Senior Scrapbook Ideas, Senior Year Scrapbook Ideas

There are many ways to make a senior scrapbook.  You will find it is easy to create a unique, one of a kind, piece of memorabilia that will delight you for decades.  Below are some Do’s and Dont’s that I think you will find helpful.

Do’s

Collect things- anything from your senior year

Pictures (lots of those)
School newspapers to clip items from
Other newspapers to clip items about important world events
Programs from school plays
Flyers for dances
Flyers for sporting events
Notes from your teachers
Movie tickets
Receipts from thing you have purchased (showing the price of things in your senior year)
Old time cards from your job or something from the workplace
Anything from any clubs you participate in

Write a note to yourself about the things you collect.  This is important so you will remember why you saved it, when it happened, and why it is important for you to include in the scrapbook.  A sticky can accomplish this, stuck to each item or groups of items.

Keep things organized.  Keep all the things you collect together in one place.  Designate a shoe box or other suitable container.

There are a lot of ways to decorate your scrapbook.  There are some resources in other posts on this site that will show you tons of places to purchase items for your scrapbook.  But there are plenty of inexpensive ways to decorate it. 

Check out your local dollar store.  They often have scrapbooking materials or other papers, stickers and other “teacher/school” items. 

Wrapping paper designs make great back grounds.  You can find them in your own house, or at a dollar or thrift store.  Also you check out a wallpaper store and ask them if they have any remnants.  They get rid of them for next to nothing.

Magazines and newspapers are great for lettering for your titles and captions.  Have everyone save their stuff for you throughout the year so you will have a lot to choose from.  You can also draw your own designs if you are so talented. 

Don’ts

Don’t wait until the end of the year to start collecting.  It makes your scrapbook incomplete and looking back, you will wish you had collected more. 

Don’t wait until the end of the year to start organizing the things you have collected. 

Don’t leave all your scrapbook stuff laying out all over where there is a chance someone might get rid of some of the things you have collected. 

Don’t let anyone tell you that your scrapbook doesn’t look good.  It is an extremely personal treasure that you will love later on no matter how it looks.

Don’t rush.  Give yourself enough time for writing, drawing, and creating your pages.

Above all, don’t skip this opportunity to make your memories last a lifetime.

Article By: M. Matthews  SeniorScrapbookIdeas.net

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What can you do to make your scrapbook look better? Scrapbooking techniques are numerous and readily available. We discuss various scrapbook techniques and what they can do to make your scrapbook more attractive.

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Take a notebook or a mundane daily diary or journal and add some decoration with a border and you end up with a scrapbook. The notebook, diary, journal or scrapbooks have the same basis for production. They all are filled with thoughts, ideas and feelings. What separates a scrapbook from the others is the visual impact and beauty of the production. In a way, the scrapbook allows you to show off your events or thoughts so that other people will enjoy seeing it. All these mentioned items preserve memorabilia and legacies. It is just that the scrapbook dabbles in creativity and imagination whereas the other items are plain and simple.

Just as with many other facets of life these days, scrapbooking has also been changed with the advent of the computer, internet and things like printers and scanners. These items of hardware have the same effect as the printing press on scrapbook presentations. They all make the process faster and easier. Desktop publishing and new software has also made scrapbooking easier for everyone. You could have a scrapbook and not use a single piece of paper. Doing this is known as digital scrapbooking and it has taken off in popularity.

Whereas all these new-fangled computerized methods use to be the domain of geeks and techno-nerds, they have now branched out to the practice of scrapbooking. People of all ages from anywhere in the world now have access to many things to help them produce their own special scrapbooks. Because of the internet and lots of scrapbook oriented websites, the options have skyrocketed. Never in the past could someone do as much as they can now. Another facet of digital scrapbooking fits in very nicely with the world of social networking. Sites like Myspace and Facebook are a good match for displaying your scrapbooking skills.

Over the years, scrapbooking has gone from a hobby for elitists to today where it is a viable commercial activity. Both brick-and-mortar locations and websites have mushroomed into what you see today. It used to be a small scale activity but now it is expanding day by day. With all the new entries into the scrapbooking industry, there are new scrapbooking techniques and lots of them. Because of the myriad of choices for scrapbooking, it is hard to pigeonhole particular scrapbooking techniques. There really is no right or wrong way to decorate a scrapbook. This leads to new and unique scrapbooking techniques every day. Don’t get me wrong, there are scrapbook techniques that will definitely benefit your presentation but a little bit of imagination with a smidgeon of creativity will go a long way.

So where does one go to look for new and different scrapbooking techniques? There are websites, books, and friends who also scrapbook. Scrapbooking is a learning experience and while you are creating your masterpiece, you will see interesting techniques you may not have thought of in the past. Go ahead use them and share them with your friends. Get them to share their scrapbooking techniques too.

When you plan your scrapbook, take some time and think the whole process through to the finished project. You start out with the most important portion of the scrapbook; the paper. Paper should be sturdy with a long life and be acid-free. You want your work around for a long time and the correct paper is essential for long life. As you plan the design of your scrapbook, keep mental notes about different supplies needed. Supplies such as pens, inks and stencils should be carefully planned for to make your project. Go into each scrapbook with the correct planning and you will find it easier to express your thoughts and end up with beautiful presentations.

A lot of scrapbooking techniques highlight the need to have index pages or highlight pages. They will inform you about where to locate them and how to display them. These special pages should be instantly noticeable as special pages with unique colors and symbols. Another way to distinguish pages is with bookmarks with tassels. Tassels are both decorative and functional in a scrapbook.

There are many elements to the art of decoration. Decoration shouldn’t be overdone as it will make your project look gaudy. The right type of decoration is critical in scrapbooking techniques. Choose decoration carefully with planning before you start. Visualize it and then go with it. There are many choices you can use. Stamps, embellishments, rub-ons, stickers, snow globes etc. can really glitz up your scrapbook if not done to excess. Choose carefully and use each appropriately.

Want more versatility for your scrapbook? Here are a few ways to add impact to your project. You can add pop-up pages, trinkets that are attached to pages, punch craft, peek-a-boo and panoramic pages to make your scrapbook unique and wonderful. Scrapbook techniques are limitless and very diverse. Go ahead and explore these techniques and add versatility to your scrapbooks.

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