Where Are You In Your Scrapbooking Journey?
Laura reminds us to take a step back and evaluate where we are in your scrapbooking journey and how we got here.
As much as I hate to conform to any sort of trend or fad, we are all influenced by these trends somehow. This year, in July, marks my 8th year of digital scrapbooking. In those eight years so much has changed with my scrapbooking, but aside from a few minor changes, I think I’ve finally settled into a groove that makes all of my pages uniform in some way.
Whether you have just begun scrapbooking or you are well into that journey, there is always something to learn and definitely many things to step back and reflect on.
One thing that has remained as I look back on my pages is that the focus is on the journaling. It could be a lot or it could be a little, but the emphasis of the page is definitely in the journaling.
For example, one of the very early layouts I did told a story to my daughter:
Flash forward six years to a page I just posted in the gallery this weekend:
The style of my page has most definitely changed (and thank goodness so have the shadows and element placement). But, even though I’ve added just a small snippet of journaling, that is definitely what I want my daughter to get out of the page.
There are many, many options available to digital scrapbookers nowadays. If you’re looking for a long term project to unify your layouts, that is definitely available. Some of these options are:
- Project Life
- Project 52
- Project Love Me
- By The Numbers Album
- Alphabet Album
The possibilities are endless. But, if you are looking for something to unify your pages, these are always great options.
If you’re more into scrapping with current trends, some options that seem to be popping up now are:
- Art Journaling
- Shape Use (i.e., hexagons)
- Washi Tape
- Banners
- Hybrid Projects
Where are you in your scrapbooking journey? Is that portrayed in your layouts? Is it where you thought you would be at this stage in the game?
I believe Ernest Hemmingway said it best, “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
While you may not feel that your early pages are “works of art,” in the end, no one else is going to feel that way. So I ask you, what is your one cohesive element that has stayed with you? Are you a big event scrapper or an everyday scrapper? Is this where you thought your scrapbooking journey would take you?
