A Godby With Us Stamper shares her journey through her first scrapbook

Have you been wanting to start a scrapbook but have no idea where to start?

Go on a journey with me as I share scrapbook pages created by Godby (God be) With Us Stamper Marsha Mendenhall.

This journey started a little more than eight years ago when I met Marsha at my vendor booth at a craft show Thanksgiving weekend. It is a vivid memory of the cheery and excited face when she spotted a border I had stamped with the now retired Pines stamp set.

Flash forward to 2012. Marsha has photos of her children starting from over 40 years ago and scrapbooking supplies she has been collecting over the past eight years. Does this sound familiar?

If you don't have quite that much to sort through, great! If you do, take heart as Marsha tells us her approach to the piles of pictures.

"Oh Man, do I have a load of pictures! I guess my main collection began when my oldest son was born 41 years ago. Then, I inherited pictures from my Mother and it has grown way out of control. Years ago, I tried to put some in photo books but that did not last long.

Then came the invention of the digital camera, need I say more?

There were pictures in boxes that would spend years in between looking at them. And, even then, when showing them to one of my kids, I had to sort through the box to find the ones they would want to see.

Shortly after Christmas, the idea came to me of making a scrapbook with beginning pages for each of my four kids for Christmas next year and give them more pages each year.

But where do I begin? How do I start? What do I do?" read the rest of the story

Marsha has chosen to make 12" x 12" pages. I can hardly wait to show you Marsha's first two scrapbook pages of her new born son. She did such a lovely job!

My hope is to have two more scrapbook pages of Marsha's to post. She has a desire to make good progress. Your waiting to see what she will post next just might help keep her motivated.

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