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Hello all. I am a beginning scrapbooker and am overwhelmed. Where should I begin. What should I do. I look at all of my photos and paper and stamps and embellishments and have no idea where to start. I want to do 12 x 12s but I am having a hard time!
Scrapping is my first love and stamping a distant second. I remember how I felt when I started. Totally overwhelmed!!
The very first thing I did was organize my photos (by person, year, event whatever works for you) so I would know what photos I wanted on the pages. It takes awhile to get it done, but it's worth it and easy to maintain.
Where to start scrapping is completely up to you. Do you want to do event albums, one for each child, chronological albums? You can do what I do. Whatever I feel like! LOL
As far as actually pages go (I think that's your real ?) I start with the photos and figure out what I want to journal. Next is the cardstock/patterned paper. Again the photos show me what to use. It's on to cropping the photos (if they need it) and matting them. I don't always mat all the photos and some get up to three. Then on to embellishments--metals, attachments and the stamps. I don't stamp a lot on my pages, just when they seem to fit the layout. The inks come in handy for altering embellishments--don't like the color of an item, chances are it can be inked or stamped to fit what you want.
Wow, I had a lot to say ;-) I hope I didn't turn you off !!!
Anyway, this is pretty much what I do. Have fun with it.
My first album was a Christmas album, I just scrapped all my christmas pictures for each year. It was a great place to start because the color choices are pretty much made for you, Green, red, gold, silver, images to add to your pages are also easy, santa, christmas tree, holly, presents....you get the idea. Plus we love our christmas pictures, they bring up all kinds of memories and they make us happy, its a great first place to stop to get inspired!
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I agree with what the ladies have said. One other thing that helped me when I started was going to AC Moore and getting the DCWV stacks. They have stacks of printed patter and cardstock. That way, you have a variety of colors/patterns to work with and most of them coordinated pretty well.
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I think the others summed up everything except.... just jump right in. The hardest thing about starting for me was cutting my pics!!! Don't be nervous. Just pick something for which you have negatives or duplicates. Or even better, Digital pics. I also don't go chronologically. I started with pics I LOVED. I kept it simple....Title-Matted Pics-A few embellishments-Journaling.
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