10 Great Scrapbooking Ideas to Colour Up Your Friendship Layouts
Friends, who doesn't need them? These scrapbooking ideas based on friendship will help you celebrate one of your most meaningful relationships in life.
Friends are the ones to cheer you up when you're struggling, the ones who bravely point out when your head gets too big, the ones who comfort you on those days when you're sinking in your woes.
Celebrate and salute your beautiful friendships through scrapbooking.
Document down the memories of those friends who are part of your cheerleader team, reality-check inspectors and faithful woes-absorber.
These 10 scrapbooking ideas for friendship will get you scrapping busily away.
Scrapbooking Ideas about Friends
Scrapbooking Ideas #1 Growing Up Memories
Do you have childhood friends?
If you and your best friend knew each other since you were little, countless memories would have taken place as you both grew up. Why not record down how you met each other and how do you maintain a long-lasting friendship through the years?
Are there telltale-signs that this person is someone whom you'll regard as a friend for ages ahead? Write down the poignant story of your long friendship.
Scrapbooking Ideas #2 Your Friend's Admirable Qualities
Are there qualities in your friend that you absolutely adore? Pay tribute to your friend's best qualities or unique characteristics with a scrapbook layout.
Open up and celebrate the goodness you see in your friend. Ultimately you choose to be friends with her, so there must be a set of admirable qualities you see in her. These are her qualities that you treasure and contribute to the enduring friendship.
Is Susie the very practical sort who pulls you down to earth whenever you crack up yet another pie in the sky scheme?
Is Bob the techie kind who helps you solved all your hard-to-solve computer problems?
I have a long-time friend. Her loyalty was what made her attractive as a friend when we were just mere classmates years ago.
So why not think about your friend and do a layout that splashes out the most attractive qualities of your pal.
Scrapbooking Ideas #3 Not-to-be Missed Get-Togethers and Getaways
Do you have fixed days on your calendars where you and your friends will meet up for your monthly, quarterly or annual gatherings? These are the days where you do all the soulful catching up with your friends without any interruption.
Remember to take snapshots during these gatherings for your scrapbooks. Enjoy these gatherings while they last because you never know when the dynamics will change and make meeting up harder in future.
As I looked through my photo collection, some of the usual gatherings I had with some friends were dissolved years ago. But these photos stand witness to the closeness we used to share during a period of my life.
Scrapbooking Ideas #4 Highlight Out Your Biggest Contrasts
They say opposites attract.
Is this applicable to you and your friend? List down the biggest differences you can detect in your friendship.
Notice how these differences spice up your friendship in a way that makes it all the more special from your other friendships.
Celebrate how differences can make people and friendships even more interesting, and help you see things from a different perspective.
Scrapbooking Ideas #5 Preferred Methods of Getting in Touch
How do you keep your long-distanced friendships working smoothly?
What are the ways you use to maintain contact? Emails? Frequent meet-ups? Snail mail? Regular phone-chats? Online chatting?
Include handwritten notes, letters exchanged, post cards sent into your scrapbooking pages. These will pump up the personalized factor by a hundred times!
Scrapbooking Ideas #6 Remember Your Pet Buddies
Have a flurry pal who's your greatest companion? Then don't miss recording down the special place your pet friend has in your life.
These loyal, wonderful companions deserve a place in your heart and scrapbooks too.
Recall those unforgettable moments and put these sparkling, struggling or inspiring moments you've shared together.
Whether hilarious, sentimental or soul-searching, have these moments recorded.
These incidents will say a great deal about the experiences you've gone through with your great friend.
Scrapbook Ideas #8 Common Interests
Did you meet your friend through a hobby like crop sessions?
Do your similar interests bring you both together naturally? Do you stay close in connection even though both of you stay in different cities? Do you meet online almost daily to share your interests and lives?
Record these special friendships down to show how a hobby could pull two persons apart together in an unexpected way.
Scrapbook Ideas #9 Lessons from Your Friendship
What's most important is usually invisible to the eye.
Has your friend taught you about courage, about living life to the fullest, about exposing your loving side to all?
Think about your friendship and write down the lessons you've learnt from your friendship.
Friends are some of the people whom we learn some of our most precious lessons from. Let your scrapbook layout remind you of how you've grown as a person because of a friendship.
Scrapbook Ideas #10 Unique Ways Different Friends Add to Your Life
Do you have a bunch of interesting friends? A ever supportive lot of friends?
Each friend will bring a unique aspect to your life.
A friend whom you run to whenever you need to pour out your woes making her your best confidante?
Another friend whom you tend to do ask for fashion advice, kid advice, travel advice and she's your ever reliable Miss Know-It-All?
Then there's your fun-loving friend whom you reveal the silly side of you.
