| Let's face it: It's not always easy to come up with | | | | Quotes and ideas gleaned from books, magazines, |
| witty, heartwarming or eye-catching quotes or ideas | | | | online, or the world around you need not even appear |
| for other "wordy" scrapbooking elements. But | | | | on the page in order to influence the design. Perhaps |
| scrapbookers creating their art in the Internet age are | | | | you are stuck for a layout idea for pictures of your |
| in luck! There is a goldmine of resources for quotes | | | | daughter's first trip to the beach? Check out a quote |
| and ideas online. | | | | directory site (like quoteland.com, or |
| The words on a scrapbook page carry a heavy | | | | quotationspage.com, to name just two), enter in |
| responsibility. They grab the viewer's attention, they | | | | "beach" or "ocean" or "swimming" or "summer" or any |
| convey emotion, they establish the page's theme, and | | | | other keyword that comes to mind when you look at |
| they fill in the details of the stories told by the photos. | | | | the photos. What you find may inspire your journaling, |
| That's a heavy load to bear! And although only you | | | | your embellishment or paper choices, or even the |
| know the details of what your photos depict, looking | | | | mood of the layout. |
| for quotes and ideas for scrapbooking from sources | | | | Using the keyword "summer," for example, will likely |
| other than your own brain can be an inspiring way to | | | | garner the Henry James quote "Summer afternoon - |
| springboard your page into something fantastic. | | | | Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in |
| Quotes can come from anywhere. Are you creating a | | | | the English language." Although this quote may be a |
| baby scrapbook? Consider using quotes from your | | | | little cumbersome for your page, you may be inspired |
| child's favorite bedtime story, or even one of those | | | | to journal about what you love about summer, or even |
| "darndest things" that come from your wee one's own | | | | about what you think the most beautiful words in the |
| mouth. | | | | English language are. |
| Are you doing a heritage page, full of time-worn sepia | | | | There are both an abundance of sources for and |
| photos and trinkets from great-grandma's jewelry | | | | myriad ways to use scrapbook quotes as inspiration |
| box? Perhaps a song lyric from grandma's day might | | | | for and components of your pages. Look beyond |
| suit. Or how about one of those pearls of wisdom that | | | | simple titles and journaling to the ways in which the |
| your grandmother always used to dole out? They just | | | | words of others can spark your own creativity. You |
| might be the perfect, personalized quote for such a | | | | are sure to create something great. |
| scrapbook page. | | | | |