Weekly Geeks | Storytelling

This week’s challenge:

Guten Tag, Weekly Geeks! This week’s theme was suggested by Renay. She says, “I thought it would be cool to ask people to talk about other forms of story-telling.”

I’ve missed the last couple of challenges as they required me to stop and think – I gave myself the excuse that I was too busy – when in actual fact I was just too lazy to think!

So this week I decided that I would take part however taxing the challenge… I wasn’t sure where to go with this one – Becky has shared her thoughts on Stargate so I thought about writing about my favourite tv show, then I considered the lyrics of a great song – and then I wrote the title of the post and it hit me… what is the form of storytelling that I partake in as my other hobby? Digital Scrapbooking! Heck I even call my site Storytelling so this one should fit.

So why do I digi-scrap?

I stumbled upon it quite by accident a few years ago, probably via twopeasinabucket.com. My first major project was a photo album of scrapped pages of our vow renewal ceremony as a birthday gift for my mother-in-law. Since then I have made four more books (mostly of our Disney vacations) and am currently working on an album of our wedding photographs.

I use Photoshop CS3 and treated myself to a 24″ iMac for my birthday last year so that I can actually see what I’m working on!

I’ve always been a big fan of photographs – and since I got my first digital camera will quite happily take hundreds if not thousands of photos while on holiday. Printing them out and sticking them in a photo album just doesn’t seem to cut it anymore! I like to take a photo and tell the story behind it, using scrapping elements and journalling. I have such a bad memory that in the space of a few years a photograph on its own will mean nothing to me – I need a way to remember the story.

I’m pretty much self-taught although I have taken a couple of classes at jessicasprague.com which I can highly recommend. I like to look back over my pages and see how my design and storytelling skills have grown over the years.

This last Christmas I made some 12×12 pages as gifts for my family and had them framed – they looked great and went down a storm.

Here’s some examples of my favourite pages: