Re-Scrapping....

 

So, like many of you I starting scrapbooking in the 80's...long before it was called scrapbooking and when I used colored construction paper and yes...the magnetic pages! I know YIKES! But I have evolved as scrapbooking has...however I go back to my days of old circa 1984 and I am mortified by by pages! But worse than my pages from college is the book that I did for my oldest son that is now 20...the horror REALLY!

So now that I have my scrapbook room and I am organized and ready to go I went and pulled out Austins book and I am RE-Scrapping it! Silly huh? How many times have you done this though? I look at some of my layouts and I crack up how really bad they are- I am no Heidi Swapp and believe me if I would have left one of my books at the store it would have ended up in the "round file"! But here I am 20 years later with my son gone on his mission and I am Re-scrapping his life! And I have to say that I love it! I love looking at all of his cuteness and remembering him through the years! It is amazing how much you forget the bigger they get!

So one of the things that I have done is made pockets for each grade to stick certificates and what not into. This is the remake of Austin's 5th grade pocket...forgive the photo it is from my blackberry...so the quality is a tad weak! But you get the gist...The one thing that I do to make the pages stronger is using cardboard under the entire layout to give it strength and double sided foam tape to make the pockets a little bit bigger. Through trial and error I have found this way to be a little more durable.

Well I have to say that I am finally back in the groove and it feels good! I am working on several layouts at a time and cutting away as well! I think that my wishblade has been a little lonely! But I am happy to say that I am back!

Hope that you had a great 4th of July!