Deciding on a Scrapbook Theme

The theme of your first scrapbook can be simple or complex. You may have an immediate idea of what you want to create, or you might have to look through years of photos and memorabilia and cupboards full of scrapbooking supplies before you find your inspiration!

Many beginners start with a holiday or a special event such as a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding, Christmas, or Halloween. Alternatively, you may decide to create a scrapbook as a gift for a specific person, in which case the theme can be personalized for the scrapbook recipient's special interests. Special interests themes include favorite colors, sports, favorite television programs, music, the outdoors, or cultural influences.

If you don't have an immediate idea for your scrapbook theme, I suggest you ask yourself:

What is the overall purpose for your scrapbook?
Who is the scrapbook for?
Who is the scrapbook about?

The answers to these three questions should help you to select an appropriate 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 mother. Your nephew will probably appreciate a scrapbook with photographs, poems, journals, and more masculine embellishments. Perhaps the theme of the scrapbook could be medicine. You could create embellishments that looked like scalpels and tweezers around various pictures of your nephew during his college years.

Your mother, on the other hand, might love a multitude of baby pictures fancifully embellished with flowers, ribbon, and baby fingerprints. The theme of this book could be your new baby. Photographs could include baby and grandma with the baby. A nice journal about your baby's day could also add a nice touch.

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