News and inspiration — scrapbooking

Wondering how scrapbooking has changed over the years? It's a hobby with trends, like any other hobby. Popular products and techniques come and go, and the hobby is constantly evolving, but at the bottom lies the desire to take care of our memories. Although scrapbooking may not be as popular as it was 15-20 years ago, it is this hobby that is closest to my heart. I therefore want to show you that scrapbooking can be so much and that it embraces so much. We all have our own style. We use the colors and materials we like best. Therefore,...

Happy Valentine's day! 😊💖❤️ "How we spend our days, is how we spend our lives", says the quote by Annie Dillard, which I have used on this scrap page. And it's really true. These are my two hearts, which make the world worth living. 😍💖❤️ How do you celebrate the day of love? 😍❤️

Both Mother's Day and Valentine's Day are approaching, so now love and consideration are on the agenda. Then it is perfect to use red and rose papers. Before I started scrapping, a long, long time ago, we were told that red and pink didn't go together. But they actually fit perfectly together for such occasions and such LOs. When you scrap a page with many pictures and it is difficult to get the pictures to match in terms of colour, it is a tip to change them to black and white and print them. Then you can use whatever colors...

When the girls were small, we had many nicknames for them, both in Norwegian and in English. Sarah was particularly fond of being called "Sarah bear" by her father, and sometimes she probably thought it was actually her name. This LO tells a bit of the story about this nickname of hers. This is a "less is more" LO, where the cardboard from Bazzill Basics gets a lot of space. I chose cardboard with two different structures. I've used some patterned paper from Basic Gray and some vellum for the text, but otherwise there aren't that many large elements. The...

It's good to be able to put the mobile away and sit down to have a creative moment with paper and glue. I'm so glad I got back into this wonderful hobby. I love to cut and paste! For me, who has always loved taking pictures, scrapbooking is the perfect hobby. We still take lots of pictures, but the camera has been replaced with a mobile phone. Our photos are displayed on a screen, instead of in an album. Much of the fun of displaying pictures has disappeared. There is something special about being able to take out an album...