Scrapbooking! I love it! It is a great way to organize and use all those pictures you have sitting around. Also, as you complete your scrapbook pages, your family will get such enjoyment when going back and remembering all those great times. My kids love to do this and on a regular basis look thru the books I have created. My intention is to have a book for each child, I have 2 children, for when they become adults. I will give them to the kids as gifts from the heart.

So, what do you need to do to get started?

Here is a list of tools that you will need to get started:

• Scissors
• Paper Trimmer
• Adhesive
• Cardstock and patterened papers
• optional embellishments to pretty things up
• and of course PHOTOS!

Now, take your photos and paper and arrange the pictures on the page in an eye pleasing way. There are tons of ideas for pages on the internet. You can do a search for Scrapbooking, Scrapbook layout ideas and similar. There are also tons of scrapbooking stores online and off. Here are some of my favorites:

Here are some scrapbook ideas to get you started:

Smile scrapbook page layout

Smile scrapbook page layout idea Page 2

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