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Card Sketches

If you have been scrapbooking for awhile you know exactly what a sketch is. They make creating a page or layout a little easier and faster while still allowing flexibility in the products and photographs that you select. A sketch allows for a lot of versatility and Did you know they also have sketches for card making too? Card sketches were virtually the exact same way that a layout sketch works. I have been using them for a very long time, but just recently got very into using them. I love to make them myself and then when I am … Continue reading →

The Goblin Companion: A Field Guide to Goblins by Brian Froud & Terry Jones

Poor misunderstood goblins. Humans have no idea that they have individual personalities and tendencies. Well, thanks to Brian Froud, a former piscepodiatrist (a foot doctor who specializes in the treatment of fish) who was trolling East Africa looking for work when he came across a strange earthenware jug, this little know species can come to life. Along with the help of Terry Jones of Monty Pyton fame, whose annotations bring the goblins to life once again, we can learn all that there is to know about these fascinatingly disgusting creatures. As the title suggests, the book is a field guide … Continue reading →

Embracing Embellishments

If it weren’t for embellishments, then scrapbooks would be little more than glorified photo albums. Stickers, stamps, die cuts, brads, and flocking powder help add spice to scrapbook designs. What’s more, they help enhance other materials featured on a page. For example, if you are working on a Christmas-themed layout you could use a Santa Claus tag to jazz up a section on holiday gifts. Likewise, embellishments that include quotes or famous sayings can help add intrigue to a journaling block. The embellishment can also serve as inspiration should you be suffering from writer’s block. Colorful embellishments or ones that … Continue reading →

Scrapbooking Week in Review for April 28 – May 05, 2008

Is it raining in your world today? It seems as if the rain has increased, rather than let up. Isn’t the old saying “April Showers, Bring May Flowers.”? Take advantage of the continuing rain and spend some time scrapbooking and playing around with your supplies. Perhaps you could even spend some time organizing your stash, going through your albums, or even set up a fun portrait session with your kids. Here is what has been going on in the scrapbooking blog this week. Be sure and check out the new columns appearing in the scrapbooking blog that were introduced this … Continue reading →

Starting an Idea Notebook or Inspiration Journal

As any scrapbooker knows, inspiration comes from all over the place. Often it is what sparks our creativity and gets us making these amazing layouts. However, many scrapbookers know that sometimes we glean ideas or inspiration from other scrapbookers and other sources related to scrapbooking or other paper projects. I have been scrapbooking for over thirteen years now. I have amassed quite a collection of magazine articles, layout clippings, sketches, pictures and pieces I intended to use as inspiration to create these amazing layouts. Some might call it scraplifting, but since I don’t scrap lift the designs as much as … Continue reading →

Toys! Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions – Don Wulffson

Have you ever wondered who invented the bicycle, or who came up with kites or Silly Putty? Toys!: Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions by Don Wulfson will answer those questions. Toys! explains the strange histories and accidents behind some of our most familiar and popular playthings. Slinkys were a mistake. They were originally an invention that didn’t work. It was meant to counterbalance Navy ship instruments during rough times at sea. Slinkys didn’t work for that, but as a toy they made their inventor a millionaire. During the Vietnam War the Slinky did end up serving the military as … Continue reading →

Creating Your Focal Point On Your Scrapbook Layout

Once you have chosen your focal point, it is time to look at ways to place the focal point on your scrapbook layout, as well as to find ways to actually create the focal point design. The focal point is usually the largest. It might be an uncropped photograph, but it also could be a matted photograph, to make it appear larger. If it is a close up, often that in itself with help draw the eye to the photograph. Using a photo mat is the best way to ensure that the viewer can see which photograph is the focal … Continue reading →

ScrapWow – The Scrapbooker’s Playground

ScrapWow is the newest thing to hit the scrapbooking world. I discovered it by accident when a friend sent me to her website and I realized it was hosted by ScrapWow. I wanted to find out more and was so excited and impressed, I just knew I had to share it with my scrapbook friends. The ScrapWow website offers you an innovative and easy way to have your very own scrapbook website that is entirely yours. It also offers you the opportunity to share your scrapbook pages online with all of your friends and family. It is really easy to … Continue reading →

Layout Idea Storage

There is not a scrapbooker I have met, who has not found a layout or idea somewhere, that they have wanted to keep for later use. Scrapbooking inspiration is all around us. In fact, it’s in scrapbook magazines, idea books and even in the mail and online. So it’s all great that you have these ideas at your fingertips, but do you really? How do you store your ideas for layouts? Whether you are saving an article with a detailed or new technique, an actual copy of a layout, or even a photograph you’d like to emulate, magazines have plenty. … Continue reading →

Album in a Weekend

Creating an album in a weekend, is much easier than completing an album in a day. Some scrapbookers spend most of their time dedicating themselves to getting an entire album done in one single weekend. Sometimes this is because their schedules are so busy that they only have time to scrapbook on the weekends. Other times it is because that particular scrapbooker works best when they are organized and keep everything simple and clean. Tips to completing an album in one weekend: Papers and cardstock, as well as added embellishments should be kept simple, and only two or three colors … Continue reading →