Simple Scrapbooking Layouts, Elegant Scrapbook Ideas, Tools and Supplies
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I like this scrapbooking paper which is the Animal Stackers Collection: Building Blocks from Three Bugs in a Rug and available at Scrapbook.com. Click on the image for the full product details.
Aside from the fact it is my favorite color, I immediately saw this paper could be used as card focals for children’s cards, gift tags and bookmarks, as well as the obvious use on a scrapbooking layout.
We have more ideas to use this paper plus a card idea inspired by it.
Add a little sparkle to your celebration layouts with this wonderful Sparkle Collection Mini from Scrap Girls.
In patriotic red, white and blue, it will look great for your 4th of July celebrations.
But don’t stop there … not only will it be great for your Independence Day scrapbooking layouts, but with phrases like ‘you sparkle‘ and ‘celebrate‘, it will cover other layout ideas and celebrations, too. Why not try a family reunion, a birthday party, a special friend layout, and even Christmas layouts!
A very versatile paper collection with sparkly swirls, flowers and ‘magic’ dust. Check out the Sparkle Collection Mini for yourself today. And with Scrap Girls digital supplies you always get great value. Remember, you’ll never run out of these supplies, and you can adjust or completely change the colors to match your photos. All that combined with one of our sketches, and you’re well on your way to another great layout.
How do you store your scrapbooking paper?
Having had many a curled scrapbook page with a bent edge, I decided to find out what I could do about it.
I’ve tried storing papers flat and on edge, with mixed results. Whatever way seems to work for a while so long as I’m extra, extra careful. But then I get in a hurry and or someone else looks through my papers and they end up all over the place.
Matching patterned papers whether you have been scrapbooking for years or are completely new to it can be a real headache. But don’t let that put you off. There are two ways to cope with the problem …
1. Go down the route of buying scrapbooking kits, or
2. Watch this video …
Scrapbook papers are so versatile you can even use them to make last minute Christmas gifts.
This is a Sarabinder CD holder from Hot Off The Press decorated on this occasion with paper from Colorbok. It looks like a lot of work has gone into this but the paper comes as you see it (but don’t tell that to my brother who’s getting it for Christmas!)
Scrapbooking papers
Whether it’s [tag]scrapbooking paper[/tag], writing paper or notebooks doesn’t matter … I love paper. I always have. I love to run my fingers over it and feel the weight, the quality, the texture of it. I love to work with it. I love the colors, patterns, styles. So learning to scrapbook came naturally, as it were.
You can?t build a scrapbook without paper and card. And perhaps we should add a caution before going any farther: Collecting card and patterned paper is highly addictive! Well actually collecting paper of any sort is highly addictive. Don’t say you were not warned! …
Introduction
We want our [tag]scrapbooks[/tag] to last forever. However, none of us is going to live forever no matter how much we may want it; and neither will they. While it’s great to imagine our great-great-great-great-great grandchildren looking through our scrapbook and thinking how wonderful things were in our day, how handsome great-great-great-great-great Uncle Dave was, and what exciting, pioneering lives we lived (!) let’s not kid ourselves it will happen!
If you doubt my theory, just think how tastes vary and how often we throw out something we didn’t think we liked only to wish a few short years later that we hadn’t thrown it out! Unless we lock our scrapbooks in a vault somewhere – dry and airtight, of course! – and throw away the key, our descendants are unlikely to have one of them in a hundred years time, never mind ALL the scrapbooks we make!
Styles change; things get lost. We’re a fickle people. That’s life. All that said it’s … [click to continue…]