Scrapbooking Borders, Albums, Journaling And More!How to make scrapbooking borders, the best way to journal, which album to buy and other great scrapbooking tips are on this page.One of the most exciting aspects of scrapbooking is the opportunity to exercise your own creativity. But before you start getting creative...get organized.
The first thing you should do is organize your photos. Put the pictures that you will be working on in some kind of order. A shoe box or a photo box is a great place to keep your pictures organized. It really slows the process down when putting an album together if your pictures are not organized. When your pictures and supplies are organized it makes the process of scrapbooking easy and fun.
Photo albums come in all colors and textures. Choose whatever appeals to you. The album that you choose should best reflect your style. Some people do not want to add a lot to their pictures. They want the focus to stay on the photographs...as it should. There are albums that have picture sleeves in them. These albums allow you to just slide a photograph into the sleeve. These kinds of albums allow you to get a lot of pictures put in albums in a short amount of time. Take a look at how an album is put together. Some are three ringed binders. Some are put together with staples or rivets. The stapled binding is the least sturdy of the choices. I would not use an album with a stapled binding if the album is going to be handled a lot. Check to see if you can add pages to an album. Some albums come with a set number of pages in them. Others will allow you to add refill pages if needed.
You do not want to look back and wonder who the people in your pictures were. So when you journal don't forget the names of people. This is the time to share important information as well as telling the stories. Journaling doesn't have to ramble on and on to be effective. You can write as much or as little as you want. You can tell a story, a joke or quote a special saying. Write about your thoughts, feelings or about the place. Good journaling completes the page. If you are putting together a heritage album, really work on getting the facts correct. It is amazing how we all think that we will remember things, when the truth is...details are forgotten over time. Newspapers clippings and letters can be folded up and tucked in an album sleeve. Journal that they are apart of the pictures so that the next generation gets the full story being told. Journaling doesn't have to be only about the parties and the good times. It is just as important to journal about the sad times, the hurting times and the events that changed the course of ones life. Do not let poor handwriting keep you from journaling. In the bigger scheme of things, handwriting is not judged by others. And since we live in time that computers rule, handwritten thoughts are cherished all the more. If showing your penmanship really bothers you, then use the computer to write. Cut the words out and use and adhesive to put them in your album. Journaling is the easiest to do after all the pictures have been put in the album. It is usually the last thing to be done.
Use a template to guide your pen when you write. It adds and interesting flair to the page. If you make a mistake when writing, don't sweat it out. Use a scrap piece of paper to cover it up and start again. Use a sticker or die cut to cover up a mistake. Make the page cute by drawing a face in a letter. Dot the "i" in a word with a different color of pen or a sticker. Emphasize a word by making it bigger, bolder or changing the color. Use bullets to make a point or a list. Wrap your journaling around a picture. Journaling can be short and brief or you can use it to elaborate the details. Use a descriptive word to capture the moment. Find them in a dictionary or a thesaurus. Stories can be told by writing a poem. The best journaling is when you write like you speak. Don't be afraid to write about the good, the bad and the ugly...they make for great memories! One of the biggest mistakes people make in putting together there scrapbooks in not leaving room to journal. It is easy to fill up a page with pictures but a great album is one that has room for you to journal. Look at other sources and get creative with your lettering. Mix and match stickers and writing with a pen.
Use a decorative ruler to draw a pattern onto your paper. Use your straight scissors to cut the design. Use an adhesive to secure it to your page. Decorative scissors make a great edge for scrapbooking borders. A variety of scissors makes for a variety of scrapbooking borders in your albums. Pre-cut scrapbooking borders are available in craft stores. And they come in an array of colors and finished edges. Suppose the photos on your scrapbook page are of a great vacation to the Bahamas. You can extend the theme and give your photos a great setting by creating a sky-and-sea pattern. A chalk swath across the top of light blue, a few white swirls, and voila! Or, you may have a heritage album with terrific photos of your grandfather from the 1940s. A cut-out pattern in subtle browns to offset the shades of gray in a black and white photograph works well.
But making patterns isn't limited to drawing. You can pierce the paper with a hole punch, add ribbons and more. You can make individual piercings in paper or fold it to create a repeating pattern. The holes can be purely decorative, say a pattern of hearts and diamonds to dress up your Las Vegas vacation. Or, they can provide a space to allow photos, text and illustrations to show through. You can even jazz up the border around the holes with colored ink and combine patterns of different types. There is also a cropping tool that will put rivets into your punched holes. Baby themed scrapbooks are a popular with first time scrapbookers. Vacations, kids in sports and preserving the memories of your child's school years are also popular. Find a colored or patterned ribbon that you like and frame a border around the entire page or around a single photo. You can make a thousand and one patterns just using simple, decorative strips of ribbon. You can even use your computer to make patterns that would be hard to draw. Many graphics software packages allow you to easily create patterns unlike any you've ever seen. Or copy an image from the Internet that strikes your fancy. It's easy to paste that image into a document and manipulate it. Then print it out with your color inkjet printer. You can crop it, cut it into an interesting shape to surround photos or text, or use it for great scrapbooking borders on an album page. There's no limit to the patterns you can find. And if you don't find what you want, make your own! Return From The Scrapbooking Borders Page To The Scrapbook Page
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Organize Your Photos
Photo albums come in a lot of different sizes. The most popular size is 12 X 12. The reason is because you can get a lot of photos in them. Smaller albums are great if you only want to put one theme of pictures in them. Popular smaller sizes are 7 X 7 and 8.5 X 11.
Journaling is very important. The combination of photographs and our own personal words is what gives scrapbooking its value. Worth more than any sticker or embellishment, journaling tells the story behind the picture. Journaling is a great way to also express yourself.
You will want to make great scrapbooking borders to dress up pages of your album. Just use your pens to draw exactly what you want. You do not even have to be an artist who can draw straight lines. Straight lines are easy, just use a decorative ruler. But patterns are easy, too. If you cannot draw well free handed there are dozens of stencils, rulers and tools to help you make scrapbooking borders.