Picking a Scrapbook Theme and Color
2 July 2009Creating a scrapbook is a good way to preserve memories, and selecting a scrapbook theme is the first step in designing something to recall a major celebration. Here are some scrapbooking tips to get you started.
The scrapbook theme can be easy or complicated. It could be a special event such as a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding, Christmas, or Halloween. Scrapbook themes may also be personalised to the scrapbook recipient’s individual interests. Themes can include sports, favorite television programs, music, the outdoors, or cultural influences.
What is the purpose for your scrapbook?
Who is the scrapbook for?
Who is the scrapbook regarding?
The feedback to these three questions are all elements in selecting an appropriate scrapbooking theme. For instance, the scrapbook you are giving your nephew as he graduates from medical school is probably completely different than the grandparent book you send your mom. Your nephew will often enjoy a scrapbook with photographs, poems, journals, and more masculine elaborations. The theme of the scrapbook may be medicine. You could create embellishments that looked like knifes and tweezers around various photos of your nephew during his varsity years.
Your mom, on the other hand, will adore a multitude of baby photographs fancifully embellished with flowers, ribbon, and baby fingerprints. This scrapbook theme will probably be your baby. Pictures may include baby and grandmother with the baby. A nice journal about your baby’s birth could also add a nice touch
Don’t forget to create a title for your scrapbook. Though adding a title might seem to be apparent or trivial, a title defines the entire basis of your scrapbook. The title instantly tells the spectator what the page is all about. In one word or one short phrase, the title tells the viewer the scrapbook theme and point.
Titles can be as basic as the date of an event, the name of an individual, or a particular event. They also might be more engaging and exciting. Titles can entail quotes, sayings, fillers, or straightforward phrases. The best places to go looking for title inspiration are in greeting cards, ads, and commercials.
Color choice is also critical. Color coordination and contrast will highlight and accent your scrapbook theme. A well thought out color scheme can help define the theme of a page, attract attention to explicit items, or detract away from mistakes. Poorly chosen color schemes, on the other hand, may cause your scrapbook page to look gaudy or mismatched.
Background color can either be matched, coordinated, or contrasted with the colors in your photographs, mementos, or elaborations. Matching colors augments the continuity of the color range. Coordinated colors add depth to scrapbook pages. Contrasted colors focus the eye. In this way, color may be used to create the effect you wish.
A great way to see how colors look together is to collect and check out color wheels from your neighborhood paint or hardware store. Paint wheels are generally attainable free for the taking in almost any paint office
Almost all scrapbooks will contain photographs. Even the most uninvolved reader of your scrapbook will peek at the photos. Photos truly are worth one thousand words. Therefore, it is important to select pictures that are of good quality and obviously illustrate your scrapbook theme.
Any photograph can be used in a scrapbook. Even instant photographs can be employed in scrapbooking. Just be cautious the chemicals in the picture don’t spill out on the rest of your scrapbook. Digital photographs can simply be printed right onto lignin-free and acid-free paper.
Always bear in mind that scrapbooking is permanent. Therefore, it is maybe preferable to use copies of your sole image of Great Grandma rather risk ruining the photograph forever. Simply scan the picture on your PC scanner and print the picture on lignin free and acid free paper.
Scrapbooking is satisfying and gratifying. You are creating a book of momentousmemories that is more delightful than a regular photo album. So select your scrapbook theme, get the basic scrapbooking supplies, choose some photographs, and get started.
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