Freelance Writer, Editor, Blogger. Writer for Women’s Memoirs on the net. Does the “ScrapMoirs” twice a month.

Enjoys scrapbooking and other creative arts. Primary site “Creative Pursuits” promotes all creative arts including scrapbooking, card making, writing, photography, quilting, needlecrafts, culinary arts, all are welcome. Contests and prizes.

Who is this wonderwoman? Well… we would like to introduce BettyAnn Schmidt!

BettyAnn has taken advantage of our new “get featured” section on Creative Crafts and Stickers. We had a chance to quickly touch base and asked BettyAnn to tell us about her crafting passions.

Here is what she shared!

I discovered scrapbooking in 1999 and was immediately hooked. My focus was, and is, preserving my family’s history. My ancestors, parents, and my children’s and grandchildren’s. That focus led to a genealogy search for my ancestors, which information I gathered and began putting in my scrapbooks. These sit on my shelves alongside my children’s and grandchildren’s albums, my Christmas scrapbooks, Vacation albums, and my “Me” scrapbook. Other shelves on the same wall hold all of my tools and products, and my big work table sits within a hand’s reach. My “Scrap Den” I call it.

With the huge shift to digital photography, and now digital scrapping, I’ve added a new dimension to creating my albums. I do both digital and paper, and sometimes the combination of hybrid. I’ve taken a boatload of classes on creating scrapbooks, from organizing and storage of products to designing pages.

With a background in writing and journalism and a prior editorial position, I believe in and teach storytelling in scrapbooks. Not all pages require paragraphs of writing, but important stories for your children and children’s children must, in my opinion, be preserved. Especially important to me are the stories of my struggles in life, the values that guided me, my beliefs and morals. I want the children to know where their roots were planted and how deep they went.

My blog is an evolving Journey. Initially began as just a chronicle of my everyday life and views, then to sole focus on scrapbooking, it now bears the title “Creative Pursuits,” welcoming crafters and artists of various persuasions. I love placing links on my blog to my followers’ sites and helping to create a network of women on a common theme.

I also write for Women’s Memoirs online, and my bi-monthly articles teach how to combine scrapbooking with memoir. My articles fall under the topic of “ScrapMoirs.”

Scrapbooking remains, however, my primary focus, and I’m currently running an “All Aboard – Why I Scrapbook” contest on the site. It’s easy to enter, and prizes of gift certificates to online scrapbook retailers will be awarded. All that’s required is leaving the comment on why you scrapbook and clicking my “follow” button.

BettyAnn, thank you SO much for sharing with us on CCAS. We loved featuring you and hope you will come back and share with us often.

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