For a long time I would not sit down and Scrapbook unless I had hours of time available and great inspiration for a design in my mind. In other words, I would not sit down and Scrapbook…EVER! Seriously, how many of us ever have enough time or enough artistic inspiration to Scrapbook. Oh, I’m sure there are a few of you out there, but I am not one of them. It occurred to me if I have to wait to get started I will never get started. So I have a new way to scrap and it so simple, it can be done in 10 minutes or 3 hours. It doesn’t really matter how much time you have, all you have to do is get started.
This is not a new or unique idea going on here. If any of you have done Ali Edwards December Daily, this is the same concept, except for our ‘daily’ scrapbooking.
Okay, here goes!
- Buy or create an ‘album’ any size you want but I recomment it be 6″ X 8″ so you will have room to put 4 X 6 photos and your journaling on the pages. Keeping your photos at 4 x 6 will be a huge time saver.
- Whenever you have a couple of minutes, make a background page or two, add frames or lines for journaling, add embelishments, and if you know what pics you are going to be using, make Titles for your pages now.
- Then, later you can add your photos or journaling when you have more time. I recommend making an album with 20 to 30 pages so you will be ready when the photos come back from Walgreen’s or Wal-Mart, wherever you get them printed. I wait until there is a special like 50 photos for $5 and then print a bunch at a time. I put them into Photo Albums until I have time to transfer them to scrapbook pages.
- You will be surprised at the great ideas the come to you when you are looking at a small 6 X 8 or 6 X 6 or 8 X 8 page. I seem to be more inspired with the smaller pages than trying to fill a Huge Blank 12 x 12 page. I made some darling backgrounds that I just don’t take the time to do with my 12 x 12′s because I think it will take to long or waste paper or I can never seem to fill that space!
I have uploaded a few pics of my December Daily Pages just to give you an idea. I will be working on mine this weekend and show you pictures or maybe a video of what I accomplished and how long it took me.
Isn’t the reason we scrapbook so we can record life’s journey’s? Not to win an art contest. Let’s not lose sight of what really matters here. Nothing wrong with art, I love doing art tags and cards, etc., but when I’m scrapbooking, I want to enjoy that journey as well.
Enjoy and Create!!
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