(Inter) National Scrapbooking Day

I’m sure you’re all aware that today is National Scrapbooking Day and are celebrating by…what?…what do you MEAN you’ve never heard of National Scrapbooking Day?! Let me enlighten you. In 1994, Creative Memories started a nationwide movement on the first Saturday in May to celebrate the family tradition of making keepsake photo albums. National Scrapbooking Day used to focus solely on physical albums and album pages, but it has grown to accommodate all the various ways we celebrate our memories and share our stories. Creative Memories is now a world-wide company, and so National Scrapbooking Day has really grown into Inter-National Scrapbooking Day!

I celebrated today by hosting a special crop workshop for my customers. They received some nice NSD- themed goodies and were treated to a great homemade lunch of salad, garlic bread, and chicken broccoli alfredo! Over 20 pages were completed in just 5 hours and one customer finished her first family album and started on another!

In between helping customers with page layouts and showing them all the tasty new products coming out in June, I made four 12×12 page prints for my mom for Mother’s Day (see below). My parents don’t have a house; they live in a trailer (a luxury, 44 foot house on wheels complete with a fireplace!) and have been travel all over the country for the last 12 years. They have a custom picture board in their living room for which I used to make & send 12×12 scrapbook pages. I haven’t sent anything in ages, though, because I’ve done mostly digital scrapbooking in the last year.

Now I can use Storybook Creator Plus to create digital 12×12 page PRINTS (essentially 12×12 composite digital photo pages), upload them to the CM Photo Center, and have them sent directly to her for her board. She gets the pics, I can make them up quickly (under two hours for the pages below), and I don’t have to worry about packing and mailing them myself. Yea! When she’s done with them, she can pop them into a Picfolio Max album and leave it on her coffee table as a conversation piece.

So here are my pages. They are almost all of my kids, though I threw in one of my sister Dawn trying on her wedding dress. Take a peek and tell me what you think! If you think this is something you’d like to do, shoot me an email (dschink@neo.rr.com) and I’d be happy to help you get started!