Welcome to the Fiskateers' ORANGE blog hop!!

I'm Fiskateer #5798 and I'm so happy to be a part of the fun!
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Today I thought we'd talk a little about trends we see in our own scrapbooking.

There's lots of trends in the 'scrapbook world' for sure,
so I'll start with sharing some trends I've noticed in my own scrapbooking lately -
I usually start my page with some of my favorite photos bunched together in the middle or to one corner a la Stacy Julian's finish line method -

then I add the other stuff around / underneath the photos.
I love large circles and have noticed that I include them in A LOT of my layouts -

I also love using multiple tags on a page - and journaling over them

And of course alphabet stickers [it's an addiction for me-]

And you can see from these I've shared that I don't shy away from one-photo layouts,
but I often do multi-photo layouts too;

I almost always do one-page layouts - that's what I enjoy more [there was a time when I felt pressured to do two-page layouts because someone told me that was the *right way* to scrapbook] but I say do what you enjoy - it's your photos! your art! your memories!
I also like to use my own handwriting on most pages and
tend to outline most everything [alphabets, photos, mats, etc.] with a black pen. Sometimes straight outlines, sometimes squiggly, sometimes little dashes that [I hope] looks like stitches [lol - been doing the little stitch thing since middle school - why give it up now?]

I encourage you to take a look at some of your recent layouts and
see if you find trends in your own work.
Do this a few times a year and you'll see how
your own scrapbook 'style' changes and evolves.

Finally, this is one of my very favorite layouts of a tree in our neighborhood

- and I wanted to leave you with this quote:

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every moment
with love, grace, and gratitude."

I wish you happiness!

And I hope you'll come back and visit often!
I'll do a random drawing from the comments on this post [deadline is Sunday midnight]

and the winner will receive
a [never opened] cricut dinosaur cartridge!
I'd love to have you join us in Faithbooking 101 in the
Faith Based Pages Classes Yahoo Group too!
[It's a free class! - link to the right]

Now - on with the Orange Blog Hop -
go on over and visit Rachel H., Fiskateer # 667 next!
Have fun!