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Free Scrapbooking Tips

Some of the best free scrapbooking tips one can learn involve goal setting! Yep, you read that right.

There are so many aspects to scrapbooking, so many supplies and pages that it's nearly impossible to complete a great scrapbook without goals. Learn more about setting scrapbooking goals below.

Goal Setting For Scrapbooking

Always set goals that are reachable and make small baby step goals – reach them and make more.

Remember you are only human you may forget so write them down. If you don’t reach your goal pick out what you did well and how you can improve on it next time. Don’t overwhelm yourself with the big picture; focus only on small attainable goals.

Write our specific goals at the beginning of each year. These goals could include:

•Amount of albums

•Budget

•Specific Albums You Will Complete

•Baby – 1 7x7 for each set of grandparents

•Pregnancy – 1 for baby, 1 for yourself

•Vacation – 1 for yourself – 1 7x7 for each child

•Christmas – 1 12x12 These are your big goals for the year. Write out steps you need to take to reach each goal.

Your goals should also have deadlines. You want to make yourself accountable to what you are doing. If you don’t set an end date for each goal, then don’t expect to meet it.

Have patience with yourself, keep going when you don’t feel inspired. Just change the scenery, read a book, & get ideas from different sources.

Example of Goal Setting

Goal 1 – Baby Album – 1 7x7 for each set of grandparents.

Each month I will sit down and commit to a 2-page layout in each album. Plus, I will do the borders for next month’s layouts.

Goal 2 – Pregnancy Album - 1 12x12

Each month I will sit down and commit to a 2-page layout. I will take pictures of all major events like hearing the baby’s heartbeat for the first time.

Wrap It Up

After you write out all of your goals, keep the sheet handy in your scrapbooking workspace and cross off each goal as you complete it.

Vera Raposo has been scrapbooking since her oldest child was 5. With tons of scrapbooking tips and ideas, Vera is now sharing some of her best scrapbooking ideas for your new baby in her newsletter www.baby-scrapbooking.com