Puzzle Pieces, Sequins, and Rhine Stones in Your Scrapbooks
Puzzle pieces make playful embellishments and borders. Puzzle pieces give a creative and playful look to children's art and educational scrapbooks.
Digital Scrapbook Place collaborates with Adobe Systems and Epson to demonstrate a solution for digital scrapbooking.
Digital Scrapbook Place, Adobe, and Epson have collaborated to share with retailers a complete approach to creating beautiful hybrid and digital scrapbook pages.
Printing Your Digital Scrapbook Layouts - Make Them Real
I don't know about you but I'm an old fashioned girl I like to be able to touch my scrapbook pages in printed form
How to Use Feathers and Dried Flowers to Give Your Scrapbooks an Artistic Feel
Feathers make exotic and interesting embellishments and borders. Feathers add an air of softness.
Choosing Craft Paper For Scrapbooks
Now that you have your pen, glue, protectors, etc, you will need to choose paper for your scrapbook. Craft paper with seals of approval is ideal when creating scrapbooks. Craft paper includes the CK OK products. Paper designed for photocopying, journals, or albums are the choice papers. The paper that most crafters use is the pH that does not go over 8.0. The ideal level is 6.5 and/or 7.5. Un-buffered paper is the choice for many crafters, yet some recommend buffer paper with alkaline base. Paper should have an acid-base; therefore look for the lignin-free products. Paper without dyes, and are colorfast are choice products also. P.A.T. approved paper is the Photo Activity Test products, which is ideal for scrapbooks.
Smilebox Celebrates National Scrapbooking Day 2010 with Free Premium Digital Scrapbook
Smilebox, Inc. will salute scrapbookers everywhere on National Scrapbooking Day 2010 and give away a free, premium digital scrapbooking design. The free design will be available from Friday, April 30th through Sunday, May 2nd and can be downloaded directly with Smilebox at the company’s blog at smilebox.com/smileboxblog.
Geni Introduces Timelines and Family News in Bid to Become Digital Scrapbook for Families
Top rated genealogy and family networking website, Geni.com, introduces new ways for families to preserve their history and stay connected. Timeline and Family News are the latest features to be added to it's growing list of site enhancements. The launch of these features enables family and friends to begin working together to build digital scrapbooks of their lives and the lives of their family.
Smilebox Celebrates May 3 National Scrapbooking Day with Free Premium Digital Scrapbook Design
In recognition of National Scrapbooking Day on Saturday May 3, Smilebox, Inc. will give away a free premium scrapbook design in its catalog. The free design will be available from Thursday, May 1 through Sunday, May 4.
Faux Wax Seals, Tearing, and Fraying in Your Scrapbooks
Would you like to add more creative appeal to your scrapbooks? Here are three methods to add more depth and creativity to your scrapbook creations.A good way to make your own personal seals is with Crayola Model Magic.
Making The Perfect Craft
Making crafts are a wonderful way to spend a day at home. Leisure activities such as ping pong, board games and making crafts are different activities to do in your home. Painting, coloring, writing, making music, and making crafts are all creative activities. The process of making art and the process of making crafts are related but different.
Alternative Scrap-booking
Aah, the feel of the pages moving past your fingers. The sweet song of reminiscing as you flip through photos to choose just the one for your page. Fingers fly as you carefully execute the layout in your mind for the stickers, embellishments and anything else you want to add to enhance your photos. Finally, the page is complete and added to your already burgeoning scrapbook. Scrap-booking has become one of the joys of my life because it allows me to express myself and capture life for my children. Unfortunately, I have found once a book is complete, it sits forlorn until someone decides to take the time to look through it. Favorite pages are forgotten until they are read again. It's a shame! There is hope, though! I have discovered several ...
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"You" In Your Scrapbooks: Plan To Picture Yourself In Your Pages
Sometimes we are so busy scrapbooking our children and family that we forget to include ourselves in our pages. Are you lacking in photos and pages of yourself?
With a little planning, you can capture more of yourself in your scrapbooks. While it's important to document our memories, we want our future generations also to know as much as possible about the person who took the time to create our scrapbook albums.
Plan to take more photographs of yourself. You don't have to have individual photos, but include yourself more in the group photos of activities and holidays. Teach another family member to operate your camera and pass it to them at least a few times at every photo opportunity.
Allowing others to take photos with your camera also gives your album some variety. Everyone has a different photography style. Having pictures taken by others gives you a chance to be in more photos. You might just be mentoring the family photographer for next generation. It's particularly fun to see photos taken by children. They tend to view the world from a very different perspective, and it shows in the photographs they take.
If you don't have many photos of yourself, ask your parents or other family members for pictures of you at their parties and events. You might come up with several great shots that you can include on your pages. Many people either other double prints or have digital photographs that they can easily print.
Try using photographs of yourself at different stages of your life. When you do page layout of your daughter, create a double-page layout with a picture of you at the very same age on the adjacent page. You might journal about how your life was at that age compared to your daughter's now.
Scrapbooking isn't just about photographs. Express yourself in other ways on pages. Write letters to yourself that explore your feelings, dreams and hopes. You also can write letters to your children or your parents telling them about how they have touched your life. These letters give others a picture of your personality that even a photograph can't express.
So often we want perfection in our scrapbooks, and we use computers to type out our journaling. This does give us nice, neat text with fancy fonts, but it doesn't
have the personal feel of our own handwriting. Use handwriting in your scrapbooks more often. This personal touch will mean a lot to your children and grandchildren.
If you can't come up with photographs of yourself, create scrapbook page layouts about yourself in other ways. Take photos of your favorite things and favorite places. "About Me" books give some great ideas for telling others about you without photographs. For example, save the tags from your favorite clothes and create a page that expresses your sense of fashion. Print the covers of your favorite books from the internet and journal about how these books affected you. Maybe you have a favorite brand of cookies or special holiday recipes, include the logo from the packaging or write out a recipe to include in your pages.
Look around you for other ideas to include more of yourself in your scrapbook pages. Even your Starbuck's Chai Tea Latte habit can be a scrapbooking page!
Christine Perry invites you to her website, http://www.intoscrapbooking.com for more scrapbooking tips and information on how to start scrapbooking store online.
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