Scrapbooking and Convention Help: Know Your Purpose from Day One
Scrapbooking can have many benefits, but understanding many things is usually not as powerful as understanding the things that can help you grow what you enjoy most.
What you want to focus on during your scrapbooking and what you would like to experience as a scrapbooker are two things to consider when determining what you need to learn and ask. If I simply want to focus on memory preservation, I will have a clear difference in what subjects I focus on and where I spend my time during moments designed to grow my individual scrapbooking interests. As a similar example, if I were focusing on family paper craft projects, I would make sure to ask about craft projects that are suitable for children at their respective ages and attention levels and that are also appealing to adults.
I could focus on early learning projects that are imaginative and have interesting stories. Such projects could give children the opportunity to identify the sounds that certain animals make, the letters of the alphabet, or the spelling of certain words. Also, you may want to further explore color and imagination with children present who are very into such things.
Once I voiced these concerns to the crafters around me, as well as to instructions during question and answer sessions, I would have a better chance of getting the most out of the experience and my brief planning. This type of planning focused on asking myself what was most important to me. Although this is often not the most obvious route to take. When we first learn something, we are sometimes prepared to focus entirely on someone else’s experience from a blank slate, not realizing that understanding our own personal end goals (by first understanding what we are most passionate about) is a more effective way of obtaining the most appropriate knowledge within our reach.
As a prime example, what if I just wanted to focus on preserving family memories? What aspects of papermaking would help me the most to get the most out of this process? Brainstorming could lead to many answers that could include learning how to display, edit, and get the most out of the photos you want to display in some of your projects.
Photography experts can be the perfect advisers for you if this interests you a lot. But, maybe not… Photo editing can seem boring, and learning holistic aspects of displaying art (such as connecting meaning through the ways objects are placed near each other or the importance of symbols in crafts) could be a more interesting topic for you and you. your craft sessions.
The common thread running through all of this advice is knowing yourself or, as a smaller steps model, making a genuine effort to understand your crafting purpose; Learn what you can get the most out of by exploring crafting, learn what interests you most about general crafting projects, and plan your goals by first understanding your most passionate motivations.