Dude! Do it Yourself!

Dude! This is America! You don't need professionals. This is the land that invented Home Depot. Here you need to be a man and do it yourself!

The same is true with your scrapbook, dude! You don't need to have someone come up with a girly background for each of your pages. Make a manly background yourself!

There's nothing wrong with using a printed or patterned page once in a while. But if the store doesn't have the background you want that's their loss, not yours. Create the background you need just the way you want it.



And if you don't know how, skip the Hobby Lobby for the Home Depot. In fact, the width of the flag's stripes on this page are the same as the 5 gallon paint stir stick from there.

Dude! You can do it. We can help.

Dude! What's the Cover?

Dude! You can't judge a book by its cover. But, Dude!, make sure your album has a cover page!

All those sterile albums that you got at the Hobby Lobby work great but they look almost exactly the same on the outside. Have your first page be a cover to know what you've scrapbooked inside.



I mean, it's easy to tell them apart now. But, the whole thing about scrapbooks in the first place is to preserve your memories before your mind totally goes. Don't be that old dude fumbling through books endlessly trying to find somethings that might not even be there. Make cover pages and extend your manliness into well into your senility.

Dude! Do it now before you forget!

Dude! Find the Scissors!

Dude! Not all your pictures need to be the same size. Find a pair of scissors!



The pix in the middle were all much larger before I took out the scissors. Cropping the pix cuts out the clutter, both emphasizing what's important and allowing more pix per page.

Well-cropped pix are the opposite of all girly frills that they try to sell you at the Hobby Lobby. Dude! Don't cave to the establishment. Be your own man!