Scrapbook Resolutions you can Keep

At the beginning of a new year, many New Year’s resolutions will be made and broken by the end of January. Exercise more consistently, lose weight, spend more time with the kids and/or spouse, stop biting fingernails – all broken because of the large time commitment. But there is one New Year’s resolution everybody can keep: scrapbook more.

Scrapbooking takes time, something everybody nowadays seems to be lacking, but there are four things you can do to take the time out of scrapbooking.

1) Scrapbook what you like to do

This follows the old saying, “If you do something you enjoy doing, it’s not really work.” This applies to careers, but also to scrapbooking. If you liked participating in the event or you like the person, then it’s easier to do. There are many people who scrapbook because they have the photos, or everybody is making a page on that subject, and they feel they should too. As they get into the project, it never gets finished because they lose interest in the subject. My dog, I love, and I could do a hundred pages on her because I have so much fun with her and I want to remember those memories.

2) Don’t compare your scrapbook to others

Some people just have talent. They’re the type who you are afraid to eat their food when you visit their house because you feel sacrilegious eating a masterpiece. I cook for the taste, I don’t cook to impress. This is the same with scarpbooking, it doesn’t matter what you do, it just matters that you do it. I know several who have been burnt out with scrapbooking because they cannot make their pages look like the Jones’. So what? Are the Jones’ going to scrapbook your life and your family’s life? No! Them whatever you do is fantastic.

3) Make it a habit to scrapbook by setting aside a set time to scrapbook

I know several people who set aside an hour or two the first Sunday or Monday of the month. They scrapbook their favorite memories from the past month, and at the end of the year they have filled an entire album with their favorite memories.

4)Find scrapbooking kits that you can do

This is the part I love the best. I cannot sit down for hours and scrapbook six months of photos at a time – that to me is burnout. I CAN do a little bit each week or month, never reaching that point of burnout. Outdoors and More has created a fun and easy product to help this. The Year at a Glance Scrapbooking Calendar comes with one page of stickers and four 12" x 12" scrapbooking pages for every month of the year for a total of 48 pages and 120 stickers. Two pages are ready for scrapbboking and two are perfect for journaling. The scrapbooking pages are ready-made layouts, just add your own pictures for beautifully finished scrapbook pages. This is the perfect product to remember memories over the entire year - and takes very little time to complete. You can find more information about Outdoors and More’s Year at a Glance Scrapbooking Calendar here.