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Scrapbooking has come a long way in the last decade. It's evolved  into a skill-savvy technological digital craft with limitless potential to expand and grow. However, once digital scrapbooking was ushered in, along with it came a whole new approach to HOW we scrapbook. With digital we have significantly fewer creative limitations as opposed to traditional paper scrapbooking, in that we have an infinite supply of the products we purchase, with no fear of using them up. (You would think this would alleviate the infamous 'paper hoarding' that I was shamelessly a part of back in my paper days...and yet now it seems the adage goes "she with the most filled hard drives wins!") ;)

My point is, it's dangerously easy to get into the habit of creating cute pages with little purpose to them, other than being cute or strictly visual. Don't get me wrong...I'm all for cute, fun layouts that are simply playtime for our creative brains--it's a necessity! But what I'd like to focus on, is telling our life stories, and celebrating the people, places and things that make our lives worth scrapping about.


This is what motivated me to create the [Make it Meaningful] series, a collection of kits and digital products designed to help you capture all those important little pieces of your life story, and showcase them with beauty, simplicity and ease.

The [MakeItMeaningful] series will include at least one full-sized kit per month (more if I'm super inspired ;) ) focusing around a different theme or topic that will help inspire and motivate you to scrap about your life in a more purposeful way. With that said, each kit will have a universal appeal, in that it can be used for virtually any subject, so you can get  more out of it as opposed to a strictly theme-based kit. I will also be offering a variety of element packs, including an interview prompts series to help you document all the little details about the special people in your life (including yourself!), and some extremely useful pre-made elements that will make your meaningful scrapbooking a breeze! Also, each release day I will post a  (Follow me on Facebook & Twitter to receive announcements and updates about blog posts, new releases, sales and freebies!)

With each kit release, I will post a coordinating freebie here on my blog, along with a journaling prompt or layout challenge and a little inspiration on how to get started. You don't have to use/purchase the kit to participate. I want everyone to be able to play along! ;) For those that post their creations in either of the galleries at CatScrap or MScraps, they will be entered into a drawing to receive the NEXT [MiM] kit & element pack FREE!   ;)

I'm very excited to get this project going, and hope this will help inspire you to create beautiful layouts that mean something special to you!