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Tips for Getting a Great Family Portrait

You can go and spend a fortune on a portrait sitting, get lots of different poses and then spend hours trying to agonize over which ones you want to order and which ones you want to include in your scrapbook. Or you can create your own portrait sitting and take the photos yourself and spend a lot less money. In addition, you can spend no time actually agonizing over the selection, because the negatives or original digital prints are yours to begin with. This allows you the freedom and flexibility to crop, resize, reprint and alter the photographs until your … Continue reading →

Working With Page Titles

Page titles are not necessarily a must have element on your scrapbooking page, but they can definitely help set the tone and mood of your layouts. Not all scrapbooking layouts call for a title either, but adding one can be super easy and loads of fun. So where can you come up with page titles? One of my favorite ways to title a page is by using the title of a song or a lyric from a song. For one of my daughter’s birthday layouts from when she was quite young, I used “It’s My Party and I’ll Cry If … Continue reading →

Quickie Layouts: Getting Your Scrapbook Pages Done Faster

Trying to get more done in the short spurts of time that we are allowed in our increasingly shorter days can be difficult. Making the time to scrapbook is important, but there are other methods to create more pages and get more accomplished when you are able to find the time. Creating quickie pages makes scrapbooking go easier. There are several ways this can be accomplished: My favorite way is through using sketches. There are loads of idea books, Internet sites and other locations to obtain sketches or as some refer to them, page maps. These are sketches that show … Continue reading →

Make Time For What You Love

So many times I hear would be scrapbookers and even those that have been scrapbooking for awhile, say they do not seem to find time to do something they love. Scrapbooking is a creative outlet for most and has additional benefits in that you are also preserving memories. It is important to make times for the things that you love. Everyone deserves a little “me” time and if you want those few special moments to include your favorite creative hobby – scrapbooking, then you must work on making the time for it. Here are a few methods for allowing yourself … Continue reading →

Saving Money With Photographs

Several months ago I taught a basic photography class to a group of nine scrapbookers. We went over both digital photography as well as film photography and we talked about the importance of organizing your photographs for ease of scrapbooking. Surprisingly I learned that of the nine women present that night, only four regularly printed photographs. Two ladies admitted to having several rolls of film at home that have not been developed along with hundreds of digital photographs just sitting on their computer. The other three used digital and one lady admitted to having over a thousand photographs on her … Continue reading →

Scrapbooking Gifts For Father’s Day

Father’s Day is just around the corner, have you started your gift making yet? Perhaps you have decided to go the store-bought route this year. If you haven’t decided on anything yet, you might want to realize the great gifts you can create, using your scrapbooking stash. Gift Albums Of course, every day enjoys getting an album made just for him. Fill it with reasons you love him, reasons he’s a great dad or just fill it with things that he likes. A gift album is always a good gift choice. Cards Every dad needs a card on Father’s Day. … Continue reading →

End of School Year Scrapbooking

The end of school is here, and the beautiful summer days are staring us hard in the face. Depending on the type of scrapbooker you are, this could mean more time to scrapbook, but with all the kids off school, it could also mean less. Personally, I am allowed more time to scrapbook in the summer, because the school year commitments have diminished, and I have loads of free time. For me, it is the last month of school that is the hardest with five kids. There are ceremonies, end of school parties, end of school year field trips, pictures, … Continue reading →

Getting Paid to Scrapbook: Customized Scrapbooks (1)

There was some recent talk in the scrapbooking and paper crafts forum, about setting up a Custom Scrapbook Business. This is an absolutely great idea for those that truly love scrapbooking, and wish to make some money doing it. However, there are some important things to really consider first. Experience While you might not have had any experience creating albums for others, how much scrapbooking experience do you have? You need to be very creative to work with other people’s pictures. It is a lot more challenging than you think. You also need to be sure you are up on … Continue reading →

Sticker and Die Cut Storage Ideas

As scrapbookers, we tend to accumulate a large amount of stickers and different types of die cuts, which can include page toppers and other shapes. Storage for these ideas, while plentiful, can be somewhat confusing, and since every scrapbooker is different, you have to find what works best for you and the space you are using. My favorite product is The Stadium Organizer, pictured left. This innovative, new product is a plastic stadium style plastic container, which can hold different sizes and shapes of die cuts and sticker sheets. To learn more, see this article. Another terrific item for organizing … Continue reading →

Keeping Your Photos Safe: The Scientific Side

The scientific side of keeping your photographs safe goes far beyond just keeping your photos away from water, dirt, high temperatures and making sure not to leave fingerprints and scratches. Although those are important, there are some more scientific things to be aware of. Most scrapbookers have heard the word acidic and the words lignin free. Perhaps you’ve even heard of buffered. But what does all this mean to a scrapbooker and how do you take proper precautions to make sure that the supplies you are using won’t damage your photographs? The first rule is always to look for supplies … Continue reading →