Scrapbook Tips: #1 Themes
Scrapbook Tips:
1. Page Theme
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 summer wedding, Christmas, or Halloween. Themes can also be personalized to the scrap book recipient’s special interests. Special interest themes include your favorite colors, his favorite sports photos, your kids favorite television programs or music video artist, your last camping trip in the great outdoors, or even some of your cultural influences.
Ask yourself 3 simple questions before you begin your next computer scrapbook project:
- What is the overall purpose for your scrapbook?
- Who is the scrapbook for?
- Who or what is the scrapbook about?
The answers to these three simple questions are all factors in selecting an appropriate scrapbook theme.
For instance, the scrapbook you are giving your nephew as he graduates from law school is probably completely different than the grandparent book you send your mother-inlaw. Your nephew will probably appreciate a scrapbook with photographs from school, poems, journals, and more masculine styled embellishments. Perhaps, the theme of the scrapbook could be court rooms and law libraries. You could create embellishments that looked like gavels and white wigs around various pictures of your nephew during his college years.
Your mother-in-law, on the other hand, will love a multitude of baby pictures fancifully embellished with toy blocks, ribbon, and baby fingerprints. The theme of this book will probably be your husbands childhood. Photographs could include baby and grandma with the baby as well as photos of his childhood days. A nice journal about your husband’s most cherished childhood memories could also add a nice touch.
The key here is to have a consistent theme for you scrapbook in mind before you start. When your scrapbook tells a specific story from start to finish, it becomes a treasured memory of it’s own.
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