Scrapbooking Sayings

Many avid Scrapbookers know that your Scrapbook Pages are not just about the layouts, photo’s or elements on page – but also the words and how you say them.  Some people struggle to find the right words, others struggle with how to lay out the words on page. Often famous quotes or sayings from well known authors or poets will do the trick.

Sometimes even reading the sayings of others is enough. Perhaps you just need the inspiration to get you started.  Then what you say is far more true to you than someone else’s borrowed words.

Below are 3  very popular book suggestions that include great collections of words, poems quotes and sayings that might be of interest to you:

The Ultimate Guide To The Perfect Word

 Embellished Emotions 

The Write Baby And Toddler Words

 

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Romantic Scrapbooking Ideas

Romantic Scrapbooking 101
by Cijaye DePradine

There is a common term that a photo can say a thousand words, but Scrapbooking your photos can provide more than just words, it can preserve memories and momento’s much more profoundly than a photo ever would on it’s own.

Scrapbooks are a way for people to reminisce about their past (forever) and to share those memories with their children, grand children, great granchildren and onwards!

Do you know how your parents, grandparents or even great grandparents met – or how deep their love really was? Wouldn’t that have been a heartwarming story to read?

What about you? What about your love story? Nothing is as impressive or a more fitting compliment to a partner than a scrapbook that is created just for them or about the two of you and your profound moments together.

Think about it for a second, a scrapbook that creatively tells a story with pictures and journalled memories of the time you have spent with your partner – is much more than a box of photos and a few cards or letters.

The person you feature on your Romantic Scrapbook pages could be your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your wife or husband. It is not subjective to certain people.

A scrapbook is an amazing gift for any occasion, and is probably the most personalised present that one person can give to another.

Now…if you are new to Scrapbooking, you may be like many other people who believe that scrapbooks are just another way of putting photos together with a few titles, captions or summarized details.

But once you have been exposed to the exponential opportunity of this craft, you will know simply that this is not true. There is so much more that an individual can do with a scrapbook.

Your scrapbook album can be a way of saying ‘I care’, ‘I love you’, ‘You mean more to me than you know’ and then some! It can help you express you love for someone in ways you never could before.

Romantic scrapbooks can provide the voice for you if you need one and they can bare the soul for you if you are afraid to show yours.

The first step in making a scrapbook for your partner is choosing the right scrapbook album; there are so many different types of scrapbook albums available but depending on what you plan to do with the album or put onto the scrapbook pages, you will need to choose a scrapbook album that will be just right for you. *To learn more about this…please preview Lesson One of our Scrapbooking Tutorial.

Step two: Once you have bought yourself the right album, the most inspiring step is putting your scrapbook together.

There are no restrictions on what you can put in the scrapbook. All you need to do is gather everything that means something to you and then let the pages reveal themselves.

A typical scrapbook will most likely have photos, cards, letters, stories and the like.

Sounds easy enough doesn’t it? But what if you want to be really creative, and not just create a standard Scrapbook like everyone else. What if you really want this Romantic Scrapbook Album to mean as much to your partner as it does you?

Here are some quick ideas on how to make your romantic scrapbook something to talk about!

Much of Romantic Scrapbooking is creating the scrapbook together as a couple. You could decide together what goes into the Scrapbook and what that means to each of you. You can even tell he said / she said stories.

*My wedding Scrapbook does exactly that. In fact we started out that way.

With the engagement party photo’s – we built up the story of how it all went down (it was very romantic and a complete surprise to me). I even included a digital disc of the engagement itself and then in the later pages – the wedding disc was revealed.

NOW…we never have to look for those videos again, we always know where they are – and the photo’s, journaling and accents tell the rest of the story!

In your Couples Romance Scrapbook you may wish to include some of what I just mentioned and / or all of the following:

• Flower petals from the first bouquet shared between you
• Gift wrap from the first gift shared between you
• Media clippings of events you have been to together (or tickets or reciepts)
• Flyers or business cards from places you frequent together
• Favorite recipes
• Favorite song lists (or lyrics) or poems

But if this romantic scrapbook is about the person you love – and not so much about you…you may want to take an “About You” approach and dedicate an album to them – profiling their life!

For example…if your partner is a big community player and is in the press frequently – or just so happens to have a lot of photo’s with him / or her in it (like my husband – the sports coach), a scrapbook of all his / her events/ appearances would be an ideal way for you to say that you love him / her.

OR…If your partner has a big family – maybe a scrapbook including photos of his / her family members and stories of why they love him / her is just the right sentiment!

The most important point is that there are no restrictions on what you can put in the scrapbook, the only limitation is your imagination.

Bottom line is: scrapbooks are a great way to say you care and are a fantastic way of showing love and affection, as they are personalised and are a very initimate means of sharing past memories with your partner.

The next time you are planning that next romantic gift for your partner, maybe you can make it a scrapbook!

It might just be the most sentimental gift you have ever gifted to your partner, and is guarantee to be one of a kind!

Happy Scrapping.

Cijaye DePradine.

P.S. Do you have any other Romantic Scrapbooking tips to share?  If so please click on “leave a comment” in the top right hand corner of this post and leave your comments here.  In fact, if your comment is BOOK WORTHY – we might even publish it in the “Romantic Scrapbooking Secrets” book we are currently working on!

Scrapbooking Ideas – What to Scrapbook.

Want to scrapbook but don’t know WHAT to scrapbook?  Do you have too many ideas and need some direction or do you simply need scrapbook ideas because you are fresh out?

Why not…consider creating a scrapbook around the following:

1. Graduation Scrapbook Ideas (supplies / quotes):  Make the cover of the scrapbook a grad cap with the tassle, or make the entire scrapbook digital – print the pages  & then present it as a scroll with a nice graduation style seal on it.  You can also select your titles, journal entries or simply get inspired from one of the many inspirational graduation quotes we found from quote garden.
2. Love Scrapbook Ideas (supplies / quotes):  Make the album from heart shaped chipboard (bought at any scrapbook supplies store) or form the album from a 3×6 album with the letters LOVE on the front. (You can even use thin wooden letters (or chipboard) and make some of them bleed off of the edges).  Of course you can also go wedding album style if you are already married or are planning to share your love scrapbook at your upcoming wedding.   Don’t forget to include old cards, photo’s of gifts or precious moments shared on valentines, birthdays or holidays. Of course you could also add a few traditional love poems or love quotes to your romantic scrapbook album too.  Don’t forget another option (if your significant other is willing to be crafty) is to create a couples album.  That’s a nice way to celebrate your love too.  The two of you working together on a he said | she said album can be a LOT of fun! For more romantic, love scrapbook ideas – click here.
3. Baby Scrapbook Ideas (supplies / quotes):  Make a diaper album!  Yes, that’s right – you can get really creative with your next baby album by lining a diaper (yes, I said a diaper) with a chipboard album, wrapping the front and back covers with ribbon and tying that ribbon and fringing it on the tops and bottoms of the covers….!!!  (A crop-a-dile will do the trick of punching the wholes through all materials quite nicely too (yes, some trimming might need to take place depending on the make of diaper – but if you are a creative person, I am certain you can figure out how to make that work .  Then, you can use a hot glue gun to stick titles and / or embellishments on the front.  If you wish to ditch the diaper for a moment, you can also create a vertical baby bottle shaped scrapbook – or even a simple 3×6 album with the word BABY on the front. For more baby scrapbooking ideas – click here.
4. Travel Scrapbook Ideas (supplies / quotes):  Traveling is way too fun!  And scrapbooking about travel is even more fun.  You can take any old daytimer / calendar and turn it into a scrapbook (as long as it’s built well).  You can also shape / decorate your album like luggage or beach towels. (I would wrap my cover in beach towel if I were scrapbooking about travels somewhere hot and sunny).  Furthermore you can use a whole string of luggage tags and make an album out of those together (very small pages mind you – but different).  Don’t forget to include your ticket stubs, local brochures and any other memorabilia you collected on the trip as well.  The travel quotes are endless as well – but here are a few to get you started.
5. Disney Scrapbook Ideas (supplies / quotes): Now who doesn’t absolutely adore Disney.  Okay – maybe if you have never been to disneyland or disneyworld the novelty of it all fades to gray most days…but if you have been there…you know that it truly is one of the most magical places on earth!  I fully comprehend why so many people want to work there…but I actually want to LIVE there!  I would love to spend my weekends riding the coaster at space mountain or enduring the journey of Indiana Jones and breaking the mystery of the big ball (and how they do that!!! ????)…so why not preserve the memories of it all in a scrapbook?  I can not think of any valid reason why not.  It’s scrapbookers heaven! The photo’s are full of life, adventure and color!  The theme packs and paper packs and even albums are one of a kind (literally).  You can go full bling or totally earthy and there is still a place for disney amongst it all.  Disney is for everyone.  Just take a peek at any Disney Travel website and you will not.  For all intents and purposes your disney scrapbook can be anything you can dream of. You can create a mickey mouse album shape (a little harder than pancakes mind you – but creative nonetheless) and call it a day or you can simply gather everything and anything disney scrapbooking related  that you can find and let those supplies guide you!  The ideas and supplies are endless.  You can find something disney in your local scrapbooking store or even on ebay.  I do recommend searching the supplies first and then building from there. Or you could start with Disney Quotes too.

Happy scrapping….

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