Scripts & Scraps from a Survivor

I LOVE scrapbook magazines. Not as much as I used to but I think that has more to do with the quality lately.

 Anyways, magazines are HEAVY and since they base a move on weight, I’ve decided that they magazines can’t come with us so….I started flipping through them to save what I wanted and toss the rest (I’m making an inspiration book with them since I really need one these days). Anyways, a few things happened while I was going through them:

1. I miss the layouts from the 03-04 time frame (and yes….I DID still have magazines that old. I swore I through them all out but I found a huge stack in the back of one of my shelves in the closet).  If you have a chance to go through a book or magazine from this time, look at the layouts. They were so beautiful and had so many layers to them. It made me realize that I missed the tearing (especially for photo mats) and layering of paper, mesh, fabric, etc.  I’ve been doing simpler layouts lately (you’ll usually find me with ribbon, a stapler, a pen and adhesive but that’s kind of it).  I miss the stamping, inking, ripping, etc so….my new goal is to try to do atleast one of the “old way” layouts once a week.  I know the big push in the industry is for simplicity and I’m all about that but I kind of miss the hours on one layout thing as well so maybe I can find a balance!

2.  In CK, I was flipping through the reader layouts and one was on faith and I thought…wow…that would be a great page on my kids so I ripped it out. When I looked closer, the “reader” was Ali Edwards. How funny is that???

3.  The use of eyelets…..I haven’t used an eyelet in I don’t know how long and let me tell you….I have a few of them just hanging around here. :) There were some great ideas for using them. One had ribbon weaved in and out of them etc.

For those of you who don’t scrapbook, I’m sure this post is “out there” but if you do, I wish you could all see what I saw in those old magazines tonight.  The layouts had so much more texture then.  I, for one, miss that.

 Laundry bell just rang so gotta go fold before it gets wrinkled.

Have a great night everyone!

Deb 

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