Who wants to play? Then and now!

[Rebecca]

I've been thinking it would be fun if we played a little game. What you do it post one of your first layouts you have ever done (as embarrassing as it is for those of us who have been scrapping for a while). Then you post your latest layout that you have done. Make sure you list the approximate year of your first layout. I thought it would be cool to see how we have grown as scrappers and how our style has changed over the years. Ready? Who wants to play? I'll go first!

Here is one I happen to have on my computer. Not my first one but definately up there! Gotta love the Jolees (not poking fun at those who use these, I just haven't in forever) and the baby stickers.

Done in 2003:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g317/naujacks/proud.jpg

and this one done yesterday:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g317/naujacks/seeyousmile.jpg

Anyone game? :lol:

[DearAbby]

I will when Mitchell takes a nap and I can load one. Believe me it's hysterical!

[Cyndie]

This one is from 2002:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/cyndie216/5.jpg

This one is from 2007:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/cyndie216/CopyofIMG_0603.jpg

[monica]

Great idea Rebecca...I love to see then and nows!

[Laura]

Great idea! And so far the "first" (or "early") layouts posted are truly not bad!

[Tamara]

love this. Wish I could participate, but I don't have my scrapbooks here in Germany with me. You would LAUGH. I did mine in 1994.

And rebecca, I'm soooooo gonna scraplift your 2007 page. LOVE IT!

[Tracy]

I will have to post my first layout in a while. All my scrapbooks are in my bedroom and that is where all the kids are sleeping right now. As soon as nap is over, I will upload one. lol

[Laura]

My very first page, done in, I believe, late 2001.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g296/laurakaplan/1stPage.jpg

My most recent page, done in the wee hours last night.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g296/laurakaplan/ICanRead.jpg

[Suzy]

I love seeing then and nows.

Here's Mine:

This was done in 2003
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/sverceles/FirstLO.jpg

This was done during the Freakfest
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/sverceles/LikeFather.jpg

[Tamara]

so cool everyone.

[DearAbby]

Here is one of my very first LO's. I did not have any sort of cutting tool except for deco scissors and a personal trimmer, to get shapes I used a template and a wax pencil. As you can se I can get shapes out pretty well. lmao

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w85/abbywhite315/LO.jpg

A recent LO: Really just look in the gallery.

[Amy]

seriously? oh my.
um, ok. I'll play - give me time. I remember exactly which layout was my first ever. sigh... you have to remember it was 1996!

[Tracy]

Off to find my first layout :bolt:

[Tracy]

Here is my first layout....completed back in 1998

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v313/WeeBlossom/IMG_0016-3.jpg


And current

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v313/WeeBlossom/GirlandBlankie.jpg

[DearAbby]

I know we are all better scrappers then before, but could it also be that the product is also better now??

[Tracy]

I know we are all better scrappers then before, but could it also be that the product is also better now??

That is definately a big part of it. If you think about the products available then and now, they are MUCH better.

[DearAbby]

I was looking at your page Tracy and it looks like it's just stickers & a frame. Probably all that was available back then. It's a cute LO for what was available.

[Tracy]

Thanks!

Actually it was a piece of 8.5x11 paper that I used as a frame and then the stickers.

[Rebecca]

I know we are all better scrappers then before, but could it also be that the product is also better now??


Very true Abby. I hadn't thought of that. But I also think just like other hobbies, you get better as time progresses.

[Laura]

Yes, I think a big part of it is the products available and the techniques that have been developed. All of the "first" layouts here show good design sense, but since there was so little to work with, it was hard to do something similar to what we are used to doing now!

[Tamara]

I think you got something there. The products back then were not what they are today. But even still, deco scissors, shape templates.....NEVER would I use those now. But then..........

[Rebecca]

I think you got something there. The products back then were not what they are today. But even still, deco scissors, shape templates.....NEVER would I use those now. But then..........


I don't know what you'll have about deco scissors. I still use them every once in a while. :evil::duck2:

[Tamara]

I still own them. But, My kids use them. :D

[Tracy]

I still own them. But, My kids use them. :D

Same here. :haha:

[Tracy]

seriously? oh my.
um, ok. I'll play - give me time. I remember exactly which layout was my first ever. sigh... you have to remember it was 1996!

Amy, you posted this on May 10th and it is now May 21st, :director: Where are your layouts??

[Tamara]

lmao

Amy, you are soooooo :busted:

[Amy]

:smarty:

well, scanning an old layout would mean going in to the desktop computer - I just haven't had the time. :)

[Tracy]

Um, sure! Not a valid enough excuse.

[Tamara]

Just stop posting here for 5 minutes. There is your time! :D

[Tracy]

Yep, thats it! Tamara has it all figured out for ya. :evil:

[Amy]

if Tamara had it all figured out - she'd have gone to bed by now!

[Tracy]

Good point! lol

[mlr42002]

I will have to post mine later. I think the differnce too is that when you first start you don't really have much supplies and then you start shopping and have too many supplies.

[SarainMN3]

here's mine
2000
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i252/saravan3/DSC01022.jpg

then last night 2007
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i252/saravan3/DSC01010.jpg

[MrsCarty]

oh boy I have to do this! I just looked at my first LO, bahahahah!

[MrsCarty]

here's mine
2000
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i252/saravan3/DSC01022.jpg

then last night 2007
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i252/saravan3/DSC01010.jpg

aww cute! You can really see your style emerging now Sara! Love it!

[MrsCarty]

Then... Love at first sight 9.5.04 (My first LO which I completed in the fall of last year. Notice the tags don't even have anything through them, bahahaha.)
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z131/Jalynn1979/first_LO.jpg

Now... Double Trouble

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z131/Jalynn1979/Lo_DoubleTrouble_resized.jpg

[SarainMN3]

I know Jamie-mine were plain jane!!

your are cute-ya, the tags-how different it could be

[MrsCarty]

When I got out the album I had a strong urge to rescrap the whole thing, and then I stopped myself because it's kinda neat to look back and see how I've progressed. And it was only less than a year ago, haha! I can't imagine if I'd been scrapping for YEARS like some of you girlies!

[DearAbby]

That's not a bad first one Jaime!!

[MrsCarty]

That's not a bad first one Jaime!!

Thanks Ab, it's just so plain to me now, and all stickers and paper. I think I was afraid of embellies back then, haha!

[DearAbby]

Yeah, embellies do take a little getting used to!

[mlr42002]

This is one of my first pages
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/mlr42002/scrapfr074.jpg

And this is my latest
http://www.scrapfreak.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=643&limit=recent

[Beffy]

she was such a cute lil baby Monica!!!!

[mlr42002]

Thanks. She was a happy baby so it was easy to take pictures of her. Now she has turned into a drama queen.

[Rebecca]

Love seeing the changes over time. I want to see more!

[Jess]

i started scrapping in 2001 and this LO was done in 2004. its the only one i have on here though
http://twopeasinabucket.kaboose.com/layouts/layout_images/317585.jpg

recent one:
http://www.scrapfreak.com/photopost/data/523/medium/LITTLEGUY.jpg

[ceekay]

It is great to see the progression from the eariest years of scrapping to now.
Then...
This is one of my earliest LO's done in 1999 to remember ds2 First Haircut after his Bone Marrow Transplant in 1997!

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t318/chrluti/then.jpg

Now.... This is a LO I did last year

using a picture of my granddaughter on vacation with us in Acapulco

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t318/chrluti/now.jpg


It's hard to see the details on this LO, but I added fibers and a bit of bling here and there

[monica]

I just love all of these! Each of you as well as scrapping in general has come a long way!

[Sweetgirl]

i will have to do some digging to find one of my first LO's. Love to see how everyones work has changed in time

[Suzy]

It's fun to see everyone's progression. :)