Holidays are a time when traditions are held closely, and sentiment is dear. When composing a family scrapbook, you will find that much of the content is made up of holiday content. Christmas time is most likely the season in which you will base much of your winter holiday themes around. But what about Thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is a wonderful opportunity to really chronicle family’s thoughts and time together as a family. A great addition to the information you collect would be Thanksgiving poems. Lighthearted and fun, these poem selections give you the chance to choose sentiment as it is reflected in words. Sound cheesy? Thanksgiving poems offer a reflection in words that one will appreciate especially after the passage of time. Words have the uncanny ability to bring one back to a thought sequence or state of mind that they were in when originally those words were first spoken or read.
Where to find Thanksgiving poems? You can find a great amount of useable verse online. Prayers that are repeated often, songs that are sung, and children’s books are terrific places to begin the search for Thanksgiving poems. Have a child sit down and create a ‘Things I am Thankful For” poem. These are sure hits and are often points of much discussion and debate among the children in years to come.
One of the best Thanksgiving poem layouts I have seen was a simple poem, written by a six-year old boy on parchment paper. At the bottom of the page, his mother and all of their family members signed and dated it. This was an excellent preservation of the little boy’s thoughts and feelings as well as a very unique presentation of them.
Thanksgiving poems make for great inclusions in party themed scrapbooks as well. If your office or workplace celebrates Thanksgiving and you intend on including pictures and materials from the party, a fun way to involve your co-workers and employees would be to bring a sheet of plain notebook paper and ask each of them to compose one line of the poem, each trying to rhyme with the last, explaining a piece or portion of their life for which they are the most thankful. If you exercise a little bit of forethought and mention this to them prior to the party, you could even have them bring in an item relating to the object of their thankfulness and find a way to fit that into the layout as well. Be sure that they understand that they will be unable to receive these items back and that they shouldn’t be too personal in nature. That being said, you will find yourself amazed at the items of which your fellow co-workers will provide!
A cute and smart wedding theme using your Thanksgiving poems would be to ask guests and family before the wedding to compose short verses about the couple-to-be. Furnish them with small tidbits of ivory paper or parchment and pens and tell them to get to work! You can provide a small basket somewhere at the reception for them to place them in and put it away until you have the chance to piece everything together. Depending on the type and thickness of your paper choice, you can furl and fray the edges of your paper on the top and bottom before pasting it into your scrapbook area thus creating miniature scrolls. For a simpler option, do a set of ‘his’ and ‘hers’ Thanksgiving poems---being sure to include thankfulness for each other, of course!
Thanksgiving poems are a fun and unique way to bring a little character to the Thanksgiving area of your scrapbooks. A few verses can add a lot of flavor to your holiday scrapbook serving!
Wednesday 21 April 2010
Tuesday 20 April 2010
Love Poems for Scrapbooking
February is the month of love, of course. Valentines and candy have always been associated with poems and love quotes. This year, make it personal by using your own love quotes and thoughts as a part of the layout in your Valentine’s section of your scrapbook. Experiencing a little writer’s block? You don’t have to write your own! There’s a lot of material on websites, in books, cards, and many other places (even candy!) that is great for substituting for your own quotes.
Feeling brave and the need to be more involved in the writing of the quotes? Try having your friends and family create their own love quotes this year! They can be made up from two words, or twenty! Keep a special collection box (in my case a papered shoebox) in a place that is easily accessible to all of your family members for them to drop them in as they write them.
Family Valentines themes are often the most fun. Love quotes from family can be especially endearing and at times, even humorous. Depending upon the length of your valentines, you can use a number of designs when including the quotes in your page layout. If your family is really involved, and enjoys taking part in scrapbooking, you might even ask each one of them to create a valentine with their love quote written on it to be included on the page with the others.
Have older children who are not so enthusiastic with their involvement? Cut out heart shapes and write the verses into them. Then fold them in half and paste one side to the scrapbook page. Once the scrapbook has been closed for a considerable amount of time, the hearts will remain closed after the book has been opened to that page.
Many weddings are planned during the month of February (wonder why!). A very special way to preserve love quotes from sweethearts during this time is for each to sit down and write the other a love letter. Once the letters have been written, a very delicate and sentimental way of including them in the design of the scrapbook page could be placing each letter into an envelope and wax-sealing them (before the other is allowed to read it) and pasting the envelope into an already prepared scrapbook page. In the future, you can designate a specific time (an anniversary or special occasion) at which you will both break the seals and open and read your letters. How romantic!
Planning a Valentines feature in your work scrapbook? Pair up male and female employees who would like to be involved and have them write short love quotes or a funny note about one another. Collect them, and create ‘sweethearts’ by cutting out pairs of adjoined heart-shaped candy pieces and writing each other’s love quotes and thoughts about the other and notating their names at the bottom. Be sure to display them at the next year’s party so that everyone can poke fun at the previous year’s sweethearts. If you have access to a Polaroid camera and can take snapshots of them, you can include sweetheart mugshots in your designs.
The basic rules of scrapbook composition during the month of February are the same as they are throughout the rest of the year; always keep in mind that the layout and designs you use in the scrapbook are going to be a part of the memories that you cherish forever. If you have further insight or ideas concerning to makeup of your own scrapbook pages, go with your intuition. Any form of scrapbooking is a good one. The designs are not made to overwhelm the pictures and pieces of memories in the book, but to compliment them! The most important thing to remember is to have fun!
Feeling brave and the need to be more involved in the writing of the quotes? Try having your friends and family create their own love quotes this year! They can be made up from two words, or twenty! Keep a special collection box (in my case a papered shoebox) in a place that is easily accessible to all of your family members for them to drop them in as they write them.
Family Valentines themes are often the most fun. Love quotes from family can be especially endearing and at times, even humorous. Depending upon the length of your valentines, you can use a number of designs when including the quotes in your page layout. If your family is really involved, and enjoys taking part in scrapbooking, you might even ask each one of them to create a valentine with their love quote written on it to be included on the page with the others.
Have older children who are not so enthusiastic with their involvement? Cut out heart shapes and write the verses into them. Then fold them in half and paste one side to the scrapbook page. Once the scrapbook has been closed for a considerable amount of time, the hearts will remain closed after the book has been opened to that page.
Many weddings are planned during the month of February (wonder why!). A very special way to preserve love quotes from sweethearts during this time is for each to sit down and write the other a love letter. Once the letters have been written, a very delicate and sentimental way of including them in the design of the scrapbook page could be placing each letter into an envelope and wax-sealing them (before the other is allowed to read it) and pasting the envelope into an already prepared scrapbook page. In the future, you can designate a specific time (an anniversary or special occasion) at which you will both break the seals and open and read your letters. How romantic!
Planning a Valentines feature in your work scrapbook? Pair up male and female employees who would like to be involved and have them write short love quotes or a funny note about one another. Collect them, and create ‘sweethearts’ by cutting out pairs of adjoined heart-shaped candy pieces and writing each other’s love quotes and thoughts about the other and notating their names at the bottom. Be sure to display them at the next year’s party so that everyone can poke fun at the previous year’s sweethearts. If you have access to a Polaroid camera and can take snapshots of them, you can include sweetheart mugshots in your designs.
The basic rules of scrapbook composition during the month of February are the same as they are throughout the rest of the year; always keep in mind that the layout and designs you use in the scrapbook are going to be a part of the memories that you cherish forever. If you have further insight or ideas concerning to makeup of your own scrapbook pages, go with your intuition. Any form of scrapbooking is a good one. The designs are not made to overwhelm the pictures and pieces of memories in the book, but to compliment them! The most important thing to remember is to have fun!
Monday 19 April 2010
Scarpbooking Layouts for Baby
Scrapbooking layouts for baby are one of the most enjoyable and entertaining types of scrapbook layouts there are. They offer the chance to be light-hearted and whimsical and serious about preserving memories at the same time. There are many places to find ideas and suggestions about scrapbooking layouts for baby. If you’re running short on ideas and high in enthusiasm, this article will offer you some potential starting points.
A family-tree themed page is always a terrific beginning to scrapbooking layouts for baby. If you are not an artist, and determined you’re not able to draw the tree on your own, not to worry! There are tons of apple-tree coloring pages available on the internet for downloading and printing that will work just fine. Not sure where to find one? Then try going to Google and doing an image search for apple tree coloring pages. You’re likely to find what you are looking for there. Once you have picked out the tree that you intend to use, print it out on construction paper (regular paper if you prefer to color it in yourself), and cut it out. Then, go back to Google’s image search and look around for a large but proportionate looking apple to print off in multiples. Print off as many apples as names that you have in your family tree and cut them out and paste them on the tree. If you have small headshots of your family members that you do not mind rounding off, you might choose to paste pictures of your family members in your tree rather then writing in names. Either way is fine. If you’re just writing in their names, you might want to add additional information like their birthday to make up for extra space. Once the tree has been assembled, you might want to color or draw a simple sky and ground background on your page before you paste them into it. I have seen a very cute version of this type of scrapbooking layouts for baby with a stork in the air carrying a bundle above the tree. Whatever suites your personal tastes.
In the following pages, any ultrasound pictures, congratulations cards, things of that nature are nice to include. Simple drawings or printed images of rattles, diaper pins, babies, storks, teddy bears, or favorite cartoon characters are nice ways to compliment general scrapbooking layouts for baby. Shower notes, birth announcements, and other paper sentiments scattered throughout are another inclusion that you will not want to overlook.
Now the fun begins! Scrapbooking layouts for baby’s birth stories are your baby’s introduction to the world. Pictures, recounts, funny stories, all have a place in your baby’s story. Small quotes and thoughts from family and friends who are present at your baby’s birth are cute to add. Placing them inside little ‘footprints’ stamped throughtout the pages is a good way to integrate them into your story. Baby bandaids or store-bought diaper pins glued to the top corners of photographs are a neat detail to add.
Most content involved in scrapbooking layouts for baby is gender based. Lighthouses and rocking horses are cute themes for boys. Ribbons, teddy bears, and ballerina slippers are good add-ins to a little girl’s scrapbooking layout. Traditionally, pink is the base color for most girl’s scrapbooks and blue is the base for many boy’s. Feel free to choose any color base or a variety of them for your baby’s scrapbook. This is another way of showing character and personality.
Small inclusions from your stay at the hospital make excellent touching finishes to your scrapbooking layouts for baby. Measuring tapes used to measure baby’s head circumference, knit hats, and sometimes even socks. One of the baby’s first warming blankets can make a very cherished outside cover if you are brave enough to tackle the application.
Finally, and most importantly, parent’s input is vital to creating good scrapbooking layouts for baby. It is this information that is likely to be the most cherished aspect of your baby’s scrapbook. Both to yourself and even to your baby in the future.
A family-tree themed page is always a terrific beginning to scrapbooking layouts for baby. If you are not an artist, and determined you’re not able to draw the tree on your own, not to worry! There are tons of apple-tree coloring pages available on the internet for downloading and printing that will work just fine. Not sure where to find one? Then try going to Google and doing an image search for apple tree coloring pages. You’re likely to find what you are looking for there. Once you have picked out the tree that you intend to use, print it out on construction paper (regular paper if you prefer to color it in yourself), and cut it out. Then, go back to Google’s image search and look around for a large but proportionate looking apple to print off in multiples. Print off as many apples as names that you have in your family tree and cut them out and paste them on the tree. If you have small headshots of your family members that you do not mind rounding off, you might choose to paste pictures of your family members in your tree rather then writing in names. Either way is fine. If you’re just writing in their names, you might want to add additional information like their birthday to make up for extra space. Once the tree has been assembled, you might want to color or draw a simple sky and ground background on your page before you paste them into it. I have seen a very cute version of this type of scrapbooking layouts for baby with a stork in the air carrying a bundle above the tree. Whatever suites your personal tastes.
In the following pages, any ultrasound pictures, congratulations cards, things of that nature are nice to include. Simple drawings or printed images of rattles, diaper pins, babies, storks, teddy bears, or favorite cartoon characters are nice ways to compliment general scrapbooking layouts for baby. Shower notes, birth announcements, and other paper sentiments scattered throughout are another inclusion that you will not want to overlook.
Now the fun begins! Scrapbooking layouts for baby’s birth stories are your baby’s introduction to the world. Pictures, recounts, funny stories, all have a place in your baby’s story. Small quotes and thoughts from family and friends who are present at your baby’s birth are cute to add. Placing them inside little ‘footprints’ stamped throughtout the pages is a good way to integrate them into your story. Baby bandaids or store-bought diaper pins glued to the top corners of photographs are a neat detail to add.
Most content involved in scrapbooking layouts for baby is gender based. Lighthouses and rocking horses are cute themes for boys. Ribbons, teddy bears, and ballerina slippers are good add-ins to a little girl’s scrapbooking layout. Traditionally, pink is the base color for most girl’s scrapbooks and blue is the base for many boy’s. Feel free to choose any color base or a variety of them for your baby’s scrapbook. This is another way of showing character and personality.
Small inclusions from your stay at the hospital make excellent touching finishes to your scrapbooking layouts for baby. Measuring tapes used to measure baby’s head circumference, knit hats, and sometimes even socks. One of the baby’s first warming blankets can make a very cherished outside cover if you are brave enough to tackle the application.
Finally, and most importantly, parent’s input is vital to creating good scrapbooking layouts for baby. It is this information that is likely to be the most cherished aspect of your baby’s scrapbook. Both to yourself and even to your baby in the future.
Friday 16 April 2010
Wedding Scrapbook Pages
Wedding scrapbooks are a wonderful place to begin one’s own tradition of scrapbooking. One of the key elements behind success in wedding-based scrapbooks is the element of planning. Let’s face it; weddings are often the most upheavaled, disruptive experiences of our lives. Details are almost always left out, disasters do strike on occasion, and very unusual and distinctive circumstances abound. These things are, after all, what makes a wedding a wedding! If you are a careful planner, you can begin building your wedding scrapbook even before the wedding begins. This way, you will have a much easier time when creating and assembling your wedding scrapbook pages.
It’s very helpful to have potential ideas in mind to begin with. The best way to collect your thoughts and gather ideas is to sit down and compile a short list of all of the activities you would like to include in your wedding scrapbook pages. Pre-wedding parties, gatherings, and even honeymoons are all times which you might like to include pictures and other items of keepsake value from. Noting this before these times actually occur should be a great advantage to you. You can prepare special activities for you to indulge in with friends and family just for the sake of preserving these times and memories.
A great starting point at which to begin creating your wedding scrapbook pages is a display of both of your lives before the wedding. A very cute way to do this is by creating an introduction page in the first single page opening of your scrapbook and then turning the two adjoined pages following after them into his and hers pages. A portrait picture of each of you on opposite facing pages surrounded by memorabilia of life before each other are a terrific inclusion in your wedding scrapbook pages. Small items of importance signifying personal hobbies and interests belonging to each of you are good to insert along with old nicknames, buddies, sports, and any other defining characteristics of your personalities.
Once you have defined your spouse and your own initial character and hobbies, great ideas for wedding scrapbook pages are ‘how we met’ pages explaining (from both sides) your first meeting. First dates and commitment dates are also wonderful themes for wedding scrapbook pages. If you have old roses that you have pressed, any items of this nature, this is an excellent time to include these in your scrapbook.
Any gifts or quotes from bachelor’s or bachelorette’s parties are a nice way to add a little fun. Be creative. You can even post a sheet at your party of advice to be offered to the happy couple. You will find your friends will offer unique and insightful suggestions to both you and your partner. The comments and thoughts definitely will make for great subject matter for one of your wedding scrapbook pages.
Pieces of memorabilia included in your wedding ceremony are also items of interest. Invitations, guests lists, floral cuts (pressed of course), and even special made napkins or scrolls. A clipped piece of the bouquet, I’ve seen even a snipped piece of the petticoat inside wedding scrapbook pages.
After the wedding is over, a very good way to close your wedding scrapbook pages is to take the time (both of you, if possible) to write down a few afterthoughts and tie them into the closing of your book.
A wedding scrapbook is an opportunity to preserve and safe keep memories tucked well into wedding scrapbook pages for yourself and generations to come. When compiling your scrapbook, take special care to note any obscure details you might forget that you would like to always remember. The more time and attention you put into the planning and creation of your scrapbook, the more clarity your wedding scrapbook pages will hold for the future. Good luck!
It’s very helpful to have potential ideas in mind to begin with. The best way to collect your thoughts and gather ideas is to sit down and compile a short list of all of the activities you would like to include in your wedding scrapbook pages. Pre-wedding parties, gatherings, and even honeymoons are all times which you might like to include pictures and other items of keepsake value from. Noting this before these times actually occur should be a great advantage to you. You can prepare special activities for you to indulge in with friends and family just for the sake of preserving these times and memories.
A great starting point at which to begin creating your wedding scrapbook pages is a display of both of your lives before the wedding. A very cute way to do this is by creating an introduction page in the first single page opening of your scrapbook and then turning the two adjoined pages following after them into his and hers pages. A portrait picture of each of you on opposite facing pages surrounded by memorabilia of life before each other are a terrific inclusion in your wedding scrapbook pages. Small items of importance signifying personal hobbies and interests belonging to each of you are good to insert along with old nicknames, buddies, sports, and any other defining characteristics of your personalities.
Once you have defined your spouse and your own initial character and hobbies, great ideas for wedding scrapbook pages are ‘how we met’ pages explaining (from both sides) your first meeting. First dates and commitment dates are also wonderful themes for wedding scrapbook pages. If you have old roses that you have pressed, any items of this nature, this is an excellent time to include these in your scrapbook.
Any gifts or quotes from bachelor’s or bachelorette’s parties are a nice way to add a little fun. Be creative. You can even post a sheet at your party of advice to be offered to the happy couple. You will find your friends will offer unique and insightful suggestions to both you and your partner. The comments and thoughts definitely will make for great subject matter for one of your wedding scrapbook pages.
Pieces of memorabilia included in your wedding ceremony are also items of interest. Invitations, guests lists, floral cuts (pressed of course), and even special made napkins or scrolls. A clipped piece of the bouquet, I’ve seen even a snipped piece of the petticoat inside wedding scrapbook pages.
After the wedding is over, a very good way to close your wedding scrapbook pages is to take the time (both of you, if possible) to write down a few afterthoughts and tie them into the closing of your book.
A wedding scrapbook is an opportunity to preserve and safe keep memories tucked well into wedding scrapbook pages for yourself and generations to come. When compiling your scrapbook, take special care to note any obscure details you might forget that you would like to always remember. The more time and attention you put into the planning and creation of your scrapbook, the more clarity your wedding scrapbook pages will hold for the future. Good luck!
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