getting started

i've been scrapbooking eversince i can remember! ever keeping piano recital and graduation invites, copies of speeches and other personal compositions and sticking such to notebooks and the like. But it was only in january of this year that i decided to try archival scrapbooking. how else can i start but do the most exciting part of it all - scrap shopping!!!! here are some photos of my scrap purchases that keeps me gleeful all day at the notice of air 21 that my packages have arrived!

stuff from creative me. lotsa pink--i love!!!

stuff from scrapbukan -- thanks for the paper box!

metal accents, vellum tape (which is coming in very handy),

acid free, double sided tape and stickles!!!!

my ebay lot purchase which i was content with

die cuts, alpha stickers and some metal pins

making memories paints, flowers and patterned paper again

rub ons, patterned paper, noetworthy journaling card

american crafts thickers and cosmo cricket chipboard ( can never have too many of these)

fiskars border puncher, some rubber stamps and prima flowers

EK success circle cutter, some clear stamps, rub ons, prima flowers and foil chipboards

provocraft paper trimmer (that i'm soon replacing with making memories ), some chipboard pack and die cuts from k & co( i love their designs) and bunch of patterned paper