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Scrapbooking Your Summer Adventures

What’s been the highlight of your summer so far? For my daughter, it’s been boogie boarding; for my friend’s son, it’s been attending band camp; and for my neighbor, the highlight has been her annual trip to Mexico. All three events are scrapbook worthy, as is just about any adventure you may experience this summer. The trick to crafting an eye-popping series of layouts that showcase your summer memories to the fullest is to plan ahead. For starters, you’ll want to snap a ton of photos of your seasonal escapades. Next, you’ll want to collect as many mementos as possible … Continue reading →

Summer Concert Scrapbooks

Country music may reign supreme deep in the heart of Texas, but here in Northern Wisconsin people are quite fond of boot scootin’ too. In fact, the Dairy State is home to one of the premier country music and camping festivals in the nation, Country USA. My country music-loving neighbor just returned from the multi-day concert which featured the likes of Sugarland, Keith Urban and The Band Perry. She ended up renting a VIP RV with a bunch of friends rather than camp in a tent. Judging by all of the photos she shared with me, she and her pals … Continue reading →

Make Your Layouts Sing

With the advent of iPads, smartphones and digital notebooks, it’s no surprise that these days technology has advanced to the point where you can make your scrapbooks sing. I recently helped a friend craft a music-themed memory album for her tweenage son upon his return from band camp. We considered adding sound to the layouts, but decided against it at the last minute. Since my pal’s son didn’t bring back audio clips from the camp, we didn’t think sticking in a random recording would be appropriate. Of course, you could easily jazz up a music-themed layout by adding a Scrapbook … Continue reading →

The Sight of Music

Despite taking five years of piano and three years of flute lessons as a child, I can’t play myself out of a paper bag. Well, that’s not entirely true. I can still play “Turkey in the Straw” and “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” on the piano from memory without messing up… too much. And I can blow out a decent rendition of the theme song from “Dallas” on the flute like an aging rock star. Do rock stars play the flute? In any event, memories of my days as a lackluster music student came flooding back recently when I was … 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 →

Class Act

We just wrapped up third quarter parent-teacher conferences. It’s so hard to believe that my baby is only three months shy of finishing first grade. It makes me want to cry; namely because while she is three-quarters of the way through first grade, I am only one-quarter done constructing her first grade scrapbook. I’m not big on cramming every single event into a single scrapbook. That goes double when i am scrapping school events. I like layouts to be in chronological order, preferably one theme per page. My daughter’s kindergarten scrapbook started out with a page dedicated to each month, … Continue reading →