Well, one piece of advice would be that if you are serious at all with the scrapbooking, always use archival-quality or "museum" quality scrapbooks, pens, glue, photocorners, etc. You can find them at photoshops, serious art shops, in the Exposures catalog, or at their site, exposuresonline.com. I look at the early books I did and I'm afraid the glue is brittle and the paper is browning at the edges already! Since then I've spent a king's ransom to the Exposures people for gorgeous archival books, and found it worth every penny.
I tend to jump around the pages of my books at whim rather than starting at the beginning and working my way through: chronological order is for people who colored inside the lines as children! But I like to make the inside cover (which acts as an introduction) and inside back cover the most visually striking parts of each book, it's like beginning & ending with a bang. I like to assign a theme for each year book, too: the year I got married and moved out of state was "Changes in Time and Space", another year I found I had collected a lot of interesting printed ephemera to act as backgrounds and accents, so I called that book "Letter Perfect." I don't like white pages showing through the photographs or assorted ephemera I arrange on a page, so I tend to lay down a piece of interesting wrapping paper, a magazine ad, or pieces of ephemera as complementary-colored backgrounds to the things I lay on top.
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Date: 2004-02-22 05:05 pm (UTC)I tend to jump around the pages of my books at whim rather than starting at the beginning and working my way through: chronological order is for people who colored inside the lines as children! But I like to make the inside cover (which acts as an introduction) and inside back cover the most visually striking parts of each book, it's like beginning & ending with a bang. I like to assign a theme for each year book, too: the year I got married and moved out of state was "Changes in Time and Space", another year I found I had collected a lot of interesting printed ephemera to act as backgrounds and accents, so I called that book "Letter Perfect." I don't like white pages showing through the photographs or assorted ephemera I arrange on a page, so I tend to lay down a piece of interesting wrapping paper, a magazine ad, or pieces of ephemera as complementary-colored backgrounds to the things I lay on top.
Have fun!