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.
