Scrapbooking quotes
Have you ever been scrapbooking and you come to a point that you just can't
think about what to do next? This happens to me every now and then and I call
it scrapper's block. About two years ago I came up with an easy solution for
ideas for scrapbooking that has yet to fail me. I purchased a book of scrapbooking
quotes.
It is actually a book of regular quotes, but I must not have had anything to
do one day because I made a personalized cover for the book and called it "My
Book of Emergency Scrapbooking Quotes". I came across the idea when I was
looking for a witty title for a fun page from a weekend trip with friends. I
looked up quotes about friends on the internet and was instantly given hundreds
of ideas of how to title the page.
I then begin to think that if I could use the quotes to complete a page, would
it be just as easy to use scrapbooking quotes to begin a page? In other words,
would a quote give me inspiration for page layout, die cuts, stickers, etc.?
The answer was yes! After discovering this, I decided to purchase a book of
quotes so that if I was scrapbooking somewhere where I didn't have internet
access I could pull out my book of quotes.
Since purchasing my book, I have given it to three other friends and a cousin
as gifts and they have loved theirs just as much as I have loved mine. It seems
to be catching because the other day I overheard someone in line at the local
craft store talking to a friend about it. I like to think that I started the
craze, but I'm also realistic.
In fact, I know that someone else had the idea because I have found scrabooking
quotes in the form of stickers, borders and stamps at a number of scrapbooking
stores. Whenever I find them, I scoop them up. Not only can I use them as
inspiration, but I don't have to worry about misspelling something or accidentally
leaving a word out because the quote is already written down for me.
Before you go out and purchase a book of quotes, I suggest that you look up
scrapbooking quotes online to see if this technique works for you. The next
time you have scrappers block, just turn to the internet and search for quotes
about that particular subject or something related to it. I have yet to have
trouble finding a quote that doesn't somehow relates to my pictures. Whether
it is a quote about a city like New York, about an event such as a wedding or
a theme such as snow falling or raking leaves somebody somewhere has said something
that is noteworthy.
Don't let scrapper's block stop you. A scrapbooking quote is simply just a
click of the internet or turn of a page away from you. Once you find the perfect
saying, you will be on your way to cropping, cutting, gluing and embellishing
in no time.
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