What It's All About

This page ain't nothing special design-wise. Just some basic pieces of paper, a border punch, some stitching, little bits, and a title.

I almost put the journaling on a label sticker so it wouldn't look "too big" and overwhelm the page. But then I remembered why I was making this page in the first place.

My husband lost his father less than a year before we met. Even though I never knew him directly, I've heard so much about him that I have a sense of who he was. And I want our kids one day to have the same thing, even though by the time they get older, memories might fade.

So I used this old picture of my father-in-law with his twin boys on their birthday, and made the words the focus. Words + photos = plenty on this page.

It feels good to connect to something deeper in scrapbooking.

I won't say that my scrapping is all about photos and stories, because it's not. It's about the fun of the creative process. From shopping for supplies, to putting pages together, to gluing them down.

Not as profound, but I really think that the day I stop loving scrapping would be the day I stop scrapping at all. As much as that pains me to write, because I hope to being doing this until I'm an old lady, scrapping my retirement home parties:)

But every so often, it's good to get back to basics. Although I must say, I'm lovin that new bracket punch!

How about you? What's the bottom line for why YOU scrap?