This is a first for us. We have not profiled a scrapper here before.. but what do you do when you stumble across a gallery and it is clear from the work that has been uploaded, that you have found someone who loves all of the products that we love here? We just could not go past without giving this lady a call and inviting her to be our first featured scrapper.
We would like you all to meet Anabelle O'Malley. Anabelle is a self-professed scrapbooking addict! She lives in Delaware in the US with her wonderful husband and beautiful three year old son.
In her "other" life (BR - before Ryan) she was a primary school teacher. Right now she is lucky enought to be at home with Ryan.
Anabelle first dabbled in scrapbooking in the late 90's, but with the demands of teaching, soon gave up. During the sumer of 2004 she decided that she wanted to get back into it and begin creating memories for Ryan. She KNEW that as soon as she started, she'd be obsessed and she was certainly right. She is now completely hooked.
It took her a while to find her groove, but Anabelle has now found a style that she is happy with. Anabelle says: "I love texture, colour, details and trends. Yes, I get just about every magazine out there, spend WAY more money than I need to, and hang out on the computer much longer than I should. But hey, this is my passion and you have to do what you have to do!"
The primary focus of her scrapping is her son, however Anabelle is really trying to do more pages about herself and her home so that she can record the little nuances of life.
Anabelle feels blessed to be able to work on several design teams that she loves and to be part of the scrapping community. She continues to push herself and her goals for the future include continuing to learn about the craft from other talented scrappers, being published in one of the major magazines and entering some of the big contests, oh and of course, finding more time to create pages that she loves!
Anabelle closes by saying "Scrapping and creating are truly my passion. Thank you for letting me share it with you!"
Well I think you will see from the difficulty we had in narrowing down the number of layouts to share, that we love her work here, and wish Anabelle every success in achieving her scapping dreams.
