Getting To Know You ...

[sascedar]

Hi everyone! My name is Sarah, I'm an Aussie mum of two boys- Harry (4) and Owen (4months). I've been digiscrapping for a couple of years now, and I scrap everything. Out of order. Journalling most of the time. I love recording important and emotional times, but I also love making frivolous pages just because they are pretty!! I'm excited about this book and website, I love anything about organisation, so you've got me intrigued. Lovely to meet all of you!

[mumure]

HiLadies!
My name is Maryse aka Mumure.I'm 40(in november),at home,mother of 3 children.I'm french,I live near the Mediterranean Sea.I'm a digital scrapbooking addict!!I started one year ago and now I'm in several CTs.
I hope we will have much fun here
Feel free to ask what you want to know about me.
And forgive my english

[hguenthe]

Welcome ladies. Bonjour Maryse. Nice to meet you and look forward to getting to know you better.

[Kristin Rutten]

Welcome Sarah & Maryse!!! So glad you've joined us! Be sure to check out the Layout Gallery, too ... and feel free to add a few of your favorite real life layouts!

Enjoy your stay!

[EHStudios]

Hi Everyone,

Well I just got through looking at every page & response in the forum & thought I'd post my introduction. Unlike all of you it seems I'm not a mother nor am I married yet. My name is Elisa. I'm 23 and just graduated college last year and as of February of this year I've opened my own photography studio in my small hometown. I guess I started really getting into scrapbooking about the same time I got really into photography, so that's been 10 years now when my twin cousins were born. Then I went to college in 2004 and took some scrapbooking supplies with me to my dorm & never got them out, so for 4 years I wasn't scrapping. Still have my boxes & boxes of supplies. It wasn't until this year on iNSD that I decided to pick up scrapbooking again with digi & I love it. So I'm still new to the digi world here.

As for my weaknesses in scrapbooking I'd say journalling is a struggle for me. In fact, I only have 1 LO that I've made so far with real journalling and this was because I was inspired by a challenge prompt in another forum. This is one of my favorite LOs now which is weird since I'm the subject of the page & I don't like talking about myself. So I'm really excited to see different challenge prompts & things here to maybe inspire me & I'm even considering trying my hand at applying for the CT here as it sounds so interesting.

Anyway, I hope this is enough about me for now. You all seem like an amazing group of women & I look forward to adding this forum to the list of places I visit in my digiscrapping life.

Take care & stay warm!
Elisa

[Kristin Rutten]

Welcome, Elisa!!! So glad you've joined us... and you are so not alone regarding a fear of journaling! So many people are in the same boat... we'll help get you over that quick!! In fact, be sure to check the blog tomorrow ... I think you'll find it very interesting & hopefully helpful!!

Can't wait to get to know you better ... be sure to stop by and play often!!

[winkasheart]

HI everyone! I can't tell you how happy I am to have found this new forum! I am so excited to see the challenges and get some more pages with some meaningful journaling on them. I do have to say that I really don't have a problem journaling, that is one of the main reasons I started scrapping, to get it all down because there is so much I wish I knew about my great grand-parents and I don't want my family to wonder the same things. However, I do sometimes struggle with figuring out the things I want to tell. When it comes to myself, I sometimes forget to do the every day. Or I get so involved with scrapping the rest of the family that I neglect myself, lol.

I have been scrapping for many years, started out paper scrapping and like others, I have a whole area of supplies just sitting there. I never got a whole lot of pages done until I found digital. It is so freeing, knowing I can change things up without cutting and/or ruining something. I don't know why, but actually cutting into my paper was so hard! And trying to arrange a page was even harder! I don't have that problem now, lol.

I have one grown daughter and son in law and my daughter is the main focus of my pages, but I have lots of them with the rest of my family too, including our many cats. Right now I am living at my daughter's home with one of my sisters while she and her husband are serving in Iraq. We are taking care of the place and their 3 cats along with my own 2...so right now I take a lot of photos of them, lol. We only have a few more months until they return, and I can't wait!

I look forward to getting to know everyone and seeing your stories too!

[dugarner]

Hi there, I guess I need to jump in, too!

My name is Sarah, I am a transplant to northeast Louisiana from Baltimore by way of St. Louis. (Long story!) I have two children, Bailey, 8, and Jacob Henry, almost 2.

My husband is a minister, and while we were in St. Louis we had to take some time off from the ministry. While attending a local church, the pastor's wife (who was a Creative Memories consultant) gave me a big bag of goodies to get me started. I didn't know what scrapbooking was; I didn't even really like to take pictures. But I didn't have my wedding pictures in an album, so that was my assignment.

Scrapbooking was how I became interested in photography; now I take pictures so I can have something to scrapbook. I stuck with Creative Memories, but ventured into other companies' product when two brick and mortar stores opened here in my small town. I always felt guilty putting "non-archival" elements on my pages; I never did fiber, metal, acrylic, paint, or anything like that. Now that I'm digital, I can enjoy all that stuff, guilt-free! I have tried to coax others into taking up scrapbooking, but it just isn't popular in the area where I live.

I am a chronological scrapper, obsessively so, and journal on every page.

But the funny thing---that relates to this site so well---is that I have **always** been made fun of for how much journaling I put on my pages. Maybe light-hearted ridicule, but complete with eye-rolling and snickering. At crops in stores where I didn't know anyone, people would comment about it. I even bought that little loopy-loop journaling thing from Creative Memories (the blue ruler thing with the nylon loops) and wore it out. Wore two of them out. My consultant thought it was the funniest thing she'd ever seen.

I tell stories---long, complicated stories---because I know that while I have the memory today, I won't always be able to remember that story, and I want my great-grandchildren to read the books and have the stories, too. My family is not big into storytelling or memory-keeping, and I've lost so much from my side of the family, it has become very important to me. But even though many think I'm a little off my rocker for how thoroughly I document my life, those same people tell me from time to time that they are envious that I have all these memories recorded.

I am now the only digiscrapper out of my original group of CM friends. There were six of us, four dabbled in digital for a while, but I'm the only one who stayed. The others' husbands told them they didn't like the digital look. So anytime I find a new scrapping community, I'm excited!

Sarah

[Kristin Rutten]

But the funny thing---that relates to this site so well---is that I have **always** been made fun of for how much journaling I put on my pages. Maybe light-hearted ridicule, but complete with eye-rolling and snickering. At crops in stores where I didn't know anyone, people would comment about it. I even bought that little loopy-loop journaling thing from Creative Memories (the blue ruler thing with the nylon loops) and wore it out. Wore two of them out. My consultant thought it was the funniest thing she'd ever seen.

I tell stories---long, complicated stories---because I know that while I have the memory today, I won't always be able to remember that story, and I want my great-grandchildren to read the books and have the stories, too. My family is not big into storytelling or memory-keeping, and I've lost so much from my side of the family, it has become very important to me. But even though many think I'm a little off my rocker for how thoroughly I document my life, those same people tell me from time to time that they are envious that I have all these memories recorded.

Sarah!! So glad to see you here!!! And rest assured, here is one place you will NOT be made fun of for lotsa journaling!!! I just love your story ... thanks so much for sharing it! I hope you'll make this one of your regular stops and share tons of your wonderfully wordy pages!!!

[Mommato2lilCowboys]

Hello all,
I have the most wonderful family that one could ask for. I have been married for 8 lovely years to my high school sweetheart, Allen. He is my everything and is such a great father to our boys. Speaking of that we have 2 boys that are the lights of our lives. It is so great to see them grow and to be able to do so many wonderful things with them. I am a stay at home mom and LOVE every minute of it. We have a dog Sir Cowboy Hat-n-Boots( my oldest son named him. I am a Mommy to two kiddos & a dog, a wife to Allen, a daughter to a few, a sister to one and a niece many. I have been scrapbooking for a while now and also enjoy all paper crafts. AKA: Heather