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.
Use Tags and Embellishments to Give Your Scrapbooks that Personal Yet Professional Touch
Tags are a little added touch of professionalism that adds to the overall well thought out look to your scrapbook. Tags can be used for accents, captions, and thought bubbles as well as dedications.
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.
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.
Wax Pencils, Stickers, and Rubber Stamping in Your Scrapbooks
Another important writing implement for scrapbooking is a wax pencil. Wax pencils are soft pencils designed to write on glass, plastic and photographs.
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.
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.
Sharing With Creative Memories Scrapbooks
There seems to be a new craze that is taking the picture-taking planet by storm. I recently attended a fundraiser for Leukemia research hosted by a Creative Memories scrapbook consultant. The consultant is related to a person who passed away from the illness and she decided to merge her two passions together as one.
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 ...
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.
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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.
There are so many features available through the Art Explosion Scrapbook Factory Deluxe that are not available in other programs. Premium photo editing is my personal favorite. I love the idea of editing my photos right in my scrapbooking software program. Before I had to visit Photoshop for a few hours then transfer the pictures to the other software program. Now I can do everything in one place.
There are tons of editing tools that can give the popular Photoshop program a run for its money. Art Explosion Scrapbook Factory Deluxe offers cutting edge editing options for your pictures. You can achieve a lot in relatively little time by using this outstanding program.
Once your pictures are edited, the Art Explosion Scrapbook Factory Deluxe allows you to look through a plethora of templates to beautify your photo masterpieces. The options are seemingly endless. The only complaint I have is that I spend way too much time trying to choose just one for each page. It can be very difficult.
In addition to the patterns, there are images to use as well. This adds to the time consumption in the project as well. The images are of superior quality and there are so many that you can take hours and hours out of your day just sorting through the wonderful graphics that the Art Explosion Scrapbook Factory Deluxe has to offer.
There is also a spell check feature that I appreciate beyond my ability to express. I can?t spell my way out of a wet paper bag so I rely heavily on this type of feature in my software programs. Many do not provide such a service which means that I have to enter my text into Microsoft Word to run a check for errors.
Normally, I would have to edit my photos in Photoshop, browse the Internet for good templates, continue to browse the Internet for images and make sure my text for spelling mishaps in Microsoft Word. The time that I save just by using Art Explosion Scrapbook Factory Deluxe actually affords me an afternoon of browsing its lovely images and excellent templates.
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