My 20-Year-Old Cheerleading Scrapbook

When I first started scrapbooking, I utilized construction paper, scissors, glue, tape and an assortment of free (and mostly handmade) embellishments. In the early years of my beloved hobby, I had to be either creative with what was available or left with plain and boring scrapbook pages.

I chose the creative route and my love of colorful scrapbook pages has followed me to this day. Take a peek at my 20-year-old cheerleading scrapbook:

Without page protectors, my scrapbooks were loaded with plenty of pop-up pages, allowing me to create a three-page spreads, six-page spreads and sometimes, even larger layouts.

The introductory pages said "Cheerleaders are..." and when opened up said "Athletes" (always debated back in my day).

Here's an example of several pop-up pages within a layout:

I included try-out information, practice schedules and several photos:

The pages weren't always pretty:

But I made them work and told my cheerleading squad's story:

I introduced the football team...

with a spectacular display:

that just kept going...

and going...

And then there was the Homecoming game (flowers included):

This is what we called layering back in the day:

Gotta love pop-up flames for the bonfire:

Of course there are plenty of pages in between and I plan on adding them to Flickr. And I have a secret. The scrapbook isn't finished. I organized well, but never took the time to complete this scrapbook. Will I ever get around to it? Only time will tell.

I most definitely enjoyed going down memory lane and I hope you did too. There's still one more scrapbook I have yet to find. It's my very first one and not sure where it is or if it still exists. I was around 5-years-old when I started my first scrapbook, so that means I've been a scrapbooker for 30 years! Does that make me old?!?

How long have you been scrapbooking? ~Danielle

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How Did I Scrapbook 23 Years Ago?

During the last visit to my parent's house, I pulled down three big bins of 90s memorabilia from an attic crawl space, most of which was my cheerleading things and old scrapbooks.

I photographed much of that memorabilia, including several pages of my scrapbooks. Today, I'm sharing one of my oldest scrapbooks dating back to 1990. 

This is how I scrapbooked 23 years ago...

Back then, there were no page protectors.

Embellishments were magazine cut-outs and computer clip-art...

  

marker doodles and writing...

ephemera...

and my own artwork.

I used construction paper, paste and tape.

 And there were plenty of pop-up pages to show off my creativity.

 

That's how I scrapbooked over two decades ago. After all these years, I still love scrapbooking and incredibly lucky the bins of memorabilia survived our house fire in 1996. I have my memories and happy to share them with you.

And there's more where that came from! Stay tuned for my 1993-94 scrapbook. ~Danielle

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