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Cherie Litchfield asked:




Scrapbooking as a hobby has been around for decades but, today, the ideal way to scrapbook is to encourage each individual to be creative in the Scrapbook Themes that they use. Gone are the simple black and white scrapbook pages; now colored and textured papers can be used to enhance your carefully chosen photos. And lovely themed stickers and other creative embellishments are woven in to create a truly unique, ‘one-of-a-kind’ memory album.

There really is no limit to the types of Scrapbook Themes you can use in your scrapbooking projects. Whether you choose to highlight one specific event or you decide to compose a large, family album covering years of memories – the options are many and the choice is yours.

FAMILY SCRAPBOOK THEMES

For your own personal scrapbooks, you may choose to create family album sections for your Scrapbook Themes. Each occasion can be given its own scrapbook album section: seasons, holidays, birthdays, family reunions, sporting events, etc.

If a family album is too large of a project to tackle, consider creating Scrapbook Themes specifically for each child. A baby’s ‘firsts’, including their first smile, a lock of hair, first words or baby booties are excellent additions to a baby themed scrapbook.

As the children grow older, the family Scrapbook Themes could include such things as: awards, graduations, certificates and other accomplishments that can be inserted into protective covers to showcase and protect these precious memories for years to come. Make sure to include photos of your child with school friends and special teachers as well.

INDIVIDUAL SCRAPBOOK THEMES

Individual Scrapbook Themes make great small albums and are perfect gift ideas. Themes like a baby’s birth, graduation, marriage, promotions, retirements or other momentous occasions make wonderful unique and memorable gifts.

You can easily and inexpensively make a small gift with a ‘brag book’ accordion style scrapbook album. Purchase coordinating stickers, rubber stamps or charms to make your Scrapbook Themes more tangible. For example, for a wedding scrapbook, you could include such items as the couple’s wedding invitation and newspaper announcement which will be cherished mementos. Use paper doilies, lace, gift wrapping paper and pressed flowers to embellish the pages in keeping with the theme of the scrapbook.

WHEN SELECTING SCRAPBOOK THEMES

Scrapbooking is more than just a fun (and addicting) hobby – it is a way to preserve precious memories. But you do not have to choose Scrapbook Themes just because they are common or can be purchased in a pre-packaged kit. It’s more important to choose the memories that you feel are worth the extra effort of preserving in a scrapbook that will last a lifetime and then determine from that what the scrapbook theme should be.

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Bernadine Otis asked:




Christmas is one of the most joyful events in a year. This season gives meaning to life and erupts in love and the festive activities – food, gift and sharing – the perfect time to record in a scrapbook. Aside from the fact that you’ll have plenty of photos to use, you’ll also be able to make use of many scrapbooking ideas to emboss onto your Christmas theme. First of all, in creating a scrapbook based on a festive season, a theme will help guide your way to creating a memorable scrapbook. Second, the use of a theme enables you to prepare beforehand the materials you may need for your scrapbook. Here are some scrapbooking ideas for your Christmas themes.

12 Days of Christmas
May it be your first Christmas with a boyfriend or a new husband or a newborn baby; having a 12 Days of Christmas as a theme oozes a lot of scrapbooking ideas. Record the 12 Days of Christmas with surprise gifts for your honey and jot down the details of each surprise gift. If it’s your first Christmas with the family, prepare different special meals for the 12 Days and have a cookbook type of scrapbook.

Christmas Tree
Bizarre, but totally creative, using a Christmas tree as a theme is quite unique. Decide on the color of your tree and the materials to use – whether real fig leaves, aesthetic leaves or cut-out materials. Use ribbons as branches and each photo as the fruit. Draw branch lines on the background for a more effective “tree” outlook.

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Jasmine N asked:




Children at age of five to six are very passion in drawing, art and craft. You can get them involve in scrapbooking to express their interest of crafting. Here I share my seven secret tips for your children scrapbooking ideas.

#1 New Year Family Scrapbooking

January is beginning of the year. You can arrange to do family scrapbooking related to new year with your children. If your child love scrapbooking, this is good theme to train their creativity in scrapbooking.

#2 Friendship Scrapbooking

Every children have their own good friends, including my daughter. Take a few candid photos of your child and his or her good friend, then create a friendship theme or scrapbooking.

#3 Easter Scrapbooking

Easter day is the good celebration day for children to do craft related to this even.You can organize a craft gathering activity, with all your children and friends to have an egg painting session, take some candid photos of the activity, and use it to create an Easter scrapbooking.

#4 Mother Day and Father Day Scrapbooking

Mother and father day is celebration of wonderful mother who has been work their life for their children. It is very meaningful for your child to create a mother and father day scrapbooking, at the same time your child learn about the family value and respect to parents.

#5 Country National Day Scrapbooking

This is a good theme for children to be aware of the country they live and cultivate their love to the country they born. There are a lot of ideas on this theme, such as cultural, tourist attraction locations, life style of the country and a simple flag can be design as national day scrapbooking.

#6 Earth Day Scrapbooking

Earth is the planet we stay, it is critical to let our children aware of how to protect our earth. Earth day scrapbooking is a good theme for children age of 5 to 6 to understand how to be environmental friendly in their daily life.

#7 School Sports Day Scrapbooking

Children like sports a lot! One of the good idea is get your child to do gymnastics scrapbooking, if your child love gymnastics. You can find your own theme that apply to your children interest in other sport activities.

Once your toddlers done, you may put them to their album scrapbooking. Hope you like above themes!

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