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A Musician Using Scrapbooking To Win Music Gigs?

Savvy musicians are realising the age-old craft of scrapbooking holds many secrets to helping them win gigs over the rest of their competition.

Echuca, VIC (PRWEB) April 28, 2006 -- Who would've guessed that scrapbooking and music could work hand in hand? Apart from both being age-old hobbies and requiring skills developed with many hours of practice they seem to be worlds apart. Yet savvy independent musicians have been using scrapbooking -- or a rough form of it -- for years to promote themselves to the music industry and the public. Now they are realizing how much scrapbooking can actually help to set them apart from “their competition”.

That “CRAZY” Aussie Country Music Artist -- Brian Lord -- is one of the new breed of Independent Artists turning to the skills of scrapbooking to gain an “edge” over his rivals.

"Being an independent artist and needing to organize my newspaper clippings and many other promotional items, I used to do it in plain old large scrapbooks; like the kind kids use at school. Then one morning I saw a news flash on TV about scrapbooking. It really had me intrigued. It was only once I started getting my teeth into scrapbooking in a bigger way that I realized I'd always been using a very rough form of the craft. Nowadays I try to be a bit classier although I still have a great deal to learn yet," stated Brian.

Scrapbooking is such a huge billion-dollar worldwide industry now and takes so many twists and turns that even seasoned scrappers find it hard to keep up. Of course there are many online and offline scrapbooking resources available including magazines, books and large scrapbooking meetings such as the upcoming Manhattan Crop and Shop festival and the Farmington City scrapbooking fair. Avid scrappers tend to travel far and wide to attend these huge festivals and often they place a large emphasis not only on what is available for scrapbooking enthusiasts but on the participation aspect of scrapbooking by running tutorials and classes at the meetings. These are usually packed out and are a great way for all like-minded “croppers” to interact.

Typically though, scrappers or croppers (as scrapbooking enthusiasts are known) have trouble finding the *right* information to help them get started or pick up on new techniques, mainly because there is just so much information out there -- even the festivals can be confusing. So Brian recommends a great online resource e-book written by Kym Michelle called "How To Scrapbook -- Scrapbooking For Fun". “You can be a total beginner through to an advanced scrapper and you’ll still find this e-book ("How To Scrapbook -- Scrapbooking For Fun") to be an excellent all-round resource for a small $37 investment," stated Brian, “it has well and truly paid for itself many times over for me.”

Source: (PRWEB)