Faithbook: 5 Tips for Scrapbooking Your Spiritual Legacy

Mistakes and experience are two of the things that often help us learn lessons in life; the same goes for Faithbooking. Other tips come from listening to the advice of scrapbookers along the Faithbooking journey. I pray that these five quick tips will help you as they have helped me.

1. Focus on one project at a time. It’s easy to get excited about this design and that design and even more designs. It’s easy to find yourself running back and forth between them, feeling overwhelmed and accomplishing nothing. Focus on one project and finish the design. Then save it before working on the next one.
2. Place only one design at a time on your desk or table. Store anything you don’t need for this project. When you’ve reviewed your photos and selected the ones you want for this layout, save all the others. Do the same when it comes to selecting cardstock, embellishments, etc.
3. Create a goal for each design. Ask yourself what you want to accomplish with this page. Do you want to share a special verse that you pray for your granddaughter? Do you want to remind her son of a special spiritual event that happened in her family? Keep her goal in mind and pray for her as you work on her design.
4. Don’t use unique old photos. When you have a unique old photo, don’t use it in your designs. Make a copy and then proceed with your design using the copy. That way, if you make a mistake, you still have the original.
5. Do not cut images with scissors for decorative borders. This is one of the tips I heard from different scrapbookers. When they were novices, and full of ambition and zeal, they would cut out their original drawings with decorative scissors. Years later, many of them say they regret those decisions. Having seen some of those designs, I decided to follow their advice. So now I pass on those words of wisdom.

Pray and ask God to guide you in creating a Spiritual Legacy that will touch someone’s life. You may be the one chosen by God to pass on certain stories to your loved ones.

Because I will show you lessons from our history, stories that have been passed down to us from previous generations. I will reveal these truths to you so that you can describe these glorious deeds of Jehovah to your children, and tell them about the mighty miracles he performed. PSALM 78:3-4 (NIV)