Dude! Go Straight!

Dude! Remember in the Boy Scouts when you promised to not lead the life of a crooked man? Dude! It's time to live up to that pledge!

Some pages can have pix all over the page. That's fine. But some pages require you to post the pix straight.



Tall, skinny things, like trees, lighthouses, skyscrapers, and rockets, will look like they're falling over on your page unless you put the pictures on straight. If you're pages are about a trip to Pisa, fine. Otherwise, make sure that your page doesn't like it was made of an earthquake disaster site.

Dude! Keep physically strong, mentally awake, and your scrapbook pix straight!

Dude! Lend a Hand!

Dude! Sometimes the main color you think of didn't come through in your pix. Dude! Lend your camera a hand!

Like on this trip, we all know the color of the Statue of Liberty. But that color wasn't dominant in the pix as I thought it would be.



So, I helped the Lady out by using that color as a boarder on everything else. The page still had the feel of the color even without the pix doing their job. Of course, if the pix were always able to do the job on their own then we wouldn't need to scrapbook in the first place.

Dude! Lend a hand!

Dude! Let 'er Rip!

Dude! You don't always have to use the scissors!

When you go places that are rough and manly your scrapbook pages should look that way, too. Tearing the paper instead of cutting it will help that happen.



The places you go and the things you do aren't sterile and you don't have to stop to refill the flower-scented hand sanitizer you keep in your purse. Your pages shouldn't be sterile, either.

Dude! Be a man and scrapbook with your bare hands!

Dude! Honor the Flag!

Dude! You can do more to honor the flag than just take off your had at the start of a ballgame!

Especially when you scrapbook about someplace patriotic, use the colors and keep it simple.

Some red, white, and blue and some flag stickers sometimes tell more about the place that you've been than the pix ever will.



I mean, dude, this page is from the WWII Memorial in Washington, DC. There's not a place that's more red white and blue than this. Since your pix might not make that clear make sure the page does.

Dude! Salute!

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! Rough It!

Dude! Just because you're suave and smooth doesn't mean your scrapbook paper needs to be. Dude, it's time to rough it!



Throwing in a bumpy background once in a while lets you go 3D without all those frilly girly things that all the ladies at the craft store insist are needed to make a "nice" scrapbook page.

And just like tent camping is different from staying at the Hilton, be warned that working with a textured surface has challenges you won't experience with all the smooth papers. But roughing it once in a while is good, both for your scrapbook and your manhood.

Dude! Rough it up!

Dude! Go Long!

Dude! Who said that you have to hold your the scrapbook in your lap like an old lady? Go Long!

If you're scrapbooking a manly place with really tall things like rockets or skyscrapers or giant sequoia trees, turn the book sideways and go long.



The girls will probably complain that you doing things all wrong by making a page "sideways."  Congratulations! Take that badge of honor and stick it on the cover of the book!

Now, dude, I need to warn you that you can overdue this one. Save it for something important.

Dude! Celebrate that you're still vertical!