•12 Quick Scrapbooking Ideas To Add Interest To Your Page Layouts
Sometimes all a scrapbooking page needs is just a simple accent or element to add interest to the layout or to enhance the photographs. Here are a few quick and easy ideas you can use on your scrapbook pages today.
1. One of the easiest scrapbooking techniques to learn is paper tearing. Paper tearing adds a soft edge to your cardstock and texture to your pages. You can choose to tear just one edge of a paper or tear completely around a mat or frame. Try tearing the bottom edge of a tag or...
•12x12 Scrapbook Albums: An Industry Standard?
Scrapbooking albums come in many sizes from 6x6, 8x8, 8 1/2x11 and the popular 12x12 format. Over the years as this hobby has become more and more popular, some album sizes have come and gone. The 8x10 album is much more difficult to find and so is the 12x14. Yet, the 12x12 has become the most common scrapbooking album available.
Why Are 12x12 Albums So Popular?
When the scrapbooking craze took off in the 1990s, Pioneer and Creative Memories, the predominant acid-free album manufacturers at...
•6 Tips For Back to School Scrapbooking Ideas
School scrapbooking albums usually include pictures of a child's first day of school for each grade level, but there's so much more to our back-to-school memories. Why not create a few page layouts that document the feelings and memories of the back-to-school season? Get your camera and your scrapbooking supplies ready, and try these school scrapbooking ideas.
Back-to-School Clothes Shopping
This is a new school year ritual. We all take our children shopping for new clothes to start the...
•Clear Stamps And Scrapbooking: Clearly A Winning Combination
The unique qualities of clear acrylic stamps make them a perfect choice for scrapbooking. Stamping on scrapbook pages has always been a challenge. Placing the stamp and avoiding excess ink are a few of the concerns that keep most scrapbookers from trying stamping techniques on their page layouts, but now with the availability of clear acrylic stamps, anyone can get fantastic results from stamps on their scrapbooking pages.
Clear acrylic stamps, also called polymer stamps, are different from...
•Do You Have A Scrapbooking Room Hiding In Your Closet?
Did you ever think you would have accumulated so many scrapbooking supplies when you got into this hobby? You may still be moving your supply stash from room to room looking for a workspace to design your page layouts. For many, having a scrapbooking craft room is a dream. Yet, if you look closely, you may just find a way to create a scrapbooking space that is all your own. You may not have a whole room to devote to your hobby, but a closet could be the answer to your craft room dream.
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•Find Color Inspiration For Your Scrapbooking Page Layouts
Do you think you need to know color theory to make a beautiful scrapbooking page? You don't even need to know the difference between primary and secondary colors to create a page that complements your photographs. All you need to find color inspiration for your layouts is a watchful eye during your everyday life. Color palettes are all around us. Consider these easy-to-find resources for color choices on your next scrapbooking pages.
Your Favorite Clothing Store Clothing manufacturers...
•Find Scrapbooking Titles in Music, Movies and Television
Are you ever stuck for a perfect phrase for your scrapbooking title? Maybe you just stick with the date or the seasons like summer or fall. Some scrapbookers title every page with the name of the subject in the photograph. It might be a place, like Disney World or the beach, or it could be a person's name like Susan or Grandpa. Being creative with scrapbooking titles adds interest to a page layout just like embellishments and borders. Music, movies and television can offer inspiration and...
•Graduation Scrapbook: Ideas For High School Graduation Memories
Is your child graduating this year? The time seems to go by so fast. It often seems like only yesterday that our graduates started kindergarten. Now they are graduating high school and will be off to college by fall. It's important to preserve and document those special final moments of high school in a graduation scrapbook.
You may already have a school scrapbooking album for your child, but high school graduation memories can fill an entire scrapbook. Dedicate one album for this special...
•How To Accent Your Scrapbook With Brads
Brads are no longer just for the office. Brads have become a hot trend in scrapbooking embellishments. They now come in many colors, sizes, and shapes. Brads can be as simple as round and silver, or more decorative, like in the shape of a Halloween ghost.
Using brads in scrapbooking pages couldn't be easier. Just press the brad through the paper and flatten the ends open on the other side. You may want to first make a pilot hole if you are working with delicate paper or materials, like tissue...
•How To Put Your Scrapbooking Page Layouts Online
There are many reasons why you might want to put your scrapbooking page layouts online. You may just want to share your latest album project with family and friends or post a photo of a scrapbooking page onto your personal blog. If you want to be part of the online scrapbooking community, you can submit your page layout photos to a forum gallery. Finally, a photo of your scrapbooking page can be entered into online contests, competitions or a scrapping challenge.
Getting your traditional...
•Scrapbooking Adhesives: Stick To The Basics
Scrapbooking adhesives come in more choices than ever. As this hobby grows, the manufacturers are responding to the needs of scrapbookers. Since page layouts have moved from just photos, paper and a few stickers to more complex designs like 3-D elements, metals, fabric and ribbon, scrapbookers now need adhesives that can handle the latest in scrapbooking trends and techniques.
The key to scrapbook adhesives is that they must be photo-safe. You need to be sure any product you are using on your...
•Scrapbooking For Children: 8 Reasons Why You Should Be Scrapbooking With Your Kids
You already know all the reasons why scrapbooking is your favorite hobby and the benefits it brings to your family. So why not share that hobby with your children as well? Scrapbooking for children can be just as fun and meaningful as it is for adults. There are many reasons to start scrapbooking with your kids. Here are just a few reasons you should start enjoying scrapbooking with your kids today.
1. The primary reason most people scrapbook is to preserve their family memories and...
•Scrapbooking For Children: 8 Top Tips For Scrapbooking With Kids
Do you love the thought of scrapbooking for kids but don't know how to get started? Many scrapbookers would love to scrapbook with their kids but are not sure what supplies to offer or how to keep things from getting disorganized or too messy. Do you just open your scrapbooking stash to your kids and let them choose what they want to use or should there be rules to scrapbooking for kids? Here are some top tips for scrapbooking with children.
1. Keep scrapbooking for kids fun and relaxed. Let...
•Scrapbooking Ideas To Chase Away Burnout
If you've been scrapbooking for a while, you know how easy it is to get burnout and lack of motivation to create pages. It seems we still tend to pile up a stack of photos just waiting to be placed in an album, but we haven't found just the right paper or embellishments yet, or maybe we can't decide what scrapbooking techniques to use on them. Here are a few ideas to help overcome scrapbooking burnout.
1. Learning a new technique can spark your creativity. Just find some photos and try out the...
•Scrapbooking Ideas: 7 Scrapbooking For Kids Projects
When you think of scrapbooking you usually think of making scrapbook albums. How you tried using your scrapbooking materials for other projects? These project ideas are great for scrapbooking with kids.
1. Decorate jars and use them as small storage items in your children's bedrooms, like marble collections or collectible game cards. Look in your scrapbooking supplies for stickers and rub-ons to embellish any size jar. Baby food jars and Mason jars work well for this project.
2. Make...
•Scrapbooking Ideas: How to Fix Your Mistakes
We've all done it, ruined a perfect scrapbooking page layout. Globs of glue in the wrong place, crooked stickers or typos are just a few common mistakes made on scrapbook pages. Before you waste your paper and supplies by throwing out a page gone wrong, you may be able to salvage that layout with these scrapbooking ideas.
Accept Mistakes
Before you even try to fix your mistakes, take a close look at it. Is it really that bad? Scrapbook layouts don't have to be perfect. In fact, they are more...
•Scrapbooking Pet Page Ideas For A Unique Pet Album
Our pets are part of our families and our memories. Whether they are dogs, cats, hamsters or rabbits, they enrich our lives. Creating a pet-themed scrapbooking album will preserve the special moments you share with them. Consider these scrapbooking pet page ideas to make a scrapbooking album just for your pet photos.
Everyone remembers the excitement of bringing home a new pet. Make a scrapbooking page about their first night at home. You can include pictures of your pet's new bed and any...
•Scrapbooking Trends: What Are Artist Trading Cards?
In the scrapbooking industry, artist trading cards (or ATC's) are becoming more popular as trendsetting companies like 7 Gypsies release more ATC supplies and holders. These miniature pieces of art, or in the case of scrapbookers, mini page layouts, are as much fun to trade and collect as they are to create. There are few rules and limits on artist trading cards, and they are quick to make and adapt to scrapbooking materials.
The only strict requirement for artist trading cards is their size....
•So Many Scrapbooking Album Themes To Choose From
Most beginners start their first scrapbook as a chronological album. They have sorted their photos according to date, and start scrapbooking each event in order. However, there are so many other scrapbooking album themes you could use. Don't limit yourself to just a chronological album. A themed album centered on one topic can inspire you and create a wonderful keepsake for years to come. Scrapbook album themes are nearly limitless when you consider all the topics available to choose from. You...
•Some Tips For Scrapbooking Birth Certificates
Wanting to set aside a birth certificate as something to treasure and cherish is not unusual. After all, what better way to celebrate the birth of a child than by preserving the certificate of that birth? If you are considering scrapbooking birth certificates, there are some tips and tricks we can give you here, and some things to keep in mind when dealing with an official document as well.
First, are you sure it is a good idea to be putting birth certificates on scrapbook pages in the...
•Traditional Vs. Digital Scrapbooking: The Pro And Cons
Even if you are new to scrapbooking, you have probably seen the trend towards digital scrapbooking. Scrapbooking has been a popular hobby for hundreds of years. While it has continued to change over the years, the most significant change is the addition of technology to scrapbooking. Digital scrapbooking blends technology with the creativity of scrapbooking.
The first thing you need to think about when it comes to traditional vs. digital scrapbooking is which method interests you the most....
•Vacation Scrapbooking Pages: Planning Before You Go on Your Trip
When preparing for your vacation, you always remember to pack your camera, but do you ever think about how you will scrapbook your vacation photos before you leave on your trip? Planning your vacation scrapbooking pages before you begin your trip makes it easier and quicker to design a beautiful vacation album when you get home. Here are a few quick tips to consider when planning your vacation scrapbook.
Your Vacation Scrapbooking Album
Most of us plan our vacations well in advance. It's...
•Where To Learn Beginner Scrapbooking Techniques
Beginner scrapbookers have many resources available to learn how to scrapbook. Scrapbooking is one of the fastest growing hobbies, and options for learning this craft come in many different places. Before considering which method is best for you, consider your time and money commitment, as well as, your goals for scrapbooking.
Are you just looking to make attractive pages for your family to enjoy and preserve your photographs and memories? Maybe you want to learn scrapbooking for a new...
•Which Scrapbooking Tote Is Right For You?
Even if you have the perfect craft room at home, there may be times when you want to take your scrapbooking hobby on the go. Enjoying this hobby with others not only is a social event, it teaches you new techniques and brings inspiration to your page layouts. An essential tool for attending crops and workshops is a scrapbooking tote. There are many options for containers to hold your tools, paper and embellishments, but the more items you want to bring with you, the more you need an organized...
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