "Sugar" started Kindergarten. And our little Prince got his daddy back. (We all did).

 

Now the page protectors are on, the album is being passed around for all to enjoy, and my heart is full!

2004 is DONE!!

 

My goal is to get "current" on all my unfinished scrapbook projects so today I am celebrating an accomplishment!!

 

2004 Album is DONE!!

 

Whoo-hoo!!

 

This album was mostly completed but there were loose ends...pages that weren't journaled, photos that were missing, etc.

 

Scrapbooking can be a pain. My bio says I "love scrapbooking" which should more accurately say: I love completed albums. I love stickers. I love putting page protectors on. But mostly scrapbooking can be a pain. I was definitely procrastinating. But I finally put the album on my pool table and then the kitchen counter as a reminder, "Hey, you! Finish me!!"  That seemed to do the trick. Just 5 minutes here....15 minutes there...over several weeks  and today it's DONE!!

 

I found it interesting the two biggest journal pieces that were missing:

 

1. The week we experienced a severe snow/ice storm. Our furnace went out; the roads were unaccessible to repairmen; the airports were also closed and believe it or not my parents were supposed to be flying in to watch my 3 girls while I was scheduled to fly out to for the weekend to visit my husband who was supposed to be at a Navy Conference in Hawaii!! All flights were cancelled. The airport literally shut down. And we had no heat for a week. 

 

2. The passing of our beloved Uncle David (58 years old) from complications from a bone marrow transplant. It was devastating. We will always feel his loss in our family. So that was a hard one but I managed to write a little bit about it and put a page protector on that heartache today.

 

There were a few photos missing from various page spreads which I mananged to locate in my Giant Box of Photos. Got those mounted and page protectors on!

 

One funny memory (not funny at the time, but funny now) was found on this page spread:

It was the time my oldest was supposed to be watching my youngest but when I found my youngest she was alone in my office and covered from head to toe with White-Out!  That stuff apparently does NOT come out very easily because we have photos from a week later and she is still covered in the stuff! Every little toenail was painted...all up her legs, her hands, on her nose and cheeks. The paper memorabilia on the right of this page spread is the note I made the "babysitter" write:

 

What I will do next time I babysit:

 

1. I will not let her off my sight.

 

2. I will make shure that she's close by.

 

3. I will not put my nose in a book.

 

4. I will tell mom when I am done.

 

 

2004 was my last year of being a mommy to 3 girls (the Prince will arrive in 2005).

2004 was the year I fell in love with a hotel (The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs).

2004 was the year we took a road trip to California and took the girls to Disneyland.

2004 highlights are now in a scrapbook for us to enjoy.

 

What unfinished album are you procrastinating?

Want to get it out and do the next thing?  5 minute here...15 minutes there....

I'm cheering for you!

 

Happy Scrappin'