Making your own Wedding Invitations or not- Your Own Wedding Invite Scrapbook

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When scrapbooking comes up in a conversation, unless you yourself engage in it, it’s pretty easy to just skip straight to the stereotypes: Grandmas making glorified photo albums; summer-campers elaborating on their exploits with shakily-drawn flowers and uneven stamps.

But scrapbooking is a lot more than that. Often, it treads a line between bookbinding and mixed-media fine arts, becoming richly layered in paper and memory. However, beyond its artistic merits, scrapbooking can also serve a logistical function: As, literally, a book of scraps, collecting the bits and pieces of interesting fabrics, papers or yarns. Many knitters keep scrapbooks of projects, containing swatches of yarn, the patterns they used, and any notes they may have taken during the making of the sweater or hat. By keeping all this information, they’re able to more effectively practice their art in the future – like a more-fun version of taking notes in class. But why not use scrapbooking to keep track of wedding plans, and not just the fruit of all that labor?

By keeping track of the decisions that have not yet been made, it’s easy to capture the excitement and the tension that leads up to that happiest day. Not only does the scrapbook act as a souvenir, however: It can also help organize the decision-making process in a way that is easy to take in and fun to manage. Wedding invitation designs are certainly the easiest to catalog this way. Cutting out paper samples, photographs of possible designs and the like is an easy way to keep track of possibilities for wedding invites.

In a blank book, it is possible to tape down bits of paper, and sketch out original ideas for wedding invitations. Samples of font styles and colours that would be appropriate, or of possible inserts – packets of confetti or feathers, for example – can also be preserved easily.

 When choosing a book to keep your scraps in, it’s best to choose a book with heavy paper and a solid binding. If regular scrapbooks won’t work, due to price or simple personal preference, a book of watercolor paper will provide a solid base on which to place the materials. If care is taken with the book, it will a tangible memory – one that can stand up to even the most artfully created scrapbooks out there.

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