Scrapbook Celebrities

For me personally, the words "scrapbooking celebrity" are in the eye of the scrapbooker. Meaning whose scrapbook layouts and style work I admire.
I think the terminology "scrapbook celebrity", was influenced by the notoriety and prestige of being a Garden Girl on the original Two Peas.
No offence intended, just my personal opinion..... I've never cared for Shimelle's style of scrapbooking or her products, so I don't consider her to be a "scrapbook celebrity".

I always liked Cathy Zielske style of scrapbooking.

"Scrapbook celebrities" were not all nice.
Then there's the "mean girls" of scrapbooking:
Former garden girls Shannon Tidwell and a lady named Jen (can't remember her last name), with their "game on bitches" and mean girl commentary....when the private garden girl message board was exposed. In my opinion, that mean girl commentary and behavior , speaks volumes about their characters and the type of people they are. 


Then there's the desperate to be known as a "scrapbook celebrity" >>Tracie Claiborne. She  does have some groupies, and  has more than once  asked her groupies for money....for whatever her "woe is me" story of the moment is. Then has the audacity to post frivolous expenditures days or weeks later.

Has there been any new info on good ol' go fund my heart surgery Tracie??

I can’t remember any names from that far back, but there are a few who I wonder if they’re still creating. One person in particular, who stitched on her layouts, they were so amazing. I think her sister was in an auto accident, maybe going the wrong way on a highway? And then she dropped out of sight.

There’s another, I think she was part of House of 3? She created a mini album by gutting a hardback book and my mind was blown. I have created so many albums similar to that since then.


Edited to add that the House of 3 designer was Janet Hopkins.

Is the stitching scrapbooker's sister the one who was drunk and killed someone? And received a very light sentence? She was very flip about what happened and I think had to fade away because she was rightfully getting a lot of backlash.


Ones I remember from back in the day are Rebecca Sower, Elsie, Nia Reddy, Karen Russel, Karen Burinston, Jenni Bowlin, Amy Tan and the red haired lady, Kirstie I think. I met her once, man was she rude.

From before I actually started scrapbooking, I used to get magazines (for free) to make art journals. I remember Karen Burniston and another one whose three daughter's names all started with A. Half of the magazine was their layouts. This was about 2002-2003. I think Becky Higgins was in there too.  I also  really liked  Nichol McGourk until she stopped scrapbooking, Cathy Zielske, and Ali Edwards.  Now I don't really follow anyone scrapbooky... 

ETA: it took a while to find... Shannon Jones was the one with 3 A-name daughters.  

I had forgotten about so many of these. I loved Janet Hopkins, she was/is so talented. Wasn't Rhonna Farrer the 3rd in the House of 3?

Jenni Bowlen was a sweet gal. So many of these taught at Creative Escape events.

We can't forget Stacy (so there) Julian, LOL!

i don't know them by name but i remember the woman with a ton of teeth and the other woman with bleached hair and heavy tan. those are my only recollections from back in the SB hey day.

i never got into the SB celeb fan girl thing but some of them really brought scrapbooking into the main stream.

Oh my goodness! I did not know I could do that. A good portion of the people I follow I don't want to see their stories. They do stories every darn day! I googled how to do that. Thank you!

Thank you.
I just remember her writing a heartfelt blog about her daughter turning 18 and all that entailed.  It was supposed to be a two part post, but I don’t think she ever posted about it again.  Her daughter had been wanting to move out and I believe they had been looking for places for her.  I just wondered how it went.  It had to be 10 years ago.  I had a neighbor going through a similar situation at that time.  Child was unable to care for themselves but was unsafe at home.  I often wondered what happened with her daughter. 
I think I was thinking of Donna Downey as the person with the overpriced retreat house. 

I only caught the tail end of the celeb period and mostly knew some of these folks from Paperclipping Roundtable. But I’m laughing my head off at some of the descriptions above. I remember some people by similar descriptions

Faye Morrell Bell - loved her layouts and style
So much so I purchased her book, still have it too

I guess my biggest sb "crush" was Rebecca Sower. She had such a homey, heartfelt style and seemed like a genuinely nice lady. I've saved a lot of her articles that were published in Creating Keepsakes.
And Shimelle has remained one of my favorites throughout the years. She has consistently offered sb content and seems to still enjoy the process.
Some others (don't know if they were "celebrities") that I enjoyed were Susan Stringfellow, Brenda Torgerson, Erin Lincoln, Faye Morrow Bell, Nancy Diamano, and Erin Terrell.
So much talent out there!

I really loved Leslie Lightfoot's work, and also the lady who had a daughter named Chandler, her stuff was great, too. Oh, and Erin Terrell.

Cathy Zielske's style was always one of my favourites, so I'm happy she's still crafting, although I do find her cards quite repetitive. I also recall scrap lifting Ali Edward's stuff 20 years ago, so I guess I've always been a fan of hers!

I'm terrible at remembering names, but one that comes to mind is Nia Reddy. I liked the simple scrappers who did 8.5x11 pages. There was a lady who was Canadian who had three daughters that I liked too. I remember liking one of the Garden Girls. My memory is awful.