Shadow Box Scrapbook

Shadow box scrapbooking is just a matter of placing an important page taken out of your scrapbook and mounted inside a shadow box and then hung on the wall. What happens when you do this? For one thing it puts that page on display. Perhaps it was a very special celebration that brings wonderful thoughts to mind. Or maybe a vacation taken some years ago that was enjoyed by everyone. What does this do for you? Essentially it brings a piece of your scrapbook out on display. More importantly, shadow-boxing pages on display brings those wonderful thoughts and good feelings back to mind. Those thoughts and feelings have a powerful affect on how your day will turn out.

Your life is made up of days, hours and minutes. Each day has the potential to be a wonderful day of peace and pleasure or anxiety and distress. Choose a life of wonderment not bewilderment. Take a few moments the next time you are at the store, pick-up an eloquent but inexpensive shadow box, select one of your scrapbook memory pages that inspires feelings and mount it on display where you cannot miss it. Be encouraged and gain the joy from that page. Use it as a conversation starter with family and friends. More important, use it as a conversation starter with yourself and your feelings.

Oversized Scrapbooks

In Hanoi, Vietnam Japanese photographer Hitomi Toyama stands next to her world’s largest scrapbook It measures 4m X 3m and weighs a thousand kilograms. This picture album features more than fifty three photographs taken by Toyama. The photograph album titled “Women of Vietnam” has secured a location within the Guinness Book of World Records and requires two people to flip a page, and you almost certainly have to stand 10m away to wholly understand the beauty of the shots.

Scrapbook blogs a waste of time

Here’s how to waste a good weekend. I finally got time out of my busy schedule this last weekend to spend quality time working with my scrapbook ideas. I am disgusted about scrapbook idea blogs. Is every blog only about money? I researched 628 blogs from around the world and the only thing you will find is repetitive discussions about the same topics. It seems as if one person has written some article or book and every blog or web site  has copied and regurgitated that same information. And the only thing you see is some sort of advertisement or some product they are trying to sell. 

Well, my frustration has led me to the decision to do something about this gap of information. I have decided to discover from real people who are real scrapbook enthusiasts (those who love preserving the experiences of life) and real experts who have the skill combined with the passion and the real insights and secrets of developing meaningful scrapbook outcomes as a result great scrapbook ideas. And I am going to package those valuable bits of insights and make them available here for those of us interested so stay tuned!

Scrapbooking Ideas-How themes make the difference

Essentially, scrapbooking ideas mostly come from choosing a theme. A theme can help you to make sense of the pages you want to put in to your scrapbook, the order you want to place them in and even the colors that are appropriate for your theme. Those are good reasons to choose a theme. But another important reason for choosing a theme is that a theme can serve to inspire you and give you new and interesting for scrapbook page ideas and items to add to your scrapbook. 

Let's consider some scrapbook ideas or themes. As you examine some of these and their descriptions imagine what you might posses to support that particular theme. What artifacts you may have. What photographs you already have that can start filling out pages of life memories. 

Themes are often approached with a combination of characters and concepts. Maybe you want to make an album about the life of aunt Jane. What were her favorite colors? What were her favorite flowers? What this does is wraps the personality of the person into your scrapbook.

So think about a particular person and make an album just about that person. Thus, the theme would be their life events, their experiences, their thoughts about those experiences, what feelings they had at the time, what milestones were reached. You could do an album of chronological events within that person's life time, or highlight a particular time they had. 

I will add more to these theme concepts soon. But this will at least get you started. Think in terms of themes and strategies to work out those themes. In turn, those themes and strategies combined will lead the most interesting, personalized scrapbook page ideas you can image. And it is within those wonderful pages that hold and stores profound life memories.

Scrapbook Master

Lover's Scrapbook Quotes

How about the following ones?

I think they are beautiful and suitable, and hope you like them!

- 1. Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness

- 2. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (Bible 1st Corinthians 13:7)

- 3. Love is a game that two can play and both win. 

- 4. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. 

- 5. The heart that loves is always young.

- 6. Love is not what the mind thinks, but what the heart feels.

- 7. Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

- 8. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Hope you enjoy...

Journaling: Expert Scrapbooking habit and discipline

Scrapbooks are all about your memories. Only you have lived your life and were blessed with your experiences. No one else can speak to or know what took place, what these events led to, your feelings at that time. Therefore, you need a way to track what took place, your history, your life events and experiences. The best method to do this is via journaling. Scrapbooking is all about life.

Journaling is like a diary in the sense that you record things that took place. However, a journal is more like an accounting thing whereby you record events and actions as if a transaction entry much like in an accounting journal. By making these entries you keep fresh what actually took place, when, where and those involved. So how is a journal maintained?

A scrapbook journal is maintained effectively only if it is portable and easy and quick to use. The way you use a journal then is to first have it with you at all times. Next, bring it out when you experience something or have a feeling about something. It may just be an urge to express yourself on something. Therefore, an entry does not require some special event or occasion to make an entry. It may just be something that struck a nerve in you in the moment.

Scrapbook Master