Scrapbooking For Beginners
By: I Henman

Most things that require patience, a little bit of imagination, mind’s eye, so to say to do creative work is daunting for beginners. Scrapbooking is no exception. The mere thought of collecting specially treated scrapbooking paper, using the right adhesive to stick it to a non-stickable surface, doing the art-work to suit the project, using a motif appropriate to the theme, put most people off the job. My advice to beginners wishing to do scrapbooking is to go one step at a time and not think of accomplishing all at once. Consider the case of trainees going for mountaineering. You know what the experts advise them… Do not look at the top of the mountain, because then you would never be able to reach there. Go to the base camp; reach the second and then the mountain itself will bring you to the top”. The same principle, I guess, applies to scrapbooking for beginners.

It is true that there are a good number of websites on scrapbooking for beginners, but none of them can take the terror out of your system. Only your own will power can urge you to achieve. Nothing else can take you out of the stupor that silently gnaws at your innards, telling you to refrain from it. However, I am sure you will ultimately win if the motivation is there. Besides, there are quite a few forums that are dedicated to acting as scrapbooking for beginners guide and in these scrapbooking forums, you are sure to find the incentive that seems to be lacking now.

Another serious impediment that haunts the mind of beginners is the feeling that it is ??oetoo late” to barge into it. But remember, it is never too late to start any creative work. Like any other job where you have to ~apply your mind’, you may start scrapbooking anytime in your life, and once your mind runs in a positive direction, nothing can stop you. You should not apply a brake once the momentum has built up because putting a reign on it at that stage may spoil the game and it is difficult to come back from a point of no return.

Also, don’t be discouraged by the enormity of the work in hand ??" nothing is impossible. I recollect, locating an interesting signpost in the workshop of a stainless steel fabricator years ago that read Standard assembly jobs take 12 hours to fabricate, impossible(s) take a bit longer.” So, take heart, don’t leave, not even in despair. It may be sound advise to consider scrapbooking like taking a long train ride through life, imbibing the scenic beauty en route, taking a video here and there as you travel along since there is much to be absorbed as a beginner and your enthusiasm and fervor will surely pay off in the long run.