Heather Hornback by Angie Felix

Supplies:

• Vellum
• Mixing Baby Papers by Paper Pizazz®
• cardstock by Creative Memories
• Sonnets Poem Stones by Sharon Sonneff
• sticker letters by M&MBI
• Font: Donny's Hand

Heather Hornback always had a passion for saving keepsakes and mementos. From her preteen years until her introduction to “safe scrapbooking” in 1997, she saved memorabilia and pasted them into books. Now Heather enjoys scrapbooking safely, using patterned paper and embellishments—so much so that she now confesses that she couldn’t scrapbook without them.

The 25 year-old mom and part-time preschool teacher now lives in Sergeant Bluff, Iowa and scrapbooks whenever and wherever she gets the chance. She also spends a lot of time on her second hobby, photography—“I have always loved photos— taking them and looking at them!” she says. This passion fits right in with Heather’s love for scrapping.

Though she’s been scrapbooking for six years, Heather says she has fallen in love with it all over again since February when her son Noah was born. “I enjoy documenting the milestones of his young life as well as the everyday moments. Scrapbooking is my outlet—my way to relax and be creative. It is also my way of knowing that if I were to not see my son grow up, he could look at the pages I created and feel the love I have for him. He could understand the actual memories of what was happening rather than just seeing the photos in a book. I lost my father when I was three years old and I wish that I could read or know his thoughts, feelings, memories.”

“Paper crafting is my time to relax and create. I love to make pages of my little boy and my husband…even our two dogs! I am preserving little parts of our history and I can look back and relive the memories for years to come just by looking at our scrapbooks.?

Here Heather shares a layout of her son Noah, with a special journaled poem called “I Love All of You?

I love all of you!
Your eyes, your cheeks,
Your sweet little nose;
Your knees, your feet,
Your stubby pink toes.


I love all of you!
Your dimples, your grin,
Your tummy, your chin,
Your ears, your hair,
Your lips, your skin


Now, how did we get started? 
How did we begin?
Oh, yes, I love all of you—
From beginning to end.

-Anne Dougherty