Starting A Summer Scrapbook

This month I've been enjoying the new sunshine that has blessed us recently, and allowing those brighter days to inspire me in a multitude of ways. One of those ways is my new scrapbook! Yes, I've started a scrapbook and I wanted to share some of it with you guys today.
I hope to update this and keep it going for the rest of the year, but for now I thought I'd start it off with a kick of sunshine and Summer fun! My first few pages stick to the Summer theme, and it's been really cheering up my mood to work on this and feel like I'm embracing the upcoming season early.
I've been reminiscing over past Summers, my favourite holidays, memories and thoughts, to fuse them into something inspiring to decorate onto my first few pages. A scrapbook can be a wonderful way to explore your creative side and keep cherished memories, and I've also found it has helped me relax to work on this.

I concentrated on layering different images, collecting trinkets/flowers, using colourful pens and tapes, adding glitter, buttons, and of course writing down some of my memories and thoughts to go along with everything. You don't need to be an Artist to make a beautiful scrapbook, and because it's a personal project; it becomes meaningful to you as you create it.

My only tips for making a scrapbook would be;
1. Try to keep each page/section to a theme: It will flow naturally then and you'll have more ideas on how to represent this one single theme.
2. Layer, layer... then layer some more!: Don't be scared to get messy here. Adding different materials, colours and elements will only strengthen your pages.
3. Don't be afraid to look at other scrapbooks: It's okay to see how others have done theirs and get ideas from it, because your personal memories cannot be copied anyway! Find what makes theirs beautiful, and try to emulate that in your own work. Do they make good use of space? Do they stick to one particular colour? Do they use text as imagery? Find inspiration!

Starting this scrapbook is one of my favourite creative projects I've done this year, and I'll be sure to keep it up. I hope it will become something wonderful to look back on when the year is over, and maybe I'll start another for January 1st! Fingers crossed.
Even Luna enjoyed helping me with this project!

Have you ever made a scrapbook?

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