Encouraging the Men in Your Life to Help Scrapbook
Natalie shows us the different ways that the man in her life helps with her memory keeping and scrapping.
I spend a lot of time scrapbooking. It would be very easy for my husband, Curt, to start blaming our messy house on my time spent scrapbooking instead of cleaning. However, he likes that I’m so willing to preserve our children’s lives. In fact there are times that I enlist his help! There are mainly three ways I ask for his help: journaling, paper choices, and title work.
Journaling
I have a horrible memory. It was bad before I had kids. Now . . . well, I have a hard time remembering details from events only months ago. In those times, Curt helps me remember. Sometimes it just takes us talking about it for him to jog my memory. Other times I have to ask him specific questions to fill in the blanks in my memory. Either way, it is a big help to have him lend his assistance for the sake of getting the full story on paper.
This is one page that I definitely needed his help on!
Paper Choices
Sometimes there are just so many yummy papers in a kit that I can’t choose! Other times I just can’t tell if my page is balanced enough or has too many patterned papers, and I just need a fresh set of eyes. On these occasions, I have my husband look over my page, look at different paper combinations, and have him tell me his preference. He always leads me in the right direction, and I love the pages where he helps with the paper choices.
Before—Options I had Curt look over:
After Curt’s input:
Title Work
Coming up with the right title is not easy; especially when you are doing it on page after page after page. The title is always the last thing I do on my pages, and sometimes I am just burnt out or completely at a loss for what to name my page. Luckily for me, I can turn to Curt for help.
Here are some pages for which Curt came up with the title:
What about you? Does your significant other ever have any input on your pages? In what way?
Cherry said...
on June 6th, 2013 at 9:05 am
We have the same supportive husband. I often ask him for the papers and what title to use. He also knows that I love to scrap and create something, that’s why he’s happy that I started making and compiling photboooks for my daughter and our family trips and activities.