Adding a Personal Touch to Your Scrapbook
Personalization is the key to making the perfect scrapbook Making someone smile by getting reminded of you every time they see something you’ve created is the best compliment. Your personality must be present in your crafts, and your scrapbook is not an exception.
If you run out of ideas for your first scrapbook, you can always consult your best resource… YOU!
Yep, you do not have to be very creative to build the perfect scrapbook, but you do have to be very expressive.
How to personalize your scrapbook?
1. Your Colors
People associate colors with places, things and even people! If you love green and people know you love the color, you can adorn your scrapbook with green buttons and folded paper.
2. Would you wear that?
Part of the fun of scrapbooking is dressing up your photos in funny “outfits”. You can create new ones to fit the occasion just by pasting paper and potpourri on your photos. You can even make dad look like santa by pasting on a santa suit.
3. Your story
Maybe you have several childhood memories you want preserved, and your scrapbook is all about memories, so why not turn your scrapbook into a story. You need to use landscape photos or paint landscapes on your pages and place ordinary photos on them. One thing to ask yourself is this: what part of the scrapbook will make the reader feel something? That’s the “plot” of your story and you can work around that. Don’t forget the happy ending!
4. What memories do you have of the recipient?
If you’re creating a scrapbook for another person, you can make it look like a collection of funny memories about that person. Here’s where I well up. I have so many memories of my family members and I wish I made a scrapbook for each of those memories. Don’t let that happen to you. Preserve memories when you can.
I hope I have helped you to come up with more than several new ideas for the pages in your scrapbook.
Apr 03, 2009 | Sentimental Thoughts
