Big Picture Scrapbooking

Stacy Julian, who you must admit, might be nominated as one of those "celebrity" scrapbookers of some fame, due to her connections with a certain American magazine;  has recently released a new Idea Book from the Simple Scrapbook Stable - Big Picture Scrapbooking. Subtitled - Scrapbooking Your Life and a Whole Lot More

This is not a review of that book - I don’t have it. In fact, it is still in pre-order status in the States as yet, let alone made it to UK shores.  But it looks interesting never-the-less. No, this is simply some comments and links for anyone interested in pursuing the concepts in the book. And my sighting of a new trend…

Firstly, you may be interested in knowing that Stacy has recently started her own weblog / blog out there on the internet - called Altogether Too Happy. Go and read what she has to say about life, and scrapbooking.

And if you are interested in her book, Big Picture Scrapbooking, she only this last week has opened up a new website dedicated towards this. Called Big Picture Scrapbooking, the website allows you to register for update emails, and works interactively with the book itself. In fact, if you look in the downloads section of this website now, you will find two downloadable PDF files -

• Take a Tour of Your Home - where Stacy provides a worksheet to get you thinking about how you might display a scrapbook album in a particular room in the house
• My Big Picture - Write Your Personal Scrapbooking Mission Statement

Here is the link to the book on the SS website, for more information where the book blurb quotes from the back cover -

But if you’ve ever looked at your piles of pictures and felt overwhelmed, behind or uninspired, you’ll find a true friend in Stacy Julian. The Big Picture is all about helping you discover your potential, not only as a scrapbooker, but as a creative human being.

So, this appears to be an almost holistic or spiritual approach to scrapbooking. Suggesting that the book may help us discover out potential as a creative human being is a big promise to make.Which is where my own mind connected up with a blog entry I put up a week or so ago on a new scrapbooking event in America also.

In a blog entry at Scrapability called Bytes of News I happened to release some news about a new Scrapbooking Event in America, called Etcetera. Lindsay Teague and Monique McLean have put together a weekend retreat, with several celebrity scrappers for next April. Heidi Swapp, Carrie Colbert and Elsie Flanagan are to present a weekend where, according to the Etcetera Website -

"You’ll leave this event with a renewed devotion to this art, an inspiration notebook of ideas for future projects… this is one event that will change the face of scrapbooking."

As I said in my blog entry - that’s one big promise to make - to renew our scrapbooking, and to change the face of scrapbooking.

So is this the next big trend then? Stacy Julian is proposing to put us back into the picture of scrapbooking, and Heidi Swapp and co are promising to renew us, and change the face of scrapbooking. There are many of us now who have been scrapping for many years. Most of us have slipped into our own styles, and some of us might be feeling a bit jaded and tired of shopping for, or paying attention to "the next big trend" in scrapping merchandise.

Are we seeing where the celebrity scrappers are hoping to retain the old die-hard but sometimes try-hard scrappers?  Are we seeing the very dawning of a Renaissance Age to Scrapbooking? Renewal, regrowth, re-inspiration, renaissance.

Originally published at UKScrappers on Thursday 17th november 2005.  Look under Scrapmusings.

Comments

[kristin]

Oh, we can only hope, right? I remember the feeling I had upon discovering scrapbooking in 1999... uh, it has morphed somewhat since then ;)