Ribbons and Lace, Embroidery Cotton, and Hemp to Spice Up Your Scrapbooks
Ribbon and lace are by far the most common, and most beautiful, border embellishment. The flowing nature of both materials encourages a touch of softness and elegance.
Weaving Photographs and the Use of a Collage to Give Your Scrapbooks Artistic Flare
For more dramatic results from your photographs, trying weaving two copies of the same photograph together. This technique creates a three-dimensional artist look.
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.
Digital Scrapbooking Tutorials - Making a Living Memoir Through the Use of Scrapbooks
There is one ultimate intention for the creation of a scrapbook It should be borne in mind that at almost everyday of our lives; we are faced with one or two experiences that we will want to live with
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.
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.
Photograph Mosaics and Markers in Your Scrapbooks
An attractive technique for placing photographs into scrapbooks is the photograph mosaic. Mosaics stretch photographs into an artistic rendition of the original photograph.
Capture Precious Memories With The Art Explosion Scrapbook Factory Deluxe Software.
The Art Explosion Scrapbook Factory Deluxe is an absolute miracle in scrapbooking software. This sought after program is the greed of many of the moms who frequent the scrapbook club I joined a few months ago. This package has everything any scrapbook making mom, dad or child could want. There are endless possibilities.
The Scrapbooking Academy Reveals Secrets and Strategies for Making the Most Creative Scrapbooks
If you are into scrapbooking then you need to check out The Scrapbooking Academy. They have recently announced the launch of their new Membership website where scrapbookers can learn more aout scrapbooking and saving money.
Digital Scrapbook Place raises money for Breast Cancer Awareness
Digital Scrapbook Place raises money for the Susan G. Komen Foundation for Breast Cancer Awareness Month in a new and innovative way.
Computer Scrapbooks
When digital cameras were first released on the market, everyone was excited. Finally, here was an easy way to take and store photos. No more would our closets be plagued with boxes and envelopes housing a hodgepodge of unorganized photographs. What we didn't realize was that soon, our computers would be filled with a hodgepodge of unorganized photographs.
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Patterning and Spacing in Your Scrapbooks
How can you arrange your scrapbook page to best show off your mementos and embellishments? You can place everything in the center of your page, place a single focus item in the center, or divide the page into sections adding items to each section. You may also choose to lay the items out in a standard recipe or calendar layout. Shapes also make interesting placement patterns. Common shapes include circles, squares, hearts, and stars. However, you can also place items in object patterns such as mountains, trains, or Christmas trees. The shape you choose for your scrapbook will depend entirely on your theme. For instance, a logical shape for a wedding or Valentines Day scrapbook is a heart. A nice shape for a Christmas scrapbook is a Christmas tree. You might make a cake pattern for you niece the pastry cook. Let your imagination and creativity be your guide. Various ready made patterning templates are available on the market. Spacing is a difficult matter. There is a fine line between having a balanced scrapbook page and a gaudy mess. If items are too closely spaced your reader will feel overwhelmed. If your items are spaced to far apart your viewer will feel short changed. Look at your page.
Close your eyes.
Open them again.
Does your page look cluttered?
Does your page have more photographs than background?
Are your embellishments drawing the focus away from your mementos? Then, you need to simplify your page a bit and increase the spacing between objects. Remember you can always add more pages. Is your page bare?
Is your page uninteresting and colorless? Then, think about adding some more mementos and colorful embellishments. In this way, you can decrease the spacing between objects making your page more energetic. Mia LaCron is the founder of 101-scrapbooking-tidbits.info - http://www.101-scrapbooking-tidbits.info - devoted to helping individuals record, store, and preserve their most cherished memories via the art of scrapbooking.
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