Meet Sunday Grennan! Another awesome contributor here!

I started scrapbooking a bit back in college when one of my roommates introduced me to Creative Memories. She had a bunch of supplies so we would all sit up at night & make super silly albums of our pix with tons of stickers & markers. It was a blast.

My fav scrappin’ subjects are: Halloween, school, vacations & daily life of all 5 of us, from the kids’ sports to them playing outside with water balloons. We are a very active family, always moving & groovin’ to something, so I always have a ton of stuff to take pictures of.

I love to make all kinds of mini albums, sometimes with designs that are really far out there & sometimes more normal. I made one recently out of cereal boxes that is really fun & I have others out of brown paper bags or circle shapes that I love just as much. I will try anything, especially different shaped albums with different size photos. I don’t do much chronologically, I just pick an event & do an album for it.

I have a whole bunch of minis that I have sitting in a wicker basket in my dining room. I put a few albums out at different times of the year on my big square table. Right now I have 3 Halloween albums out with my Halloween decorations. Everyone enjoys going through all of them, especially the kids. They laugh & laugh when they see themselves so young & read the funny things I have written.

My favorite items list is long, but 5 things I love besides the must have tools are: index and library cards, glitter stars, rhinestones of all sizes, stickers & my letter stamps. I could easily add 5 more.

Most unusual item I have used is probably those cereal boxes. I didn’t cover them up with paper & use them as cardboard for a book cover, but I used them as they are as pages in a book – Lucky Charms, Frosted Flakes, Rice Krispies, Cookie Crisp, etc. The bright colors of the boxes & the shapes I cut them to were so fun for a simple album about each one of us in my family. It just screams all of our personalities. I also use denim in projects – never throw out your old jeans!

Fav technique is using ink or paint around the edges of pages or around the photos themselves. The paint color choices are huge; it adds color & some texture to the pages.

9. How would you describe your scrapbooking style?

My scrapbook style is very fun & spunky. I like to add things to my pages that show who we are. When I buy scrapbook supplies, I buy a few of the coordinating pieces in a line, but then I also add other things I have in my stash that make the art more about us. I like when things that don’t coordinate actually work together. Nothing too serious over here.