Reasons to Scrapbook: The Things You Love

Scrapbooking the things you love is the penultimate in our reasons to scrapbook series. So what are they? People, places, things.

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Reasons to Scrapbook: Expressing Feelings

Expressing feelings in your scrapbooking layouts is another in our reasons to scrapbook series. Strong emotions can overpower us. Stages of life can be exhilarating, tricky or complicated; writing things down helps sort the way through sometimes.

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Reasons to Scrapbook: Passion for Photography

Moving on to a passion for photography, the next of our reasons to scrapbook, we ask, “Just how many photographs do you have?”

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Reasons to Scrapbook: Tell the Story

There are many different reasons to scrapbook. Tell the story behind the photograph and you can enjoy it over and over again through the years. It’s called journaling; a bit like writing a diary. And it’s what makes a scrapbook different from a photo album.

Get the story down before it gets fuzzy and clouded by time. But what should I write? Two ideas to get you going are:

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Reasons to Scrapbook: Family History

Recording family history is another of the reasons to scrapbook we are currently looking at. The history can be that of our parents, grandparents or of ourselves, for, much as we don’t like to think of it, we all become history.

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Reasons to Scrapbook: Reminisce

To reminisce … is this among your reasons to scrapbook? I thought it may be a sign that one is ‘getting on a bit’, but no, who doesn’t like to remember the good times whether from the recent past or the distant past?

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Reasons to Scrapbook: Improve your Memory

Scrapbook it to remember it! Is this one of your reasons to scrapbook? Don’t be like Little Miss Scatterbrain who forgets everything.

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Reasons to Scrapbook: To Be Creative

Why do you scrapbook? We’re looking at some reasons to scrapbook over the next few posts. And despite what it often looks like, you’ll soon find out you do not need kids to scrapbook.

You’ll always find that creativity has a way of escaping. It can’t be stuffed down inside; it always gets out and you’ll find little examples all over the house.

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Scrapbooking Sketches #6

Scrapbooking sketches, layout ideas and templates are fluid creatures.

We give you an idea and you take it and make it your own.

Sketches are not like dressmaking patterns where you do everything exactly as the instructions dictate to get the right fit. Or knitting patterns where the least deviation ruins the pattern in the finished item. Templates are more like a ‘one size fits all’.

Making a scrap book is an entirely personal achievement. No two will ever be the same, even if you start with the same scrapbook templates.

The squiggle in the bottom left hand corner of this sketch is an impression of whatever you want there. It could be embellishments, flowers, scrolls, etc. You decide. I could have used some scrolling tools there, but that may have limited you, so with a squiggle you are free to craft it in your style.

Email your interpretations to Genie at our website (normal email format). There will be a prize for the best one.

I’ve been trying to capture the essence of a scrapbooking sketch or template. It is a rough copy, or a first attempt that you take and develop.

So take this or any one of our scrapbooking sketches, improve on it, and show us your results!

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Wedding Scrapbooking Layout

Three Generations: This wedding scrapbooking layout shows the Bride, the Mother of the Bride, and Grandmother of the Bride.

“When I first saw this photograph I felt seasick,” Isabella said.

If you had a photo that made you feel ill would you include it on a scrapbook page?

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Why Do You Scrapbook?

“Why do you scrapbook?” was high in my thoughts recently when asking some friends if they’d like to try scrapbooking.

But rather than answer it for myself - which would make for very quick reading! - I decided to tell you some of the reasons to scrapbook I gave my friends.

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Online Digital Scrapbooking from HOTP

Have you seen the new online digital scrapbooking from HOTP? It is indeed hot off the press and ready to use!

Drag and drop your photographs into hundreds of layouts from HOTP’s designers. Add your journaling and your page is done. Store and share it online, or download for a very small fee. You can have your page mailed to you or mail as a gift to family or friends. You can even make up a whole album and have it delivered. Cool!

This is creating a digital scrapbook at its simplest. So you’ve no excuse for not getting all those photos into albums now. Try it out and tell us how you like it. You’ll find lots of tips from Sarah Naumann on how to use it.

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