national scrapbooking day

For many of you this may sound absurd, but for us scrapbooking fanatics, tomorrow is a day to celebrate. Okay, I actually don't celebrate the day at all, but it is a great excuse to pull out some old layouts and check out my evolution as a scrapbooker. It also allowed me to reflect on what I liked most about these layouts. The stories they tell. Those memories that may have been forgotten if nobody bothered to write them down or capture them with a photo. Someday I might pull out my pages from way back, those ones that I am embarassed to look at now and was so tempted to change a few years back. But, for now, here are the layouts that I chose today.
This is the earliest one that I picked. I recently thought of this layout about Abigail and her love of organizing and putting things in neat rows. About a month ago, Andrew built me shelves above my scrapbooking table. Abigail was so excited about this and asked "when can we organize your scrapbooking things?" She is so much like me.

I've always loved this layout. I love the mix of black/white and colour shots. How they are organized on the page. And the story that it tells. I can't take credit for this design though. I'm pretty sure it was an Ali Edwards design. As the top one was too. (I think).

This is definitely more structured and came from our Europe 2004 scrapbook. This page is based from a sketch from Becky Higgins.

As you can see from the above layouts, I am definitely a more linear scrapbooker. I like clean lines and a more organized look. But this is where scrapbooking magazines come in handy. I get ideas from other great scrappers and get to push my own creative limits.

This is the kind of layout that I hope my children will appreciate when they are older. It captures Nathaniel and his interests during a certain time period.

Another layout that mimics the playful mood of the picture.

For all my children, I summarized their first year with monthly layouts. It is an easy way to get some scrapbooking done since it is all about the pictures and the milestones during a given month.

Happy Scrapbooking day! (tomorrow)