Cards and Scrapbooking

Cards and Scrapbooking

Now I’m going into the next creative class I enjoyed which is making cards and scrapbooking. There are some things I don’t quite do anymore. Like pottery, glass fusing,etc. I really loved those classes but if you don’t have the equipment or teachers you can’t remember how to do them.

Cards and Scrapbooking is one I still do. Scrapbooking is most important as it keeps my memories. I’ve done so many things like concerts, vacations with friends, scrapfests, boundless adventures, but one issue is I can’t remember in my mind what happened. So I look at photos to remember.

I am so thankful that the opportunity centre got me making cards and that I learned about scrapbooking from them, Karen’s Scrapbooking store. Started with making cards, but then I became obsessed with wanting to make pages of memories to keep. Especially if I loose the ability to remember more. There is dementia in the family, so it is possible I will become worse than I am now.

I’ll start with the card class first. We used stickers, stamps and markers I believe. I thought it would be a great way to recycle so I started using parts of old cards, stickers, and stamps. I designed fun, cute, cards. So simple to what I do now. I don’t use old cards anymore. I do more stickers, stamps, inks, markers, cut out pieces, etc. Mostly to make something completely new.

Then Jaime told me about something called Scrapfest. I went there to learn about cards, and then got hooked on making memories for Scrapbooks. I look back in my first books and feel bad. Mostly because now, I feel those first ones were done so very badly. Simple and not so pretty as they have become. I’m not perfect but have come a long way from my beginning. Yet I leave my early ones as is because this is all a part of me, and my memories.

My memory is what sucks. There are things I don’t want to remember and can’t never make go away for some reason, but the memories I want most I cannot pull out of my head. I need those photo albums. They almost fill my bookshelf. How does this help me on my journey to art? Well I was creating things,making things and helping myself get closer to who I was and am. Before I never forgot a thing, now I can barely remember anything. Just so you know, as long as you are creating something, anything you are letting your soul become happy. It is the most important thing in the world to do. Heal yourself by accepting your limitations, but never give up your ability to create.