Now that you have added your photo’s, detailing and journal ( write notes), your pages are complete. Always remember to journal each page, as this tells the story of what the photo’s are about. Make sure you stick to a theme for each book. Once the pages are finished, place them in the album, then your first scrapbook album has been accomplished.
Your well on the way now to accomplishing more items in the scrapbook world. After you have completed a few albums, you can then try your hand at adding your photo’s onto canvas, making a collage with your photo’s, or even making a page then framing it. Photo’s on canvas look great, when hanging on your walls.
Albums NannyOne has completed, have been my children’s schooling, growing up, and a couple of competition one’s. Other projects in the pipeline are – my husband’s fishing trips
my personal story
a travel album
as you can see, there is no limit to what you create. Remember to have fun when you are working on your project.
That is about it for now on your scrapbook items, I will be moving onto the next part of my blog in the upcoming weeks. I hope you all enjoyed reading my posts on scrapbook pages.
Well NannyOne thinks it is about time to step up and get things rolling onto my next post. In this one I am going to start with the Scrapbook side of my passions.
Getting started– if you remember in my last post I made mention to some of the materials that were required to Scrapbook. One of the main ingredients for ease to work is having plenty of clear space on your work area. Having clutter around does not make for clear thinking when designing your pages and picking photo’s for your design.
Next you need is the photo’s that you want to scrap. At this stage you should already have your photo’s sorted in files, that is ones for Travel, School years, Wedding, children, and other categories for the photo’s that you have taken. Hey NannyOne soon found out this out when she first started to scrapbook. As I had photo’s from over 40yrs, they were in scatted in albums, boxes containers and elsewhere, it was quite an experience trying to sort out where photo’s belonged to what category. So having a filing system for your photo’s, helps in choosing what theme you want to scrap. By theme I mean like School years, say Little Sam’s years from prep to high school. Try to keep to a theme for each album.
Now you have your photo’s, next task is to choose what coloured card and paper that goes well with the photo’s you are using. Now there is so many types and coloures to choose from, you should have no trouble in finding ones that blend with the photo’s. Purchasing the materials to Scrapbook, can be done by;
- Visiting a store near you, depending on where you live, generally there quite a nmber of these, to purchase materials.
- Asking family and friends if they know of places where to buy goods.
- Visiting scrapbook sites on the computer, there are hundreds of sites to buy your items.
- Finding out if there are any workshops near you and visiting them, you can gnerally pick up materials that may be at a discounted price.
Well I think that NannyOne has chatted enough to get you all started, and will continue in my next post.
