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Scrapbooking Traditions

Guess Who’s Scrapbooking Now

Celebrity scrapper, Leeza Gibbons, started scrapbooking six years ago for very different reasons. Her mother had just been diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer’s the same disease that had recently claimed her grandmother.

Leeza and her sister, Cammy, wanted to document and preserve memories of the mom they knew and the life they had shared.

Their scrapbooking turned out to be wonderful therapy for their mom as well. “Going through the photos with Mom, remembering her life, gave her a sense of control and empowerment,” Gibbons explains. Scrapbooking is a way to preserve the memories that Alzheimer’s takes away.

Subsequently she founded the Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation to help combat the disease.

Leeza writes, “Our fight has been fueled by my mother’s courageous insistence that we use her illness as the impetus to inform, educate and advocate, politically and clinically, for others suffering in silence.” The organization has a very broad mission: “to heal the patient, caregiver and community at large” and, most importantly to find a cure.

Learn more about the Memory Foundation.

Over the past six years, scrapbooking has grown into a passion for Leeza. She recently partnered with Xyron to launch her own line of scrapbooking materials including easy to match colors and vintage style ribbons, albums, adhesives, embellishments, cutting tools and organizational systems.

And now we can take inspiration from Leeza by reading her first book on scrapbooking, aptly titled Scrapbooking Traditions: A Heartwarming Inspirational Guide to Preserving Your Memories

The book includes techniques, templates and page ideas, tips and advice on choosing and cropping photos, ideas to coordinate and combine papers and even 16 sheets of paper from her Legacies line.

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Recommended Reading

These books are excellent resources for scrapbookers. They contain lots of new and original designs and ideas.

Outstanding Scrapbook Pages: 250 Of the Best Pages and Techniques from the World's #1 Scrapbooking Magazine Kerry Arquette

Special-Effects Scrapbooking: Creative Techniques for Scrapbookers at All Levels (Crafts Highlights) By: Jill Miller

Creative Memories : The 10 Timeless Principles Behind the Company that Pioneered the Scrapbooking Industry By: Cheryl Lightle

Scrapbooking Your Family History
By: Maureen Taylor

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