Here are 5 Tips for when you don’t have time to scrapbook, because your time is very precious. There are a finite number of hours in each day and sometimes we just can’t fit everything we want to do into those precious few hours.
So I won’t waste your time padding out this post!
When you’ve no time for scrapbooking, there are basically two options open to you: make it yourself quickly, in which case you want products that allow you to get the job done fast; or hand the whole project over and have someone else do it all for you.
Tip # 1: Scrapbooking for Others
There is a growing industry out there ready to make your scrapbook for you. Scrapbooking for Others is a relatively new career opportunity. You will find many scrapbook addicts out there just waiting for the opportunity to turn their hobby into a business and all your memorabilia into the scrapbook of your dreams.
When someone else makes your scrapbook there are a couple of options to bear in mind. Firstly you can give them everything – photos, story, memorabilia like tickets, programs, etc. and they make the complete scrapbook. Or you can have the pages made and you slot in the photos and souvenirs yourself.
Check your local scrapbook store to see who does it in your area, or you can search online or try yellow pages. Choose your artist carefully as tastes vary widely, and you don’t want to find you’ve wasted your money on something you don’t like.
Tip # 2: Multiple Photo Layouts
A scrapbook layout does not have to contain only one photo. You can make layouts with as many as you can fit in one page. Style themes could include using a film strip layout; make a wall with small photos; place photo tiles around your page or main photo; or a checkerboard.
In this great example, Shauna Berglund-Immel at Hot Off The Press used nine equal-sized photo ’tiles’ to give a taste of different aspects of a vacation by the ocean.
There are many sketches for multiple photo layouts, some for as many as 10 photos or more. The added advantage of using a sketch is it jump starts your ideas; you’ve got something to work to without wasting time wondering where to put your elements. This will save a lot of time. Check out our sketches for ideas.
Tip # 3: Ready to use Products
You may find digital scrapbooking a help as you don’t have to spend time clearing up all the scraps of papers, embellishments and other scrapbook supplies that grow up around you as you work. You just have to save your work and close the computer. Two Peas in a Bucket offers many tutorials and a number of free kits to help you get started with digital scrapbooking
.
Tip # 5: Online Photo Albums
How would you like the best of both worlds: hundreds of scrapbook layouts waiting for you to simply drop in your photo, add some journaling and it’s done? There are many online photo album options that allow you to do just that. You can share them online with family and friends or you can arrange to print and send them, for a fee – to yourself or a loved one.
Give one of these 5 tips a try the next time you are in a hurry or have no time to scrapbook!
Related posts:
Add a Comment