Looking back at early scrapping Part 1

I began scrapping in 2004, and don't feel I have ever really had a particular, identifiable style, as it is evolving all the time.

Just for fun, I'm looking back over the different scrapping phases I went through.

Now I don't mind if you laugh, I know some of these layouts will look really antiquated, but some elements are still valid, well, possibly. :)

I liked (and still like) foam stamps used with acrylic paint (yes, I liked short lengths of ribbon too):

Another idea I tried was the symmetrical, grid style 'cutting up the photo',

(and wooden lolly sticks to mimic the architecture of that fabulous Harrier Hide!):

I had a phase, way back in the early days before I bought any patterned paper, of photocopying items of clothing to use as background paper.

Here the piece in the middle is of the very cardigan my daughter was wearing in the photo (I still have it now!) with soft handmade paper either side (incidentally this was the very first layout I ever made, 6 years ago, notice the badly stitched scan when I didn't know what I was doing in photoshop):

Alphabeads and slidemounts! But you know, I wouldn't ever re-do it, it says as much about me as it does about my daughter.

More scanned clothing, here the jeans my eldest son was wearing:

And also a scan of his Beano club membership card,

and in the pocket:

his artwork aged about 9, on a tag complete with fibres from the first swap I joined.

I want to re-visit the idea of scanning and reducing my children's art and written work, and including it on a layout, before I drown in paintings, drawings and short stories.

Finally, I went through a phase of jaunty angles, but couldn't quite pull it off, as I felt compelled to make it symmetrical (oh here comes a slide mount again) :

And here's another similar layout:

no that's not journalling, it's the song lyrics - I hadn't mastered journalling back in 2005

(still don't find it easy, but I'm learning).

I hope you've enjoyed my blast from my scrapping past,

and not found the techniques and materials too excruciatingly winceworthy.

Eleanor

x

Comments

[alexa]

Not at all winceworthy! (great word, by the way!). Is that Dennis the Menace? Your son draws wonderfully. I actually loved the one of your daughter AND the slide mounts! I might just go and look mine out :). Looking forward to seeing more ...