CREATIVE CRAFTING

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I have never understood the need to scrapbook. I have friends that make page after page of photos, but never saw the allure of cutting and pasting pictures on top of one another.  At least that is how I saw it.

Although I do like doing things with my hands and letting the creative juices flow, the traditional method of scrapbooking never appealed to me.  Digital Scrapbooking, however, does appeal to me.

About three years ago, I started going through photo albums looking at the pictures of my children as they grew and they were in a hodgepodge of order.  Some were marked others were not, as I never seemed to have the time to put any order to the albums.  There were pictures in shoeboxes that just sat.  Pictures of the rest of my family when they were young, including pictures of my parents when they were children.  Pictures of grandparents I barely remember.  Some were fading, some were bent, and some even got stuck together because of dampness.

I thought I should preserve them for my children, and grandchildren.  So I set about organizing them on my computer by scanning each one in, using a photo editor to fix any of the more serious problems, and then saving them one by one to discs for each of my four children.

I have a lot of friends who do crafting and when I said I was going to do this blog about crafting, once the laughter died down and they realized I was serious, the ideas and product recommendations started pouring in.

Here is one that my friend Jen recommended. Jen is into scrapbooking everything and anything she can find. She has a new baby, and every step of that babies life is documented in a scrapbook. I think it is great, so I asked her to help me with my scrapbooking pages, as quite frankly I don’t have a clue what it is a person needs to do scrapbooking.

The first thing she said she bought was a “mini-paper trimmer” to trim the edges of small photos for her pages. So I asked her about this one, and it is the exact one she uses. She said that the larger paper trimmers were too big for small photos, too cumbersome to use, took up too much room but this one was the perfect size to trim them. She has no complaints about it, and in fact recommends it highly.