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New Year Scrapbooking Resources

Inspiration for Your New Year's Resolution to Work on Your Scrapbooks

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Perhaps the author Mark Twain was a scrapbooker. He is quoted as saying, "The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one.'' This is exactly what we need to do as scrapbookers in the new year. If you are one of the thousands of scrapbookers who are hoping and planning to get going on your scrapbook album pages this year, then this listing of New Year's Inspiration is for you. Here you can find inspirational quotes about new beginnings along with page challenges and scrapbook page how-to's and ideas.

New Beginnings Quotes for Scrapbook Pages

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Quotes are a quick way to add journaling to your scrapbook pages. These new beginning themed quotes have been selected especially for added inspiration on your New Year scrapbook pages. Use one of these quotes about beginnings to add inspiration to your next scrapbook page layout or your first one of a new year.

Year in Review Scrapbook Page Resources and Ideas

Double 12x12 Scrapbook Page Ideas for Year In Review PagesLudens

Year in Review Scrapbook Pages give you a chance to create one scrapbook page or two page spread that summarizes your life over the last year. These resources to help you get started include sketches and scrapbook page ideas, along with project and lots of ideas for scrapbook pages many photos. Perhaps your life or that of your family has changed dramatically over the last decade. You could do a Decade in Review scrapbook page. What has changed in your family over the last decade? How has the family grown? Perhaps you have moved or have a new job? All of these things would make fabulous scrapbook pages. Instead of a Year in Review Scrapbook Page, you might want to do a Decade in Review - Our Family 2001-2011.

Scrapbook Page Challenge - Create a Now and Then Scrapbook Page

Flip-Up Style Scrapbook PagesLudens

Now and Then or Before and After scrapbook pages, show where someone or something was in the past and where it is now. You can create these pages with photos of your children when they were small and now all grown up. You could also use this idea for remodeling projects around the house as shown in this flip-up style scrapbook page. This link will take you to a gallery where I used the flip-up pages on before and after pictures of our home. In the information below the flip-up page you can also find this link to the full instructions for Flip Up Style Scrapbook Pages.

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