Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Album planning so you can "Catch Up" on your scrapbooks
We all may have different scrapbooking styles but I'll bet we all havesimilar goals in mind when we set out to scrapbook - first, spend timein a creative endeavour that results in something beautiful to sharewith our family and friends; and second, to save our memories forgenerations to come by ensuring our photos and memories are safelyarchived in albums.Those of you who lean more towards the second goal of saving yourmemories, may have expereinced the "oh dear, I'll never catch up"moment! Yes?! I have too. But, since I'm also focused on the creativityof scrapbooking, I've decided that regular photo albums just won't dofor me. I know I'll never get around to filling up photo albums becausethe result simply doesn't inspire me.So, how can we scrapbook in such a way that allows us to have lots ofalbums of preserved memories that meet our demands for creativity whilebeing simple enough to allow us to have the time to actually finishalbums rather than just layouts??!!I'd like to start off mentioning that we do need to keep the end inmind - that is, completed albums that our future generations can enjoyand explore our lives. I've discovered old photo albums, old scrapbooksand envelopes of old photos from my ancestors, no prizes to guess whichformat was more 'valuable' in my eyes... the scrapbook of course! Itwas hand crafted, there were journals and photos. The photo album hadno captions and the envelope of photos had no names written on theback. Oh dear!So, don't let that happen to your memories, let's make a plan for your albums so you can "catch up"! I started my making a resolution: "I ACKNOWLEDGE that I want to preservemy memories in a more creative way than a simple photo album,ACCEPT that there are some photos and events that deserve or NEED avery special, creative layout, AGREE that some photos are just junk,they can stay in the shoe box, computer disk or the bin. Then, ACCEPTthat the rest of the photos tell the story and they DESERVE to bedisplayed."
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