Romantic Scrapbooking 101
by Cijaye DePradine

There is a common term that a photo can say a thousand words, but Scrapbooking your photos can provide more than just words, it can preserve memories and momento's much more profoundly than a photo ever would on it's own.

Scrapbooks are a way for people to reminisce about their past (forever) and to share those memories with their children, grand children, great granchildren and onwards!

Do you know how your parents, grandparents or even great grandparents met - or how deep their love really was? Wouldn't that have been a heartwarming story to read?

What about you? What about your love story? Nothing is as impressive or a more fitting compliment to a partner than a scrapbook that is created just for them or about the two of you and your profound moments together.

Think about it for a second, a scrapbook that creatively tells a story with pictures and journalled memories of the time you have spent with your partner - is much more than a box of photos and a few cards or letters.

The person you feature on your Romantic Scrapbook pages could be your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your wife or husband. It is not subjective to certain people.

A scrapbook is an amazing gift for any occasion, and is probably the most personalised present that one person can give to another.

Now...if you are new to Scrapbooking, you may be like many other people who believe that scrapbooks are just another way of putting photos together with a few titles, captions or summarized details.

But once you have been exposed to the exponential opportunity of this craft, you will know simply that this is not true. There is so much more that an individual can do with a scrapbook.

Your scrapbook album can be a way of saying 'I care', 'I love you', 'You mean more to me than you know' and then some! It can help you express you love for someone in ways you never could before.

Romantic scrapbooks can provide the voice for you if you need one and they can bare the soul for you if you are afraid to show yours.

The first step in making a scrapbook for your partner is choosing the right scrapbook album; there are so many different types of scrapbook albums available but depending on what you plan to do with the album or put onto the scrapbook pages, you will need to choose a scrapbook album that will be just right for you. *To learn more about this...please preview Lesson One of our Scrapbooking Tutorial.

Step two: Once you have bought yourself the right album, the most inspiring step is putting your scrapbook together.

There are no restrictions on what you can put in the scrapbook. All you need to do is gather everything that means something to you and then let the pages reveal themselves.

A typical scrapbook will most likely have photos, cards, letters, stories and the like.

Sounds easy enough doesn't it? But what if you want to be really creative, and not just create a standard Scrapbook like everyone else. What if you really want this Romantic Scrapbook Album to mean as much to your partner as it does you?

Here are some quick ideas on how to make your romantic scrapbook something to talk about!

Much of Romantic Scrapbooking is creating the scrapbook together as a couple. You could decide together what goes into the Scrapbook and what that means to each of you. You can even tell he said / she said stories.

*My wedding Scrapbook does exactly that. In fact we started out that way.

With the engagement party photo's - we built up the story of how it all went down (it was very romantic and a complete surprise to me). I even included a digital disc of the engagement itself and then in the later pages - the wedding disc was revealed.

NOW...we never have to look for those videos again, we always know where they are - and the photo's, journaling and accents tell the rest of the story!

In your Couples Romance Scrapbook you may wish to include some of what I just mentioned and / or all of the following:

• Flower petals from the first bouquet shared between you

• Gift wrap from the first gift shared between you

• Media clippings of events you have been to together (or tickets or reciepts)

• Flyers or business cards from places you frequent together

• Favorite recipes

• Favorite song lists (or lyrics) or poems

But if this romantic scrapbook is about the person you love - and not so much about you...you may want to take an "About You" approach and dedicate an album to them - profiling their life!

For example...if your partner is a big community player and is in the press frequently - or just so happens to have a lot of photo's with him / or her in it (like my husband - the sports coach), a scrapbook of all his / her events/ appearances would be an ideal way for you to say that you love him / her.

OR...If your partner has a big family - maybe a scrapbook including photos of his / her family members and stories of why they love him / her is just the right sentiment!

The most important point is that there are no restrictions on what you can put in the scrapbook, the only limitation is your imagination.

Bottom line is: scrapbooks are a great way to say you care and are a fantastic way of showing love and affection, as they are personalised and are a very initimate means of sharing past memories with your partner.

The next time you are planning that next romantic gift for your partner, maybe you can make it a scrapbook!

It might just be the most sentimental gift you have ever gifted to your partner, and is guarantee to be one of a kind!

Happy Scrapping.

Cijaye DePradine.

P.S. To learn how to make a scrapbook, and what tools and techniques you need to make it as good as it can be...please sign up for our free Scrapbooking Minicourse - where you can get 9 free Beginner Scrapbooking Tutorials over 9 weeks - or click here to purchase our exclusive Scrapbooking Information Kit to be downloaded to your computer today!

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