How to start – scrapbooking by Maureen Mitchley
You can start scrapbooking with enthusiasm, determination and a desire to preserve and remember your past, enrich your present and inspire hope for the future generations with your unique photos and story.
The first step to starting a scrapbook is to organize your photos. This can be a most daunting task, especially if you have never sorted your photos and you have boxes and boxes of photos in your closet or under your bed, waiting to be put into albums. A task that you never got round to, and now you have so many photos that it seems a huge and time consuming job. Get your photos out and start to separate and collate them roughly into a chronological order of events. Put these piles of photos in order into a safe storage box still keeping them in their order. Use smaller boxes or envelopes to keep your sorted photos separated.
Step two. Decide on a project to start with. You may want to start with a special event for example: a 21st birthday, Grand dad’s 70th birthday, Christmas events over the years. Take the photos for this occasion out of the storage box. Using spare blank papers about the size of your scrapbook and lay out your photos on these papers in a way that appeals to you. Rearrange your photos on the spare pages until you are happy with the potential layout. Remember this is YOUR story so there is no right or wrong way. Keeping your photos on the pages, pile the pages in the order you have arranged them. Store these so that they are close at hand when you have a few minutes to work on your project.
Now you are ready to start your scrapbook. Take you first page and look carefully at the photos, discard blurry photos if possible. Crop (cut) your photos to emphasize or accent particular features in the photo, it may be cropping to get rid of excess background. There are plenty of various cropping tools and cutters available on the market to simplify this task. You are now ready to place your photos permanently on your album page. You can first mount your photo onto coloured photo-safe card or paper to enhance your page and then onto the actual scrapbook page. Next thing to do is to add a story box. This to tell anyone who is looking at the scrapbook the story behind the photos. Express your feelings and use plenty of descriptive words to give life to your photo.
Last thing to do is embellish (decorate) the page with shapes or photo-safe stickers. Don’t overdo this aspect as often time less is more. Place your page into a page protector so that pages and photos don’t rub against each other thus protecting your photos for the future. If you continue to work like this with just a few minutes a day you can accomplish and complete your scrapbook in no time at all. It is a most satisfying and inspiring feeling to complete an album to share with your family and friends.
If you would like more hints on how to layout your photos in your scrapbook you can find them here
http://www.scrapbookinglayoutsonline.com
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