Smeshbuk, in English smashbook, is a notebook, notepad or magazine that its owner fills with photos, clippings from newspapers and magazines, receipts from trips, tickets from events attended and other memorabilia.
In the mixbook you can write down your thoughts, plans for the future, ideas and dreams. Ideas for a mixbook can be snooped on the Internet, from friends, come up with yourself. As a rule, people who decide to have such an art book ask themselves two questions: how to beautifully design the first page with their own hands and how to fill out the magazine itself. Let's consider the main ideas for a mixbook.
What to fill
There are a lot of types of artbooks. There are sketchbooks - they are intended for artistic sketches. There are travel logs. Some mixbooks are personal diaries with notes and memoirs of their owners. You can use such a notebook as an experimental site for learning scrapbooking techniques or honing your literary skills.
There are also a huge number of recording options for mixbooks - these can be aphorisms, quotes from great people, stories written by you or poems, lyrics of your favorite music artists or phrases in a foreign language that you are studying. There are mixbooks - cooking recipes with recipes. In a word, everything that you could and would like to record or sketch, can act as an idea for a mixbook with your own hands.
How to make the first page
Most often, you can see the design of the first page of the mixbook using the scrapbooking technique. The design uses applique, all kinds of ribbons, origami, carved elements.
Often girls decorate their artbooks with flowers from fabric and paper. If your artbook will contain sketches, you can design the first page with beautiful graphics or graffiti.
Also, it will not hurt to be guided by the theme of your magazine in the design of the first page. For example, if your travel artbook, then for the design of the first page you can use a map or photo of the country you are going to.
Ideas for a mixbook are all around us. It is worthwhile to carefully look around, and you will surely find several interesting topics and design options for your creative magazine.