Christmas is a great excuse for a mammoth amount of Scrapbooking, but it can also be an incredibly daunting job. What to scrapbook, when to scrapbook as you have so many people around, and then having great plans to scrapbook and realising that you haven’t got any great pictures!

So the one piece of advice I would give you for Christmas Scrapbooking is - be organised, plan what you want. We all know how many Christmas can be - there are people all over the place, excited children or adults and general mayhem. Here are my top tips for organising your Christmas Scrapbooking:

1) CHARGE the camera. There is nothing worse than going to take the pictures and realising there is no battery charge!

2) If you can, have a designated photographer for the day or move the camera around throughout the day so that you get different pictures by different people.

3) Think of what photos you would like, and don’t feel silly for writing a list. Ideas can be the tree, table            decorations, all the presents before they are open,       children opening their    stockings, opening presents, playing with presents, a   picture of  everyone on Christmas day, the evening, pets that are around, the    decorations, Christmas     Dinner, new clothes, the list is endless. Add whatever is important to you to your list and you will find it so much easier to remember everything on the day. You won’t always get the photos you envisaged but you will get others! That is fine. This list is just a guide.

4) If you want to add journaling to your pages, then have some little

journaling boxes already made and write in them as things happen at the end of the evening so that you don’t forget. This is also  great way to get other       relatives to write their     Christmas messages or thoughts as well.

5) Why not prepare your pages earlier. This is a great stress reliever! Get all your pages made with some space to add the pictures after Christmas. This means that all the stress of finishing the pages is taken away. You can do this for traditional or   digital pages, just save the pages and save again when the pictures are added.

6) Don’t make your pages too complicated if you want to finish your Christmas Album quickly and easily. Keep them nice and simple and easy to complete.

7) Buy a kit. Scrapbooking Kits are great. You can buy paper kits, which have paper, matching embellishments and alphabet letters. You can also buy kits that include an album so everything is there to complete the album.

8) Make sure you have enough adhesive to stick your pictures into your albums.

9) Decide where you are getting your pictures printed; if you are doing them at home make sure you have enough ink, as running out of ink late into

the night could be very stressful.

10) Save important things to put in your albums, Christmas cards, tags, wrapping paper, letters, notes, crackers etc.
BUT most importantly have fun making your album. It should not be a chore and you should not be getting