How do I scrapbook without it looking like scrapbooking?
July 6, 2009 by Scrapbooking Ideas and Tips
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Can you answer Brntte3078’s question about Scrapbooking?:
I want to archive my track and field mementos—articles, ribbons, medals, etc. I hate the look, feel, and kitschy look of scrapbooking, but I want these pieces archived in a nice way. Any suggestions?
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I want to archive my track and field mementos—articles, ribbons, medals, etc. I hate the look, feel, and kitschy look of scrapbooking, but I want these pieces archived in a nice way. Any suggestions?
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Scrapbooking Feedback: add some styil.
Scrapbooking Feedback: Put them in a photo album and place stickers under the pictures to write captions.
Scrapbooking Feedback: You can search anywhere on the internet for scrapbooking sites. They will tell you anything and everything you could possibly want to know about scrapbooking.
Scrapbooking Feedback: Scrapbooking today has turned into a bit of an art form. You dont have to follow that genre in order to save your memories.
The important thing is to get an acid/lignin free album and put your memorabilia inside to save for your future generations. You could use scrapbooking paper, stickers etc for background and embellishments..or not (i would then just get an album that has pages (perhaps a ’strap/hinge’ type album).
For your newspaper articles..you’ll definitely either want to spray them with something called archival mist or Make it acid free, or copy onto acid free/lignin free paper, as there’s both acid and lignin in them..and they will yellow and disentegrate, as well as affect other memorabilia on the same page.
Scrapbooking Feedback: I would scan the newspaper articles and print them on an a/f l/f paper. Use an archival grade album. You could mat the pictures and/or memorabilia to give them a nice background wich gives them focus on the page, and leave the stickers and other embellishments off, just journal what you put on the page and why so it is meaningful for others as well.
There are many sites on the internet where you can see simple pages to give you an idea how it would look. I personally prefer black pages when it needs to be clean and crisp. It looks more elegant than white, but this is my style.
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Scrapbooking Feedback: You should choose a scrapbook you like that is not too “froo-froo” and then get a package of that background paper (or buy ones you like separately.) Put all your stuff in the album and just label with a pen or nice marker what all the stuff is or whatever it is you want to say about the page. It is really only a scrapbook if you put like scraps of things and label the items with things such as: “a tissue that Grandpa used at Grandma’s funeral.” or anything like that….
For my mom’s birthday last year, I made a scrapbook for her, but it was just photographs arranged in a nice way with pretty background paper and A FEW stickers on eack page. it looks really nice. It is not overdone and there is no texture or anything like that. It is a colorful, nice way to remember things that happened or that you participated in such as your track.
dont over or underdo yourself. make it so that it expresses who you are because that is ehat scrapbooking is all about. If you just throw pictures in a book, then years later when you look back at it, you are going to wish that it had more personality to it.
I REALLY hope this helped because I am a really slow typer and that just took a very long time to do!! LOL
Scrapbooking Feedback: One thing you could consider is to “shadow box” your items. I did this for both of my children when they were born. You can purchase any sized plain shadow boxes with solid colored background felt, and glass. I took the outfits they wore home from the hospital, the hospital arm bands, the little head cover, and mittens, the newspaper clippings (archived, of course) and their first picture and used straight pins to hold the items in place.
You can match the background to your team’s color. Paint the shadow box to match, or leave it all plain.
Scrapbooking Feedback: Hey, don’t knock scrapbooking!! It’s an art so don’t hate!! Lol, but all joking aside you can still scrapbook and come out with a clean, polished look to it. Scrapbooking isn’t all about it being jumbled with embellishments, stickers and photos, it’s mainly about how you want your memories to be potrayed, needless to say, one look isn’t a wrong or right look. Now if you have a lot of bulky items that might not fit in a book, than a shadowbox is another option, and is a segue into scrapbooking because having a shadowbox is another way of “archiving” memorabilia. You can arrange your medals, and a few articles inside the box in a nice way and it can be hung up on a wall. But if you want a book, you can either scan your awards and newspaper clippings. Be careful with newspaper clippings because they can destroy your paper and the book overtime because the fibers and lignin break down. So I would either get the articles copied or scanned on non-toxic/acid free/lignin free paper or cardstock, or laminated, or to purchase some archival mist to neutralize the clippings, but that spray is real pricy. If you have photos, I would just get some photo corners and put one or two pictures on one page one on top of the other, and on another page your medals that you won and so on. You can also use the outside of the album to put things on as well… and make sure you use either some clear baggies or some flat storage, or a page protector to keep your stuff intact.
Well hope that helps. Good luck with that.