If someone came to me and said, "Steena, would you scrapbook my life?" I would drop dead at the opportunity. Scrapbooking has become the one constant in my life that continues to make me happy. It constantally challenges my creativity and pushes my limits to go out of my design comfort zone. My first few scrapbooks were very clean. Solid paper, straight lines, no embellishments.... I didnt want people to get lost in the page design, I wanted them to enjoy the pictures. When I came back from my semester abroad I had a month off from school so I decided to go scrapbook crazy. I learned that the page design only enhances the picture and it captivates and audience better than a plain book. Ive posted some of my favorite pages from my Oxford scrapbook below, which are easy enough to re-create for yourself. I try to keep scrapbooking on the cheap side... so I make a lot of my own designs with paper and I use paint instead of the more expensive borders and other embellishments that Michael's offers. If you use one of the page layout ideas take a picture and let me see how your variation turned out! :)
From a day of Punting the Cherwell River in Oxford
Exploring Oxford with friends
Borough Market
I really like to make sure that anyone could pick up my scrapbook and know where I was. I like to use bits of info from travel books to make sure that everyone can learn something about where I went. Every page should tell a story, don't forget to use your own words and own handwriting. Your scrapbook is about you, don't forget to include you in it!
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