Michele Cardello, director of marketing and creative for Life Imprints, a creative scrapbooking supplies company in Cleveland, Ohio, has worked in the photo packaging industry for 10 years. Cardello helps customers find creative ways to preserve and appreciate a lifetime of memories.
Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa can often be hard subject matter for holiday scrapbooking ideas. However, holiday scrapbooking ideas do not require a great leap of imagination.
After all, most holiday scrapbooking ideas focus on the concept of tradition, something that always keeps the holidays alive. Therefore, it is quite simple to have tradition be the subject for your holiday scrapbooking ideas. Not just tradition, but how the scrapper personally celebrates his or her holiday tradition of Christmas, Hanakkah, or Kwanzaa.
It is good to have pages showing pictures of your family celebrating the holiday, along with some text such as journaling precisely how your family personally celebrates the holiday and what it means to them. The text can be done in other ways, and it is up the scrapper to use his or her imagination.
For example, Christmas traditions range from all kinds of origins, from its beginning celebrations, to more modern customs such as mistletoe and the Christmas tree. Every household seems to have various ways of celebrating Christmas, and it may take the scrapper a lot of thought before he or she discovers the traditions to be the subjects of his or her holiday scrapbooking ideas. The scrapper needs to ask his or herself what traditions he or she remembers from Christmases past, and how he or she still incorporates them into their present day celebrations.
If you celebrate Hanukkah, you may want to include a photo session on the lighting of the menorah, an important ritual. A personal account by a family member could help bring the event to life to someone outside the family looking at the page, especially if they do not know or celebrate Hanukkah traditions. The same rule applies to a Kwanzaa page, and it demonstrates holiday scrapbooking ideas where the scrapper’s family can showcase the meaning of the holiday and how the scrapper celebrates it.
A photo spread is another way to go with holiday scrapbooking ideas. Often a simple horizontal display of pictures can create a quiet effect that brings out the majestic holiday. Sometimes photos in black-and-white can create an interesting, more in-depth effect than color ones.
Some other good holiday scrapbooking ideas are taking cards from the occasion, such as Christmas cards, and removing the fronts. From there, they can be arranged into a collage that really puts the holiday on display in a very unique fashion. Even though this may lack the personal touch of photos, there is still much that can be said there.
The use of colors can be important, and traditional Christmas colors such as red and green might seem the obvious choice for holiday scrapbooking ideas. However, these can be overused, and it is really more important to have substance over style. Foils and embossing are effective toward any holiday scrapbooking, and there are many ideas of how to arrange them.
It is true that some of the best holiday scrapbooking ideas for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa involve tradition, but creativity may trump it. In other words, while holiday scrapbooking ideas based in and on tradition usually work, sometimes the best choice is to break tradition once in awhile.
- Related Videos
- Related Articles
- Ask / Related Q&A
- Thankfulness and Thanksgiving Scrapbook Page Ideas
- Thanksgiving Scrapbook Page Ideas: Let Mother Nature be your Guide
- 10 Themes for Scrapbooking
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Thanksgiving: Creating a “why I’m Thankful” Album
- Scrapbooking Ideas for Thanksgiving: Timeless Traditions
- Christmas Scrapbooking: the Mini-album
- Christmas Scrapbooking Ideas and Tradition
- Creating a Family Recipe Scrapbook
Rifle Scope Adjustment - Three Rifle Scope Adjustments to Help Achieve Better Accuracy
By: Jerry Rodriguez | 21/11/2009Rifle scopes come in various sizes, each having its own unique layout fitted for your shooting or hunting needs. There are three rifle scope adjustments will help you achieve a higher level of accuracy. Variable power, wind, elevation, and parallax adjustment. These four adjustments, when used correctly will make for optimum precision shooting.
Branding Your Design Collection
By: Gary Capps | 21/11/2009Having a name is a very important part of one's identity. We spend a great deal of time thinking about the perfect name to give to children and even to pets. Yet you take a great deal of time designing and planning your own jewelry, but don't take a little time to think about your jewelry name. Even titling a work of creativity can be pretty tough and would take a lot of time for you to decide and there would surely be lots of mind-changing going on. When branding your jewelry...
Phone Bead Charms
By: Gary Capps | 21/11/2009Everyone nowadays owns a cellular or mobile telephone. Some may even have more than one enough to insert one Sim card for all the networks available. It is one way of expressing your social status as well as voicing out your own identity. So why not accessorize it to make it speak more about you? Permit people to find out how artistic and into craft you are. It is completely amazing to understand the endless possibilities you can do with a few strings, some colorful beads and ...
Consign Your Design
By: Gary Capps | 21/11/2009Is your jewelry making a hobby or a business? If you have decided to take a stage further in your beading hobby and have decided to make a career out of it, you may choose to take one of 2 options. First is to open your own boutique or perhaps consider setting up your internet jewelry store where you can sell your products or you can consign it with established shops and galleries. Consignment deals can be an easy way to make cash out of your designs. It saves you the hassle o...
Learn How to Use a Bead Loom
By: Gary Capps | 21/11/2009Beading is said to be the most favourite hobby of many folks today. Many of them are just doing it as a past time, and some take it as a professional way of building up a business. There are various forms of beading which includes seed beading and tapestry beading. The great thing about tapestry beading is that you can include many different types of beads into your creation to give different effects. If you do fimo bead making or make your own hand-crafted glass beads then you can...
Different Types of Stringing Material
By: Gary Capps | 21/11/2009There are various s of material required in making jewelry, and choosing the right kind for you is very important. One of the most vital materials is the string, whether or not it is for a necklace, bracelet, or anklet you would like to make. Picking the right stringing materials is a total must. When choosing the best string for your jewelry, you have got to consider the type of jewelry you would like to create, the design and style you want to achieve, and the type and size of the...
Finding Jewelry Making Patterns
By: Gary Capps | 21/11/2009Jewelry making is fashionable today ; increasing numbers of bead fan are creating noise in the business industry. If your one of the many aspirants in making your own jewelry, and perhaps owning all ready to be used material, then you're just about there taking your first step. In making jewelleries, first thing you will need to find is your materials, and one of the most significant tools is the jewelry making pattern. A jewelry making pattern is a tool that shows you how to m...
Jewelry Repair Additional Income For Jewelry Business
By: Gary Capps | 21/11/2009You may consider jewelry repair service to be an additional earnings for your jewelry business. This will expand your enterprise buy doing repairs with jewelries that have missing hand-crafted glass beads, broken clasps, and partially unstrung. If you'll notice, many clients are searching for a jewelry repair stand, and sometimes they're misunderstood when they are going to a jewelry shop. If you may try and understand them, they just go to jewelry shops asking for repairs becau...
Baby Scrapbook Theme Albums From a to Z
By: Michele Cardello | 19/04/2008 | BabiesWhether you are a novice or expert or just need a new idea, baby scrapbook theme albums are a creative way to treasure all your baby's moments. Decorating around a theme such as an alphabet, counting or animals for a baby scrapbook is both creative and fun.
Baby Scrapbooking Kits and Ideas for Every Occasion
By: Michele Cardello | 19/04/2008 | BabiesBaby scrapbook kits are your way to get started savoring all your baby's memorable moments, which include every one of them. Scrapbook kits range from colorful pastels for a boy or a girl to vibrant themes for all occasions, milestones, day of fun and play, and holidays.
Scrapbooking Ideas for Thanksgiving: Timeless Traditions
By: Michele Cardello | 10/12/2007 | HobbiesWhenever most think of scrapbooking ideas for Thanksgiving, most think of a painting from Norman Rockwell called Freedom From Want, which depicts a motherly figure bringing out turkey to a large family.
Holiday Scrapbooking Ideas
By: Michele Cardello | 10/12/2007 | HobbiesHolidays such as Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa are obvious choices for holiday scrapbooking ideas, but difficult to begin. However, with a little creativity, a scrapper can have some very unique holiday scrapbooking ideas.
Christmas Scrapbooking Ideas and Tradition
By: Michele Cardello | 10/12/2007 | HobbiesMost Christmas scrapbooking ideas involve some sort of observance of tradition, so it is important for the scrapper to rediscover the traditions of his or her own family and create the page from there.
Christmas Scrapbooking: the Mini-album
By: Michele Cardello | 10/12/2007 | HobbiesSome of the best Christmas scrapbooking involves creativity mixed with tradition, so why not put that effort into a mini-album. A mini-album can double as a card or gift, and shows your Christmas scrapbooking skills.
Scrapbooking your Holiday Traditions
By: Michele Cardello | 10/12/2007 | HobbiesHoliday traditions are followed in every culture around the world. What better way to chronicle them than to saver the memories in a holiday scrapbook that can easily be passed down from one generation to the next.