What's this blog about?

Hi there!  If you love scrapbooking, card making, and all things papercrafts then you are in the right place!  Or, if you just want a good laugh at some really terrible photos of me with a uni-brow, stick around.  My passion for scrapbooking started when I was in high school and had to create a scrapbook of whatever I wanted; so of course I chose the most interesting, awesome person to showcase, myself :) So began the semester-long process of badgering and annoying my mom to find embarrassing photos of me.

The first time I went shopping for scrapbooking paper, stickers, stamps, boarders, stencils, etc… I had no idea what I was looking for, and to this day I still don’t have anything in mind when I set out to design a page.  Steve Jobs explained this phenomenon best in my opinion:

“Creativity is just connecting things.  When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it; they just saw something.  It seemed obvious to them after a while.”

I think that’s what really drove my interest for creating beautiful scrapbook pages, the fact that there are no rules, no guidelines to follow, no instructions to go by, you just simply…create.  When I’m in the store I typically grab whatever speaks to me, anything I feel will compliment the theme I’m going for.  Subconsciously I know what I’m looking for but I never really know until I sit down and spontaneously create.  For example, my brand photo is a scrapbook page, and when I began setting up the layout with the materials I bought, I noticed a connection.  The background is a cloth material with a clock pattern, and the letters that spell out “Archive Junkie” are board stickers with a map overlay on each letter.  The ArchiveJunkie brand is about creating and decorating memories from different times in your life, wherever those memories take place.

Whatever your method may be for decorating your memories, always remember to have fun.  I used to get hung up on small details and creating the “perfect” page until I realized these are my memories, no one else’s.  As long as your scrapbook pages elicit some type of emotion for you when you look at them, then you are doing everything just right!  I hope this page will help inspire you, give you ideas, and make you laugh at times from my own stories and photos (because trust me, my ugly duckling stage was worse than yours).