28-4-28 # 19 Bash your stash of MEMORIBILIA!

I had to think! I'm not one who saves a lot of memorabilia. But I scanned my 2020 photos and I did come up with an idea for a Halloween layout using some decorations I saved. Now I just need to sit down and actually do it.

I love your pages and your story grammadee 

grammadee you are so right. I save so much. I even saved the tissue paper cushioning a chocolates container - a gift to my daughter from her aunt. And voila! A challenge where I can use it. Thanks!

Thanks for a brilliant challenge grammadee . I was looking around my study for some memorabilia to use, when I saw this journal jar on the shelf. Both of my kids made them at school for Mother's Day. I'm usually pretty good about remembering when things happened, or at least dating them, but I could not remember what grade DD was in when she did this. I used a process of elimination and I *think* it was Year 3. I scanned the messages that DD had put into the jar she made for me, and chose a photo of me and the kids on Mother's Day that year. I would never have scrapped this fun memory if not for this challenge, so thanks!

I used the Layerworks 1333 template by Tracey Thomson and Katie Pertiet. It probably looks really busy, and I even took a ton of stuff OFF the template!

This might not have been what you had in mind with this challenge grammadee, but it's all I've got for you. These are window clings that decorated my kitchen windows for the last few Halloweens. I thought it was time to retire them and turn them into page embellishments 

This was my final challenge! I have so much memorabilia, but it is very hard to get onto pages. This one was important to me and I love the way it turned out. The card is sewn into a plastic pocket, and sewn to the page so it flips over and you can see the stack of annual renewal sticker on the back of it.There's more journaling under the card as well, about the card itself.

This is OLD product - Creative Imaginations (orange ledger), Bella Blvd (all the rest). I die cut the letters from the background paper and layered them up so they sit above the paper but in the exact lined up spot, with the contrasting edging (the dies do that). 

layout first life student by kirstendrew, on Flickr

I always look for memorabilia at any event and use whatever I can. I am an old style scrapbooker as was my mom, so saving stuff is second nature. I use napkins and little cupcake toppers, greeting cards, gift tags, brochures anything that can fit on a page and help me tell the story.

When I did my Europe books from the early 80s I scavenged my scrapbooks that were full of great stuff I had saved. I even put an entire yearbook in one album!