How to become a professional scrapbooker!
You love to scrapbook and you would love to do nothing but scrapbooking and you'd love to be a professional scrapbooker. But do you really? Let's find out, shall we?
What is the exact job of a professional scrapbooker?
People send their pictures and other pieces they want included to you and you have to find a way to make everything "fit" just right. You'll have to be able to deliver a high quality product when finished, because nobody will pay you for a scrapbook that's been done in 20 minutes flat.
So as a starter you will have to have experience in scrapbooking. Maybe you should take pictures of every scrapbook you've done and then put them in a little photoalbum. You could then show people your "portfolio" of scrapbooks.
Which gives the impression that you know what you're doing. That is if your previous scrapbooks are nicely done.
A professional scrapbooker has to deliver on time, so you better have some spare time to get your clients scrapbook together, or be able to work hard at making all of your clients scrapbooks complete on time.
You will need lots of different tools, like exacto knives, lots and lots of colored paper and ribbons, stickers, buttons and small stuff like that. You'll want to keep all of that organised in draws or little bags or boxes so that nothing gets mixed.
Getting your own website might be one of the smartest things to do, that way you can leave your url in the scrapbooking forums you frequently visit and get some customers that way. Remember the pictures you took of all of your scrapbooks? You can upload them to your site so you can show your portfolio to your visitors as well.
Make business cards as well and make them beautiful and really let them stand out. If they are nicely put together you'll see more potential customers coming your way
But to be a really good professional srapbooker you'll need a good judge of character and you'll need to have good taste, because you'll need to make "collections of memories" for other people, which can be a hard task at some times. You'll need to know which colors can go with which colors etc, because you don't want to hand in a scrapbook with unmatching colors, right?
And the last thing I want you to remember is to use quality materials, no cheap worthless stuff, use only quality.