Scrapbooking: News

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.”

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Scrapbooking Tuition: Baby Scrapbooking

There is a good article at Loves Scrapbooking that instructs you just how to do "Baby Scrapbooking In 8 Easy Steps."

If this is an area of scrapbooking that you are interested in, I suggest that you go and take a look.

Scrapbooking: EasyTechnique

We are all trying to improve our scrapbooking techniques, so I hope that you find the following article useful.

Easy Scrapbooking Technique

One of the great things about scrapbooking as a hobby is that the longer you do it, the more possibilities you uncover. As you learn to view the world through the eyes of a scrapbooker, other hobbies like stamping or sewing, start to seem applicable to your scrapbook album as well. Veteran croppers are always on the lookout for new and exciting methods to incorporate into their albums. Here are some scrapbooking techniques you may want to try.

1. Age Gracefully: There are a number of ways to give your paper and documents that vintage feel. Try tearing a recipe out of an unused cookbook so that the edges are frayed. Then spritz it with tea, crumple up the paper, and smooth it out again. After the sheet dries, you will have what appears to be a time worn fragment of history. Ink stamps, when applied lightly, can also give the appearance of being old and faded.

2. Lumpy and Bumpy: The use of fabrics has recently become one of the most exciting new trends in scrapbooking. Bulky cords, fibers, ribbons and bows definitely require some planning and understanding of your materials. One very simple technique is to weave a fiber strand through pre-punched holes along one edge of the page. This laced look will pop if a different color paper is used beneath. Plan ahead as these pages will significantly increase the thickness of your album.

3. Sew it Goes: Vellum has become a popular material for displaying words or creating pockets. This next technique combines the icy beauty of vellum with the homemade-feel of stitching to create pockets of fun. Simply apply a poem, words, or an image to your vellum. Them choose some small item like sequins, buttons or small shapes for the pocket. For example, your text could be “Happy New Year” and you could fill the pocket with confetti. Then you form a pocket by sewing the edges of the cardstock over the vellum so that the stitches are apparent. Sew simple!

4. Bold and Beady: Some people avoid using beads because they imagine they are too difficult to adhere well. Try using thin wire with small uniform beads, and then affix with both a clear adhesive tacky tape and liquid glue that is safe on pictures. Then use the design as a border for your photos.

5. Create a Background: Stamps and die-cut letters can offer a fun alternative to plain paper for your background. Consider stamping or adhering die-cut words or letters all across your page. You could use words to a song, names or random word choices. Finally, tape your pictures over your prose. By selecting the font and colors you like, your possibilities are infinite.

When trying new scrapbooking techniques, keep in mind that the proper tools can make or break the experience. Just imagine trying to crop and journal your pages with dull cutting utensils or dried out markers. The first step to using a new technique is to set your self up for success. Seek out the materials you need and then play around until you get it right. Most of all, let your creativity lead you and enjoy.

Barbara Kirby is the author of the Free ebook - The Scrapbookers Directory that gives you instant access to discount scrapbooking supplies, ideas, layouts, freebies and more. For more info check out http://www.thescrapbookersdirectory.com

More Great Scrapbooking Tips

Here are some super scrapbooking tips from 2 Be A Croppin Queen

20 Scrapbooking Tips

Scrapbooking is a fun hobby that many people are afraid to get into. If you walk into a scrapbook store you can easily get overwhelmed with all the products that are available and just walk out! Creating albums is an important way to preserve ones memories and can be handed down generation after generation. Here are 20 Tips to help you with your albums
1.) Start simple but simply start! This will help you get lots of pages done and keep your focus on the pictures.

2.) BE ORGANIZED! This will save you time and money. If you know what you have and where you have it you won’t be making multiple purchases of the same items!

3.) Organize your photos in the Power Sort Box (or whatever you use to organize your photos) as soon as you get them in the mail or pick them up from being processed!

4.) Go to a workshop!!! If you can’t get anything done at home or just don’t want to spread it all out.

5.) Journal on your pages as you go. It is much harder to go back and journal later. Use your own writing. So many people think they have terrible writing and most often it really isn’t true. Using your own handwriting make your album unique and even more special!

6.) Use a soft cloth to clean off the finger prints from your photos before you put on your page protectors.

7.) Put your page protectors on as you go. Again, it is harder to go back and do it. Protect your beautiful pages right away so nothing happens to them.

8.) Use a personal trimmer to crop your photos. If you don’t have one – get one!

9.) Try to select one picture on your page that you want to stand out. You can mount that photo or cut it into a shape. Try to limit the number of photos you cut into shapes on your page. Too many shapes are distracting.
10.) When creating you page layout, instead of randomly placing your photos on the page imagine a C or Z and put your photos on those lines. C and Z layouts are easy to follow and easy on the eye.

11.) Go to a workshops!!

12.) Don’t over enhance. You really want to focus on the photos and the stories behind them. Less is more!

13.) Use Short Cuts to create pages quickly and easily. When you use Short Cuts there is no need to spend time cutting, it is already done for you!

14.) Use Storybox papers. They are the perfect size for 4×6 photos so you can use them if you aren’t cropping a picture down or you can cut the paper to fit your needs. They also come with coordinating journaling boxes.

15.) Save your scraps. You can use them on future pages and they are perfect for punching out various shapes using the Shape Makers.

16.) Get the most out of your paper by cutting shapes or ovals out of your mounting paper. For example, if you are mounting a photo only use a little tape when cutting out the mat. Then remove the mat and you can cut out an oval, circle using CCS or various shapes using the shape makers. You can then mount your photo and you will have the shapes you cut to enhance your page. Yes, your mat will have holes in it but your photo will cover them and no one will know except you!

17.) Do you always have #’s left from your ABC/123 stickers? Use them to create cute borders. For example you could use up all your 2’s to create a border for a second birthday, second place award, second grade, etc. Or a variety of #’s for school borders, baby albums – I am sure you can think of more!

18.) Use the titletopia you create titles for you pages. They are fun and easy to use.

19.) Have all your tools in front of you when you croppin’ so you have easy access to them.

20.) Organize you stickers by themes and/ or seasons.

Scrapbooking Tips

Some great tips here posted by Angie Pedersen on her blog.

Vacation Scrapbooking Tips

Some great vacation-scrapbooking tips in the most recent issue of the LifetimeMoments.com newsletter: LM Style.

Design Team Member Sonya Shaw has compiled some memorabilia organizing and scrapbooking project tips.
One tip I have for saving memorabilia is to use big manila envelopes or big zip baggies (like the ones LM puts our orders in). If you are visiting more than one place or city, you might find it’s better to use more than one envelope. I have done this for years, and not only are they easy to just throw stuff into to keep it all together, but they fit perfectly inside your suitcase’s lid pocket.
In an ideal, organized world, we all might bring with us small note cards or a notepad to jot things down while still on vacation. If you can, stick a few note cards into the manila envelope in advance to jot events and moments each evening, that way you won’t have to spend so much time when you get home remembering all those moments.
She also offers an example of a mini album she did - an alterable board book, with extra accordion folds to hold more photos. Sounds really cute! Check it out!

Developing Your "Look"

Here's an amusing post at http://knitandpurlgrrl.blogs.com/scraphappy/. I'm sure that we can all identify with this. I know I can!


Developing Your "Look"

I am a dedicated Autumn Leaves fan. My latest favorite is "The Look Book." One of my favorite parts of this particular book is all the little quizzes and interview questions sprinkled through the book. Who cares about the layouts? I'd rather hear the details about the PROCESS. (Well, I guess the layouts are pretty cute, too).

I thought as a little treat today, I'd answer the same questions that were posed to the AL gals. That way I can at least pretend that I'm cool:

What part of creating a page do you enjoy most?
While the chance to use many of my favorite elements -- graphic design, writing, paper, embellishments -- is exciting, and while I love documenting my family's history, I have to say that my absolute favorite part of scrapbooking is the peanut M-n-Ms.

Do your styles of dressing or decorating your home mimic your style of scrapbooking?
Oh, most definitely. After all, the whole house (and my entire wardrobe) is covered with adhesive squares and scraps of paper -- much like my layouts. And my layouts usually have more than a few fingerprints -- much like my house.

Who or what inspired you to start scrapbooking?
I had to find SOMETHING to do with all the patterned paper, buttons, ribbon, and other goodies I'd amassed.

When did your style click for you?
As soon as I realized I'd never have more than fifteen minutes to spend on a page. And as soon as I realized doodling makes my pages look like a seventh-grader's math notebook.

Do you have any tips for recording memories until you can scrapbook them?
Crayon on used paper napkins works great.

Why does scrapbooking make you happy?
How could it not?

Scrapbooking In The 1960's

Hi Guys,

Here is a post made by Rob at http://utahamicus.blogspot.com that sums up scrapbooking in the 1960's. It demonstrates just how important it is to record those memories so that future generations can experience just what life was like through the eyes of one who was there.

No excuses then...get scrapbooking.


Signs Of The Times: A trip back to 1965 through my mother's eyes

In today's world many of our children's lives are chronicled and documented through the multi-billion dollar industry known as scrapbooking. When I was born you simply purchased a "baby book" and then filled in the lines. The book my mother Judy used is titled, All My Life. The information below is was transcribed from several pages from that book.

My mother's first words after my birth were, "It was supposed to be a girl! He has lots of black hair!" My father's were, "Hows Judy?" Although disappointing mom right from the start may not have been way to enter the world it was the best I could do, and quite frankly, I don't think I would have been a very good daughter, or wife. Luckily my sister Nicole arrived in November of 1969 and with the birth of her perfect child mom was able to forgive me, at least for the time being.

Within this book are my mother's notations of my early life as well as the events that occurred near the time of my arrival in 1965. It is now old and falling apart, but it still treasured, and I enjoy looking back to see how my mother saw the world back then.

Enjoy the trip!

The Headlines:
World - Trouble in Far Eastern Vietnam, Civil Rights Movement in Southern and Eastern States.
Local - Utah's local Democratic Party in Trouble with (Bad Boys) in Salt Lake County Government (A Grand Jury was called in May of 1965).

The President was Lyndon Baines Johnson
The Governor of Utah was Calvin L. Rampton
The Mayor of Salt Lake City was J. Bracken Lee
My father Michael T. Miller was a news reporter and photographer at KUTV Channel 2 (The book didn't ask about Mother's occupation).

Famous Names

In Entertainment were Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Peter O' Toole, Richard Burton.

In Sports were Don Schollander (4 Gold Medals), Utah State University All American, Wayne Estes, Craig Breedlove.

In World Events were Charles de Gaulle, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Ralph Bunche.

Others of Note: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (assassinated 1964), Adlai Stevenson.

The Best Selling Book: Mary McCarthy's, "The Group".

Popular Songs were Downtown, King of the Road, Girl from Ipanema.

The Popular Dance was, The Surf, The Swim, The Watusi, The Pony Jerk, The Clam, The Frug.

The Fashions were: Short skirts, Ruffle or Tom Jones Blouses.

The Most Advanced Cars were Avanti, Barracuda, Corvette.

The Most advanced Home Appliances were Hair Dryers and Electric Knives.


Thanks Mom.

Thought you guys might like the following piece written by Kim Bolyard who is a 2007 design team member at http://www.scrapbooks.com/blog/index.php


'Do you have a certain scrapbook style? Today I wanted to talk about different scrapbook styles and what that means as a scrapbooker. Many of us of been scrapbooking for years and have seen the world of scrapbooking evolve into this huge industry with thousands of products available at our finger tips. I myself have changed my style of scrapbooking throughout the years. I even change from week to week depending on what inspires me.

The important elements of a scrapbook page should be a title, photos, journaling and of course your own style. It is the look, the feel and the mood that demonstrates a scrapbook style. We are individuals that have developed our own styles. Find what works for you .

Here are a few examples of styles that I see right now:

Clean and Simple, which is exactly that. This tends to come from a more graphic design prospective. You have to think minimalist. The layout has straight lines and a minimum of embellishments.




Another very popular style right now is Freestyle. This being the polar opposite of Clean and Simple has taken the scrapbooking world by storm. Remember to think out side the box if this is your style. No rules-no boundaries. These pages are eclectic and artistic.



Let's not forget Trendy. Just like the fashion industry, which I feel drives this style, is the latest and greatest products. I don't know about you but I tend to go with what is hot in the market. Trendy does not only mean the products that you are using, but also what the latest techniques may be.


You can also throw some shabby chic in there and you have a well rounded mix of styles to chose from.


Scrapbooking allows you to experiment with the latest trends, colors, and techniques. Remember there is no right or wrong way to scrapbook. The important thing is to enjoy this wonderful hobby and keep stretching your mind and creativity. Always be true to yourself, and if you like your style and what you are creating that is all that matters.

To quote Ali Edwards "I believe style is a continual evolution. That it is constantly changing and growing. I love the idea that it is wonderfully perfect to have a style which is in motion. That ebbs and flows and never has to stay the same."

Discover Your Artistic Skills - Create A Digital Scrapbook!

Digital scrapbooking is the use of computer technology instead of traditional scrapbook cutting and sticking. If computing is one your skills, then a digital scrapbook could be for you.

How many times have you been unable to find that precious baby photo you so carefully stored on your computer? The very one that would make your scrapbook album just that little extra special. Think of all those hours of frustrating searching through a hodgepodge of photo files when you have forgotten which name or number you saved it under. Perhaps it is amongst all those boxes of loose photos prints you have stored in the spare room.

Digital scrapbooking could be the solution to your organization problems. Creating a digital scrapbook using photo or image-editing software will make it easy to find your photos just when you want to see them.

You don’t have to print your digital photos and so save on photo shop or ink and paper costs.

Digital scrapbooking software will help you enhance and arrange your photos on digital scrapbooking pages. You can introduce digital frames, borders and graphics etc. to artistically create your scrapbook album. Journaling can be added also to highlight and preserve your memories. Any hard copies of photos or memorabilia can be scanned and saved to your computer.

You can reduce your scrapbook supply items and save money.

Digital scrapbooking software means scrapbook paper, glue, scissors, stickers and all the other scrapbook supplies are no longer necessary. The software packages include templates, photo enhancing tools for cropping etc., fonts and other embellishments to aid in your journaling and decorating. In fact, everything you need to create your digital scrapbook.

Storage space for your scrapbook albums is reduced.

Traditional scrapbooking albums and supplies do take up space whereas with digital scrapbooking, everything is stored on your computer.

Never lose any of your irreplaceable photos and memorabilia again.

You can back-up your digital scrapbooks by using an archiving program to compress large files, enabling them to be stored on a CD or other removable disk.

What if you want to show your digital scrapbook to others?

Unlike traditional scrapbooks, digital scrapbooking allows you to send your scrapbook albums to friends or relatives via your email network or save them on a CD or a DVD and give them as presents.

What digital scrapbooking software should you use?

There are various software packages available from a basic kit for beginners to a ‘bells and whistle’ kit for the more advanced computer user. It is a matter of seeing what the different packages have to offer, deciding if the features are what you require and if the price is right.

What are the benefits of digital scrapbooking?

As previously mentioned, it saves money on your scrapbook supply consumables. Once bought, it can be used forever.

Digital scrapbooking saves space by storing your albums in files. Even if you print the scrapbook album, they have less bulk.

Digital generated scrapbook albums are safe from fading and deterioration. You can have multiple back-up copies also.

Copies can be easily sent to others.

Less time. Once you have mastered the digital scrapbooking software, you will be able create your scrapbook albums relatively quickly.

If you enjoy using a computer, then digital scrapbooking may just enhance further your pleasure of scrapbooking.

Need To Create A Scrapbook Album Easily? You Can With A Scrapbook Kit!

Are you finding it difficult to get started on your scrapbook album?

Are all the scrapbooking products available making you feel overwhelmed?

Then make it easier for yourself and grab yourself a scrapbooking kit. There is a lot of choice in scrapbook kits nowadays to suit ‘scrappers’ from beginners to experienced ones.

Scrapbook kits are ‘themed,’ they are a complete package, so that they include products that ‘work well’ together. All the paper, embellishments etc, are co-ordinated into the chosen theme. You know that your finished scrapbook album will look good.

Mostly, scrapbook kits come with examples to give you inspiration so that you can either adapt and create your own pages, or follow the set pieces.

Who are scrapbooking kits aimed at?

Beginners are an obvious target because they remove the necessity of choosing your own scrapbook products and therefore prevent the risk of getting the co-ordination wrong. To save time on the selection process, experienced ‘scrappers’ will very often use scrapbooking kits.

What degree of difficulty will you find with scrapbook kits?

Some manufacturers produce scrapbook kits in different skill levels, from beginners to intermediates and on to advanced. It is a matter of pitching your skill level to the scrapbooking kit.

What themes are available in scrapbook kits?

There are scrapbook kits to suit every occasion from birthdays and anniversaries to vacations.

Will a scrapbooking kit cost you more than buying scrapbook products separately?

Very often scrapbook embellishments come in packs of a certain quantity so that you may have to purchase more than you actually need for your project. Scrapbook kits contain just enough for each page and so save you overspending to complete one scrapbook album.

Of course, having scrapbook products left over enables you to start building up stocks in readiness for future scrapbook albums.

What will you get in a scrapbook kit?

A typical scrapbooking kit will contain the basic items to complete your project. These may include:

• A scrapbook album
• Papers that have your chosen theme
• Stickers
• Cardstocks
• Die cuts
• Adhesives
• Scissors
• Ink stamps
• Embellishments
• Pens and pencils
• Punchers
• And more.

They will all be co-ordinated to fit in with your chosen theme.

Are you obliged to use all of the included scrapbook products?

You can use as many or as little of the inclusive items as you wish. You can deviate from any included plan as much as you wish. There is nothing to prevent you from using your own scrapbook products to enhance those in the scrapbook kit and employing your artistic talents to be even more creative.

If you did opt to use extra scrapbook items, the inclusive scrapbook kit products would give you clues to what would be suitable to keep your scrapbook theme co-ordinated.

What are the advantages of using a scrapbook kit?

Obviously, for the novice, a scrapbook kit is a tremendous aid in theme design and co-ordination.

It keeps costs down by not having to purchase unnecessary scrapbook products.

A scrapbook kit saves time by not having to design a theme and source appropriate items.

Scrapbook kits are not every ‘scrappers’ choice, but they are a choice if they fill your requirements. Whether you choose a scrapbook kit or not...get scrapbooking.

Discover An Enthralling Scrapbooking Idea!

Are you completely stumped for a scrapbooking idea?

It’s very frustrating when you itch to start on a scrapbook album, but your mind is a complete blank as regards a scrapbooking idea.

Scrapbooking is an exciting and artistic way to preserve cherished memories and thoughts before they are lost forever. So, a way to get going is, to think of and write down all the occasions, the memories of which, you would like to save.

Gather all the photos you wish to add to your scrapbook album and arrange them in the order you want them to appear. Do the same with any other memorabilia that you want to use. Write down your thoughts, feelings and memories connected with the photos and memorabilia and you are ready to go.

Here are several scrapbooking ideas to spur you on.

Wedding Scrapbooking Idea

Whether it’s your own wedding or someone else’s, are you going to preserve the memories for future generations or lose them? With everything going on, you would be hard pushed to remember every single detail. Write everything that occurred down including all the thoughts and emotions.

You could group the events as they happened starting off with the pre-wedding arrangements. These could include the engagement party, wedding invitations and rehearsals.

Include photos of the wedding day itself with all its events, of the bride and groom, service sheet, church seating and rings etc.

You could preserve all the events of the wedding reception, the guests, toasts, cake etc.

Where you went on honeymoon and the places you stayed and visited.

Baby Scrapbooking Idea

The magical moment of the birth of a baby is a scrapbooking idea that you might like to do. You could include a family tree, photos of relations with baby, the hospital, birth certificate, first steps etc. The list is endless.

School Scrapbooking Idea

Keep memories of those days at kindergarten, high school and college. Include class photos, school reports and proms etc.

Vacation Scrapbooking Idea

All the excitement and planning, brochures, tickets, photos, hotel, places you visited and all your memories can be saved to look back on.

Graduation Scrapbooking Idea

Wherever you are graduating from it is an important milestone and worthy of preserving the memories. Include documents like certificates and results. Have photos of the school, friends and ceremonies.

Retirement Scrapbooking Idea

Here is another milestone, the end of a working life. Include all the careers that you may have had work places and occupations, colleagues and associates.

Christmas Scrapbooking Idea

There is so much that you could include involving the celebrations at this festive time. You could have photos of relatives and friends celebrating with you, festive parties, Christmas meal and gifts etc.

Other scrapbooking ideas that you could use are:
Anniversaries
Easter
Career
Family
Teenage Years
Sports
Pets
Halloween
Funeral

I am sure that you will now be able to think of many more.

Scrapbooking is a wonderful and interesting way of preserving those precious memories. To create your scrapbook album, you have to do one thing and that is – START.

Would You Like To Start The Exciting Hobby Of Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking your favorite memories is fast becoming one of the most interesting and popular hobbies that you can take up. With scrapbook supply now a multi-billion dollar industry, it’s hardly surprising that its popularity has even surpassed golf.

So, what is scrapbooking? Scrapbooking involves compiling photographs, magazine and newspaper articles and clippings, and other memorabilia into artistically decorated albums.

It’s tremendous growth rate has resulted in ‘scrapbookers’ getting together at each other’s homes, local scrapbook supply stores, scrapbooking conventions and even cruises. As well as being social events, these gatherings enable the sharing of tips and ideas.

Keeping pictures of events in life is one way to keep those memories alive. Happy moments and special occasions such as vacations, birthdays, graduations, weddings, and many other occasions are very often captured in photographs. Furthermore, such photos keep the memory of the event alive, and enable others a brief insight of the scene and to share some of the emotion surrounding them.

Other items that you could include are: love letters, cards, restaurant menus, concert tickets and programs and dried flowers. The list is endless. Anything that is a part of your past or present life is suitable.

So ask yourself, do you really want to let those wonderful memories to remain in plain and old-fashioned photo albums, or do you want to really spice them up? What about using the wonderful scrapbook supplies that that you can buy nowadays to house your precious photos and memorabilia.

Scrapbooking allows you to keep those memories alive by using poems, quotes, love songs, or simple statements expressing your feelings at the time, as captions for your photos and memorabilia. Your most intimate feelings will then live on forever in your artistic creations.

Before starting your scrapbook, assemble all the pictures that you want to include in your work. Next, sort them into date order. Before actually inserting the photos, set out all the materials including the captions that you are going to use, in the sequence they will appear in the scrapbook. Don’t forget to occasionally, add in artistic embellishments to personalize and decorate the pages. These embellishments could consist of stickers, trinkets, die cuts and fancy lettering. Do this all throughout the pages of the scrapbook.

When reliving the events surrounding your photos, you may perhaps recall some funny or memorable incident. Include these to make the caption more expressive and alive.

Colors also play a great role in your scrapbook. Softer colors such as cream and blue or silver and gold are mostly used. These colors make the pages of the scrapbook more attractive and lively.

By using the scrapbook supplies available, scrapbooking can become the outlet for all your artistic talents.

It is not necessary to be an expert photographer or artistic designer to create a scrapbook. You simply need to present your photos and memorabilia in a personal way that expresses your deepest feelings about them. By doing this, anyone looking through your scrapbook will be able to experience the emotions that you felt.

Don't let those treasured memories just fade away, make history and save them for future generations to enjoy - start scrapbooking today.