Ok...Valentine's day has come and gone. So has the green milk and pancakes and Easter too. If the rain would just stop and the rest of the cold weather, we would actually believe spring was on the way. I can see that the bulbs feel it.
Its a good time now to get out the box with the photos on it and start to put together a couple plans for your scrapbooks. Are you doing mini albums to help get the pictures scrapped? Are you using kits? What about some 'simple scrapping' techniques. Get the pictures on the pages and the memories recorded. Not every page needs to be an artistic masterpiece.
Every once in a while I go back to why I started scrapbooking and use that reminder as my focus. Also, it helps to talk to a couple other scrappers and see what they do to keep on focus or to keep caught up.
One friend on mine scraps 2 layouts per month of her child's activities. If something particularly memorable happens then that can be added in also if the 2 pages are done for the month and time permits. This way, she stays current on the year for her child and doesn't overwhelm herself with added stresses of recording everthing. Truly there isn't a way to record a whole life, but there is a way for the child to see meaning in their days as the years pass. And, for those recordings to go on thru time to the children and grandchildren of this child.
Another idea is to keep a planner of sorts of the layouts you want to do. Sketch them out and plan the titles etc as you take the pictures. Use Blueprint Layouts or Becky Higgins Sketch book for ideas of layouts. As you get the pictures printed or developed, take the sketch layout drawing and start to compile a kit for the layout. Put your notes, thoughts and journaling in the kit. When the layout it done your notes can be kept behind the page in the sheet protectors. This is a nice way to save details of you, the scrapper for your posterity to see.
Do you have a scrapbooking help or technique to share? E-mail it to me at shop.scraptoit.com and I'll post the ideas here on the blog.
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