11/5/02 -- Hello everyone, and welcome! I have just opened the virtual doors on my new online scrapbooking store! It's called Your Scrapbook Source, and our motto is "Get it Before Your Local Store." I want you to be able to have the latest goodies as soon after they come to market as possible, and I try to keep you in the loop as to what's new, what's coming, and what's been delayed (the dock backup on the West Coast has been a nightmare for the scrapbooking industry!). It is my sincere hope that I will be able to do well enough at this task that I will also be able to back-fill so to speak, and give you the full selection of a bricks-and-mortar scrapbook store. Come grow with me!
I will soon be moving all of my scanned pages over to Your Scrapbook Source, but I will continue to host them here as well (it's free, after all!), I just won't be updating them any more.
I have the pages from my "In Loving Memory" scrapbook of my grandmother, located here on a separate page so as not to bog this one down any more.
I have found a very easy way to fight world hunger: The Hunger Site! Just click the image below and you will be transported to a place that will allow you to donate food to needy people for free! You are only allowed to donate once per day, but you may donate every day, just by making one click on their site. I think it's a fabulous way to help others, even if scrapbooking has left you broke ; ) Incidentally, there are several other sites now affiliated with The Hunger Site. They are listed as different colored "tabs" across the top or bottom of The Hunger Site's page, and each one has a button like The Hunger Site where you can donate stuff for free, like money to save rainforests, or free breast-cancer-preventing mammograms. All worthy causes...click now!
Here are a few of my layouts. Each one has something unique about it which I will try to elaborate on. Go ahead and click on any of these to see it full size on its own page (this will probably be painfully slow for those of you on low-bandwidth connections). Keep checking back here, because I have many things yet to add to and change about these pages. I hope to add commentary to each of the full-size pages which lets the viewer know what materials and methods I used to create the page.
The one above was only my second attempt as what is known as "computer scrapbooking" I actually only used the computer for the titles, but I feel it turned out fairly well.
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The pages above are from the first day of our Europe trip, where we visited the altstadt (old city) of Frankfurt, Germany. The first page obviously contains pix from the trip. The facing page, however, showcases a photograph I found on the web after returning from Germany. I was shocked to see in ruins the beautiful Kaiserdom (Kaiser's Cathedral) which I had so recently seen in person. The photo was taken shortly after WWII ended, according to the web page I found it on.
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These two pages are from the second day of our trip, still in Germany. The feature I like most about these pages is the border style (you may have to click on them and go to the full-page versions to see it clearly). I used a filmstrip punch all the way around the edges, and then threaded a thin blue satin ribbon through the holes. It took quite a while, but the rich effect it achieved was worth it.
The page above is the only one I have scanned at this time from the scrapbook chronicling my trip to Las Vegas with Jin over New Year's 1999. I like it because it was the first chance I had to use the cute hearts corner punch, and because it has more of a hand-made feel to it.
