Your faith is as much a part of who you are as your personality; religious scrapbooking ideas can help you add your faith to your memory albums.
Incorporating Religious Scrapbooking Ideas into Scrapbooks
Sometimes referred to as faithbooking or praisebooking, religious scrapbooking ideas can help you can incorporate your faith in all of your pages. On the other hand, you can create separate pages that reflect your connection to the creator. These albums are a more introspective way to chronicle your life. Faithbooks, even more than regular scrapbooks, share your personal faith and religious lessons with others, both now and in the future.
One idea is to create layouts that truly illustrate your faith. A generic page with the footprints poem or the serenity prayer doesn't do much to explain what faith means in your life.
Page Ideas
You can create pages, or even a whole album, dedicated to your faith.
They might include:
- Statement of Faith (On this page you can talk in general about your faith.)
- Your place of worship
- Your pastor
- Church activities
- Choir performances
- Baptisms
- Confirmations
- Your favorite scripture
- Your blessings
- Religious holidays (the spiritual meaning)
- Your favorite hymn or spiritual song
Photos that Capture your Faith
Some people believe that faithbooks should focus solely on the journaling. However, if you are a creative person and want to include photos in your faithbook, then you should. Your photos don't have show you in a place of worship or performing religious activities to capture your faith. What's important is your photo illustrates the aspects that you want to highlight with the page.
Some ideas include:
- Yourself in a reflective gaze
- Lighting a candle
- A family activity
- Family vacations
- Your children
Journaling
Journaling in your faithbook is extremely important because photos cannot relay your faith alone. Use journaling to describe your faith: what it means to you and how it has affected your life. Use quotes, scripture passages or poems to get you started.Some ideas to get your journaling started include:
- How did your faith begin? How old were you? What was happening in your life at the time?
- How do you worship? What is your religious preference? Where do you go to worship? Do you worship at home?
- Who influenced your faith? Do you have a favorite pastor, rabbi or priest? Did your parents worship?
- When have you faced adversity? How did your faith help you? What did you learn from the experience?
- What do you do to serve the Lord? How have you helped others? Have you been on any mission trips? What ministries are you involved in?
- What blessings have your children brought to your life?
- What teachings are important to you?
- How has your faith affected your relationship with your spouse? Your children? Your Friends? Your Family?
- Have you ever lost your faith? What happened to make you question it? How did you get it back?
Supplies
Religious scrapbook ideas are becoming more popular among scrapbookers. As a result, it is relatively easy to find papers, embellishments and albums for your faithbook. There are a number of online scrapbook stores that carry specific religious scrapbooking supplies.
Paper
You can use any paper you want to create your faithbook pages, but there are a number of wonderful religious patterned papers on the market. You can get them in 8.5 x 11 or 12 x 12. Check out the websites below for religious-themed papers:
- Christian Book
- Scrapbook.com
- My Expression: This site has only 8.5 x 11 papers sold as stationary, but they are acid free and can be used for scrapbook pages.
Embellishments
Religious embellishments aren't just for religious pages. You can use angels, crosses or other religious symbols wherever it's appropriate in any of your pages. You can purchase religious embellishments from:
Other Faithbooking Resources
There are a number of websites dedicated to faithbooking. You can find more information about faithbooking, examples of faithbook pages, journaling ideas and supplies. Some of these sites include:
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