Dude! Check your Balance!

Dude! It's not just on your surf board or in climbing mountains that you need to check your balance. Check it in you scrapbook, dude!

When you arrange your pix and your scraps, make sure they look like you meant to put them there. Sometimes that means to just balance them evenly on the page.



A neat and efficient formation is much more manly than all those lacy frills the girls use. And when it's about someplace that's dizzyingly high, a solidly balanced place lets the pix look even more treacherous.

Dude! Stand strong!

Dude! I so can't Remember!

Dude! You go a lot of awesome manly places doing lots of awesome manly things. It's so much it's hard to remember!

Good thing they put lots of facts and stats in the brochures, trail guides, and park newspapers. Dude! Duh! Put that stuff in your scrapbook!



Their info + your pix = more complete memories.

Dude! I so remember now!

Dude! Fill'er Up!

Dude! This gets intense!

Go someplace like Gettysburg and you'll have lots for your scrapbook. War heroes, battle plans, and monuments go side by side with time with family and tour groups. These things don't easily blend well.

Sometimes you just have to pick out a couple of pix, clip out some highlights of the site's history, and fill up a page in a way that seems to have some visual appeal.



Dude! Going to to places like this doesn't just fill scrapbook pages -- it give you a fuller life.

Dude! Find that Atlas!

Dude! You know where you're going! You don't need a map or someone to give you directions. Dig that atlas out from under the front seat and put it to use for a change!



Cut out a road map and work it into your scrapbook page. The shape of many states will add an instant sense of location. Plus it adds color, texture, and a feeling of travel & adventure.

Dude! You CAN use a map!

Dude! Keep it Clean!

Dude! You don't need to always cover every square inch of your page. Keep it clean!



Ft. McHenry is all about the flag since it's where the inspiration for the Star Spangled Banner withstood the bombs bursting in air. I made a page with a stripes. Keeping the red ones clean and putting the memories on the white stripes keeps it from looking like I defaced Old Glory.

Dude! Clean it up and keep America beautiful!