{"id":13546,"date":"2016-12-29T06:26:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T12:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/?p=13546"},"modified":"2017-01-11T09:39:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T15:39:45","slug":"using-calendar-grid-scrapbook-pages-to-record-historic-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/2016\/12\/29\/using-calendar-grid-scrapbook-pages-to-record-historic-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Calendar Grid Scrapbook Pages to Record Historic Events"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like to think of my scrapbooks as more than just a collection of photos that highlight our family events but rather as my own personal diary that tells the story of my life.\u00a0 \u00a0So I like to include mention of significant local and world events in my albums along with commentary of how the events impacted me and my family at the time.\u00a0 This expands my role from memory keeper to history keeper.\u00a0 Essentially my albums have become a snap shot of history in the making.<\/p>\n

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The Chimney Tops 2 Fire that ravaged the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the city of Gatlinburg, Tennessee was a recent event that had a significant emotional impact on my husband and me.\u00a0 We live close to the area that was burned, volunteer in the National Park, and visit Gatlinburg and the surrounding areas often.\u00a0 These are places that are important to us, and the fire and its aftermath took an emotional toll.\u00a0 It was a significant event that I wanted to record in the story of my life \u2013 my scrapbook diary.<\/p>\n

A few days before the fire had spread to Gatlinburg, we had spent a lovely day hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.\u00a0 As the fire burned, we worried about the fate of some of our favorite areas.<\/p>\n

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(To create the border on the bottom of the page above, cut a 1-1\/8″ strip from evergreen cardstock.\u00a0 Cut a 1″ strip from designer paper and adhere to the cardstock piece.\u00a0 Use Original Border Maker with Chevron Cartridge to punch a border from evergreen cardstock. \u00a0Don’t cut the border off of your cardstock. \u00a0Rather, use straight trimmer to cut down the center of the chevron border to reveal a “feather” border. \u00a0Slide over the remaining piece of chevron border in your trimmer and trim off of your cardstock to reveal a second “feather” border. \u00a0When adhering\u00a0your border pieces, be mindful of the direction of your “feathers”<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

While the events are still current in my mind, I created the two-page calendar layout to introduce and chronicle the events of the fire.\u00a0 I\u2019ll use future pages to preserve our personal reactions and feelings as we visit and volunteer in the park.\u00a0 Instead of devoting several pages of my album to newspaper clippings, I chose to briefly summarize the timeline of events on a two-page layout. \u00a0Our new calendar pages provided a great format to succinctly summarize the timeline.\u00a0 The arrow stickers from the new Daily Docket Collection were perfect for directing the sequence of events on the pages, and the calendar squares allowed me to add journaling in the appropriate spots.<\/p>\n

Since I do not have any personal photos of the fire, I used photos that I found from an internet search and printed the photos in wallet size and cropped them slightly.\u00a0 This two-page layout is full of information with specific details and also contains 11 photos.<\/p>\n

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To make this layout, you\u2019ll need:<\/p>\n

Calendar Refill Pages<\/a>
\nDaily Docket Paper Pack<\/a>
\nDaily Docket Embellishments<\/a>
\nDaily Docket Stickers<\/a>
\nBrown Solid 12×12 Cardstock Paper<\/a>
\nWhite Solid 12×12 Cardstock Paper<\/a>
\nGold ABC\/123 Stickers<\/a>
\nFoam Squares<\/a>
\n12-Inch Straight Trimmer<\/a>
\nOriginal Border Maker System<\/a> with Zig Zag Cartridge<\/a>
\nTape Runner<\/a>
\nBrown Dual-Tip Pen<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. To make the top borders, cut two 1-1\/4\u201d strips from brown cardstock.\u00a0 Cut two 1\u201d strips from white cardstock and adhere to brown pieces.\u00a0 Use original border maker to punch two zig zag borders from designer paper and attach to the tops of the borders as shown.\u00a0 Add title with letter stickers.\u00a0 Add die cut arrows with foam squares.<\/li>\n
  2. For bottom borders, punch two zig zags from designer paper using the border maker.<\/li>\n
  3. Crop and mat photos. My photos are 2-7\/8\u201d x 1-7\/8\u201d, and mats are 3\u201d x 2\u201d.<\/li>\n
  4. Arrange photos so they illustrate a timeline of events. Add day of the week and number stickers for dates in the appropriate spots.<\/li>\n
  5. Fill remaining calendar squares with journaling and 1-1\/2\u201d x 1-1\/2\u201d squares of designer paper.<\/li>\n
  6. To make the sticker arrows stand-out, mount them on three squares of paper and cardstock. My squares are 1-1\/4\u201d, 1\u201d and \u00be\u201d.\u00a0 Added matted arrows to the pages with foam squares.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    I would love to hear from other history keepers about the ways you incorporate local and world events into your albums!<\/p>\n

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    Photo Credits:\u00a0 Top to bottom, left to right
    \nNational Park Service, A. Harvel, Facebook, Incident Management Team, WZTV.com, Brandon Reese for The Tennessean, Associated Press, Bruce McCamish Photography, Paul Efird for News Sentinel, Brianna Paciorka for News Sentinel, Greenville Fire Department<\/p>\n

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    I like to think of my scrapbooks as more than just a collection of photos that highlight our family events but rather as my own personal diary that tells the story of my life.\u00a0 \u00a0So I like to include mention of significant local and world events in my albums along with commentary of how the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94301101,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15177,26012430,406242329,14113],"tags":[441778201,56000,1886962,16940,462166],"class_list":["post-13546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-products","category-page-layout-ideas","category-product-tips-and-ideas","category-project-ideas","tag-calendar-page-layouts","tag-creative-memories","tag-daily-docket","tag-scrapbooking","tag-scrapbooking-products"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_1851.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NsZA-3wu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":114484,"url":"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/2026\/06\/01\/one-scrapbook-layout-six-new-adventure-themes\/","url_meta":{"origin":13546,"position":0},"title":"One Scrapbook Layout, Six New Adventure Themes","author":"Creative Memories","date":"June 1, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Every adventure has a story worth preserving. 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