Contents: Scrapbook Storytelling

Introduction: Where Do I Begin?

Chapter 1: CATCHING YOUR LIFE’S STORIES
Catching Your Life’s Stories
Reasons to Catch Your Stories
What Exactly is Scrapbook Storytelling?
Take the Scrapbook Test
What Keeps Us from Telling Stories
What is Journaling?
How to Use This Book

Chapter 2: PRESERVING FAMILY VALUES
Think Before You Create a Page
The Good, the Bad and the Unspeakably Sad
Make a Choice, Have a Purpose
Key Questions for Scrapbookers
Planning Your Albums

Chapter 3: TELLING STORIES WITH IMAGES
Preserving Family Photos and Memorabilia
Working with Old Photo Albums
Organizing Photos and Memorabilia
Adding Dates to Your Photos
Linking Photos to Information
Taking Photos Today to Tell Stories from Yesterday
A Crash Course in Photography
Photo-Journaling Your Scrapbook
The Missing Photo
Forever and Ever: Archival Quality Materials

Chapter 4: RECOVERING FAMILY STORIES
Let Photos Guide Your Memories
Listening to the Stories of Others
Collecting Commentary
Taking Notes Starting Today
Keeping Track of Visual Ideas and Art Elements
Finding Information at Reunions
Electronic Archiving
Information Collection Form

Chapter 5: USING OTHER PEOPLE’S WORDS
Ways to Use What You Find
Little Fingers, Big Messages

Chapter 6: CONQUERING WRITER’S BLOCK
When Old Fears Resurface
Using the Power of Affirmations
Moving from Right to Left Brain
Shop and Crop

Chapter 7: PLANNING PAGES FOR IMPACT
Determining Your Focus
Putting Words and Images Together
Page Design Supports Your Focus
Create a Thumbnail Sketch or a Mock Page Layout
Planning a Theme Album
Stop Before You Touch That Glue

Chapter 8: FORMATTING YOUR STORIES
Turning Information into Stories
Bet You CAN and DO Write
The Handwriting is on the Wall,...er, On the Page

Chapter 9: POLISHING YOUR STORIES
First Edit: Scan and Ask, “Does My Writing Work?”
Second Edit: Tricks of the Trade
Third Edit: Proofread Your Writing

Chapter 10: ASSEMBLING YOUR PAGES
Setting Up Your Work Space
Pull Out Your Photos, Memorabilia and Mock Up
Select the Perfect Paper
Working with Embellishments
It’s Time for Tools
Play with Your Elements
Crop and Mat
Print Out Your Writing and Ink in Your Headline
Other Places to Put Your Journaling
Tack It All Down
Put It in a Page Protector
A Few Parting Thoughts...

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