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Create a Theme for Your Notebook
The theme of your scrapbook can be
simple or complex. Your theme could be a special event such as a
birthday, a baby shower, a wedding, Christmas, or Halloween. Themes
can also be personalized to the scrapbook recipient's special
interests. Special interests themes include favorite colors, sports,
favorite television programs, music, the outdoors, or cultural
influences.
What is the overall purpose for your scrapbook?
Who is the scrapbook for?
Who is the scrapbook about?
The answers to these three questions are all factors in selecting an
appropriate theme. For instance, the scrapbook you are giving your
nephew as he graduates from medical school is probably completely
different than the grandparent book you send your mother. Your
nephew will probably appreciate a scrapbook with photographs, poems,
journals, and more masculine embellishments. Perhaps, the theme of
the scrapbook could be medicine. You could create embellishments
that looked like scalpels and tweezers around various pictures of
your nephew during his college years.
Your mother, on the other hand, will love a multitude of baby
pictures fancifully embellished with flowers, ribbon, and baby
fingerprints. The theme of this book will probably be your baby.
Photographs could include baby and grandma with the baby. A nice
journal about your baby's day could also add a nice touch.
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Recommended Resources
Jenni Bick Bookbinding - Handmade photo albums, scrapbooks, and journals in handmade paper and leather. Something extraordinary for creative scrapbookers and journal keepers!
Scrap Tutor
- Take scrapbook classes at home.
PrincessCrafts.com - Free computer printable scrapbook
training.
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