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Seems that lots of people are sharing earlier scrapbooking layouts. I thought I would pull out some of my old ones as well. Now, I did scrapbook before this, but it was more glueing pictures and memorabilia to paper. I don’t consider it scrapbooking in a modern definition of buying specific papers and embellishments. The pictures below are from when I started specifically buying papers and embellishments for scrapbooking. Most of my supplies are from Joannes, Michaels, or possibly a LSS and were all circa 2002.

“First Dates”

Things to note: I was cheap! I picked 8.5X11 paper simply because it would need less to fill up the space. I printed pictures on regular paper (at school – free!). I bought the ticket shaped black piece die cuts (remember when there would be bins filled with diecuts at the craft stores) and traced the shapes so that I wouldn’t have to buy more than one. I love the 3 small pictures on the bottom right. I love that I had my then-boyfriend’s (now husband’s) journaling on the right (and you can’t see it, but it’s a list of 10 things he loves about me… aww), but hate that I didn’t do any journaling in the space I provided for it on the left.

“Birthday BBQ”

Things to note: I hand cut all the pictures (in fact, in all these layouts everything was hand cut). All but one photo was actually printed at a photo place. I really liked to keep the colors in the paper in one family… not much variety in the spread.

“Bahamas”
Things to note: I loved Jolie’s Boutique stickers, which is funny since they’re so expensive and I was really cheap. Also, I branched out and used two colors! See the title at the top? That’s me tracing the letters from the computer onto an aqua vellum sheet. Yep… cheap!

“New York”

Things to note: This is the last one. If you count the red in New York, I’ve now branched out to THREE colors. I really loved using themed stickers, which meant that I would only buy embellishments when I had the photos. Two of the above photos were printed for free at the school’s computer lab.

Looking back at these, the big thing I recognize is that I only did two page layouts (I hated the idea that facing pages wouldn’t match.) I always had to mat my photos, otherwise it didn’t feel right. My titles aren’t clever. Just statements of facts. Not that they are better now, but, I really didn’t try too hard. It seems that I also didn’t like to use the same product (paper, stickers) for more than one layout.

Thanks for looking.

Happy Veteran’s Day and a special thank you to my own dad who is retired Air Force and is currently landing at my local airport with my mom in tow to spend two weeks in chilly Germany!

(P.S.: Don’t forget today is 11/11/11 and is a fun day to document if you can. “11 things I did on 11/11/11″… I’ll post my layout next week.)