Scrapbooking

I invite you to think about your current photo album. If someone who did not know you well (say, your great great grandchild or a new family member) looked at it,

• Would they understand who the people are?
  
  
• Would they know what the pictures are about, or when they were taken?
  
  
• Would your stories be remembered?
  
  
• Is your book interesting to look at, inviting people to spend some time examining it?
  
  

Journalling allows you to tell your story so others can read and understand what is important to you. Future generations will be grateful for the time you spend recording your story for them.

I find this craft provides me with a creative outlet as well. I love to be creative with embellishing my pages, sometimes including designs that remind me of the events that I have recorded with my camera, like the page I made above. This page tells about my ninth birthday. My cake had pink roses on it, so I made some pink paper roses to embellish my page.

I will gradually add more ideas for enhancing your own albums. I hope you will check back often!

• Acid free Lignin free and Buffered are terms you may want to know a little more about before deciding how to make your albums.
  
  

• Circle Journals are a friendly form of papercrafting. Learn more about them here.
  
  

• Friendship Scrapbooking is a great way to let a special friend know how you feel about your friendship, or that she will be missed if she is going away.
  
  

• Would you like to know How to Make Paper Flowers using your heart punches to decorate your pages? I'll show you!
  
  

• Find out how to make your own Rub Ons for your projects
  
  

• Scrapbook Theme Ideas to get you started.
  
  

You might also like these sites:

Fion has a lovely scrap book site for beginners. It's where you can pick up all the essential scrap booking know-how for free and start creating some layouts today.