Hi !!! My name is Kylene Hickey, mostly known as Kye. I am married to my best friend Scott and we have been blessed with three beautiful children - 2 boys and 1 princess (Regan 5 1/2, Kaleah 4 1/2, Beau 3mths).

 

I was first introduced to scrapboooking  4 years ago after attending a friend's CM party. I instantly fell in love with the concept and realised the value in recording and preserving our families memories, hopes and dreams in such a creative way, but felt there was more than the oval shapes and stickers they offered. That's when I stumbled across a gorgeous purple store, "Forever Always", met Sonia, and my addiction began. 

 

My style is ever developing and changing, as I love the challenge of trying different products, colours and techniques. I will try anything at least once. The majority of my layouts will feature, handstitching, ribbons, flowers (or all three) and handwritten journaling, the more personal of which I tend to hide, with my children being my main subjects.

 

My family are very supportive of my addiction, and I love to see their delight in my completed layouts. I also love that I can share this craft with my children, although generally when they are scrapping I don't get much done myself, so I tend to scrap after they go to bed at night.

 

I am honored to be a part of this amazing family here at Forever Always, and I hope that through sharing our ideas we can inspire you to create and preserve your own history.      Happy Scrapping

Hi ! My name is Michelle W, and I've been scrapping, on and off for the past 6 years. Like some of the other girls, I was introduced to scrapbooking through a CM party, although I didn't take it up straight away. As an avid genealogist, it wasn't until my mum gave me a box of old family photos that I saw the potential scrapbooking had for preserving my family tree. Of course, that then led to preserving all of my family memories !!! I live on the Northern Beaches with my husband Brett and son Jacob. When I am not scrapping...I'm a school teacher ! I am fortunate to be a published scrapbooker, with my greatest claims to fame being: two honorable mentions in the 2006 Scrapbooking memories Masters and winning the title of the Ultimate Scrapvivor, in the States ! I am honoured to be on the Forever Always Design Team, and for the opportunities and friendships it has given to me !!!

I have been married for 16 years and have three gorgeous children. I was introduced to scrapbooking in 2003 through my sister-in-law, Cindy, at her CM home demo. I was instantly attracted to it as I have always loved photos and with three children, was realising how important it was to get facts on paper! I was lucky in those early days as Cindy was generous enough to let me borrow all her CM tool kit. I proceeded to complete a couple of albums within a short time. It was not till about 6 months later that I ventured out to view other areas of the scrapbooking industry and that's when I discovered a gorgeous little shop in Dee Why and met Sonia. I am very grateful for that day, as Sonia has taught me to believe in my own creativity and that there are no rules! My passion for this craft has grown immensely - I love that I can record the story of my children's lives for them to remember even after I am gone. History has taught me that memories, even the good ones, can fade and be forgotten. Even now my kids love to go through the family albums.

There is a huge temptation to go back and redo those early albums, but it is also interesting to see my progression over the years. 

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I started scrapbooking in Jan 2005, I am glad to say that I still love my first page that I created... unlike most scrapbooker's I know who started with CM. I had seen a few LO's that some of my friends had done so I knew what I liked and disliked.  I was pretty much addicted straight away and have enjoyed every minute of it since.  The thing I love about scrapbooking is that anything goes.... there are so many styles out there and each and everyone's style differs from the next.  Scrapbooking is always changing and it's very easy to go with the change.  That's the best part of being on the design team is that you get to play with lots of new and scrummy products.  I love looking through magazines and blogs for new ideas & trying them out in my own scrapbooking.

 I also love that scrapbooking makes you become a better photographer, I just have to look through Mia's album, I scrapped nearly every photo I took of her...... Whereas Brie's album has a lot less layouts but the photos are much better photos - things like no washing basket in the background.... I am sure you can all relate! and that is probably one of the hardest things about scrapbooking, it's very hard to scrap that less than perfect photo, but it's all about preserving the memories.

 My main inspiration comes from my 2 gorgeous girls.... I love that they are going to have lots and lots of albums to cherish when they are older!