Hardest thing to Scrapbook

The hardest thing for me to scrap so far has been this album for my parents. I'm with Azzy, words just can't describe how much they've effected me and countless others. Good thing I've got several months to work on this then!

I finished my precious cats album this last weekend - that started off being really hard and emotional, but then really helped me a lot! I love looking at her pages now - she was only 1 so I have so few pictures of her really.

I also find some of my older childrens baby pictures hard to scrapbook - I am divorced from their dad but feel it's important to include him in their layouts too - but then I feel guilty about having his pictures there when he has chosen to have nothing to do with them and my husband now thinks of them as his own.

But then again maybe thats a good reason to face the difficult pages - scrapbooking can be so therapeutic and get you over all those difficult emotions!!!

Good topic!!!!!

Bws Jane

Hardest thing it scrap is BOM and landscapes

I agree ... my Mom is very hard for me to scrap. I wish I could do her justice but no LO seems enough.

I also recently had a hard time with birthdays... we celebrate everybodies so it seemd repeative now.

Tara

Funny, I'm reading all these answers & so many find their Mom hard to do. I finished a book for my Mom (her request & pictures) While I had a lot of fun doing it, I found it really emotionally draining. Actually, I haven't scrapped since I finished it. I'm starting to come back around now, but I'm stamping more right now, just to fill the void.

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who has trouble with this subject. I find my parents are just such beautiful & special people, I was afraid I wouldn't do them justice.

Thanks for this question:>)

My parents.

I'm having a hard time with my wedding album. We got married on the 4th of July. That should be easy. But when I'm trying to be consistant with the red, white and blue through the whole book. I'm running out of ideas and I've only done about 4 pages.

I know the feeling. I did a scrapbook as our wedding present for my MIL when she got married in Oct 2003. She was a bride dressed in red!!! I've got it on my webshots account, if you'd like to have a look. I had a really hard time getting started.

Have you scanned any of the pages? Perhaps if we saw what you have done already, we could all help with ideas that respected the look and feel of what you have already done.

I just got a digital camera and tried taking a few shots. Those didn't come out very well. I had left the page protector on and the overhead light shines on the page. I think I will bring them to work on a day and use lunch and try their scanner. I was hoping though to use the digital camera. I might take off the protectors. But it is also hard to zoom in and get it all.

I saw somewhere, DIY channel I think, where someone did a small wedding album. I don't know what size the album was, but it was small. Anyways, I'll try to explain what I saw. Due to the size, each page only had one pic on it, and all the pages were the same. Each pic was framed, and of course, the frames were the same. There was then room on either the left or right of the same page, depending on where they placed the pic, for some journaling. I wish I could remember where & when I saw it! It was really pretty, and seemed very simple to do. Whenever I get down to scrapping our wedding pics, I'm thinking of lifting that idea. Making each page look the same may be boring in the creative part, but for me, I want my wedding album to focus on the unity of our lives, not a big creative scrapbook. I don't know if I'll make it 12 x 12 or not, but I have a while to think on that.

I haven't been able to do my Dad. I just miss him so much and I want it to be perfect. Cynth

-54.5 Banded 1/30/2004 Dr. Kuri

I think the hardest thing to scrap is my parents and the Book of Me. I have avoided the BOM because I have a hard time writing about my feelings.

The hardest are very sad occasions, the 9/11 pages and my dad's memorial and funeral pages.

Teresa in MD