Love the texture! Anna's packs are the best!!!

Oh, I love the butterfly and all the artsy elements here! Lovely colors too!

One of the techniques I used to LOVE was adding texture to the background which created interest and made for a more artsy page. I seem to have tired of it and started doing other things but was recently reminded of it when I downloaded Anna Aspnes's Travel Templates Album. Each template...

Sometimes... I add/personalize my journaling (and even change photos too) when preparing my layouts for printing (I make yearly albums). I often reuse my layouts when making albums for friends...

Hi Erin and welcome! Just like you, I moved overseas when my husband was posted abroad and 17 years later we are still in Asia and loving every minute of it! Digital scrapbooking is not as messy as paper - and you get to change your mind a lot - not something you can do with scissors in hand...

Happy belated birthday, Rachel! I hope you had a lovely day! Absolutely adore your birthday mini!!!! Thank you!

...and there is the companion page... I absolutely loved how the colors of the kit matched the colors in my photos!

I love Anna's templates that make documenting trips easy... and when paired with Erika's Seaside collection - don't you just love the colors???

Gorgeous clustering! Love the title and the photo of a girl with the cat is soooo sweet!

You did a beautiful job! Love the artsy feel and all the wordarts... The more I look at your page, the more I see... like the blended photo... the words inside the silhuette of a sitting woman... thank you for sharing!

Beautiful scene!

LOVE this! Awesome use of the template and such sweet photos!

This is so cool! love the lightbulb!

Wonderful indeed. Love the flow and all the colors!

I love Art Nouveau... Beautiful page!

I mostly scrap for albums so most of my pages will eventually be printed as photobooks (once I get to add names and places and replace some of the more generic photos with personal ones). I also use my pages as a screen saver on my laptop! I love it and my family love it too!

My own photos! I am making yearly albums - got about seven in the making now lol - and try to be efficient with my scrapping. Though I occasionally make a layout just for fun to try out a kit or a technique...

Ha ha... been there got that... lots of kits in my stash I bought because I liked them but somehow never gotten round to using them. I guess buying kits is a completely different hobby, lol... I usually get what I like - sometimes becase I like a sample layout, sometimes it's the colors or...

Oh, I wish I'd read you post back in 2015! I still remember the first time I was asked to make a photoless page - total stress it was I can tell you! Nowadays, if I need to scrap an event but have no photos - I'll get a themed kit and just journal about it.

I love 'the everyday' kind of themes with lots of wordstrips and non-flower elements. Artsy/grungy bits are a must most of the time! Generally, I am drawn to earthy greens and browns... I also LOVE it when a it has a white/off-white texturized paper - but not a plain boring white... does that...