I haven't cross stitched since high school, but I used to make up my own patterns...only simple ones, though!!! I was in art then, so I could draw half decently. It's amazing how once you stop, it's ten times harder to start again! I should, though..as geeky as this sounds, I miss it
As for scrapbooking, our big sisters make scrap books for us and then give them to us after the new member period....everyone in the chapter has one that we continue (more or less) throughout our Phi Sig years. We use glitter glue pens (for both writing and smearing across the pages as a background), jelly pens, construction paper, fun scissors, foam letters and cut outs, LOTS of stickers, little bits of confetti (can get messy), cut up pictures (of roses and such, not the kodak kinda pictures, but the published kind), letters cut from magazines and flyers, and gift wrapping ribbons to make "frames" for our pics. We also have a chapter scrapbook. A bunch of us are going to get together after Christmas break and work on them, cause I've just been putting pics in and not really "scrapbooking" them. It makes a fun sisterhood kind-of activity!
Sorry such a long post. I *Love* scrapbooking! It's such a good way to keep memories!