I'd love to do some "mini" scrapbooks, but right now I'm in the middle of a HUGE scrapbook project.

Some of you may be hockey fans (I hope I'm not the only one!). Well, "my boys," the Carolina Hurricanes won their first ever Stanley Cup last year (2006). [Congrats to the Ducks for their win this year, BTW.] I collected every newspaper clipping from the entire playoff series plus took some photos tailgating and before and after some games. I'm now closing in on finishing an absolutely giant scrapbook on the 'Canes run to The Cup. I scanned in select headlines and photos from the newspaper - and a few articles. Then I resized and layed out pages in Photoshop Elements, printed the pieces and put together real paper pages. I don't really know how many pages it will end up being yet, but it already weighs more than 10 pounds! :-)

My last scrapbook was a 50th Anniversary scrapbook for my Mom & Dad that had pictures from a wide range of those years. My Dad passed away last September, but luckily was still with us to enjoy it for a while. That was completely digital layouts. I then printed each digital page and put them together in a scrapbook.

When we were helping Mom get ready to move from AK to PA, we ran across some old photos and slides that none of us had seen in many years. My next project will be to scan those in and make copies for my sister and myself and I plan on also making a scrapbook based on those as well. It was a great excuse to buy a new scanner that could scan slides! I will probably do digital layouts and print them out, like I did for the Anniversary scrapbook.

What are y'all working on? Any digital - or combination digital/paper - scrappers out there?

I'd love to hear what you're doing!

My dad turned 60 last year and my sister and I made him a kind of "This is Your Life" book. We made most of our pages separately since I'm in VA and she's in FL and then finished up a few pages when we were together for the celebration. We used a combination of digital photos and scanned family photos. It was my FIRST experience with scrapbooking so my pages weren't all that involved. I got a lot of help from my sister.

Now our mom turns 60 next January so we will be making her one as well. I'm going to try to use more things that I've made, like painted backgrounds, fabric swatches, beading.... I'm not sure what all yet. All I know is I need to get started because it took a long time to make my dad's.

I'd love to hear what others have done in scrapbooking for momentous birthdays.

Heather:

My dad turned 60 last year and my sister and I made him a kind of "This is Your Life" book. We made most of our pages separately since I'm in VA and she's in FL and then finished up a few pages when we were together for the celebration. We used a combination of digital photos and scanned family photos. It was my FIRST experience with scrapbooking so my pages weren't all that involved. I got a lot of help from my sister.

Now our mom turns 60 next January so we will be making her one as well. I'm going to try to use more things that I've made, like painted backgrounds, fabric swatches, beading.... I'm not sure what all yet. All I know is I need to get started because it took a long time to make my dad's.

I'd love to hear what others have done in scrapbooking for momentous birthdays.

I haven't done any birthday scrapbooks, but last year I did a 50th Anniversary scrapbook for my Mum & Dad. I took old photos and scanned them in, cleaned them up in Photoshop and made mostly digital scrapbook pages, then printed them out and put them in a scrapbook. It was quite a hit with both my parents and my sister. I was very glad to have done that, since my Dad passed away a few months later.

I finally finished my HUGE Carolina Hurricanes Stanley Cup Run scrapbook! And I mean HUGE! The finished book is 12x12 by 6 inches thick and weighs 15 pounds! It was a combination of digital and paper scrapbooking. I scanned in newspaper clippings, cleaned them up and resized them in Photoshop, added some of my own photos from the season and playoffs plus ticket stubs and such. It took many months to finish, but it was a lot of fun.

Hi Debbie!

No, you are not the only Hockey fan. Congratulations on your boys winning the Stanley Cup. I am a transplanted New Yorker living in New Jersey. The team I always cheer for is the New York Rangers (as opposed to the Islanders). I route for the New Jersey Devils when the Rangers are not playing. Since I'm a pacifist at heart, I never understood why I like Hockey because it tends to get violent sometimes. I think it may because it is a fast paced sport and its action packed.

Hi, Julie!

I often think the same thing about myself and hockey. I, too, am a pacifict at heart, but I really love hockey. I definitely think it's the fast pace and action. And the players are so much more like real people than many other professional athletes.

Hi Everyone!  I'm not a sports person in general, but Hockey, Ice Skating, Wrestling and Boxing are ones I appreciate the skills of. Hockey, the fast pace and action, and wresting and boxing (not because I want to see anyone hurt) but I can appreciate the sports because of the strength, inner drive, etc. that it takes to be a champion in either of those two sports, it's just one on one, you and the other person. You don't have a team to pick up the pieces for you.

But, on to the post, scrapbooking, what are you working on, ha, ha! I am on the goodwill club where I work and I continually make retirement albums for people when they are leaving.  I'll hand out 1/4 sheet papers to everyone that I know that knows the person, have them submit a message to be included in the book if they want. Then I'll put the whole book together with a theme, along with any photos I can get with that person in them throughout the years at the company, and any articles etc from our company weekly paper with them in it, etc.

These have made wonderful, personal retirement gifts, I have seen many well up with tears going thru it on the day of their retirement, knowing that so many people participated and the personal messages that were contributed to them.

 Recently, I am getting into digital scrapbooking, having fun making my own papers and embellishments.

 Nice to meet everyone, I am fairly new to artella and just trying to make my way around to the different forums and learn to navigate around in general, HI!

 I just had to stop working on my college scrapbook. Felt like I was in a rut with it. Worked on an ATC swap which has inspired me to complete my ATC album project hopefully before I receive the ATC swap back. Maybe after that I will go back to my album...... Darshell