My old fashioned scrapbook
‘Hey Lucy’ wrote last week about these wonderful books and in my comment I told her about how inspiring I find my scrapbook. Lucy then wrote back asking to see it. So, here it is Lucy!
It is an old-fashioned scrapbook in the sense that I just cut out pictures (mostly from magazines) and then stick them into a lovely book. When I am feeling un-inspired or just need something wonderful to look at I take my scrapbook to bed with a cup of tea.
I can’t imagine not keeping a scrapbook and really do count it as one of my best creative resources. I love every single image in it. I draw inspiration from it and I use it to feed my creativity.
Which brings me to the subject of plagiarism. Treefall and Vintage Pleasure have both touched upon this recently. When can you call a design yours and yours alone, when everything we make is the direct result of inspiration from one source or another? The answer for me, I think, is to only take inspiration and move on from there in your own personal style, with integrity.
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
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June 27th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
beautiful scrap book. i cannot copy very well so i am safe.
June 27th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
very nice janet, love the way you’ve arranged the images.. but taking it to bed with tea?! you must have safe hands! my sketchbooks used to get covered in all sorts of debris – had to impose food/drink related bans. i may post about them soon – thank you for the inspiration xx
June 27th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Oh, it’s so lovely! Thank you for fulfilling my request :o) I love the way you’ve arranged the pictures. I think sitting with a pot of paste and scissors, deciding where to put each image must be so fun and relaxing, and then to have it to look through afterwards, just wonderful! Now that I think about it, I have an old-fashioned scrapbook somewhere that I may have to dig out and re-fill with new paper and start doing just the same thing for all those larger pictures that don’t quite fit in my little red book :o)
June 27th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Hello. Thought I’d share that I have scrapbooks full of torn out images and articles and just bits and pieces that I want to keep but can’t afford the space for the whole magazines! I keep them for a few months and then have a tearing frenzy and can go through a whole glue stick in one sitting! I’ve built up a collection..gardening/homes and lifestyle all in the same books. My tastes have changed quite dramatically since I began these about 4yrs ago and so i’ve papered over the top of the old stuff!
Can we see more? (me..nosey? always.)
June 28th, 2007 at 3:32 am
Thanks for sharing your scrapbook with us. I keep a few different folders of ideas, and like you, find it invaluable for inspiration. Sometimes it’s just a certain colour combination or a line of stitching that can get you going. Then again simply looking at the pictures makes me happy! (It also makes me feel less guilty about my magazine addiction if I put some of the images to good use later!)
June 28th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Thought I’d let you know that I posted photos of a few of my favourite pages out of my scrapbooks.
June 30th, 2007 at 4:42 am
thanks for a lovely look at your scrapbooks..i do the same but find instead of sticking the pictures in books i cover walls and cupboard doors around the house…
June 30th, 2007 at 11:23 am
i love your scrapbook. i put all my bits and pieces on a pin board.
i found your comments about plagiarism very interesting and so true. when i worked in an in-house design studio, there was a junior designer who had huge problems getting her head round following a design process. she caused big problems by copying designs and then hiding the reference for the original, hoping she wouldn’t get found out!. nevertheless she did get found out, and left as a result. she doesn’t design anymore, i think, for her, it was just the wrong career choice.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Hello: Where can you buy the old-fashioned large scrapbook to paste “stuff” in????? Please let me know–Thanks! Jim Kauth
March 6th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
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April 17th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
I have found some old-fashioned scrapbooks and want to do the same thing bigbucketgirl and the rest are talking about–what kind of glue works best? Gluesticks don’t “stick” for me, and liquid white glue makes the picture lumpy on the front side. Spray-on adhesive doesn’t stick well either. I have thought about adding lines from poems, sayings and quotes, stamps from letters, notes written on greeting cards, leaves, and so on. Any suggestions of where I can go to find examples, or can some of you write and tell me how you are doing your scrapbook?
December 14th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
[…] is something particularly pleasing about getting well thumbed (and then cut into for the scrapbook) magazines out of the recyling bin because you’ve found another crafty use for […]
April 27th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Dou you know where I can buy simple,”old fashioned” blank scrapbooks such as the one you have featured? All the sites I have visited feature ghastly “designer” numbers with faux leather or suede covers or “bling” aesthetics!
Cheers
August 18th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
I am also looking for a source of old fashioned scrapbooks. That is how I found your website. I love it. Can you provide me with a source. I started scrapbooking 20 years ago when you could only fing the “old fashion” books. I gave my son his first sports scrapbook when he was 10. He was a great athelete and these old sytle books were great for newspaper articles that sometimes are larger than will fit into a 8 1/2 x 11, or 12 x 12. I have 13 completed books which got him through his high school years. He is now 30 and I need to finish his college and pro baseball years. Can you help me???????
Thanks, Betty Jo Jurries
June 2nd, 2010 at 6:46 pm
do you know where i can find the big old fashioned scrap books? Like the one in the picture above?
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:57 pm
Beautiful, Janet. And it made me remember that I have one, that I haven’t taken out once sind I moved to Berlin. Shame on me.