Signing your work

So Picasso always signed his and so did Rembrandt. So why not you?
Yes your pages are a piece of art and so it deserves your signature. After all you put all that work into it and the pages shine with your creativity. I bet a piece of your personality went into each and every page. Some scrappers are framing their work and hanging on them on their walls instead of pictures.

So how to sign your work.
It should be with a scrapbook safe pen. You can sign them on the front somewhere if you prefer or on the back. I personally sign mine on the back. Mine are signed just as I write my name. Debbie Ruggles. I even sign the back of my kids layouts that way. That way when someone finds my books in about a few hundred years they will be able to know who signed them.

Yep I can see these books tucked away in some Attic somewhere because family couldn't get rid of them. After all they are family history and you can't just throw that away.
Then again what do we do with them all. So nicely tucked away for safe keeping they will be. Someday someone will find them and see how interesting they are and wonder who made the books. If they happen to take them out they will find my signature nicely on the back of them.

Please sign those layouts, they are yours, you spent the time to make them for yourself, or someone special, so why not let the future know how talented their relatives were.
Not to mention you are giving them a sample of your handwritting, which is always important!
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Debbie Ruggles