...matchbox memories...

...so, i hate scrapbooks/scrapbooking/scrapbookers! there i said it!
it takes too long, the available papers and 'embellishments' are hideous,
your photos are always the wrong size, and really who has the time?

so all my photos sit in boxes, envelopes or on various hard drives and

flash drives. never to be touched and displayed. the task to exhausting 

to even consider.

now, add my obsession with packaging and particularly tiny boxes 

see my pinterest board tiny boxes little boxes 

and then the new brief i wrote for my students 

(using a matchbox as your format design a personality trait 

or a memory - as an introduction to concept) 

and... ta daaaaaa!

my idea for my matchbox memories was born. so the concept is to 'capture' 

a memory or day or event of your life and somehow design it using a 

matchbox as your format. simple, a small project, tiny in scale so you can 

print 1 0r even 10 photos small enough to fit in the box, add a sentimental

object or trinket which can stay inside the box and there you have it...

scrapbooking designer style...

dammit sometimes i even impress myself! ;)