The Kits & Pieces kit club interviewed me for their newsletter. Some of it is about myself and my thoughts on scrapbooking but a lot is about Paperclipping and our plans for its future. I think you might be interested in reading it, so here is the link to the Kits and Pieces interview.
It’s a good chance you’re going to get a complete picture of a person when, looking through their scrapbooking gallery, you see a layout titled, “Love Never Fades” next to a layout called, “Cats Are Butts.” Those pages represents two very different frames of mind.
I think so, and my visit to Rebecca (“Becca”) Lundin’s gallery confirmed my opinion. Having known of Becca on 2 Peas In A Bucket for a year and a half, and having read many of her comments and posts on the message board, I realized I had no idea who this spunky twenty-three year old girl was until I looked through her scrapbooking pages.
It was her layout about hating laundry and cleaning dishes that first pulled me in. How many scrapbookers do you know that title their pages with the candor of, “Man, Dishes Bite,” and then decorate them with glitter and flowers? It is this type of un-self-conscious humor that felt to me like an invitation to come inside.
I wasn’t surprised when Becca told me, “My scrapbook is more of a journal than anything else.”
She’s not even trying to be funny. It’s just what comes out of her. When I asked Becca if she was conscious of putting humor into many of her pages, she said, “I don’t think I am aware of the humor in my layouts. They’re just my thoughts, and I am a sarcastic fun loving girl. I don’t like to scrap the usual and I find much more satisfaction in scrapping the more ‘weird’ subject matter.”
Like the rest of us, though, Becca is a three-dimensional, complicated person with a serious side and her own pocketful of struggles. She exposes those struggles in layouts like this:
“My style tends to always be straight lined and I enjoy the brighter colors. I have leaned more to the graphic side of scrapbooking within the last month or so but I will never stay with one style. I will pop back over to cluttered eye-candy sooner then I know it.”
Becca may do a lot of style exploration, but one thing is present in most of her layouts: the straight lines. You can see how she often divides up her space into varied-sized-compartments and puts embellishments around and within them. But there is nothing mechanical or “pre-determined about Becca’s process. Her method is as spontaneous as her personality seems to be.
“Inspiration for my layouts is my life around me. It is what ever I am thinking or feeling. What ever I find funny or annoying. As far as how the layout turns out I just sit down and start working. There is no predetermined finished product in mind, nor will I try to emulate a layout I have seen. It just comes.”
I had to ask Becca if there is any subject she won’t touch. Her answer to me was, “I can’t think of any. I have scrapbooked my most embarrassing moments, my saddest moments, and all those in between. I feel that if you are there to scrapbook memories you should scrapbook all of them and not just the select ones. Not just the happy one or the cute ones, but ALL of them. This is your life. It is the road that has made you who you are, and you should remember it.”
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Note: All four layouts in this posting belong to Rebecca Lundin.
After a major switch in direction, an uproar from readers, and then a unique move to meet customer desires, Memory Makers Magazine had my attention. I wanted to know what was in the minds behind the magazine and what inspires some of the characteristics that make it unique.
Listen with me as I interview Beth Williams, the magazine’s Executive Editor. You’ll love how open and candid she is. Even better, you’ll know how the magazine evolved and where it is going.
1. I’ve been in the magazine and communication business for more than 20 years, and I love that I now get to combine my passion for scrapbooking with my passion for magazines.
2. I’m a Leap Year baby, born on February 29, so I’ll be 11 next year!
3. My scrapbooking style is clean & classic with a little modern & eclectic and romantic & shabby chic thrown in.
Follow this link to listen to the audio interview. When you’re done, feel free to share your thoughts by leaving a comment.
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