Scrapbooking Your Family Memories
June 2, 2009 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Home & Living
One of my favorite activities consists of researching and writing about my family stories, along with developing scrapbooks that depict these tales. In fact, I’ve been developing this into a business that brands me as a family writer.
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You’ll find many ways to save your family memories in scrapbooks:
- Simply a collection of pictures with names or captions
- Adding journal notes and explanations to the pictures
- Writing stories and using the photos and pictures to illustrate
- Write a fiction story, or biography, illustrated with scrapbooking techniques, as I’ve been doing with the story of my Uncle William “Buffalo Bill” Mathewson of New York State and Kansas.
- Creating altered books with family stories and memorabilia
- Designing shadow boxes with family collectibles
I enjoy incorporating scrapbooking techniques with family history and being creative with my stories and illustrating. I even teach classes on this to help others find the pleasure I do.
Where have you found some great resources for scrapbooking?
