Friendship is one of the most meaningful relationships that we experience in life. It teaches us how to connect to other people and how to nurture relationships outside of your family. Friendships can be established throughout life and can last for small amounts of time (friends you make at camp, for example) or they can last a lifetime. It’s important that we celebrate all aspects of friendship in our scrapbooks since it has such a big impact upon our lives!
In this post, I am going to help give you ideas to help you celebrate friendship in your own scrapbook pages. There are so many different approaches that can help you tell stories related to friendship … the easiest, in my opinion, is to start with simply documenting the important friendships in your life. The closest friends, the ones who really make an impact in your life. I wanted to be sure to document my daughter’s close friendship with Lilah who is, without a doubt, her favorite friend. They’ve consistently been friends for the three years since we moved to our town and they definitely share something special. I created the layout below to celebrate this very important relationship.
Another fairly easy way to document the friendships in our lives is to tell the stories about the get togethers and events that we attend with our friends. In the layout below, Pamie tells the story of a birthday celebration and uses this photo which gives us great insight into their friendship! We all attend a lot of events with friends so be sure to get those stories into your scrapbook pages!
In our digital world, many of us spend a great deal of time working on staying in touch with our friends around the world. Some of those friends are people we’ve met but some of them may be on-line friends. This is a great thing to document in your scrapbooks! In the page below, mommyish has created a page about the long distance friendships she has and celebrates how friendship really knows no distance!
Another way to tell your friendship stories is to document your friendship milestones. If you’ve had a friend for many years who has really been there for you, be sure to celebrate that milestone with a page like the one that Sabrina has created below about her 8 year friendship!
I think that it is a great idea to create scrapbook pages about your friends’ admirable qualities – what are the wonderful things about your friends that make them so indispensable to you! Stacia’s layout below demonstrates how great it can be to honor the great things that our friends bring into our lives!
Before I finish up, I thought I’d share a few more ideas for friendship pages that will help you to celebrate the friendships in your life –
- Document your friendships with your pets – the animals in our lives are definitely our friends!
- Tell the stories of your childhood friendships – those early relationships are some of the ones that most affect who we become as adults! Be sure to include those friends in your scrapbooks!
- Friendship isn’t always easy – be sure to tell the stories of how friendships have faced adversity! It’s important to document the good and the bad of the things that come at us in life!
- Create pages about the contrasts between friends – is one of you quiet and the other one outgoing, for example? Those contrasts can tell us really interesting things about one another!
- Don’t forget to document the friendships that you’ve experienced in specific settings – friends at work, friends on sports teams, etc. Even if a friendship doesn’t go beyond a particular setting doesn’t mean it’s not important!
I hope these ideas will help you to add more scrapbook pages to your albums that celebrate friendship and all that it brings to our lives! I’m hosting a challenge over on the forums at The Digital Press and I hope you will come play along!
About the Author: Amy lives in Reston, VA with her husband of 14 years and their 10 year old boy/girl twins. Their 19 year old daughter has just completed her second year at West Virginia University! Amy has been scrapbooking since the early 1990s but discovered digital scrapbooking in 2005 when her twins were born and has primarily scrapped digitally since that time. She is passionate about telling her family’s stories and documenting their life together! Amy is a huge reader (mostly literary fiction) and is a pop culture junkie! She also LOVES all things beauty & makeup!