My first thoughts of Memorial Scrapbook Layouts go directly toward layouts of loved ones, like the layouts of my parents after they passed away. But Memorial Scrapbooks can also be about others we have lost through out history or folks that we admire from afar.

I put together a few pages about my father several years after he passed away, and I found that working on the project actually helped me to solidify some of the great times we had together. It was very helpful emotionally.

In the years following, I occasionally did scrapbook layouts of my mother when we uncovered an old photo of her. That was a lot of fun and we always ended up going over some of the great "family stories."

When I lost her, I pulled those pages out of their chronological albums and moved them into an album to take to the funeral home.

While it was very hard for me to do - emotionally - it was helpful. I left it on display at the funeral home and included some blank photo mattes and asked the visitors to write down something that they remembered about my mother. I got some really wonderful stories and memories from the guests that I will cherish for the rest of my life.

This first 2-page spread was done on black background paper to represent the darkness of space or the night sky. Journaling was done on gold cardstock on the computer.

The Title Journaling,

This second 2-page spread was also done on a black background paper, but I used a VersaMark pen to draw lines radiating out from the center of the two pages.

These lines were then embossed with alternating silver and light purple embossing powder. Check out the page on Rubber Stamp Embossing for how to emboss using a Versa Mark Pen.

I also added 40 of the star shaped eyelets randomly placed on the background to represent larger stars in the sky and finally I attached some black Art Mesh with purple and white flecks, to represent other stars - I thought it looked a little like the "Milky Way."

Again the photos and diagrams for these Memorial Scrapbook Layouts were from magazines and newspapers and there were a few more space related stickers. Unfortunately I can't give credit for these as they were back from 2003 and I had no idea that I would ever show these layouts.

The day I was able to see a copy of the Declaration of Independence which toured the country in 2002, also coinsided with the first anniversary of 9-11. Photos from that day's Memorial Service combined with brochures from the two sevices held in honor of the victims of 9-11 were saved for this layout.

For these Memorial Scrapbook Layouts, I had a navy blue strip with gold embossed 9-11-2001, an Eagle profile cutout, & Liberty Torch cutout and USA sticker. The image of the Star and Flag on the White paper was paper provided in the Club Scrap.com kit called Freedom from September 2002.

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