For me it’s been easy to choose albums for my four basic themes of scrapbooking (based on Stacy Julian’s Library of Memories). They’re general themes and don’t require any specific look:
- This is Us
- People We Love
- Places We Go
- Things We Do
I’ve found it much harder to pick just the right album when it comes to more specialized themes, like my daughter’s dance scrapbook. I wanted an album that goes with her dance company look. The albums available are a bit more traditional than her company’s on-trend white and black zebra stripe pattern.
I went back-and forth between this gorgeous pin stripe album , and the black with embroidered frame that I ultimately bought, and which you see above.
I went with my gut. Of these two options, the framed album felt the most similar to Trinity’s dance experience. And that’s how I most often choose any products I use — the products that feel most like the stories or experiences I’m scrapbooking.
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