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Hosting a Scrapbook Crop - Three Inspiring Ideas For You
If you are the Hostess/Consultant, it is always good to have a few ideas up your sleeve to keep people inspired, including yourself!
The beauty of scrapbooking is that each person is making an album that suits them alone. Beginners and more advanced scrappers can comfortably sit in a crop together. Each person will take an idea you give them and make it their own at their own level and in their own style. I am yet to find a wrong way to make a scrapbook page. Encourage your guests along these lines with the aim of making them feel comfortable enough to explore their own tastes, ideas and goals for their albums.
Things to keep in mind
Everyone wants to find their mojo (their artistic muse or inspirational voice) and often you hear scrappers and paper crafters in general saying their mojo has gone on vacation! Coming to scrapbook crops can kick start the mojo in all of us again.
Encourage scrappers to share their ideas, pages, techniques and creations with each other. Be willing (as the Hostess) to be first to share. You can do it informally, leaning across and verbally admiring another person's work, then showing a page or idea of your own. Or you can be a bit more formal and offer to let people in on your thinking process behind making one of your pages, or explain how you came up with a whole album. Or ask a more experienced scrapper to share some of their work and thinking about these same things.
You may just see a light bulb go off in someone's mind as you speak! That is their mojo returning from vacation!
When you can see people are inspired it takes very little else for them to enjoy the day. You certainly can add value to the event however with the following inspirational concepts.
Three Inspiring Ideas
- Idea: Have a series of Charity Crops throughout the year! Do you support a charity or have a cause you would like to promote? One of my friends fund raises for breast cancer research. She goes to the Breast Cancer Awareness website for inspiration about how to crop a page. You could do the same with your own charity or passion. Most charities have websites these days and you can get a feel for their theme quite easily. Here are some ideas for how to use your charity or passion to inspire yourself and your scrappers:
- Pick the theme colour of your charity and challenge your croppers to scrap in tones or shades of it on the day. For example, for breast cancer awareness, the colour is pink. Ask people to make a layout with a pink ribbon on it, or pink flowers or rhinestones, or all three.
- Encourage people to bring along a photo of someone they love or admire who has had the condition you are trying to raise awareness about. You may not have considered scrapping about your friends or relatives who have been touched by cancer, for example, but you may be very glad you were encouraged to make pages about them
- Do something fun around the theme of your charity. For example, we 'scrapped a bra' this year for one of my friend's events. We each chose a favourite bra (or bought a new one just for the occasion!) and decorated it in ribbons, lace, beads, flowers, feathers, stitching, Cuttlebugged felt cutouts, iron on embroidered patches and any other embellishments we could think of. Some of the finished items were wearable and some were not, but we all felt inspired to use our scrapping supplies in new ways afterward
- Encourage scrappers to make a greeting card to cheer someone or encourage that person, then to actually send it. Scrapping supplies are very good for making cards. You can even do a little research and find a stranger affected by your issue to encourage. For example, if you were supporting Muscular Dystrophy awareness, find a person has the condition and send that person some cheerful 'thinking of you' cards. Or choose a tireless charity worker and make thank you cards for that person to show their efforts are recognised. This kind of behaviour is called a RAK -- a Random Act of Kindness
- Idea: You could have a series of Masquerade Crops throughout the year! Pick a theme and ask people to come along dressed in costume. Choose a theme from a period in history that was fun like the Roaring 20's, the 1950s (or choose another favourite decade from history), or pick a theme like Circus events, Cowboys and Indians, Hawaiian days (or beach days), Space, The Grand Old Oprey, or fit in with a holiday that is coming up. Ask people to find photos they could work on that will fit with the theme. When they arrive, provide an ideas page for them such as a sketch or a hand made embellishment they can make, or even a small packet of scrapping material such as lace, raffia or ribbons that would fit in with the theme. Your friends could agree to bring a plate of food in the style of the theme and you would have a reason and means to crop all day.
- Idea: Have a series of Technique and Tip Crops throughout the year! Pick a series of techniques you would like to know more about yourself and learn how to show them to your friends. Or pick a few friends who know how to use particular techniques very well and ask for a demonstration of them. Provide little kits of sample materials for people to try out the technique you have chosen to highlight. Ask friends to bring a page or two to show others how they have used the technique in the past. Have a place set up (the ironing board with a sheet over it is a great slim line display area) to show off the pages people make using the new technique. You may be amazed at the different interpretations people come up with when using the very same techniques.
I hope these three concepts may assist you in conducting some enjoyable scrapbooking crops and that your Hostess mojo is well and truly back now!
Would you like to find out more about papercraft tools, tips and techniques that could help you with your scrapbooking crops? At http://PaperCraftCentral.com you will find step-by-step guides for making many beautiful paper craft projects. You can even ask questions about paper crafting, submit your own work and subscribe to Paper Twists, a newsletter all about papercrafts, for free! Just go to http://PaperCraftCentral.com/subscribe.html
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For everybody who is planning to have a large or a modest wedding; you need to send invitations. For larger weddings consider buying your invitations at wholesale party shops, or wedding warehouses so that you can get the best value for your money and be sure you end up with a great deal.
Instead it's not hard to choose to make your own personal invitations to save money and make something really unique if you have enough time.
Homemade invitations can be made up of transparent paper over embellished colored paper. Regarding wedding invitations, some even use calligraphy to handmake their invitations and it adds a nice, elegant touch to your invitations, if you have the skill or know somebody that does.
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When you hand-make your invitations, there are no limits about what you can do to them or what accessories that you can apply. Really well liked additions to handmade invitations are pictures of the very happy twosome, calligraphy accents, Paper Flowers, poems, verse and prose, rhinestones and or sequins, gold or silver model car paint for accents, scrapbooking embellishments.
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It's possible to save some cash on postage by handing certain invitations to relatives members to pass on for you to individuals who they see more frequently than you do.
You can also place your wedding date and invitee list on your wedding website if you have one and only mail invitations to those who do not have internet access.
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Alternatively it's not hard to decide to make your own personal invitations to save money and create something very unique if you have got the time.
Homemade invitations may be made up of gossamer paper over embellished coloured paper. When it comes to wedding invitations, some people even use calligraphy to handmake their invitations and it adds a pleasing, elegant touch to your invitations, if you have the skill or know somebody that does.
If you make your invitations by hand, you can address every one singly so that you can add singular contents to your guests that are addressed specially to them.
When you hand-make your invitations, there are no limits to what you can do to them or what add-ons that you can use. Very popular additions to hand made invitations are pictures of the very happy couple, calligraphy accents, paper flowers, poems, verse and prose, rhinestones and or sequins, gold or silver model paint for accents, scrapbooking ornamentations.
If you're not creating your own personal invitations, then buy in volume. A lot of stores offer discounts when you buy products in mass and this is great for everybody who is planning to hold a wedding of 50 or more invitees. Invitations do not have to bust your bank account, but do have to be sent.
You can save some money on postage by handing certain invitations to friends and family members to pass on for you to people who they see more frequently than you do.
You can also place your wedding date and guest list on your wedding web site if you have one and only post invitations to people who do not have access to the internet.
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