Bruce the Chef

By: Tom Ambrozewicz

Perhaps the most rewarding type of scrapbook you can make is one that
you intend to give as a gift. Scrapbooks make special gifts for almost
every occasion, because there handmade touches show that you care about
the person. When someone receives your scrapbook as a gift, he or she
may be inspired to create a scrapbook as well, and in this way you can
spread the scrapbooking bug to friends and family members.

There are many different types of scrapbooks you can make for the
recipient. One of my favorite types of themes makes a good gift for a
graduate or someone moving away-use pictures from throughout the years
of the person growing up and end with a recent picture and some blank
pages so the album an be continued. Pages made as a continuation make
good future gifts as well. This is also a good idea for couples
celebrating their wedding or anniversary. Instead of just having a
traditional wedding album, include pictures of both people from before
they met and then create pages of their life together.

Gathering pictures for these albums might call for you to be a bit
sneaky. Talk to friends and family members. Remember, never scrapbook
using a person’s original photographs without asking first. Instead,
make high-quality color copies at your local photocopy center. If you
use the machine correctly, you shouldn’t be able to tell the different
between the originals and the copies. By careful to replace the
photographs exactly as you found them, not only to prevent the
recipient from finding out the surprise, but also as a common courtesy.
Even some people who do not do scrapbooking have very precise systems
for keeping their photographs in order.

If you don’t have access to photographs or want to give a gift to
someone who likes to do the scrapbooking on their own, try making a
layout album for the person. This is an empty album of sorts-you do all
the page designing and let the person crop and add their own
photographs. They can use the album as given or remove the pages in
groups or singularly to add to an album they are currently creating.
Perhaps your best bet for an avid scrapbooker is not an album, however,
but a box full of supplies or a gift certificate to a local craft
supply store. You can still personalize this gift by choosing papers to
coincide with specific events in a person’s life-for example, buy
beach-themed paper for someone who recently bought a beach house, or
buy letter stamps that spell out specific names. With a little
creativity, you can use your love of the craft to give a perfect gift
to anyone.

About the Author:

Tom Ambrozewicz is one of the pioneers in using breakthrough audio technology on his web sites. You can read, you can listen to professional narrator reading to you or having MP3 files ready to download if you hate to keep printed files. You can check all scrapbooking tips at Ask-How.info now.

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