Scrapbooking Goal 2013

This.

 

This piled corner is my Scrapbooking Goal for 2013.

 

Tackle This.

I will Tackle this.

 

Every Wednesday and Saturday in 2013.

I Will tackle this.

 

I'm soooo excited to see the AFTER photo!!

 

How about you?

 

What are your Scrapbooking Goals for 2013?

 

I'm going to post a whole long list of not-scrapbooking-goals on my other blog:

 

www.adashfromdonnalyn.blogspot.com

 

Happy New Year's Eve!

 

 

My favorite color is Glitter

I love, love, love my new Glitter Marker by American Crafts!

 

You just draw directly on paper, over embellishments, over designs

It comes out clear and turns everything into dazzling!

It is so easy to use. And for a gal like me whose favorite color is Glitter, it's addicting.

 

It's hard to capture a photo of the results but believe me, it turns the ordinary into pretty!

Happy Scrappin',

DL

December Daily Album: Choose your Cover

If you haven't started your December Daily album yet, it's not too late! 

I am just getting mine started this week. In years past I've prepared it ahead of time so it is all ready and sitting on the kitchen counter all through the month of December. Sitting on the counter along with a cup of pens and adhesive, ready for anyone in our family to jot down their thoughts for the day or add a photo or ticket stub. 

I've used all kinds of covers and created my own albums for the last 3 years:

Now that I have a little collection, I'm not super happy about the longevity of the albums I've chosen. This year I decided to use a 8x8 Creative Memories album because they are easier to hold, look at, and I know that the photos and memorabilia will not fade and fall out over time.

So I guess that is my excuse this year, that I ordered this album and waited a bit for it to arrive. But I'm sooo super happy with it! Just look at this dazzling cover:

I purchased the Be Merry Fast to Fabulous Kit. It comes with the album cover and the pages are already pre-decorated! Which is really helpful considering I am starting this on the 12th of December!

How about you? What cover are you using for your December Daily album?  If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can get an overview and instructions from a past blog post here.

Happy Scrappin'!

Creative Memories BONUS Nov 19-26

November 19-26 is a great time to restock your Creative Memories scrapbooking supplies or pick up a few gifts for some scrappin' friends! Here's the deal they are offering:

Spend $75, get $25 in free gifts:

Exclusive Happy Holidays 6x6 Cardstock (40/pk)

Holidazzle Epoxy Stickers

Snowman Mini Pocket Punch

 

 

Spend $225, get $95 in free gifts:

Exclusive Happy Holidays 6x6 Cardstock (40/pk)

Holidazzle Epoxy Stickers

Snowman Mini Pocket Punch

Expressions of Christmas Vellum Accents

Gingerbread Border Maker Cartridge

Snowflake Mini Pocket Punch

Blossom Place ‘n’ Punch

Noel Epoxy Stickers

Paper Edger

Happy Scrappin' and have a blessed Thanksgiving!

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How to Recover Photos After a Disaster

Our thoughts are with everyone affected by Hurricane Sandy. If you or anyone you know has damage to pictures or albums, check out these helpful tips on disaster recovery on Creative Memories website. Follow this link and go to Care of Photographs and the article “Recover Photos After a Disaster.”

Family Photos Withstand the Effects of Sandy
As we dig into the holiday season and show off our amazing albums and photo gifts, it’s events like Hurricane Sandy that help us put our mission and declaration of beliefs into focus.

Director Cathy Miller of Pennsylvania helps us put these core beliefs into perspective with a special story from a customer who experienced Hurricane Sandy’s wrath firsthand. Cathy says, “I am sharing this story because I want to remind you that what we do is so important. Our customers don’t always have dramatic stories like this one, but I love the fact that I’m not just selling a product but am offering them a way to store special memories. Feel free to share this with your team members.”

“Eighteen years ago my parents bought a beach house we kids all enjoyed. For years it was a place where my extended family could get together. In 2009 we had a flood that destroyed the entire main floor. We rebuilt it, and, during this whole time, I was the “keeper of history.” I took the family pictures from the house and put them in albums. And then I learned about Creative Memories and transferred my family’s photos and stories to Creative Memories albums.

“Then Hurricane Sandy hit. And it seems I have lost the house again … maybe for the final time. I have been so very sad. A family friend was able to get to the house, and I told him the ONLY things I wanted were my Creative Memories albums with the last pictures I had of my mom and dad and our beach house memories. When he got there, he found five feet of water in the house and my albums right in the middle of it. But he grabbed what he could.

“When he brought the albums to me, I cried, thinking I lost all of my family history. The covers were soaked and swollen, yet EVERY picture survived. No damage! How can that be? The Creative Memories paper and pages soaked up the seawater and kept it from harming my family history. I have no words to use to express how thankful I am to you and Creative Memories for teaching me how to keep my family stories alive. I will never forget you, and because of you, no one will forget my family. I will be forever grateful!”
– Patti from Colts Neck, New Jersey

Our thoughts are with Patti and everyone affected by Hurricane Sandy. If you or anyone you know has damage to pictures or albums, check out these helpful tips on disaster recovery on our website. Follow this link and go to Care of Photographs and the article “Recover Photos After a Disaster.”

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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'



 

  

journaling a favorite moment

Going back in time completing my scrapbooks...I ran across this photo and journaling in my 2006 album. Not the best journaling ("my life felt completely full and complete") but it was off the cuff....completely complete!  Anyway, it's a great memory and I had forgotten all about it until I came across it the other day. That's one reason to scrapbook. We think we are going to remember these moments but often they fade away in the busy-ness of life.

A blog is a great way to record these moments. A scrapbook is also a great way. It doesn't have to be in chronological order...just a photo and some words capturing the moment.

What is your favorite moment? When did you have a revelation that you had "arrived" at some dream of yours?

I remember back when I had just the 3 girls....I was always head counting and felt like someone was missing. At the time we weren't sure about having any more children but my heart knew...there was one more. And it wasn't until a couple years later driving in my minivan and looking in my rear-view mirror that it hit me - I have FOUR kids!

And that was it. We were done.

Completely complete.

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