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The Key to Creative Scrapbook Ideas is Finding Your Unique Inspiration
by: Michael Saunders Scrapbooking has always been a tradition with roots in storytelling, enhanced by the visual and tactile, rather than solely an oral focus. Scrapbooking allows you to preserve a legacy or history in the form of photographs, printed media, and memorabillia contained in decorative albums, or scrapbooks. The tremendous growth of the Internet has resulted in more creative scrapbook approaches as well as the ability to create and share online scrapbooks. The digital photography revolution has been accompanied by an explosion in creative scrapbook ideas. Every scrapbooker has one of those days now and again when it's impossible to create a decent page. As hard as you try, you can't get the pictures to look good on the page. Another situation is finding yourself in a rut. If every page starts looking then same, its time to take a break and get over your scrapbooker's block-find some new inspiration.
Inspiration is all around in the world. Turn on the television to check out your favorite celebrity's latest fashion, and this may lead to a new color scheme for one of your pages. Read a magazine and you may see a cute way of placing photographs and text on the page together. Billboards, advertisements, movie posters, and simply the scenes of your neighborhood can all become sources of inspiration if you look at the world with a scrapbooking eye. Or simply take a walk!
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Keep in mind. - There is no wrong way to scrapbook. Typically, the more creative and resourceful the person, the better the page. The main focus of each page should be the picture(s) or the letter or whatever is the most important to the creator. If you are interested in starting to digital scrapbook, or incorporate digital techniques with traditional scrapbooking, there are a myriad of Web resources available.
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