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Scrapbook
Journaling
There is more than one way to do journaling,
and scrapbooking is a most creative way. Most people keep picture
albums, scrapbooks, and some even keep journals. Scrapbooking
is a way to bring them both together. Scrapbook journaling is
a way to record your life with photographs, keepsakes, and written
accounts together in one album. What better way to chronicle
the important events of your life than by scrapbook journaling?
One of the best parts about scrapbook journaling
is how your family will look upon your work with pure joy. It
is a very open and available journal for your friends and family
to look through whenever they wish. It documents their lives
as well as your own. Children delight in seeing how their parents
got together, married and lived before their births. And it
helps to fill in the gaps that young children have about their
early lives.
Here are some
thoughts to get you started in Scrapbook Journaling.
- One of the biggest misconceptions about
scrapbooking or memory books is that you have to be creative
and it is expensive. Neither is true. Certainly, a creative
person might make a more elaborate page and book, and you can
spend a lot of money on all the latest gadgets and materials,
you can still create beautiful pages with simple elegance and
basic supplies. There are many magazines, books and websites
with ideas to help you. And you can add so much more to a page
by writing. Add your thoughts, comments and even quotes from
family members to the pages. In the end it is the comments and
pictures, bits of memories that will be cherished far and above
the fancy doo-dads and creative flair!
May We Suggest....
Resources on Scrapbook Journaling
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Scrapbook Journaling Made Simple
by Memory Makers Books
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Paperback / Aug 2002 / ISBN 1892127237
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Art of the Scrapbook
A
Guide to Handbinding and Decorating Memory Books, Albums,
and Art Journals
by Diane V. Maurer-Mathison
Hardcover / May 2000 / ISBN 0823010198
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Journaling
by Joan R. Neubauer; Kathleen Adams
Paperback / Nov 2000 / ISBN 0028639804
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Return to the Different Styles of Journaling Page
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