I really like using Instagram. I think it’s fun.
Most photos that I send through an Instagram filter are ephemeral. I want to share them. I want to add a fun filter, but I don’t necessarily want to also scrapbook them. Sometimes, however, I do want to scrapbook my Instagram photos, but this is challenging because of the filters. If you are going to scrabpook instagram photos, I have a couple of tips.
First, use the same filter for all the photos of a particular event. This way, all the photos will have the same look for your scrapbook page.
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Second, make a point to use Instagram for every photo from an event or time period and worry less about using the same filter for each photo. When I do this, I tend to make a mini-book or a photobook using these photos. For example, each summer I take my daughter to a Spanish language school program that is over an hours drive each way from our house. We use it as an opportunity to explore the community the program in the afternoons after her program ends. I take lots of photo of both the fun and the mundane (grocery shopping) that we do during this program. I’ve made conventional scrapbook pages of this thing we do, but last year I opted to use Instagram and Blurb. Once all the photos were filtered through Instagram, then I used Blurb to slurp up the photos and put them into a photobook.
Stephanie Medley-Rath is a sociologist and scrapbooker who studies scrapbooking and memory keeping. Scrapworthy Lives is a blog focused on her sociological analysis of scrapbooking, with a sprinkling of posts about Stephanie's own scrapbooking projects.
