Five Favorite Things

I recently ventured back into the scrapbooking community after about a nine year hiatus. Newsflash: It has changed since I worked at the scrapbook shop in high school. To say the least, it is deeply overwhelming. In fact, it is so overwhelming that I was preparing myself to give up on the craft entirely and shove my pictures into some nice sleeve-ed photo albums. It was tough though. I would stare at my pile of scrapbooking supplies and photos, practically untouched since high school and try to decide what to get rid of. Finally one day, I decided it could all go...I was ready to let it go.

Of course I hopped on the internet to read a few blogs first.

That was when I read this post by Hilary about digital scrapbooking. DIGITAL scrapbooking? What is that? Is it better than when I was in high school too? Well of course it is.

"Well crap." I thought to myself. "I'm hooked already. I guess I'll be learning all there is to learn about digital scrapbooking." Thanks a lot Hilary.

Fast forward about nine months and here I am. I still haven't gotten rid of my old scrapbooking stuff though it has been sorted through and decreased dramatically. I'm intrigued by the idea of hybrid scrapbooking and have thus been thrown (willingly) back into the tangible scrapbooking world. My friend Barbie helped me quell my anxiety by loaning me a bunch of idea books and telling me to copy any of the layouts that I liked with my own photos and paper. Brilliant.

Okay that was like the longest intro ever to my project. After discovering the Ali Edwards' E-zine articles (a million years after she started them...yeah I hear all of you scrapbookers saying it) I was inspired to try the mini album challenge of documenting your five favorite things using wallet sized photos. And so I give you, my first tangible, completed, hybrid project since I shuffled back into this crazy cutting and pasting hobby:

FIVE FAVORITE THINGS MINI ALBUM:

Thing 1: My BALD baby

Thing 2: Wednesdays with Charlotte

Thing 3: My hair color (not pictured)

Thing 4: My flip

Thing 5: Gossie (Z-cakes' least favorite book)

My only rule for this project was that I was not allowed to by ANY new product to make it. I succeeded, though I did have to steal the ring off a set of incomplete measuring spoons to hold it together. Ha! What do you think? Not bad for a new-beginner eh? eh?