What is scrapbooking? Scrapbookers combine art with journal like tendencies, documenting the meaningful parts of their lives, their values, friends and memories through art projects.
In addition, the practice has broadened to include creating inspired items which are simply pleasing to the artist to make, have and share.
Scrapbookers can take on large and small-scale projects, including handmade but professional looking seasonal cards, photo frames, personalized flower vases and recycle and re-use projects which result in unique and personalized art.
While scrapbooking is typically thought of as a happy practice, clinical psychologists believe those who participate in these and other art forms are also taking strides toward confronting difficult emotions.
Specifically, they believe our ability to confront difficult feelings is maximized when we engage in innovative thinking, which many artistic practices require.
Scrapbookers in particular often use intuitive leanings to decide on appropriate color schemes, additional features, shapes and design aspects when creating a wide scope of materials from handmade decorative boxes to attractive doilies that no one would dare sit a cup atop.
The ability of the scrapbooker to combine artistic inclination with new ideas may be limited at times by a determination to perfect a set pattern and style without taking space for the unique choices which bring about their own interpretive views.
This action bears resemblance to a singer mimicking the delivery and tonality of a famous star rather than using what comes naturally to them to deliver the notes with their own unique flavor: the more you add of yourself to the project, in other words, the more ideas and insights which come directly from you, the more you will be engaging with this innovative thinking.
And likely, the more you will experience the emotional healing that clinical psychologists say may begin during creative work; whether this is true, or whether the act of making a project, even a fully copied project, provides the same benefits, such benefits have great potential.
The cathartic nature of making something from scratch, whether it be an extremely personal journal entry, a stencil drawing, a water-color or a gifted present resulting from hours of paper crafting, can do something miraculous in your life: it may just be a part of a daily healing regimen that gives you a sense of fun, presence, identity and fulfillment.
And not to mention, it leaves room for you to remove stress, releasing the angst of your day to reconnect with that place inside which is peaceful.
This place often emerges in response to being completely absorbed in what you do.
And, as you would expect, making choices which emerge directly from your own preferences and intuitions, as art and scrapbooking calls you to do, provides a space for that absorption.
In addition, the practice has broadened to include creating inspired items which are simply pleasing to the artist to make, have and share.
Scrapbookers can take on large and small-scale projects, including handmade but professional looking seasonal cards, photo frames, personalized flower vases and recycle and re-use projects which result in unique and personalized art.
While scrapbooking is typically thought of as a happy practice, clinical psychologists believe those who participate in these and other art forms are also taking strides toward confronting difficult emotions.
Specifically, they believe our ability to confront difficult feelings is maximized when we engage in innovative thinking, which many artistic practices require.
Scrapbookers in particular often use intuitive leanings to decide on appropriate color schemes, additional features, shapes and design aspects when creating a wide scope of materials from handmade decorative boxes to attractive doilies that no one would dare sit a cup atop.
The ability of the scrapbooker to combine artistic inclination with new ideas may be limited at times by a determination to perfect a set pattern and style without taking space for the unique choices which bring about their own interpretive views.
This action bears resemblance to a singer mimicking the delivery and tonality of a famous star rather than using what comes naturally to them to deliver the notes with their own unique flavor: the more you add of yourself to the project, in other words, the more ideas and insights which come directly from you, the more you will be engaging with this innovative thinking.
And likely, the more you will experience the emotional healing that clinical psychologists say may begin during creative work; whether this is true, or whether the act of making a project, even a fully copied project, provides the same benefits, such benefits have great potential.
The cathartic nature of making something from scratch, whether it be an extremely personal journal entry, a stencil drawing, a water-color or a gifted present resulting from hours of paper crafting, can do something miraculous in your life: it may just be a part of a daily healing regimen that gives you a sense of fun, presence, identity and fulfillment.
And not to mention, it leaves room for you to remove stress, releasing the angst of your day to reconnect with that place inside which is peaceful.
This place often emerges in response to being completely absorbed in what you do.
And, as you would expect, making choices which emerge directly from your own preferences and intuitions, as art and scrapbooking calls you to do, provides a space for that absorption.
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