Royal Scrapbooking Club©: Throwback Thursday : WHAT IS THROWBACK THURSDAY?  Throwback Thursday is very popular on  Instagram , and users often tag their photos with a variety of hashta...

WHAT IS THROWBACK THURSDAY?  Throwback Thursday is very popular on  Instagram , and users often tag their photos with a variety of hashtags like #TBT, #ThrowbackThursday or just simply #Throwback. Adding these hashtags can help get photos more exposure from a wider audience of people who are searching through those tags. Well, today's Throwback Thursday consist of my first scrapbook layouts; between 2000-2003. As many of my followers may know, I taught myself to scrapbook by accident while creating decorative folders for my Sunday School students. Hon-ey, I can admit that I have messed up so great photos. I used Elmer's school glue, colored copy paper, and construction paper, glitter pens and my trusted decorative scissors and plastic shape stencils. I was doing the thing. check out my use of scissors and creative lettering for the names of my students. I did some great fussy cutting; back then it was silhouetting photos. ...

Royal Scrapbooking Club©: The Movement : Week 3 SOC Blogger Challenge : MLK/Heritage and Legacy   In honor of the  Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the challenge of the 3rd  wee...

Week 3 SOC Blogger Challenge : MLK/Heritage and Legacy   In honor of the  Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the challenge of the 3rd  week is to either create a project featuring the civil rights leader, creations celebrating your heritage, or what impact you hope to leave for future generations. My Mom's family was from a small town and they were a family of share croppers. As a poor family with no television or subscriptions to magazines or the local newapaper, they received most of their news by word of mouth. So they missed the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. They did not hear about Dr King until about 1958. Mom did tell me how she and her older sister sat at the lunch counter at Woolworth's in downtown Nashville and how they once went into a Whites Only restroom just to see what it looked like on the inside. We spent a great part of MLK Day 2014 talking about the 50's and 60's and the hunger of young adults back then and how it is today. Below is a ...

Last year mom, my sister and I went to see Crowns the musical. We has such a great time. I have always loved see women in church hats. I grew up seeing my grandmother wearing matching hats and gloves. I confessed that "when I turn 30, I'm going to wear church hats and gloves." I never wore the gloves; but I do collect and wear hats. Not just church hats, but casual hats too. But nothing like sun visors or ball caps. I've created several pages of me wearing church hats. The page below was created specifically for a Scraps of Color 2014 Weekly Blogger Challenge. This is the week 2: " It's All in the "Hattitude!"  Supplies used Cricut Cartridge: Storybook Font Recollections Patterned Cardstock Joelee's Boutique Dimensional Stickers Paper Studio metal charms These layouts were made from my stash of paper pads, scraps, and embellishments. One of my main crafting goals for 2014 is to use the supplies that I already own.  ...