If you’re like me you write down all those funny things your kids say on scraps of paper or spiral notebooks, but very rarely do they make their way into your scrapbooks. Do you tend to scrapbook from your photos and forget the stories?
I have battled this tendency and I’ve finally won. Do you want to know my secret?
Here are five tips to make it easier for you to scrap the stories you want to remember.
1. Store them in a recipe file box, filed by person, album, or date. Forget neatness: just rip the stories out of your notebook (or scoop up those floating loose papers) and put them as-is in the appropriate file. When it comes time to scrapbook, you can flip that box open and choose.
2. Stay underwhelmed by scrapping these stories on smaller sized layouts, such as 8×8. I finished three of the four layouts for this article in the time it normally takes me complete a 12×12 page (all four are 8×8). I love these condensed layouts!
If you scrapbook a different size and you don’t know what you would do with a stack of 8×8 pages, stay tuned for an upcoming article on how to solve this problem.
3. Pull a picture from an event that has more photos than a single layout can handle. That is what I did with the two layouts about my toddler, Aiden. The actual story in the page below took place in our kitchen, but the photo compliments it.
4. Use a leftover photo that never quite inspired you on its own to supplement your stories on a layout. This picture in the “Not Shy” layout is out of focus, so I wasn’t going to make a page of it; that is until I needed a photo that shows my daughter’s self-confidence for her one of her stories.
5. Combine multiple stories that run along one theme. One layout I hope to create soon will be called, “The World, According To Aiden,” and will contain a number of funny things he has said. This will be a 12×12 layout, I’m sure.
Next time you sit down to scrapbook, don’t go searching through your photos just yet. Instead, devote a chunk of time to tackling those stories!
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