I saw this link on Stacy Julian's blog and thought I'd give it a go.
Color Me Quiz!
You will need a pencil and paper to keep track of your answers (you don't click on the answers and you tabulate your own results -- just like in Cosmo!).
My answers were a 3/3 split between 2 colors, with a different color appearing once each in the remaining 4 slots. My colors are:
Red Scrapbooker
You have a real passion for this hobby. Your pages are colorful, bold, lively and full of adventure. You may enjoy travel and have many vacation photos. You like your albums to reflect your zest for life and the varied experiences you enjoy.
Blue Scrapbooker
You are a traditional scrapbooker for the most part. You probably started scrapbooking to document your children or grandchildren's lives. You prefer multiphoto layouts, and most of your pages feature your family. You favor classic designs and products, and you may organize your albums chronologically.
Basically, I am all about documenting fun and relationships.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
New Scrapbooker -- What I Wish I Had Known
Someone on the LOM Fans e-list asked us, What do you wish you had known when you started? What would you tell a "new" scrapbooker.
Here are some of my thoughts -- What I wish I had known.
I scrapbook for me and to tell my story. Not anyone else's story. They can tell their own stories if it's so important to them (and generally, it's just not -- or they tell their own stories on Facebook or their own blog). I do not need to take pictures of people I barely know at events for other people and feature those photos in a scrapbook page. (Ergo, if I attend a friend's wedding, I am not obligated to take photos of her spouse's extended family for her, and include those people in my scrapbook pages.)
Whatever I think is cute now, I may think is ugly or dated in 3 years. So if I see something super cute on a theme that I know I want to scrapbook "someday" -- don't buy it! By the time I actually scrapbook the theme, there will be other cute things and I will like them better! I will probably not think that item or paper is cute any more either. I only buy it if doing so will inspire me to pull those photos out in th enext 5-7 days and actually work on them. If I can't realistically see myself doing that, pass it by.
That being said, there is nothing wrong with old scrapbook pages that feature products I really liked at that time. A scrapbook is also a visual diary of me, the scrapbooker. If I have scrapbooked pages about someone I used to love, I don't need to throw out those pages simply because I don't love that person any more. I loved them then. (Ok, this is more a reminder to ME, right now, to not go through my pages of the past 6 months and pull out the lighter fluid...) Old scrapbook pages and styles are a part of my story, the scrapbooker.
Along that line -- styles change and I will change. However I store my stuff or scrap my pictures now, in 3 years I will want to do it another way that seems better. (I hope this is not true for LOM but it has been true in the past!)
Scrapbooks are about love. Everyone loves to see pages featuring themselves or their own children. So if you scrapbook and want people to look and enjoy, you scrapbook about them. In reference to my first note above... it means you scrapbook those people because they are a part of your story. Non-scrapbookers don't care about seeing pages about other people even if the page is really pretty and well done. Most people are just really self absorbed.
Most people aren't going to read all that text I write. Which is fine, if I write for me, but just be prepared for people to skim over pages and not read them. Also be prepared that if the person looking at your scrapbook has already seen the photos themselves, they will not feel the burning desire to look at your scrapbook page. (Unless the page is about them and you wrote about them. Then...maybe.)
Don't save supplies and paper for a "good enough" project. THere will always be newer, cuter things to buy! Just use it! If you have not scrapbooked your friend's wedding in the past 5 years, you may never scrapbook it. So go ahead and use that pretty paper you are saving for another project, if you really love it. And if you do end up scrapbooking that wedding, there will be newer, prettier paper to buy, and supplies more in line with your style now, not 5 years ago.
If you want to scrapbook, you have got to be able to see your photos and interact with them. This may change as people get more and more digital, but for people who are NOT Millenials (Millenials are the generation born between 1980-2000), this usually means you have to have the prints. So print out those new photos and put them into a slip in album for your family to enjoy, and allow the prints to inspire you. Don't keep your photos hidden away on your computer, or buried in a box.
Get it?
Here are some of my thoughts -- What I wish I had known.
I scrapbook for me and to tell my story. Not anyone else's story. They can tell their own stories if it's so important to them (and generally, it's just not -- or they tell their own stories on Facebook or their own blog). I do not need to take pictures of people I barely know at events for other people and feature those photos in a scrapbook page. (Ergo, if I attend a friend's wedding, I am not obligated to take photos of her spouse's extended family for her, and include those people in my scrapbook pages.)
Whatever I think is cute now, I may think is ugly or dated in 3 years. So if I see something super cute on a theme that I know I want to scrapbook "someday" -- don't buy it! By the time I actually scrapbook the theme, there will be other cute things and I will like them better! I will probably not think that item or paper is cute any more either. I only buy it if doing so will inspire me to pull those photos out in th enext 5-7 days and actually work on them. If I can't realistically see myself doing that, pass it by.
That being said, there is nothing wrong with old scrapbook pages that feature products I really liked at that time. A scrapbook is also a visual diary of me, the scrapbooker. If I have scrapbooked pages about someone I used to love, I don't need to throw out those pages simply because I don't love that person any more. I loved them then. (Ok, this is more a reminder to ME, right now, to not go through my pages of the past 6 months and pull out the lighter fluid...) Old scrapbook pages and styles are a part of my story, the scrapbooker.
Along that line -- styles change and I will change. However I store my stuff or scrap my pictures now, in 3 years I will want to do it another way that seems better. (I hope this is not true for LOM but it has been true in the past!)
Scrapbooks are about love. Everyone loves to see pages featuring themselves or their own children. So if you scrapbook and want people to look and enjoy, you scrapbook about them. In reference to my first note above... it means you scrapbook those people because they are a part of your story. Non-scrapbookers don't care about seeing pages about other people even if the page is really pretty and well done. Most people are just really self absorbed.
Most people aren't going to read all that text I write. Which is fine, if I write for me, but just be prepared for people to skim over pages and not read them. Also be prepared that if the person looking at your scrapbook has already seen the photos themselves, they will not feel the burning desire to look at your scrapbook page. (Unless the page is about them and you wrote about them. Then...maybe.)
Don't save supplies and paper for a "good enough" project. THere will always be newer, cuter things to buy! Just use it! If you have not scrapbooked your friend's wedding in the past 5 years, you may never scrapbook it. So go ahead and use that pretty paper you are saving for another project, if you really love it. And if you do end up scrapbooking that wedding, there will be newer, prettier paper to buy, and supplies more in line with your style now, not 5 years ago.
If you want to scrapbook, you have got to be able to see your photos and interact with them. This may change as people get more and more digital, but for people who are NOT Millenials (Millenials are the generation born between 1980-2000), this usually means you have to have the prints. So print out those new photos and put them into a slip in album for your family to enjoy, and allow the prints to inspire you. Don't keep your photos hidden away on your computer, or buried in a box.
Get it?
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