50 memorable moments

50 memorable moments

Eric from dailycrafttv.com gave me the opportunity to try out a scrapbooking tutorial. Part of the deal was to write up a review. 

I decided on Lisa Bearnson’s tutorial. 50 moments: scrapbook the pages that matter most.

 

             

Lisa Bearnson is founder of Creating Keepsakes scrapbooking magazine.   

                                       

She runs a blog as well: lisabearnson.com, and is active on Pinterest.

Her upload was really fun and engaging. It felt like I was sitting down for a chat with mum, over tea with biscuits.

She shares that “Scrapbooking is about sharing who we are with others–our goals, our values, our dreams. But with so many photos to take and so many stories to share, how do you decide where to begin? Her master class is meant to help you create “scrapbook pages that celebrate your life, that paint a picture of who you really are, that pass along family tradition, and so much more.

Upon the question of which one book I would have my children read in an entire lifetime, my answer was and will always be: this one. Lisa’s work goes about explaining how to create a scrapbook that will become that one book you will leave behind for future generations to devour.

I love scrapbooking! It incorporates two things I love the most; fine images and DIY. It’s the memories I like flipping through, and re-ordering according to an order which I wish they’d happened in. I even scrapbook things that haven’t been in my experience as yet. This would include images from magazines pasted into physical scrapbook pages, or tumblr images repined onto pinterest and such stuff.

Prior to this viewing, I went about scrapbooking unsystematically. Copying and pasting images onto social platforms, or tearing out pages and pasting them into my scrapbooks as I pleased.

A glimpse of my scrapbook (currently): Things that matter to me/ I want in life.

Lisa’s advice has empowered me with direction. Lisa provides you with physical examples of how to go about capturing your 50 most memorable moments, with wonderful layouts to boot. I now have an idea of what scrapbooking can do for me and particularly my loved ones. It’s the parts of me I share when scrapbooking, which I’d like to be shared with my family upon my passing. Lisa touched on her departure from earth someday nonchalantly. It was unnerving to watch. I suppose it’s her maturity that came through and not some morbid fixation with death.

I’m in awe of her ability to take up a simple hobby like scrapbooking and yield profits from it. Her entrepreneurial spirit, which she explored in the video, inspired me much.

Dailycrafttv.com’s tutorials are a bonus for DIY/ scrapbooking loving individuals such as myself. What I loved about Lisa’s video was that she went through her published copy of 50 moments, to give examples as well as produced personal copies of her private work. It made it a lot more intimate, and inspired me to do the exact same thing for my family.


Lessons Lisa taught me;

♥ Set intentions. When scrapbooking, decide upon a particular theme, event, or experience you would like to explore. It is not necessary to fit in just about everything you’ve experienced in your life into your scrapbook. Simply insert moments which feature as highlights in your existence. Lisa suggests content you can explore in just under 50 memorable moments.

♥ Fill scrapbooks with what is in your heart. Scrapbooks are journals.

♥ Lisa took to her pages to set up an instruction manual on how to bring up her daughter should her path as a parent come to an untimely end. This sort of thing adds sentimental value. Your scrapbook has to reveal who you truly are inside, and have a place for others as well. Involve yourself unselfishly in its production.

♥ Positivity. This is an overall theme throughout her content. Lisa has suggested scrapbooking to celebrate life in its entirety, with great emphasis on moments that took your breath away, things that keep you going- words to live by, sage advice- messages to those you love about things that make them beauties in your eyes and inspiring quotations.

♥ Scrapbooking is a labour of love.

I don’t want to give away too much by providing a chapter by chapter review. Hopefully this chunk I’ve shared with you will have you sitting down with Lisa or other tutors from dailycrafttv.com on your screen sometime soon. It’s really worth it!