50 Simple Scrapbooking Ideas to Scrapbook About You

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Simple Scrapbooking

Here’s a collection of simple scrapbooking ideas you can attempt even if you are a beginner! See them as scrapbooking challenges to give your creativity juice a pump. Attempt all the ideas or pick the ones that speak to you.

I released these scrapbook ideas and layouts in 2009, on an almost weekly basis, from January to December. When you are done with these challenges, you would have in your hands, an “All About Me” album.

The big purpose of this project was and still is to inspire you to scrapbook about YOU. If you have been thinking, “How to scrapbook about myself”, and are looking for topics and ideas, you’ve come to the right place.

Too many scrapbookers hide behind the cameras taking countless photos of their loved ones, neglect to have themselves in the photos, and even forget about scrapbooking topics close to their hearts.

Remember one of the core tenets of scrapbooking is to document your personal life stories. If you don’t get in the pictures or record your interpretation of a memory or moment, an important ingredient is missing. Your voice. You.

And also, if you’re the scrapbooker of your family, there’s unlikely anyone who’ll scrapbook about you for you. You’ll have to do it yourself …

Don’t miss out on leaving behind some beautiful and meaningful pages about yourself. Years later, you’ll look back at these scrapbook layouts with fondness.

What’s more? Your kids, your grandchildren, and your future generations would love to know more about you. The creative and magnificent scrapbooker and memory keeper of the family!

After I released these ideas, women wrote me to thank me for this project as it made them create layouts about topics they wouldn’t have thought of. Sometimes they even shared with me their favorite scrapbook challenge. They found the project fun and inspiring, and best of all, they now have beautiful pages about themselves.

Play with each of these scrapbooking ideas, give it your unique spin, and see what you can come up with that totally reflects you. You are deliciously “scrapable”! ;-)

1) New Year Resolutions

“New Year Resolutions” is a scrapbooking idea to scrapbook about your resolutions for the brand new year. You can only get to where you want to go when you know where you’re heading in the first place. :)

Resolutions not for you? Because they usually got flushed down the toilet before March rolls around? Let me share a bit about my goal-setting with you.

I used to not set any New Year resolutions for many years. For one, I didn’t really know what I wanted, and two, I was doubting my ability to make things happen… Oops… I was worried that I might set myself up for disappointment. So to avoid that, why set resolutions?

However, a few years ago, I developed this urge to set a New Year resolution. I started small with just one resolution. About taking up a course that I felt was a strain on my budget back then, but it’s achievable. I set it and I hit it. It’s not a big thrill as it’s a rather low goal but it got me excited about New Year resolutions. For the next year, I increased my number of resolutions and this year, I got 12.

I usually scrapbooked in retrospectives, reviewing the wonderful bits that happened during the year. It’s the first time I’m scrapbooking about my New Year resolutions at the beginning of the year. So come join me!

Set aside some time to come up with some goals you’ll really like to see happen. Dropping that extra 5 pounds? Starting on a healthier fruits and vegetables diet? Scrapbook 30 layouts? Learn to bake that success-proven Tiramisu from your best friend? Take up a beginner yoga class?

Are there goals you set in 2008 but didn’t follow through? Maybe you can recommit to that goal this year. Oh, and before that, I’ll like for you to celebrate your previous successes. Learn to appreciate and value what you’ve already accomplished so far, as that’ll set you internally motivated to want to achieve more.

This scrapbook page on your New Year’s resolutions will be one that’s going to be looked over many times in the future. It lets others know that you’re someone with goals, dreams, and hopes. It’ll remind you of what you used to think is important enough to want to set it as a resolution.

It’ll also play another role. As a constant reminder to you over the next twelve months about where you’re wanting to head towards!

Supplies used: Cardstocks – Bazzill Basics and The Paper Company; Patterned papers – Basic Grey Romani “Bohemian” and Urban Couture “Jacquard”; Orange stitched ribbon – Celebrate; Buttons – Autumn Leaves “Foof-a-la”; Black Marker – Zig Memory System “Dotta-Riffic”; White pen – UniBall Signo Broad “White”; Black pen – Zig Memory System “Millennium”; Brown and red pens – Zig Memory System “Fine & Chisel”; Pink brad – KCK Craft; Silk flower – stash; Red embroidery floss – DMC; Corner rounder; Sketch: Pg 52 of Scrapbook Page Maps: Sketches For Creative Layouts.

2) 5 Daily Habits

“5 Daily Habits” is a scrapbooking idea where you pick out 5 of your personal daily habits that you perform almost every day without giving much thought to, but are really a part of your life and who you are.

Think for a minute or two and come up with your own list. You’ll probably have more than 5 habits, so take another minute to narrow your list down to 5 that you think would most define you or stuff you couldn’t do without, or activities that you just gotta perform on a daily basis.

A strong black coffee early in the morning? A bag that matches your clothes before you dash out the door? Getting your newspaper from your favorite news vendor?

Habits are usually stuff we do each day without much thought. But hey, they make for a meaningful scrapbook page that describes to others, an interesting dimension of you.

So start digging into your daily habits and turn them in for this week’s scrapbooking challenge!

The journaling reads:

Making my baby niece Cleo smiles/laughs loudly & happily

Chanting for 15 minutes in the mornings

Reviewing my site traffic for my websites and previous day earnings too

Hitting the “Snooze” button on my mobile phone at least twice in the mornings

Setting my positive affirmation audio to play softly in the background while I work

Supplies Used: Cardstocks – Bazzill Basics, Colormate, and World Win; Patterned papers – Brenda Pinnick Designs by Paper Confections; Clear stamp – Autumn Leaves “Journaling by Katie Pertiet”; Buttons – Autumn Leaves “Foof-a-La”; Flowers; Prima Marketing; Silk flower – from stash; Flower brads – Making Memories; Blue brad – KCK Craft; Ribbon – Satin Bias Tape from Wheel & Anchor; Black pen – Zig Memory System “Millennium”; Black marker – Zig Memory System “Dotta-Riffic”; Red pen – Zig Memory System Fine & Chisel”; Number sticker – American Crafts “Thickers” Vinyl letter stickers; Sketch: Pg 42 of Scrapbook Page Maps: Sketches For Creative Layouts.

3) A Wish Came True

This idea is to share on your scrapbook page, a wish that came true for you.

Don’t fret. It’s not about some big magical wishes that came true. If it is, wonderful! It could be any of your wishes, even if it’s a small one. It’s to highlight this wish and its process of coming to fruition.

For me, I’ve chosen to scrapbook about my wish to see a sunrise.

About two months ago, one day while sitting in my good friend’s car, I suddenly asked her and her hubby, when was the last time they had watched a sunrise. They hesitated for a moment and mentioned seeing one when they were in Dubai for a holiday but had not seen one in our own little country.

So I went on to suggest that perhaps it’ll be great if we can go watch one together someday. We didn’t talk about it till one day, my friend asked if I would like to join them to watch a sunrise.

We woke up at 4:30 am to prepare ourselves. But alas, we didn’t see a sunrise at the venue. We later learned that’s not a good place to see one. More than two weeks later, we made our second attempt, this time at the place that others have told us about. We finally saw the rising sun!

Want to know where my inspiration to see a sunrise came from? It’s inspired by the quote below. Very meaningful!

“… we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
— Paul Bowles

Supplies used: Cardstocks – The Paper Company; Striped patterned papers – HOTP “Mixing Masculine Papers”; Polka dot patterned paper – Luxe Designs “Sugar Cookie” Jill; Button – Autumn Leaves “Foof-a-la”; Black marker – Zig Memory System “Dotta-Riffic”; Red watercolor pencil – Staedtler “Luna”; Black pen – Zig Memory System “Millennium”; Brown pen – Zig Memory System “Fine & Chisel”; Brown embroidery floss – DMC; Blue brad – KCK Craft; Pink silk flower – from stash; Sketch: Pg 20 of Scrapbook Page Maps: Sketches For Creative Layouts.

4) Things In My Bag

This scrapbooking idea is a fun and light-hearted one. To create a page on the everyday, essential items in your handbag or purse.

We, women, love to carry a bag with us everywhere we go. In our little or big bags, we carry a ton of stuff! And these items in our bags reveal a facet of us. So take some time to unload everything in your bag this week and take a picture of the items hiding in the comfort of your carry-it-all.

You might already know exactly what’s in there. Or you’ll be amazed by the little forgotten bits you’ve casually tossed in there a long time ago.

Doesn’t matter. What matters is that there’s a page to celebrate the little essentials you’re so used to carrying along whenever you are on the go.

Years later, when you look at this page, you might think to yourself, “I’m still carrying similar items in my bag now.” Or you might be stunned, “Oh… you mean I actually used to carry those things in my bag?!”

Supplies used: Cardstocks – Bazzill Basics; Yellow cardstock – The Paper Company; Patterned papers – Basic Grey “Sultry” Collection; Letter Stickers – American Crafts “Thickers” Vinyl; Ribbon – Wheel & Anchor Satin Bias Tape; Silk flowers – stash; Black Marker – Zig Memory System “Dotta-Riffic”; White pen – UniBall Signo Broad “White”; Black pen – Zig Memory System “Millennium”; Black ink – Versa Color; Pink brad – KCK Craft; Sketch: No. 042 of 500 Scrapbooking Sketches.

5) This One Photo

This scrapbooking idea is to pick a photo you love and make a page about it. Write about the story behind the photo. Write about what that photo speaks to your heart.

It could describe the bond between you and someone special. You could narrate your story of the week. You could pick one photo from your childhood and write about it, or it could be from your latest collection and write about how it affects you.

For me, I’ve selected a photo taken of my first niece and me during her baby sister’s one-year-old birthday celebration party. It’s been a while since I’ve seen such a nice picture of us two. We used to take lots of impromptu close-up snapshots together.

Although young, she’s been trained to look and smile at the camera at a tender age. She’s easy to capture on camera. Ever since her baby sis came along and as she grew up rapidly, we don’t take as many photos as before. These days, it’s seldom that a lovely, proper photo of us comes by. So this one photo taken by my brother-in-law caught my eye.

I chose to highlight in bullet-points about the thoughts that popped into my head when I looked at the photo.

Supplies used: Background and yellow cardstocks – Bazzill Basics Paper; Light pink cardstock – Colormate; Love patterned paper – Glamour Prints by Dovercraft; Striped patterned paper – Brenda Pinnick by Paper Confections; Buttons – Autumn Leaves “Foof-a-la”; Clear stamp – Autumn Leaves “Journaling by Katie Pertiet”; Green brad – KCK Craft; Flower – Prima Marketing; Black polka-dot ribbons – stash; Black pen – Zig Memory System “Millennium”; Corner rounder; Sketch: No. 021 from 500 Scrapbooking Sketches.

6) When I Was Young

This scrapbooking idea is not a new one. It’s an idea that most of us were asked to write about when we were young students; about our childhood ambitions.

Can you still remember what you used to dream of becoming when you grew up? Did you really go on to fulfill your childhood ambition, or have you landed a job or career entirely diverse from your dreams as a kid?

For me, I don’t remember having many childhood ambitions or a particularly long-standing one. From my memories, my first childhood ambition was to be a teacher. Not just any teacher but a kindergarten teacher. I thought kids were cute and it’d be fun teaching them stuff. Well, I lost interest in becoming one soon after.

Then during my teen years, I dreamed of becoming a writer. This desire was ignited when one of my ex-teachers selected one of my essays to be published in the school yearbook. From then onwards, I harbored the wish to be a writer someday. The thought of being a journalist did cross my mind back then but was dropped as I didn’t believe I was good enough.

So here I am, becoming neither a kindergarten teacher nor a writer. But that’s fine because I’m having fun with my work and enjoy what I’m doing! It’s work that I couldn’t even have imagined working at because it was almost unheard of back then. And guess what, writing is an integral part of my work. :-)

Trace right back to your first childhood ambition if you could. List down all your ambitions as a kid. It’ll be such a fun page to review in the future! Enjoy!

Supplies used: Brown cardstock – Bazzill Basics; Orange and green cardstocks – The Paper Company; Measuring tape patterned paper – Unknown; Silk flowers, thread, button – stash; Black Marker – Zig Memory System “Dotta-Riffic”; Black pen – Zig Memory System “Millennium”; Corner rounder; Sketch: No. 259 from 500 Scrapbooking Sketches.

7) Favorite Feature

This week, let’s do a layout on your best/favorite feature! It’s a not-to-be-missed scrapbooking idea simply for the fact that many skipped over this or neglected to create it.

If you’ve always known what’s your best feature, flaunt it in a nice photo and create a scrapbook page around it. If you’re uncertain or have never really thought about it, now’s a great time to give yourself a loving look over and come up with your one irresistible feature. It doesn’t have to be on your face.

It could be your long straight legs, your graceful slender fingers, your glossy crown of glory …

For me, I’ve chosen my smile to be my favorite feature. For a long time, I didn’t think I have any redeemable features. I could invariably pick some fault with any feature till I had none to feel good about. That’s the awkward teenage and young adult years.

Now I’m a lot more forgiving and have learned to be more comfortable in my own skin. Of course, I’m not perfect, I don’t have model height and figure, flawless skin or naturally shiny straight hair, etc. But I am me and this is my body and I’m learning to accept it and feel good about it. :-)

Here’s the affirmation I’ve read in Louise Hay’s Power Thought Cards:

“I love and approve of myself
I appreciate all that I do
I am good enough just as I am
I speak up for myself
I ask for what I want
I claim my power” 

Supplies used: Cardstocks – Bazzill Basics, WorldWin, and The Paper Company; Patterned papers – My Mind Eye’s “Deena’s Penny Lane” My Mind’s Eye’s “Confetti”, Luxe Design “Sugar Cookie Jill”, Basic Grey “Wassail Noel”, Adornit Carolee’s Creations “Way to Go”; Black Marker – Zig Memory System “Dotta-Riffic”; White pen – UniBall Signo Broad “White”; Black pen – Zig Memory System “Millennium”.

8) My Three Fears

This idea revolves around scrapbooking three of your fears. It’s not an easy topic for some. You may choose not to think or even want to talk about them. But the fears feel real and tend to be at the back of your mind.

If you let them be, they might even overwhelm you at times and cause you great anxiety. Yet for others, you may have discovered a great way to limit your fears or even overcome them.

Whatever your case may be, choose three of your fears and scrapbook them. We are humans after all and each of us has a different set of fears.

For me, I’ve always been afraid of death. It’s my number one fear. The thought of leaving this world forever and not seeing my loved ones for eternity scares the daylight out of me. But my faith is giving me peace of mind.

My second fear is an illness. Well, it’s not uncommon to see family, friends, or others suffering from poor health and the dreadful consequences an illness could bring. Not to mention how it can rob people of mobility and freedom. So I’m really thankful for every day of good health I’m enjoying.

My third fear is a newly-discovered one. In the sense that if it wasn’t for this project, I might not even have thought about it. The fear of not being loved. I guess I’ve always felt loved, so this fear never did have a chance to surface. It’s a blessing to be loved. :-)

At first, I thought this might be a “tough” topic for me to write about. But no, the words flew out of me. So I hope you take some time to put your fears down on paper. Putting them down on paper somehow diminishes their impact and intensity.

Supplies used: Cardstocks – Bazzill Basics; Letter stickers – American Crafts “Thickers” Vinyl; White pen – UniBall Signo Broad “White”; Black pen – Zig Memory System “Millennium”; Black ink – Versa Color; Sketch: No. 286 of 500 Scrapbooking Sketches.

9) 6 Random Things About Me

“6 Random Things About Me” is a fun scrapbooking topic! Easy and light-hearted. Simply pick 6 random things about you to share on your layout.

This idea came to me as I remembered how I used to be “tagged” once or twice by other bloggers when I used to have a blog, to share random stuff about myself. So now I’m passing along the idea to you.

It could be almost anything under the sun really. Six little tidbits of information about your life, about your past, about your present, or even about your future hopes. Just think of fun and interesting items to list on your page. It could just be little information about you that you don’t normally mention in the course of a conversation with someone unless the topic pops up.

If you think about it, there are really many tiny bits of information you can gather about yourself. Spend a few minutes to create a list of them and narrow it down to six.

To tie in with the theme, you can pick out a random close-up shot of yourself, which is what I did for mine. You may even want to take pictures that relate to the six items you’re mentioning about.

For me, I talked about how my family feels about the fact that I can’t differentiate very well between fresh food and food that has gone a bit stale. ;-) About how I used to take French language classes years ago but speak none of it now.

About how I’ll cry when I read inspiring or very touching stories. Or how I’ve read “As a Man Thinketh” over a dozen times and it’s one of my favorite books.

And how I used to collect teddy bears and soft toys when I was younger and then suddenly gave them all away. And finally how I used to wear super-thick and heavy glasses that gave me bruises. Ouch! :-)

Now’s your turn! Go pick out some happy-looking papers, colors, and embellishments and create a page about randomness, or rather 6 random bits of information about you. Have fun!

Supplies used: Cardstocks – Bazzill Basics; Patterned papers – Basic Grey “Sultry” Collection; Blue paper – Grant Archival “Scrapbook Paper Pack”; Blue button – Autumn Leaves “Foof-a-la”; White pen – UniBall Signo Broad “White”; Black pen – Zig Memory System “Millennium”; Brown and red pens – Zig Memory System “Fine & Chisel”.

10) What Am I Wearing?

This scrapbooking idea is a fun one, to show off your current favorite fashion! Are you a fashionista flaunting the latest outfits that grace the magazine pages? Are you into classic and elegant clothes that never really go out of style? Or are you the laid-back casual woman who’s a true fan of jeans, denim, and tank tops?

Go pick out a few photos that reveal your state of dress sense. I understand fashion comes and goes fast, so creating a page on what you’re wearing these days would be an interesting page to review in the time to come. It’s a representation of you in the image department.

As you look at your page in the future, you might think, “You mean I actually wore that?!”, “See how my style never did go out and now it’s back in fashion again”, “Aargh, I wish I would dress a little different than what’s showing here!”, etc. See what I mean? Having a page like this serves as a time capsule to your then dressing style, and how much it remains the same or differs from your future dressing style.

As for me, I’m not into the latest fashions anymore. But that doesn’t mean that if something nice comes along, I won’t go for it. I resisted black tights when they first got back in “vogue” in my country, especially seeing the one that my friend wore that resembled swimming tights. :-) Later, when I realized how comfy they (the cotton ones) are and how they match excellently with tunics and short dresses, I became a fan. Sort of. Would I look back 5 years later and wondered what has gotten into my mind? Maybe. Maybe not. At least I know they’re easy to wear and offer me freedom of movement! Out of these 4 outfits, two are hand-me-downs from my sister. :-)

Supplies used: Tan cardstock – Bazzill Basics; Blue cardstock: Worldwin; Circle images – Digital collage (unknown); Baby blue felt – Daiso Japan; Black Marker – Zig Memory System “Dotta-Riffic”; Black pen – Zig Memory System “Millennium”; Circle punch – Carla Carl Craft; Sketch: No. 376 from 500 Scrapbooking Sketches.

I hope you enjoyed all these ideas. But to get started, you’ll have to print out the photos to be used in your scrapbook layouts. If you find it a hassle to pop over to a photo printing shop, you might want to consider the ease and convenience of getting a 4×6″ photo printer for your home use. So whenever the urge to create strikes you, you’ll be able to print out your photos and start making your layout.

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Check out the rest of the 40 scrapbooking ideas and topics below:

Scrapbook Challenges No. 11-20

Scrapbook Challenges No. 21-30

Scrapbook Challenges No. 31-40

Scrapbook Challenges No. 41-50

26 thoughts on “50 Simple Scrapbooking Ideas to Scrapbook About You”

    1. Hi Rhydum,

      If you’re looking into preserving your scrapbook layouts for the long-term, some of the materials you get might not be acid-free and would affect your layouts in the long-term. I’m not sure where you are from, so maybe you’ll have to check around your area for any local scrapbook stores or craft stores for scrapbooking supplies.

      If you’re from the US, maybe you can also check out some big craft stores like Michaels or Jo-Ann. There’s also online scrapbook stores such as Scrapbook.com, take look at Top 10 Scrapbooking Supplies to find out what beginner supplies you can look into getting from this online store.

  1. Hi, I am about to start a scrapbook for a year 12 projects, but I don’t know where to start and I was wondering if you could give me some advice and easy tips that will help me get started. Thanks.

    1. Hi Chelsea,

      Are you looking to scrapbook 12 layouts for a year? If you’re looking to create a personal scrapbook about yourself and your life, I’d suggest that you look through my 50 Simple Scrapbooking Page Ideas and pick out 12 ideas that strike a chord with you.

      Alternatively, if you’re scrapping one layout per month, you could choose to select a few of your favorite photos for that month and scrapbook about it. An example layout would be Favorite Photos of the Month and it’s idea no. 30. Such a layout would be sort of a summary or compilation for that month. Hope this helps! Happy scrapping away!

    1. Hi Doreen,

      For the cover page, you can keep it simple:
      1. Create a stylish word title.
      2. Create a window display of your group photo.
      3. Create an easy collage of what your women’s group is about.

      These are just some ideas that popped into my head while I’m typing this. Hope you’ll come up with a cover page for your scrapbook that pleases you!

  2. I am involved in theater, and I was thinking of making two pages for each show I am in… Do you have any ideas or tips for the layout of the pages?

    1. Hi Stefanie,

      It’s a great idea to do a two-page layout for each show that you are in. It’ll be a scrapbook of cherished moments and highlights of your career. As each show will be unique, the atmosphere and the photos you choose to include will be vastly different too and perhaps a variety of layouts might perhaps be more suited to showcase the diversity of each of your shows?

      For a variety of layout ideas, you can look into using double-page sketches to help you in arranging elements on your two-page spreads. This will help save you time in trying to arrange various elements on your scrapbook layout.

    1. Hi Haley,

      There’s many scrapbook ideas you can try for your school scrapbook project. You can first decide on a theme to help you narrow down your focus. As I’m not sure if you’re already given a topic, here’s a few ideas to start you off:

      1. Best Memories from My School Year 20XX
      2. My Friends & I
      3. My Favorite Photos from 2010-2015
      4. My 10 Favorite Memories
      5. About My Favorite People

      Have fun creating your scrapbook! :)

  3. Hi, I’m doing a scrapbook about myself. Just random stuffs, but I want put many many things in there. And I can’t put any, can you suggest any ideas or tips on what to do please? Thanks.

    1. Hi Clarence,

      It’s great that you’re looking into creating a scrapbook about yourself. I’m not sure what things you’ll want to include in your scrapbook. For example, if you’re wanting to include some tickets, letters or flat memorabilia, you can consider creating your own paper envelope using scrapbook paper and adhere this envelope to your scrapbook page. For embellishments, you can adhere them directly to your scrapbook page.

      If you have items you want to include with your scrapbook page, you can also look at Project Life scrapbooking where the page protectors come with different arrangements of slots for you to slot in your photos, cards, etc.

    1. Hi Neha,

      Scrapbook, the purpose is to preserve memories using acid-free and lignin-free items. If you like to paste real things like leaves and flowers from nature into your scrapbook, that might be a challenge as these items will deteriorate the preservation quality of the scrapbook. One way to incorporate nature into your scrapbook, is to take beautiful photographs of nature and create layouts about nature. Then you can look for nature theme paper or embellishments to decorate your scrapbook pages. Hope this helps!

  4. Hi,

    I’m about to start my scrap book on my photography (Nature Photography), so can you just suggest some ideas?

    1. Hi Glen,

      Nature photography, beautiful! There’re many ways you can take this. You can create a scrapbook album featuring your top 100 photos for 2016. You can create a weekly/biweekly/monthly double-page layout featuring your favorite shots. You can create separate themed albums-rivers, mountains, greenery, flowers, animals, etc or you can categorize by the four seasons-spring, summer, fall and winter. Have fun scrapping your beautiful photos!

  5. As a father of a daughter who is entering her teens, I wanted to write something for her in a scrapbook my wife is preparing for her. Give me good ideas, thanks.

    1. Hi Amish,

      Very thoughtful of your wife to be making a scrapbook for your daughter. One of the first things that comes to mind is to write a personal letter to your daughter to read, and this letter can be slotted into the somewhere on the scrapbook layout, if you want privacy.

      Otherwise, you can write directly on the scrapbook page about “Ten Things I Love about My Daughter”, “Ten Things I Love about Being Your Dad”, “Dad’s Words for His Beautiful Daughter”, “You are Special Just the Way You Are”, etc. Think about what you would like to say to your daughter. This scrapbook is likely to remain in her possession, cherished and kept for many years, and she would also likely be looking at this many times over the years. Write from your heart about what you’ll like her to know if she is to look through the scrapbook ten, twenty or thirty years from now. :)

  6. I’m in the process of retrieving photos from an old non-acid free album. The photos have faded some and have a yellowish film on them. Is there a product one can use to “clean” the photos to remove the yellow film? I plan on using them in a scrapbook.

    1. Hi Mima,

      I’m not sure if there’s such a product whereby you can remove the yellow tint from old, faded photos. It might not be a great idea to use chemicals on them. If you have an image editing software such as Photoshop, I believe there are ways for you to remove the yellow cast using Photo Filter. There are online tutorials that can show you how to do it. Otherwise, it will be a safer bet to bring these photos to an expert who can restore old photos, but I believe such a service might be expensive.

      Perhaps you can look into scanning these old photos or taking photographs of them, and then print these out for use in your scrapbook. This way, you can store these old photos somewhere safe and have the digital printouts of them to be used in your scrapbook.

    1. Hi Mia,

      I’m not sure if you’re looking to create scrapbook layouts about you and your daughter or your family. But either way will work out great. You can scrapbook about the top 10 happy memories you’ve spent together. These will be pages she’ll look back on with fondness in future. If you include a layout about what you love best about your daughter, another page about how you feel on the day she was born, I’m sure she’ll love these pages!

  7. I’m trying to make a scrapbook for my mother for Christmas and I was thinking about making each page about something different but also I want it to be about family any ideas?

    1. Hi Marissa,

      A scrapbook will make a meaningful Christmas gift for your mother! How about compiling the past Christmases spent together? Favorite family events? Or perhaps an encounter each family member had with your mother (preferably with a photo or two of that experience)? Just some ideas to hopefully trigger more ideas from you. Happy scrapping!

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