The Basics: Escrapbooking Starters
Some people have a hard time getting started with escrapbooking.
Get Organized
One place to start is with the resources around you. Start collecting what you see around you. While you can collect by organizing real objects, you can also collect ideas and memories through taking digital photographs. Consider going through your photo album and scanning those photos that contain the most instant memories.
Getting Started
If you don't have lots of your own photos or videos, use our Naturescapes Video & Image Starter Resources page. It contains many photos and video clips to incorporate into your projects. The photo below is from the Naturescapes collection.
Locate visuals for scrapbooking at Teacher Tap: Visuals and Public Domain visuals.
Multimedia Scrapbook Starters
Explore multimedia scrapbook starters. Consider building a Scrapbook Starter using a template. There are over 2000 multimedia scrapbook starters. A few are listed below. For more go to Filamentality and do a search for "scrapbook." Keep in mind that many have been on the web for a while, so they may suffer link rot.
- Butterfly Scrapbook
- Children’s Poetry Scrapbook
- Exploring China: A Multimedia Scrapbook*
- Multimedia Scrapbook on Medieval Europe
- Poetry Scrapbook
- Scrapbook on All About Bats
- Scrapbook on Amphibians, Fishes, and Reptiles
- Scrapbook on Butterfly Life
- Scrapbook on Creating a Hero
- Scrapbook on Death of a Salesman
- Scrapbook on Frogs
- Scrapbook on the Holocaust
- Scrapbook on Mark Twain
- Scrapbook on Space Exploration
- Scrapbook on the Past and Present
- Scrapbook on the Scarlet Letter and the Crucible
- Scrapbook on the Wretched Institution
Use Books as Scrapbook Starters
Many books use the scrapbook theme or use a scrapbook type format. Use these as inspiration for your own projects.
Explore books with a scrapbooking theme:
- Divine Secrets of Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells. The main character has a scrapbook.
- Keepsake Crimes by Laura Childs. Set in a scrapbook shop.