Using Nature to Inspire Scrapbooks

Scrap-books are wonderful ways to hold on to memories. You can include pictures, letters, cards, notes you've written, stickers, ribbon, and so much more. Whatever you can think of you can put into a scrap-book to hold onto the memory you are trying to keep. When you are in nature you can find different things to make your scrap-book stand out and make it a little more unique and different. You can get inspiration from the colors around, textures you see or even things you can use within the pages.

Embellishments

Embellishments add a certain quality to the scrap-book, and makes the pages stand out. Embellishments could be ribbons, buttons, and more. Some things you can gather from nature can add that added boast and interest to a scrap-bbok. When you are hiking in the woods you can pick up little twigs, and arrange them on the edges of the page to make some what of a wooden frame. You could also use the sticks to frame pictures or letters to make them pop out. Or you can use the sticks to form a platform to literally make the pictures and things stand out. It would give a sort of texture to the page. You could also use rocks in the corners of the pages to add texture, or to create a platform for your pictures.

Leaves and flowers can really add color to a scrap-book. I have used fall leaves in scrap-books to add a pop of color and texture on fall based pictures and events. As the leaves change you get to have unique colorations that you couldn't replicate. Flowers can add beauty to the pages. You can collect different wild flowers on a hiking trip or petals from wedding flowers to add a personal touch to a wedding album. You can set the leaves or flowers in corners of the page, or make borders out of them. Or you can put a picture on top to the leaf and have the corner of the picture pointing to the tip of the leaf.

Stationary

You can make your own unique stationary with pictures you have taken in nature. You can lighten the coloration to a point where it isn't so vivid and kind of dim colored, so that when you print it out on regular paper, you would have an image you can write on and still the picture and what you wrote. So you can use that for journal papers or for background images for other pictures or journal entries. You could use the same image over and over again to make boxes on one page or a liner at the bottom of the page or even just several of the same background for journal entiries in the scrap-book.

You can use the colors in nature to help with the theme of your scrap-book. You can use browns, blues and greens as the back colors for your scrap-book and work your way around them and through them. You can use dark brown as the base and use other colors to accent it like blues or greens under your pictures or your picture stationary for little journal-like notes.

Sometimes you can make your scrap-book a journal of your thoughts and images, and what you can do is take pictures of nature and write out your thoughts based on that picture. You can take pictures of the clouds and write down what it was like looking at the sky or what you feel when it comes to looking at the sky/stars (some cameras may not be able to get a good image of the stars). I have taken pictures of rivers and wrote what rivers symbolize for me and how I feel when I am watching on rush by me. Sometimes I write just as I am taking the pictures. That way you can hol on to those thoughts and look back on them someday.

Scrap-books are great ways to hold on to your memories and different things in nature could help make that memory even more unique. You can find different things that could inspire you to create something really unique and different for your freinds and family. Nature if full of different shapes, sizes and colors that would add to any project not just scrap-booking.