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In the past, scrapbooking consisted of buying a plain album and attaching photos or post cards with photo corners (which were usually, if not always, black) to plain ugly pages. That was about it! Any information included with the photos was generally, as I recall, written on the back of the photos. All one had to do was slip the pictures out of the photo corners to read the back sides.
Those days are, thankfully, far behind us. Scrapbooking has come a long way since then. There are scrapbook pages of so many colors, designs and themes that I imagine one could spend hours browsing them all. Crafts stores have aisle after aisle of neat embellishments of everything one can imagine along with tools to enhance your scrapbook pages.
All one has to do is browse through all the supplies available to get the creative juices flowing. Even a beginner should have no trouble finding ideas to get started.
As you begin your scrapbooking album, think about the event you are scrapbooking about. Think of your page as a story you are telling. You may want to create a title for each page. Use large distinctive lettering to draw attention to it, but not so large as to overwhelm the most important elements of the page – the photos.
Some, if not all, pictures should have a few words as a caption. Of course, you do not want to forget to list the names of all the people in your photos or places that may be seen in the background. While these things may be fresh in your mind now, a few months or years down the road, they may all be forgotten
To make your story complete, you possibly will want to add more text to your page. Consider doing this in your own handwriting. While you may feel that your own handwriting is not good enough, this will give your album a bit of personality and character. However, it is acceptable to add stickers or cut-outs instead if you prefer. You also may use your computer to print out some journaling to add to each page.
Can you remember a time before computers? Or perhaps you recall a time when computers were in existence, but only a few large companies had them (and they were monstrous in size). I can remember at one time someone said, “Someday there will be computers in every home.” I just could not imagine that day ever arriving. BUT here we are; we not only have one computer in our homes – many of us have several.
That being said – with the arrival of computers, we now have a whole new world opened up to us. Among the amazing new opportunities available online is digital scrapbooking. Digital scrapbooking allows us to accomplish pretty much everything electronically that we would otherwise do manually, making the process much easier. It makes one wonder what further developments are in store for us?
Scrapbooking is such great fun, a hobby with great rewards. It involves making a visual memory (in album form) of the activities and experiences of one’s life while interacting with family and friends. It is a permanent way to keep cherished memories alive and also to pass them on to future generations.
Most of us enjoy looking through photo albums, but photos alone do not give us the complete story. Creative scrapbookers can take a photo (or several photos), add a bit of journaling, and a few other embellishments, and tell us a complete story of a special event on a page or two.