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OMG...anything! No limits.

1. Before and after....weight (gain/loss), kids (infants/toddlers), surgery etc

2. Interest: Sky diving (focus on da jump you can use a bunch of household items to create visual effects for in air or land or environment), chocolate (various images of candies, cut-outs, die-cuts, images of urself eating a lot of candy, or picking candies, etc), shopping, shoes, purses, games, beachs, sports, entertainment, music, etc

3. Loved Ones: family tradtions, trips together, weddings, events, etc

4. Your significant other: How you met, the 1st kiss, movies, interest, the 1st moment you realized you loved each other, the sunset, colleges..

5. Cars: how many cars have you had, color, type, model, 'I wish" i had this car....

6. Favorite Food: ANYTHING

7. Events

8. Movies

Anything your passionate about that you like to be memorable is your theme. No restrictions or limitiations.  Just have fun and be creative with it.

When I first started scrapbooking I got carried away. I mean totally carried away. I think I had an entire book of my daughter's first month of life. I literally took a picture of EVERY move she made. Then it occurred to me that she would be inhertiting these books and realized by the time she started kindergarten I would have filled her entire room up.

So I started over and decided to take one event each month for her first year so she'd have 12 pages total. Easy. As she got older I do it by season. It's managable now.

My family does a lot of fruit picking during the seasons so I have lots of pics of pumpkin picking and apple picking and my favorite - christmas tree picking. By the time my husband chops one down he is so aggravated, so naturally I am right there taking his picture. We've gotten some pretty funny pics. There are definitley no limits with scrapbooking!

I try to do 8x8 of events (going to the beach, taking a ride to Santa Barbara for the day) and a 12x12 for big holidays, birthdays and vacations. We love July 4th and Halloween, throw some Christmas in there and you got yourself a party!

We do small books for my 3 year old...usually all pink with tons of Princess things. Go figure.

How to Do Scrapbooking with Non-Traditional Items : Using Tags in Scrapbooking

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lamkinfla says ...

I start off with a group of pictures I want to make a page with and then pick out the paper and so on.  It all just comes to me somehow.  I don't block it out, use rulers, plan, or even measure to make sure stuff is even.  I have a few pages that I made when I thought about setting up at a flea market.  I'll probably use them for something one day or give them to my niece for her kids.  But I just love mixing and matching stuff.  I always journal about the pictures though.  Even if it's only a few lines.  I so feel that's important as then generations will know what was going on, funny stories that can be taken for fact and who we all were in those pictures:)

 

when your journal your scrapbook pages, do you use paper (ex. vellum) or do you journal in your own handwriting. I have several pages, that I would like to journal, but haven't decided on how to do it.

seabrownthree says ...

I would like to get married again someday to a really understanding man who wouldn't roll his eyes because I want to make a scrapbook of our first year together, with all of its ups and downs!  Including pictures and journal entries.  Wouldn't that make a cool anniversary present, to go back and look at it?  And then make another one for all of the milestone anniversaries, like the tenth, the twenty-fifth, etc.  That would be so much fun.

Awwhhh that would be so nice!