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Linda BeesonTrying nearly every craft that has come along over the years, Linda Beeson says she just seems to have a need to be creative. She began as a rubber stamper, but her interest has now settled on scrapbooking and card-making because of their lasting value.  After much encouragement from a friend, Linda began scrapbooking six years ago, answering the call from a stamping magazine for stamped scrapbook layouts. She's been hooked ever since! Like many of us, Linda can look back through her albums and see how her tastes and the trends have changed, but she chooses to keep the albums the way they are. “The fact remains that I have those pieces in our family history documented,?she says. With her four grown children and five grandkids, she has many years of pictures still to put in order. Linda also has many photos that she acquired when her parents passed away, and she is working hard to put those into heritage albums. “I work at home so I have an office in my home and that also doubles as my scrapping space. Except that I'm terrible at cleaning up my messes. I have all my supplies and tools in a place I can just create away!” Linda also uses this space to make her handmade cards, which she often does from the scraps from her layouts. “I find most people are pretty impressed on receiving a card I took the time to handmake. Even that is giving them a little part of me.” Here Linda has been kind enough to share a very special layout as well as a handmade card using the same papers. She tells us: This layout has pictures from my youngest daughter's wedding last summer, along with two of my grandchildren who were in the wedding. The photographer was amazing and took fantastic pictures and we bought the package that gave us all the negatives. That has been fun as I can then decide what pictures I want and what size, etc. There were so many fantastic pictures that I could put together scrapbook pages forever, it seems. All of our grandkids were in the wedding (except one that was not born yet) and there are so many sweet pictures of them?hat is where the inspiration for this page came from. I just loved the expressions on all of their faces. 
Here's a little about what I did: The flower piece at the bottom of the picture is a cut out flower that is adhered to a torn piece of pink vellum. I coated this with versamark ink and then applied several layers of clear UTEE. When it was cooled, I bent that to crack it, which gives it an aged look. I then ran a brown marker over it so ink would go in the cracks to make them show up a little more. I punched out the little pictures and enclosed them in a torn vellum pocket and attached a mini heart brad in each. I'm so in love with doing cards right now, so I threw together a card too just for the fun of it. The “best wishes” is computer generated. Supply List:
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