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Top Scrapbooking Idea Books of 2007

Scrapbooking idea books bring loads of ideas, how-to’s, techniques and layout inspiration. They are a wonderful addition to any scrapbooker’s bookshelf, however should be purchased carefully. All those idea books can add up in cost, and take up a lot of valuable room if they aren’t being used. It is also difficult to know which idea books to get when you don’t know anything about them. You can either check them out at the library or find other sources to borrow or look through them before deciding if you want to purchase them. Below I have compiled a list of … Continue reading →

Finding Scrapbook Sketches Online

My favorite place to get inspiration is online. There are hundreds of websites that offer layout ideas and inspiration. I am addicted to sketches so finding the best sites to get great sketches was important to me. There are dozens of great sites that have sketches, but these are my favorites. Scrap Maps This is probably one of my favorite sites, because it is categorized perfectly, and its as simple as clicking on what you are looking for. A great site! Sketch Me If You Can This is a blog, but she has dozens of beautiful sketches to use. Scrapbook … Continue reading →

Holiday Scrapbooking Gift Guide – part one

With the holiday season upon us, it is time to start thinking about a gift for your favorite scrapbooker. I’ve gone through my favorite products to create the following list of gifts that I’m sure that any scrapbooker would appreciate. Time to scrap. (FREE!) This could be the best gift of all. Arrange for babysitting, a place to scrapbook and your scrapbooker will be happy. Crop-a-dile. ($26) This is my latest exciting tool. It really does live up to all of the hype that I had heard about it. You can punch holes and set eyelets through almost anything. For … Continue reading →

Book Review: Layout Blueprints

Book Review: Layout Blueprints As scrapbookers, we are usually looking for ways to simplify our scrapbooking process. A new book, Layout Blueprints, is an excellent source of ideas for scrapbookers who are looking for ways to make scrapbooking a little easier. Layout Blueprints is an idea book full of sketches and example layouts based on those sketches. A scrapbook sketch is a simple drawing that shows the basic placement of photos, cardstock, patterned paper and embellishments. One of my favorite things about sketches is that they give you a starting point for your layout. Sometimes when I use a sketch, … Continue reading →

Sketches: A Simple Way to Scrapbook

Scrapbooking becomes more complicated everyday. With all the new techniques to try and new embellishments and styles, it’s so hard to keep up. Using sketches to create layouts, is a fast and simple way to get more done. Several years ago, Becky Higgins of Creating Keepsake’s fame, came up with an idea for sketches, which are penciled drawings (or sometimes digitally created), that provide the “basic recipe” for a scrapbook page. They are simply guidelines for creating a beautiful page without all the hard designing work. She promptly put out a book titled Becky Higgins Creative Sketches for Scrapbooking. She … Continue reading →

Get Inspired: Simple Layouts

I am always on the lookout for simple scrapbook layouts. Why? Because viewing other’s work often inspires me and the simpler the layout, the faster it gets completed and into my albums. I don’t always scrapbook in a simple style. Sometimes a layout can take me a few days to complete with several different techniques featured and other times, simply a few minutes, with only one or two techniques. Often when I have lots of pictures from an event, and I want to scrapbook all of them, I choose simpler layouts. They are finished and put into my albums for … Continue reading →