A scrapbooking portfolio is the perfect way to share your creations and passion for scrapbooking with others. With Picaboo it is easy to create a professional portfolio to share with friends, colleagues, and potential business partners. Once you have finished your portfolio you can link to it from your website, share it online via email for free, or order hardbound copies to share in person. If you are attending a trade show you may even want to order a few medium sized copies of your portfolio to give away to potential clients.

Start your portfolio with a picture of yourself and some information about your scrapbooking experience. You may wish to list experiences you have had as a freelance artist for digital and traditional scrapbooking, as an industry consultant, as an industry writer, or as a scrapbooking trainer.

Before you start creating your book, make a list of your favorite projects that you would like to include. Organize them according to style of scrapbooking, theme, or date created. When you have finished your list, gather together your projects and scan any hand-scrapped pages so that they will be easy to add to your Picaboo Portfolio. Visit the other pages of this website for detailed instructions about adding your hand-scrapped 8.5x11" and square pages.

As you create your Portfolio, in Picaboo you may choose to use some Picaboo layouts, some hand-scrapped pages, and some digitally scrapped pages to perfect your album.

 

Scan in Your Published Work   Scan articles or examples of your work that have been published and add them to a layout in Picaboo to quickly add them to your Portfolio. Include a caption with the source your work appeared in as well as the date it was published.

 

Include a Personal Description   Along with your published work, or any other page you highlight in your portfolio, add a description about what you enjoyed about the project, what was difficult about it, and what you learned from it. Select a Picaboo layout with a small photo well so that you can add a small version of your page or project. Make sure your page layout also has a good-sized text box so that you will have plenty of room for journaling. When you are finished, you will have quickly added personal notes about each project in a professional and clean layout that will be a joy to read again and again.