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Fun Gift for Scrapbook Fans

With so many new memory book supplies being introduced throughout the year, finding the perfect gift for your favorite scrapper is a piece of cake… or not. Often crafters can get overwhelmed by the sheer number of scrapbooking tools, albums, paper and embellishments on the market today. This is especially true for busy scrappers who don’t have the time to research constantly changing product choices. For scrapbooking fans with limited time to browse through stores or peruse new items online, consider presenting them with a kit club membership. The monthly clubs come with all the supplies needed to craft several … Continue reading →

The Greatest Scrapbooking Challenges

Scrapbooking is a fun and creative hobby, which helps to create a lasting legacy for our future generations. For some it is nothing more than a creative outlet, but for many of us, it is truly a hobby in which we enjoy getting our photographs scrapped and into our albums and showing them off to our family and friends. Yet still, no matter how much we love our hobby, there are challenges that many of us face. Here are the three greatest scrapbooking challenges. Time It has been said before, time management has become such a problem for many that … Continue reading →

How Do I Find Time To Scrapbook?

School’s officially out for the summer, the children are home full-time, and unless they are in a rigorous camp program, you are bound to be entertaining at some point. Most people assume that when summer approaches, they will have more time to relax, more time to do the things they want to do, this isn’t always true. Summertime brings people outside, through camping trips and swimming, camp programs and fairs and carnivals, and the list goes on and on. Summertime is statistically the time when the most people enjoy being outdoors. As we all know, scrapbooking is not really an … 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 →

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 →

Tips To Make Scrapbooking a Priority

It feels selfish to make scrapbooking a priority, doesn’t it? It sounds like a demand more than it could ever be a special request. But if you don’t make your scrapbooking a priority, how do you ever plan to get anything done? There are a few simple ways to make scrapbooking one of the top things on your list of “to do” items, even when you think you do not have the time to do it. Here are a few tips or pieces of advice, to help you obtain your goals of scrapbooking more. Plan Use a Planner/Calendar. There are … Continue reading →

Basic Time Management Strategies For Scrapbooking

We always here about time management and how it can make our lives easier, but how does that apply for our favorite hobby? It is easy really, but it does take a big commitment on your part to discipline yourself. Set Aside Time This seems like such a simple request, but often in our busy everyday lives, it is difficult to find the time to scrapbook. However, if you want to complete your layouts and fill your albums with beautiful pages, then it is an essential strategy for time management. Find time when you don’t really think you have it. … Continue reading →

Scrapbooking on a Camping Trip

As avid outdoors man, or woman I guess, it is no wonder that I enjoy camping so much, as do my children. However, sometimes when we go on a camping trip, we find ourselves with some down time that we don’t know what to do with. I miss my scrapbook space, where I often retreat when inspiration kicks in. So several years ago, we began scrapbooking on our camping trips. In fact, we have an upcoming camping trip that we are preparing for, and I am trying to decide what to bring and spending some time assembling some kits to … 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 →