For example, a vacation-themed scrapbook can tell the growing story of your children’s development. Your family’s life will unfold on every page by adding layouts to this album after each vacation. Theme scrapbooking will organize and transform your approach to scrapbooking life’s memories. It’s easy to do if you follow these simple Golden Rules.
Golden Rule #1: Using a theme to create your album will give it consistency.
The simplicity we all strive for in our craft can be achieved by using theme albums. A life focal point at the heart of your album can accomplish this goal. It will manage and maintain a level of simplicity in your life and within your craft. A central theme will tie your pages together and show the natural progression over time of you, your family and your friends.
Albums with theme covers introduce a variety of interests into your scrapbooking. A central topic ties your pages together. Themed albums allow you to keep several albums going at the same time and easily update them with new photos. Three types of theme albums I recommend are:
•Completed album: Our New Mexico vacation scrapbook
•Ongoing album: A Florida-themed scrapbook allows me to see how my family members have grown through the years we have lived there.
•Annual scrapbook: Our yearly trip to the same destination.
An appropriate style or color of scrapbook can be selected, relevant to the central theme. Consider a scrapbook covered in fabric print that displays the perfect theme for your next album.
A solid color album with a window makes an instant theme album. A Disney postcard in the View Thru Window of a Scrap Artistry scrapbook gives you an awesome Disney theme album. This is an easy way to create your own themes!
Golden Rule #2: Store photos by theme and organize them as they are printed.
By storing photos chronologically by theme in files or boxes, you can easily create theme scrapbooks. Journaling can be stored on your computer in files with the same names or printed with the photos. You can be more productive with this simple method and save time for enjoying life.
Golden Rule #3: Journal now and save time later
Page titles can be stored on your computer with the theme journaling. Print or handwrite the journaling you want to include with the photos now and you will not only remember more of that special event but you will also be prepared when you are ready to create a layout.
Golden Rule #4: Don’t let your craft rule your life become its master.
Lose the dread and enjoy scrapbooking again by mastering the pure joy scrapbooking brings instead of just focusing on products and techniques.
Life is made up of central themes and can be broken down into smaller ones. Use this natural order to streamline scrapbooking. Tie together your scrapbooking with a theme for every album. The possibilities are endless: Tropical vacations, Road Trips, World Travel…Check them out at www.scrapartistry.com.
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