January 2 - Why I Scrap

just scraped in with 256 words!

 

272 words... really challenging for me

 

I was originally huffing, and rolling my eyes (please, forgive me!) because I have done it before... but as I started to write, I realized that the reason I scrap now is not the same as when I started scrapping 16 years ago, and it is thanks to this challenge, I have consciously thought of that at all... 262 words, will post the page, once it's in the gallery.

 

Thanks for this challenge and the word counter ;-)

 

250 words exactly

 

thank you for the Challenge
words in German 299, in English 304

 

400 Words

 

284 words - Upon Reflection

Why do I scrap? That is a complicated question... I have always loved photos and photo albums! I come from a long line of memory keepers if I really think about it. Mama had lots of beautiful scrapbook books that she was able to bring from Cuba – and now I have many of those photos scanned and saved thanks to Tony! Abuelo also loved to display pictures – either in slide in albums or in multi photo frames. Dad was really a scrapbooker with his computer clip art and funny bubble captions! And I am lucky that even though there wasn’t a lot of money, there was always enough to take a few pictures. The 8mm movie camera was also a terrific way to share and preserve memories. I even have beautiful antique photos of Dad’s extended family.


I really feel that scrapping is a way to feel gratitude for the all the blessings I have in my life. I love that I am able to look back at all the big and small moments. I think it actually makes me happier – there are lots of moments of ups & downs but overall its mostly up. My hubby loves to look at the albums most of all – I know it makes us appreciate each other more as well! And finally I love to document our family trips – and that’s where the boys totally love it. We have been super lucky to take lots of great trips – and I know we are very blessed that they still love to travel with us (and soon our new “daughters”). I think my scrapping extends the joys and memories of that trip in a way that nothing else can!

 

274 words

 

278 words. Although I am a "wordy" gal but lettersize pages mean I must limit myself if I am to have space for anything else and still legible journaling.

 

Mine


380 words. A real challenge for me, I'm so happy to success this challenge

My journaling :
I discovered scrapbooking, one day by chance, while passing in a small street in the city center where ascrapbooking store had just opened.
I immediately fell in love with this hobby whichallowed me to combine my two passions: photographyand creative hobbies. Since I was very young, I love art. I studied at the School of Beaux-Arts, to become a graphic designer.
I did paper scrapbooking and then digital scrapbooking. In 2013 I joined the CT of PinkReptile Designs which gave me a place as a hybrid designer.
This allowed me to continue both digital and paper.
At the beginning I was making scrapbooking for the pleasure of art,materials, textures and colors.I saw scrapbooking as an artistic form of expression. With the birth of my children, scrapbooking became a memory keeper. For several years, I have been doing aproject life where I record the little moments of daily life.
I love making scrapbooking paper albums. I did paper scrapbooking and then digital scrapbooking. In 2013 I joined the CT of Pink Reptile Designs which gave me a place as a hybrid designer. This allowed me to continue both digital and paper.
At the beginning I was making scrapbooking for the pleasure of art, materials, textures and colors.I saw scrapbooking as an artistic form of expression. With the birth of my children, scrapbooking became a memory keeper. For several years, I have been doing a project life where I record the small moments of daily life. I love to make scrapbooking paper albums.
The children enjoy looking at these decorated albums. It's a way for me to tell them how much I love to live with them and leave them memories of me for when I'm gone.
I went back to my first artworks by creating in January 2020 a hybrid scrapbooking newspaper art and a junk newspaper. I like to decorate, combine papers, colors with paint and mix media, without necessarily having photos. Just the pleasure of getting my fingers dirty and creating.
This year I lost my mother to cancer. Scrapbooking has become a scrap therapy where I manage to deposit by creating all the emotions that go through me.
Art in general and more particulary scrapbooking are an essential place in my life, I can't live without create.

 

448 total words of journaling. I am happy with this layout!

 

I swear I was not copying the template choice of anyone; it's just a coincidence!

627 words, copied in gallery

 

532 Words!

 

Words in german: 264 (translated 267)



(English is not my native language - please excuse the mistakes)
Why do I scrape? I actually had to think a little bit about how to describe it in words. To do this, I first have to travel back in time, as this “why” has changed over the years. Let's start in 2007.

In a German Photoshop forum I came across graphics that were designed in a scrapbooking style.
Until then I had made stationaries or other graphics with Photoshop.
The design of digital scrappbooking fascinated me and I immediately knew that I would like to be able to do that too. I looked for a German scrapbooking forum and found several. Somekits were bought quickly and I could start. Now the first layouts were created and I was very proud of each one. So I was able to immortalize the many photos of my children in such a beautiful way. When I look at my early works today, I have to smile a lot. How much my own style has changed over the years ...!

At some point in the last 13 years there was also the artistic aspect. Now it was no longer just about packing the children's photos nicely. No. There were also layouts where I could let off steam artistically without any photos.
And so it is still today. I like to scrap in very different styles and to challenge my creativity!
That's why I love the MOC Challenges so much because here I am also forced to leave my creative comfort zone and that inspires me again and again. The layouts that come up are often the ones I like the most.

 

just popping this in the thread, so my face shows up in the listing, cause I need to know I finished it!