Finding inspiration

With every scrapbook you will be able to create a lot of good pages. You may find that hard as you try, you may not be able to place the pictures on the page in a graceful and wonderful way, however, you are just in a rut. You will want to make sure that the page starts out looking the same, but then you break out by finding inspiration.

Inspiration is everywhere and all around the world. Turn on the television to check out your favorite celebrity’s latest fashion, and this may lead to a new color scheme for one of your pages. You will want to read a magazine and try to mimic a great idea or photo along with the written words. Billboards, advertisements, movie posters, and simply the scenes of your neighborhood can all become sources of inspiration if you look at the world with a scrapbooking eye.

However, pictures are not just the only thing that will inspire you for a new page idea. You will have plenty of words and feelings to help you along the way. A funny or moving quote can be used on a page as an embellishment, or perhaps a catchy phrase can become the theme and title of your layout. You may just need to break out from the visual arts and try to find inspiration in other places. Some of my best page ideas come to me when I’m doing something totally unrelated to layout design, such as reading. Take a break and walk away from your scrapbooking space. If you were to just change your scenery, you will be able to learn to motivate others and create original pages.

Friends can be a good source of inspiration as well. You will also want to ask for advice on any layouts and see examples of their scrapbooks to help you to find some type of inspiration. Ask for advice on your layout or, if they scrapbook as well, browse through some of their albums. You don’t want to copy their ideas, although you can, you will want to take some of the elements of their scrapbook and use it to generate ideas that you can mix together and make a whole different design. You can also achieve this by browsing through scrap booking publications such as magazines and books. Again, you don’t have to create exactly what you see, but the mark of a good designer is the ability to make a technique his or her own.

As for the best source of inspiration, you should think about the pictures. You may want to pull designs and colors from the pictures. You may also want to use the pictures to help you to determine the layout and what your options are pertaining to the layouts. You will want to learn how to use your subjects to inspire you to do better. You will wan to stop and look around because there is inspiration all over the world.

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