Photography Does Lead to Scrapbooking

by Nicole Humphrey | More from this Blogger

07 Aug 2007 08:14 AM

Not all photographers agree that photography and scrapbooking go hand in hand. While everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I disagree. I think that creative, beautiful photographs should be displayed whenever possible, and that eventually you will run out of wall space and table space, so one should consider a scrapbook. But please read on, because it doesn't mean what you think it means.

A scrapbook is a collection of memories. Photographs collect these memories in a visual sense and when displayed can evoke many emotions in an individual. Photographers should definitely entertain the thought of creating a scrapbook.

Scrapbooking does not have to be done in the traditional sense. Crowded pages, overloaded with embellishments and lots of color. No, it does not have to be like that at all. Black and White photography looks great displayed on black. Mount several photos on black cardstock and then consider jotting some journaling about the photographs on white cardstock. Perhaps when they were taken and why. Affix this to your black cardstock and you just created a scrapbook layout. Sleek, elegant and the photographs are preserved and easily displayed in a scrapbook album.

Color photography can take a bit more. Pulling color out of the photographs is a great way to make the photograph pop off the page. However, the rules of a basic page don't change. Select the colored cardstock that you wish to use that nicely compliments the photographs you are putting on the layout. Again, journal and affix to the page and slip the pages into page protectors and into an album.

You can create wonderful scrapbooks using this method, which keeps the focus where it belongs - on your photographs. No added embellishments or loads and loads of color. Just basic, simple and clean and sleek. A beautiful way to show off your collection of photographs, while preserving them and not with a lot of experience or time.

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Nicole Humphrey is a freelance writer, consultant for CTMH and a Sr. Blogger for families.com. She resides in St. Charles, Missouri with Mike and their five children and two furbabies.

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