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Some ideas for Journaling In Your Scrapbook

When I first started to scrapbook, I did it the traditional way, with paper and glue sticks. Now of course I have embraced digital scrapbooks. However the ideas I am going to give you here apply to both.

Quite a few scrapbook fans prefer to include words or phrases within their scrapbook pages. Words and phrases help to explain the photos. As you might expect there are many ways to incorporate the written word into your scrapbooking; it is generally called Journaling.

We have all seen in our shopping for scrapbook embellishments sheets of paper with phrases, words, or the alphabet. All of these can be used put the written word on your page, simply pick the ones that apply to the photo and attach. You can also use stickers, diecuts and in some cases word cutouts.

Remember all of this can be applied to both digital and paper scrapbooks. There are no rules when it comes to scrapbooking.

Some scrappers don’t want to use prewritten words but they want to use their own. If you want to write on your pages here are a few tips.

1. Select an ink shade that suits the color scheme of your page
2. If you have a photograph or newspapers clipping that you want to add, I suggest copying the pieces onto acid free paper, this way they won’t yellow over time.

Digital isn’t something I’ve really gotten into yet…Digital scrapbooking design can be a enjoyable method of using graphics software to showcase photos along with other remembrances for the objective of protecting the moment in time.

Digital scrapbooking tools are essential to get in the modern era of scrapbooking that has long been a popular activity of many people throughout the generations. Tools in the previous years have been obvious: scissors, possibly some scotch tape along with a book into which pieces of interest might be placed. Parents maintained photo journals of their children and family members. Some athletes kept a similar journals of their exploits about the arena and adolescent women loved to scrapbook their most favorite idols of stage and screen. But all of the previous scrapping booking guidelines have been thrown out the window with the introduction of digital technologies.

Digital scrapbooking is very uncomplicated. Go ahead and take photos that you would like using a digital camera and download them to the laptop or computer. If an individual has a traditional SLR 35mm camera, the film will get developed and then your photos could be scanned and downloaded. As soon as they are downloaded, the photos may be changed in several ways by making use of digital software. That which was once a simple photo could become something which appears like something out of a favorite publication, particularly once the individual learns how to operate the a variety of digital scrapbooking tools that are offered. These freshly reassembled photos may then be produced and put into attractive bound books specifically created for this function or may be delivered via the internet to family and friends .

Digital scrapbooking design moves creative imagination past the restrictions of paper crafting. Use the strength of Photo Shop to crop, re-size, and include side effects to photos. Then investigate online sources to locate everything from total page designs to enhancements for standard pages, such as backgrounds, three dimensional components, fonts, and downloadable scrapbooking design.

Develop your FREE Family Tree and learn things you didn’t know about your family members. Create a free family tree to follow your unique ancestry and genealogy, complete the holes, and find out more about your own ancestors and family history to help you produce a more comprehensive and in depth history scrapbooking design.

Scrapbooking is not only an enjoyable (and addictive) pastime — it can be a method to protect treasured memories. But there is no need to select Scrapbook Themes just simply because they’re popular or can be bought in a pre-packaged package. It’s more significant to select the memories which you feel are worth the additional work of protecting within a scrapbook which will last a life-time then figure out from that just what the scrapbook style ought to be.

You may come across with various definitions of what a scrapbook is. And you may even have set one for yourself. But you see, of all those meanings associated with scrapbooks, there will always be one thing central to it- keeping memories.

Just like photos, scrapbooks are keepers of precious moments that you would always want to return back to. The moments that you have captured in photos and the moments of your creativity, deeply embedded in every page, note, captions and journals in your scrapbook.

One day, you’ll take a look at the scrapbooks you have created and they will deliver you back in time.

Not all of us are avid scrapbookers. Many may not even have tried starting one. However, we all have an idea of how to preserve our past. Well, scrapbooking is like that, only you would have to add up some creativity and art concepts into it.

The hardest junction might be to start from scratch. Scrapbooking may look simple for some yet the hours and the ideas you have to invest on them are so enormous that many find themselves initially frustrated. Or possibly, on wits end before an idea crops up.

We have prepared some guidelines in here that you may modify and apply in your own experiences. Basically, this is just a collection of ideas that will help shed light on the thoughts bugging in your mind.

Somehow you have to know your own style.

I have never understood the need to scrapbook. I have friends that make page after page of photos, but never saw the allure of cutting and pasting pictures on top of one another.  At least that is how I saw it.

Although I do like doing things with my hands and letting the creative juices flow, the traditional method of scrapbooking never appealed to me.  Digital Scrapbooking, however, does appeal to me.

About three years ago, I started going through photo albums looking at the pictures of my children as they grew and they were in a hodgepodge of order.  Some were marked others were not, as I never seemed to have the time to put any order to the albums.  There were pictures in shoeboxes that just sat.  Pictures of the rest of my family when they were young, including pictures of my parents when they were children.  Pictures of grandparents I barely remember.  Some were fading, some were bent, and some even got stuck together because of dampness.

I thought I should preserve them for my children, and grandchildren.  So I set about organizing them on my computer by scanning each one in, using a photo editor to fix any of the more serious problems, and then saving them one by one to discs for each of my four children.

The girls on one of the many forums I belong to have got me hooked on Digital Scrapbooking. I tried traditional scrapbooking, but soon ran out of room for all the supplies, and after a while could not figure out what to do with the book I had made. One of the reasons I wanted to try scrapbooking was to get rid of books, not make more. The pages were cute, and I liked them, but I soon lost interest.

I am relatively new to Digital Scrapbooking, so I have nothing to show you as yet, give me a few months as I work slow. I did find this wonderful article and it pretty much explains why digital, at least for me, is better than traditional.

Digital Scrapbooking Versus Traditional Scrapbooking
May 20th, 2008 | By Articles | Category: Scrapbooking

You may have heard about the latest craze scrapbooking. And yes while scrapbooking is a fantastic hobby lets take it a step further and explore Digital Scrapbooking.

If you are anything like me you have been to the stores and seen scrapbooking supplies. They are just so cute and charming. Almost irrestible! The only trouble….it seems you may need a second job just to enjoy this hobby! I was at a bookstore and saw a ready made album that came complete with elements and cutouts all you needed to do was open get some glue and some photos. Well this book was completely sealed and outside of the fancy cover you really had no idea what was in it.

Once I decided I wanted to do some scrapbooking, I had to think what I wanted to accomplish.  Did I want it to be just page after page of really cool looking photos, or did I want those photos to tell a story of our family.

My sister and I have embarked the last few years on a history of our family, we have taken our geneology back 150 years to our great, great grandfather on our mother’s side.  Considering they did not have photographic equipment back then, I wondered how I would incorporate those names onto a scrapbooking page? I found on the web a free pedigree site: http://www.misbach.org/pdfcharts/.  With these charts you can fill in the names of the ancestors that you have no pictures for, along with either current pictures of your family, or pictures of other ancestors in that line.  There are literally hundreds of possibilities.

I read somewhere that scrapbookers are also genealogists; and no wonder, since scrapbooking is a way of preserving our lives, and the lives our families. With care and consideration genealogy and family history can very easily be incorporated into scrapbooking with or without photos of your ancestors!

Getting Started

I have a lot of friends who do crafting and when I said I was going to do this blog about crafting, once the laughter died down and they realized I was serious, the ideas and product recommendations started pouring in.

Here is one that my friend Jen recommended. Jen is into scrapbooking everything and anything she can find. She has a new baby, and every step of that babies life is documented in a scrapbook. I think it is great, so I asked her to help me with my scrapbooking pages, as quite frankly I don’t have a clue what it is a person needs to do scrapbooking.

The first thing she said she bought was a “mini-paper trimmer” to trim the edges of small photos for her pages. So I asked her about this one, and it is the exact one she uses. She said that the larger paper trimmers were too big for small photos, too cumbersome to use, took up too much room but this one was the perfect size to trim them. She has no complaints about it, and in fact recommends it highly.