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General scrapbooking topics may not mean a lot to those who remember scrapbooks as something girls did at about age twelve. But for those who have kept up wit the growing interest in this pastime, the excitement of creating a book of memories that people will not be able to put down is contagious. .

Empty scrapbooks were once considered appropriate gifts for young girls, who would then search around for things to put on the large pages. Sometimes Christmas cards were considered too pretty to throw away, or magazine pictures were cut out, or memories of a school year were collected. The same basic idea has now become an art form, with techniques and tools and examples of proficiency exhibited at fairs and craft shows.

You can take a class – you will be surprised at how many are conducted somewhere near you – or get tips online. The internet is actually a great resource for ‘scrappers’, as are craft stores. Tips range from the kind of paper that is best for preservation, the tools that make the tasks involved easier, and the methodology of first class books. The idea is to make the book highly personalized and very organized around a central theme, and to support the whole with decorative touches.

Take for example a book about your child who excelled at basketball. The sports page headers when he or she was high point scorer will mean even more when combined with pictures of the star at age nine on the primary school team, missing a front tooth or two. Little basketball stickers scattered around are the sort of detail that brings a collection of nostalgia to an art form.

The real fun is putting everything together. If you are collecting old photographs of great-great-grandparents to pass on to your children, you can place them in vintage settings in your gift book. Great-grandmother might be framed in lace or surrounded by lilac clusters, while Great-grandfather who made his living as an engineer might have a border of train tracks or a bracketing of steam engines. The sky and your imagination are the limits to what you decide to do.

Online you will find tips of things like distressing the edges of the paper pages, preserving flowers or other fragile things that you want to include, making your own bindings, and how to get a drop of adhesive off when it is in the wrong place. There are question and answer sites that may answer your own questions or bring up things you have not considered.

You can take these tips and use them to guide your own efforts, or use prepared pages with beautiful themes such as garden flowers or colorful geometric designs. Almost everything that can be done by hand has been duplicated for sale online, leaving you to choose among the options and combine them with your imagination.

If you have valuable memories that are lying around in boxes or getting dusty in piles on your closet shelf, think about putting them in order in a classy book. Educating yourself on general scrapbooking topics is the first step to preserving those memories for yourself or for your descendants.
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