National Scrapbook Day

Manny Everett 

Times Contributor

 

National Scrapbook Day is a day when ladies get together to “scraplift, scrapstick, scrapstamp and have a scraptacular” fun time. 

Creative Memories (a scrapbooking company) started this event a number of years ago and people all over the country gather to make beautiful pages of memories together usually sometime in April or May.

Photo albums from the past have nothing on this new “hobby”. There is a lot of cutting and pasting for the diehards of the groups; and for the more savvy, the computer age of digital scrapbooking is all the rage. It is amazing to see all the paraphernalia, papers, stickers, and special machinery that cut things out without picking up a pair of scissors. People can buy paper and actually match it to whatever their projects call for from companies like Creative Memories, Stampin’ Up and Close To My Heart as well as bigger stores that carry hobby supplies in the city.

Traci Rasmussen, from Standard started working for Creative Memories over a decade ago, and this year marks her thirteenth year hosting this weekend event. Rasmussen also holds an event called “Croptoberfest” on a weekend in the fall. Many of the same ladies come out year after year and have watched the techniques develop and change over the years. The scrapbooking industry has really grown in Standard as Rasmussen also makes arrangements in January and February for 2-3 weekend-long getaways at a bed and breakfast called North Bow Lodge just outside of Carseland.

Despite the inclement spring storm, Standard Community Hall had just over 20 ladies brave the roads last weekend to scrapbook for two whole days. 

The women gathered had a lot of fun and through their combined efforts, over 200 pages of scrapbooking were completed.