Now and Then

[Jamie Hamblin]

Yesterday I was looking for my old High School Yearbook and I couldn't find it but instead, I found my old Scrapbook....

Because of this special event, I thought that it would be fun to have everyone share some of their first-ever and most recent LO's to see how far we've come.

Here are my first-ever...

LO #1 (http://forum.digitalscrapbookmemories.com/album.php?albumid=81&pictureid=1290)

LO #2 (http://forum.digitalscrapbookmemories.com/album.php?albumid=81&pictureid=1291)

Here are my most recent...

LO #3 (http://forum.digitalscrapbookmemories.com/album.php?albumid=81&pictureid=1292)

LO #4 (http://forum.digitalscrapbookmemories.com/album.php?albumid=81&pictureid=1293)

[Shellie]

Jamie, your links aren't working.

[montmeag]

They worked for me. How old were you when you made those pages Jamie? What a difference!

[LucyLu]

how fun ... I never thought of my school scrap books to be "layouts"

interesting

[kmsarles]

The links aren't working for me either. But it looks like a cool idea!

[chryslergreen]

Well, I won't post my paper scrapbook pages from back in the day (I started when I was about 13) but here is my very first digital layout:
http://forum.digitalscrapbookmemories.com/album.php?albumid=14&pictureid=1294
The dark photo REALLY bothered me so I actually re-scrapped it... I have a policy to never re-scrap pages but I really wanted to fix the photo and make the journaling stand out more:
http://forum.digitalscrapbookmemories.com/album.php?albumid=14&pictureid=1295

And here's one I did earlier today, it's for my Disney album that I just finished:
http://forum.digitalscrapbookmemories.com/album.php?albumid=13&pictureid=1296

I have grown and learned way more in the past 3 years digi scrapping than I ever did doing years of paper scrapping.

[chryslergreen]

I think you have to be Jamie's friend (by that I mean official forum friend) in order to see her albums.

[April]

Jamie, you'll have to send them friend requests if they don't send you one first.

Here is a link (http://forum.digitalscrapbookmemories.com/album.php?albumid=1&pictureid=157) to one of my first digital scrapbook pages that happens to be showing of a couple of my first paper scrapbook pages :)

[Kelli West]

those are all really funny and awesome you guys! I like this thread. Good job Jamie! Now I need to go get mine....

[Jamie Hamblin]

Yeah sorry I'm mean... you have to be my friend! It's my way of being the most popular person on the site / jk!

But you can be my friend here (http://forum.digitalscrapbookmemories.com/member.php?u=199)...


Lynette... is this cool or what, I love to see progression.

[kmsarles]

This is such a fun idea to share! I had to go downstairs and take pictures of my HS scrapbook. I graduated in 1997, and finished this scrapbook before the scrapbooking industry was what it is. So the whole thing is on loose paper in a postbound album I got from Hobby Lobby. It's mostly newspaper clippings, certificates, programs from play I was in or saw, memorabilia, and pictures. Here's just a sampling (http://forum.digitalscrapbookmemories.com/album.php?albumid=147). They pretty much all look like this. Oh, and this is before I knew about "acid free" so some of my pictures have discoloring from the glue! :(

Here's my Sept album (http://forum.digitalscrapbookmemories.com/album.php?albumid=135), but I think some of my favorite pages were made during the "Digi Olympics." I absolutely LOVE the digital obsession!

[Alyson]

I decided to do a little progressive look at my scrapbooking.

Disneyland: this was one of my very first pages (I'm not actually sure which page is my first, so this might be it). Notice the total lack of journaling...just a title and not even a date.

Aspen: I finally started journaling on my pages. I had this insane idea back then that all my pages needed to be white with small accents of color...CRAZY!!!

Italy: Finally got away from the all white page craziness. I actually really like this page. I included it because it took me hours and hours to cut out all those letters that way for the title; something that would be fairly east to do in Photoshop!

We have so much to look forward to: This page represents the extent of my embellishing during my paper scrapping days (and few eyelets and some thin twine); I never wanted my pages to be too thick. Plus, it was one of the last I did before changing to digital (well actually I have some 12X12 pages, but my scanner doesn't accommodate that size). I should really get rid of this page since that is me and my ex in England a few days after we got married, but I figure it's part of my history so I'll probably keep it.

Megan and Jeff: this is my very first digi-page.

My most recent digi pages are my Digi-Olympics pages here (http://forum.digitalscrapbookmemories.com/album.php?albumid=101).

This was a lot of fun Jamie. Thanks for starting this post! It inspired me to take a moment to look back and see how far I've come.

[kmsarles]

Alyson, your Italy title is way cool! It's like reverse clipping mask! I think you should keep that one page for history. And your first digi page is way better than my first digi page!!!

[Kelli West]

Alyson, ditto what Kelly said. ALL OF IT! Your pages were still cute when they were paper....i need to get mine up so you guys can all see. Maybe I will do that today!

[chryslergreen]

Thanks for sharing Alyson! It's fun to look back huh?

[Jamie Hamblin]

This is so cool guys! We're so much better it's not even funny...


I wonder what we'll be like in another 10 years?

[kmsarles]

Pft. In 10 years we won't need scrapbooking. We'll just plug our brains into the tv and download our memories anytime someone wants to see them! haha!

[Kelli West]

so true Kelly, so true!