Friday, August 14, 2009

Creative Scrapbooking - Some Useful Tips For You

How do you define creative scrapbooking? How does it differs to a photo album?

As a start, creative scrapbooking refers to being innovative, inventive, original and imaginative in designing your scrapbooking projects. Your ideas and imaginations are the key to do creative scrapbooking and sometimesthese are not easy to come by.

Let say you are stuck and running out of ideas, you'll need some inspiration. These creative scrapbooking tips might be able to help you sparks that creativity bulbs in your head :)

a) If you have scrapbooking friends, you can get some ideas by looking at their scrapbook project.

Observe how they do the layout, the theme that they chose, type of fonts and embellishment that they use and so on. These can help you in planning your scrapbook. With these ideas, think about how you can use it to fit your scrapbook layout

b) Why not check out the craft and hobby sections in the library and the bookshops

They normally carry a lot of craft and scrapbooking books books and magazine that can give you a lot of ideas. Browsing through these materials can make you spoilt for choices and you might be ovewhelmed by the possibilities.

Sometimes, they have special section for children craft book. The good thing about children craft book is that they are normally full of pictures and can give you a lot of inspirations for your own scrapbook designs. So, you can always use this for your kids scrapbooking ideas

c) Visit the craft shops

This place housed many craft materials and kits that will guarantee to make your imagination run wild . Sometimes, they even have sample layouts and themes for showcase. These alone can be a great way to get additional ideas for your project

With all the ideas that you come across, don't forget to jot them down in your notebook. This will be your reference later. Just let the ideas flows, you can always sort them out once you are ready.



Well, before you start your scrapbook project, check if you have all the material handy. Having them all ready will save you a lot of times later.

Going through all the three steps above will make it much easier for you to come out with theme and layouts for your crapbooking projects .

Creative scrapbooking is supposed to be fun so remember these tips :

1) Let your imagination run wild and enjoy the process

2) Be creative with the colors and shapes. Sometimes using contrasting colors and shapes can make a really big impact on your design

Enjoy these creative scrapbooking tips. Be artistic and unique and you'll love the results. If you are serious about scrapbooking, you might want to check my site Creative Scrapbooking Tips