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Preserving Memories with Scrapbooking

As a creative way of preserving memories most important to you, scrapbooking is the perfect hobby. Not only do you get to flex your creative muscle by making a beautiful and interesting piece of family art, you are able to create something that can be passed down for generations.
Scrapbooking is a way of getting your keepsakes in the right place. Perhaps you have a closet full of old photographs in shoeboxes that have been left ignored. Don’t be afraid to really dig in and see what you have to work with!
Separate your pictures into whatever categories you plan to scrapbook by. Using these specific categories will allow you to enhance your scrapbooking themes. Many memories, such as vacations, high school events, sports, or really anything you wouldn't want to forget, would be a good add-on. Select one idea to base your first scrapbook on and don't stray from it. This will help your scrapbook to stay cohesive and meaningful.
Once you have chosen your theme, pick the best pictures of each category. The “best” pictures are not always the most aesthetically pleasing or the most posed, they just need to be ones that best encapsulate the mood you are trying to create. Don’t be afraid to use a photo that is slightly off-centered, out of focus, or even overexposed—any errors that take away from the photo can always be cropped out per your discretion. These will be the photographs you use to fill your pages.
Including your photos in the scrapbook, consider the posibility of finding other momentos that are relative to the category desired. This could be ticket stubs, boarding passes, pressed flowers, a playbill, or anything else that can be a decorative and meaningful addition to your scrapbook pages.
The next step is to arrange your page layout. This is the most challenging, but the most rewarding part of creating a scrapbook. You can use your creativity to the max! Be creative with the way you lay out your pages. You want each page of scrapbook to tell a story and be part of a cohesive idea. Use colored paper as background for your pages, scraps that you can make a collage out of, pieces of felt, fabric, or other unconventional background materials. Your page can contain any items that you think will make your page look more interesting.
Place the photos on top of these interesting backgrounds to create something unique. Before you glue anything down, play with the layout to strike the balance on your pages that you find the most satisfactory. Scrapbooking is fun and you can design your pages accordingly to what your desire is for that page. This is the part of the process that is the most time-consuming, but it is also not the one that you want to rush. And, the personalized feeling that the scrapbook conveys will allow it to be remembered forever.
You probably will have to do a bit of research to get some ideas for layouts. Ultimately, you should use whatever layout is the most pleasing to you, but there is no shame in looking into pre-made layout guides for inspiration.
Insert your finishing embellishments. Here is where you would enter the text that would explain your photographs, glitter, gems, buttons or other interesting additions to your page.
The most important thing to remember when creating your scrapbook is that not only is your scrapbook a physical representation of your memory, it is the actual process that makes it worthwhile. If you put your heart and soul into scrapbooking you won't be able to help being happy with the final result. Joyful scrapbooking!

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