GVScraps a Creative Outlet for Students

Caroline Stephenson

            Scrap-booking is an increasingly popular pastime and students at Grand Valley can participate in a club which caters to creativity with photographs.

            The GVSU scrap-booking club, or GVScraps, offers students an outlet from class and homework where they can socialize and be creative. Started in 2002 by Corinne Felt, the club gives scrap-bookers a fun, laid back environment to scrap-book.

            Members meet every Sunday from 7-9 in the Kirkhof room 201 to share tools and ideas to better their scrap-books. The group also saw a need for a Pew Campus chapter, which meets Tuesday nights from 7-9 in Winter Hall room 205. Though most members attend meetings on Sundays, a few people attend Pew Campus meetings.

            “The club has definitely become more and more popular over the years.” Says Felt. “I'm actually graduating in August and I hope that the club will continue to exist once I leave! It'd be neat to come back in ten years and be like, ‘GVScraps!  I started that club!’”

            While most members have their own supplies it is not required that new members have their own to participate, though the club does ask that members bring their own blank pages, pictures, and embellishments.

            Aside from meetings the group also gathers for fun workshops where members can learn new techniques and experiment with different equipment.

            For more information about GVScraps e-mail them at gvscraps@gmail.com.