Opening Your First Scrapbook
Although the word ‘scrapbooking itself implies some kind of haphazardness and informality in making scrapbooks, the opposite is actually true. It takes plenty of planning to pursue a good scrapbooking project to the end. Just because we have to bring together scraps and bits in the album, we have to exercise great care in assembling, lying out and selecting the appropriate embellishments to make the result something we would be proud to show the world.
Your scrapbook is a reflection of your personality
What you are actually putting together in your scrapbooking album are facets of your own personality, your dreams, your pleasures, the kind of people you like and the kinds of activities you enjoy doing. In addition to revealing your preferences, the way you plan the layout, the colors you use and the care with which you actualized everything shows how much value you attach to your favorite people and objects. That is why the very first thing to do in a scrapbooking project is to plan things out.
A central topic is essential for a good scrapbooking project
Although a scrapbook that is about diverse things can be interesting, the tendency to be disorganized prevents people from fully appreciating what the pages contain. In the hodge-podge of ideas that they encounter, they are likely to retain no distinct impressions about your scrapbook. Just like a good book, a good scrapbooking project runs along a main topic line. So think about what you want to showcase. If you are a lover of apple pies you might want to create a scrapbook which features different recipes for apple pie. But that topic may be too general to be accomplished. You will have to further limit the scope of the project. Perhaps you might want to scrapbook on the ways to bake apple pie with cherry toppings. With that topic you could proceed with your scrapbook project.
Divide the scrapbook contents into chapters or episodes
A scrapbooking album should read like a good publication. There ought to be a logical sequence in the way the pages are organized. In order to do this, you must group related material into their own sub-sections and each sub-section should flow seamlessly into the following one. In the example you might want to devote the first part to vegetable recipes and the next one to vegemeat recipes. In our example you might want to create sections, one section for crust less apple pies and another for apple pies without crusts.
Make sure your scrapbooking paper is acid-free
Before you purchase the scrapbook, verify that the paper and cardboard used is acid-free. This is to ensure the long life of your album. Luckily, most of our paper products today are alkaline (acid-free) but don’t anything for granted and specifically ask the vendor about this matter .
Start collecting the recipes and images you plan to include in the scrapbooking album
You could use cutouts of recipes taken from magazines and newspapers. However you would still need to ascertain that the paper of any clippings you get is acid-free. A better alternative would be to re-type the recipes in a nice format and with pleasing fonts and then to print them out neatly in your own paper.
Use scrapbooking stickers to embellish the pages with frames, smileys and appropriate images related to pies and pie-making.
Don’t spare any effort to beautify the pages of your scrapbook. As we already said, you will be displaying a portion of yourself in that album so exert effort to make the scrapbook worthy of reading.
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