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Kim Russell – Owner

This website came about after many hours of searching for products myself online and waiting forever for them to arrive. I began scrapbooking back in 2005 and am absolutely addicted to it now.
Yes, my house has been overtaken with scrapping product.

I also have many friends that have helped me on my journey and the time we spend playing or producing together means so much to me. I thank them all for this from the bottom of my heart.The memories that have come back to me, little things I may have forgotten until I took the photos out………….my family, friends, traveling and just being silly, these are all happy times.Somewhere in the stash of photos will be the terrible parts too, but these are memories and we need to scrap these too and help for the next generations to come to understand and know where they fit into their family.

When I am stuck on a particular page at any time, I take out something else, maybe a piece of chipboard, turn it into an album, decorate a box or make some cards, plan a lesson or try a new technique.This all helps to bring you back to memory preserving. I also travel a lot to teach and encourage new scrappers to take part in this memory building for the future.

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Wendy Carter

I can now tick the over 50′s box, have been married to my fantastic husband Rod (a farmer) for 32 years. We live on a farm 2 hours east of Perth, growing wheat and sheep. Together we have raised 3 amazingly wonderful children, Dee, Lynsey and Chris, who continue to inspire, challenge and astound us both. Have crafted since I was first married, but scrapbooking is my favourite (as many crafts can be incorporated onto the pages in some way). I enjoy music, food, cooking, dinner parties, good friends and travel. My husband will tell you that I’m a much better scrapbooker than farmer.

I started scrapping 10 years ago, and after a slow start, discovered a world of ideas and techniques available in scrapbook shops in Perth and on line, my favourite website for lessons is Big Picture Scrapbooking. There are SO many great ideas on the net to keep the inspiration flowing. Have had quite a few lessons, most in Perth, some in Sydney. Recently I had a layout published in a magazine, a very exciting event for me.

The one scrapbooking technique I find easiest of all is to colour block. I have taught this technique in Cunderdin, Mukinbudin and Melbourne. My Scrapbooking style is very much my own, would probably call it ‘eclectic’, borrowing designs and changing them to become mine. One of the aspects I love about scrapbooking is sharing ideas and techniques, so am very happy if anyone else has a technique to teach me. Because my house is in the middle of a paddock, and the dust is a continual problem, I don’t usually like ‘off the page’ projects that attract the dust, preferring to place my pages into albums.

Most people would call me fairly organised, yet I still manage to make an incredible mess in my scraproom. As I sit at my desk (taken over a spare bedroom), with papers/boxes/mess/STUFF all around me, and of course, listening to Elvis or Michael Buble, or Pink, I think it is fair to say that I am most content. Since I started scrapbooking, it has been my privilege to meet some of the most FABULOUS women, and enjoy sharing, family, funny, sad, emotional, moving, and lovely experiences together.

Rosalie Packham

“Scrapbook – a book of blank pages in which newspaper cuttings or pictures are stuck.”This very aptly describes scrapbooking for me, transforming blank pages into works of art filled with memories that will last a lifetime.Although if you speak to my husband he calls it ripping up perfectly good photos and paper and gluing them back together.

I am totally addicted to scrapbooking and would go so far as to say that it is my habit, (a very expensive one) but the most rewarding. I have tried just about every other craft there is and this is the only one that I have not grown bored with.

I began scrapbooking in 2001 when the register from the school I was working at invited me to a Creative Memories Workshop and I’ve been addicted ever since. She has since become a very close friend and we frequently scrap together.

I soon discovered there was a whole wide world of scrapbooking out there and have never looked back. I became a bit of a collector there for awhile when my children were babies but I’m back on track to scrapping their milestones and any other event that happens.

I live in a small country town in the wheat belt on my husband’s family farm with our two children. Thanks to scrapbooking I have made some amazing friendships.A group of us meet every week at my house and scrap till late in the evening.
I love looking at what the girls are doing, discussing pages and learning new things from them. Someone will always come up with an idea if stuck and usually has the one thing you don’t have.
I wouldn’t say that I have any set style (but I do love colour) as I tend to try a variety of techniques and styles. I do have two loves that I use in as much of my scrapbooking as I can – Flowers and Bling. I can not get enough of either and my friends laugh at “my collection” of both.

About a year ago I dabbled in a small off the page project at Kim’s house and am now hooked. Most of the members of my family have a canvas (or two) hanging on a wall or on a shelf that I’ve scrapped and many other projects like lunch pails and snow domes.Scrapbooking has opened up a whole new world for me, especially the scrapping weekends away and the friendships I have made.

So, if you’ve been wanting to dabble and have a go jump in with two feet as it is more than just preserving your life’s memories it is a whole new world of friendships and the most amazing time of your life.

Julie Gordon

My name is Julie Gordon, born and bred in WA. I am a busy mum to 4 wonderful kids, Ella (7), Jack (5), Tom (3) and Ben (6 months), and wife of 9 years to Paul. I started scrapbooking after attending a Creative Memories party in 2002, but it took another CM party and lots of encouragement from a friend to get me hooked. Once I realized there was a world of patterned paper and embellishments out there, my bank account hasn’t been safe since! I had my first layout published in Scrapbooking Memories Magazine in 2006, and had several other publications in the other Australian scrapbooking magazines before being named a Scrapbooking Memories Master in 2008.My kids are almost always the subject and inspiration behind my layouts. They are (usually) willing subjects to photograph and I love preserving the memories of their childhoods. I don’t believe I have a particular style, but I tend to keep the look of my projects clean, classic and stylish.I love creating beyond the page, and mini albums are a passion of mine. My layouts are usually single pages, with a single photo. I am extremely disorganized…my supplies are crammed into boxes, stacked in piles, strewn all over the floor…but amazingly I always seem to know what I have and where it is! One day I will change and have a system…. JScrapbooking has also introduced me to a wide network of friends, and I am blessed to have had the opportunity to meet in person some fantastic women from all around the country through our mutual love of this craft. It is from them that I get my main inspiration for scrapbooking, and for that I thank them.

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