Faithbooking

I finally added my first page of my fathbook to my online gallery. It really is hard to document your spiritual journey. The first page was supposed to be about how you came to be a Christian. The next page is about baptism. I haven't done that one yet. I recently found pictures of my baptism. I was baptised when I was born (as all Catholics are), but after coming to know Jesus as my Lord and Savior, I felt that I needed to be baptised of my own choice to show my commitment to Him.

Faithbooking is not new to scrapbooking. But it is new to me. I think it will be a wonderful addition to my albums. A story for my children to know of my faith (and I will also be adding my prayers for each of my children).

I was never really interested in scrapbooking until my first daughter was born. It was then that I realized I wanted to capture every moment/thought/feeling. :) Something I miss from my mom. She has lots of pictures (good for her), but no stories with them. I really need to get together with her and get her to write down on sticky notes about each picture and then put the sticky on top of the picture (which is protected by the plastic cover in those magnetic albums). Then at least we have somewhere to start.

I recently read a formula for a quick and coordinated album (taken from Creative Keepsakes Magazine):
1 neutral colored cardstock for background
1-2 colors of cardstock for matting
1-2 types patterned papers for borders and wide mats (you can also blow up pictures to use as these mats - one of the nice things about digital scrapbooking)
1-2 types of page accents
1 font, set of letter stamps or type of letter stickers for titles

[I]A Side Note: you may have noticed I changed my name from my real name to "P" and now to lvg4him. Hubby felt that we needed to be a bit more private on the web.[/I]