Simple Scrapbooking Layouts, Elegant Scrapbook Ideas, Tools and Supplies
From the category archives:
What have scrapbooking and kids chores got in common? Nothing you might think.
How can your love of scrapbooking help the kids with their chores? No way, you say! Unless you mean forcing them to tidy up with me after I’ve been scrapbooking!
Can you really get kids to love doing chores? Nope!
Well, this great chores chart from Amanda McGee at Scrap Girls could help change your mind … and theirs!
I came across this video tutorial showing how to use your scrapbook papers to make flowers with a scallop punch. It’s from Mary Beerman, a Stampin’ Up Demonstrator.
You can use the flowers to make a stair card as Mary did in the photo on the left, or you can use them to decorate your scrapbook page.
Some call it a purse, others a handbag. Whatever it is, you want to be ready to take great photos with it, huh?
Here are fun photo tips for people on the go, or for those who don’t have enough hands to carry all the camera gear and the baby!
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What’s in your Handbag?
Do you have a little space in your purse for some of these? You’ll not regret it when you see those fun photos you might otherwise have missed.
When we’re planning a special occasion there’s a lot to take into account. Much advance preparation is required to make a success. It’s the same when we’re photographing a special event.
From Harvest or Thanksgiving to Christmas or New Year celebrations, birthdays, weddings, graduations and baptisms, there are many special times in a year. We want a camera on hand to record them, yet so often the shots we catch are haphazard.
With the cost of basic foods and energy and gas prices rising so quickly we have all had to tighten our belts. Like me you may be wondering how to make your money go farther. That goes for our scrapbooking money too – if there’s anything left at the end of the month to use for hobbies at the moment, that is!
How often do we think to decorate the envelope, too? I mean, we may have spent hours making the card and it looks great. Then we tip it into a plain, dowdy old envelope. Where’s the fun in that?
Make the most of your scrapbooking supplies and try these ideas to liven up the envelopes you send your greetings cards in:
Using a multi photo layout sketch can have you scratching your head wondering how to fill all the photo spaces. We have 13 tips here for you.
1. The layout is for 20 photos, but I only have 10 (or whatever number you have) I want to use, what can I do?
At your wits end and needing some great birthday party tips?
Scrapping your children’s birthday parties can’t happen without the party! (That’s ’scrapping’ as in making a scrapbook page, not ‘ditching’ the party altogether, lol.)
Seriously though, what goes through your head when you hear the words ‘birthday party’?
Love ‘em or dread ‘em, they’re a fact of life with children in the family, especially younger ones. We have some great tips to get you through it without hitting the tranquilizers! And maybe even enjoying it in the process.
First off is a video then some tips from other moms, and after the party comes the scrapbooking so we have a couple of birthday layout ideas, too.
“How do you make a scrapbook sketch?” Lee asked recently. “Normally I would draw it by hand and then scan it into the computer, but I’d like to get a more ‘professional’ result. Can you help?”
To make the sketches here on ScrapbookingGems, we initially used Microsoft Publisher, and then Macromedia Fireworks simply because we had it and could do more with it.
Photographing children’s birthday parties can be a challenge, especially when you have a list of things to do and a dozen children to keep amused at the same time.
“For kids’ birthday parties, most of the energy goes toward making sure the birthday star is having a good time, and the guests aren’t killing each other, not in taking terrific photos,” say the folks at Best Family Photography Tips
And being scrapbookers, the annual birthday party photographs are a must-not-be-missed event.
Read on for more tips and some great birthday layouts.
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