Expand Your Concept of Scrapbooking

Everyone focuses on scrapbooking, and it seems to me that using that term either turns people off, or cause some people stress. Because of the fairly fixed idea we have of scrapbooking – embellished individual pages, or pocket pages, both being kept in albums – we miss many other opportunities for documenting and sharing our memories. How about we expand the idea of how we do this and embrace memory keeping instead?

What do you think? What are some of the other ways you memory keep?

I wrote quite the treatise on this on my personal blog. You can see the entire post at the link below.

Source: Everyone Focuses on Scrapbooking. How About If We Think Memory Keeping Instead? – Callaloo Soup Crafts

I was a teen in the 80’s so this totally rad Boombox shaped mini album from Traci really speaks to me! She created a rectangle shaped black acrylic album with rounded corners, adding buttons and a handle on the top with a cover decorated to look like a real boombox with speakers, a tape deck, buttons and more. She used the Totally 80’s collection of products from Simple Stories that has lots of bright pink and teal colors with cool 80’s inspired patterns like black and white check and colorful graphics. There’s also load of fun embellishments like a Walkman, high top sneakers, retro TV, camera, hair spray can and more.

I had huge hair in the 80’s and am embarrassed to admit how much Aquanet hair spray I used!

Traci has included her totally tubular signature flaps and pockets in the album too for some radical interactive elements too.

Visit the Artsy Album blog to learn more about this bodacious mini album project.

-Heather

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