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Showing posts with label Learn Scrapbooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Learn Scrapbooking. Show all posts
Aug 25, 2008
The Easiest Cheapest Way to Scrapbooking By Hand or Digitally...
Yes that's right folks, there is a way you can scrapbook easily, more cheaply and quickly!
Scrapbooking has been around for many years now and is one of the most fun-filled hobbies you can play at. Whether you're planning a quick digi-album or making a card or an elaborate hand made album for a loved one, we've got just what you need at your fingertips to help you create simply stunning scrapbooks in a flash guaranteed! Isn’t it about time that you gain back your precious time and start srapbooking like the pro's do with little or no effort.
You can SUPER-CHARGE your scrapbooking savvy with an abundance of easy to use scrapbook pages and templates that are of professional quality for all ages and ability levels, items that will also spark your creativity. Plus grab heaps of clipart graphics and embellishments to customize your scrapbook pages - INSTANTLY!
Can You image having all this at your fingertips with a touch of a button.
So is there an easy, yet sure-fire way to start implementing SCRAPBOOK MAKING (or digital scrapbooking) into your world today!
... Yes you bet and it's hassle free!
The 'Click or Print Scrapbooking Graphics DVD' Is What You REALLY Need, PERIOD!
It'll be launched very soon, so don't forget to check back here over the coming week and/or sign up to our newsletter in the above right hand corner of this page to be one of the first to hear when it is officially launched.
Scrapbooking has been around for many years now and is one of the most fun-filled hobbies you can play at. Whether you're planning a quick digi-album or making a card or an elaborate hand made album for a loved one, we've got just what you need at your fingertips to help you create simply stunning scrapbooks in a flash guaranteed! Isn’t it about time that you gain back your precious time and start srapbooking like the pro's do with little or no effort.
You can SUPER-CHARGE your scrapbooking savvy with an abundance of easy to use scrapbook pages and templates that are of professional quality for all ages and ability levels, items that will also spark your creativity. Plus grab heaps of clipart graphics and embellishments to customize your scrapbook pages - INSTANTLY!
Can You image having all this at your fingertips with a touch of a button.
So is there an easy, yet sure-fire way to start implementing SCRAPBOOK MAKING (or digital scrapbooking) into your world today!
... Yes you bet and it's hassle free!
The 'Click or Print Scrapbooking Graphics DVD' Is What You REALLY Need, PERIOD!
It'll be launched very soon, so don't forget to check back here over the coming week and/or sign up to our newsletter in the above right hand corner of this page to be one of the first to hear when it is officially launched.
Apr 28, 2008
Getting Started Scrapbooking with Basic Supplies
Scrapbooking is one of the most popular hobbies in the country. Scrapbooking gives you a way to preserve not just your pictures, but the memories that go along with them. But with thousands of scrapbooking supplies out there, it can be very overwhelming to someone who is just getting started. While all the new scrapbooking supplies out there are fun, there are just a few basic supplies you need to get started.
Paper
The most basic scrapbooking supply you need is paper. Most people like to include a mix of cardstock (thicker, plain colored paper) and patterned paper in their scrapbooks. Scrapbook papers come in the same sizes as albums (with 12x12 the most popular) and are acid-free. Before using a paper in your scrapbook, make sure that it is acid-free; this will keep your photos and scrapbooks safe for generations to come. All of the open-stock scrapbook paper sold at major craft store chains is acid-free. Choose colors that you like and that go well with your pictures. There are also a multitude of themed paper for occasions (holidays, vacations, etc.).
Adhesives & Pens
Next to paper, the scrapbooking supply that you will use most often is adhesive. This is what you will use to glue down all of your paper and pictures in your scrapbook. Adhesive should also be acid-free, and comes in a wide variety of styles. I prefer a roller-type adhesive that comes in a refillable dispenser. Adhesive squares are also popular as are glue sticks. You will also want a pen to journal in your scrapbook with. A plain thin-tip black pen will go the farthest (of course, make sure that it is acid-free and designed for scrapbooking), but you can also buy a wide variety of tips and colors to add doodling, titles, and flair to your pages.
Albums
Finally, you need an album to put your scrapbook pages in. Choose an album that opens flat and that comes with refill pages, as few scrapbookers can complete an entire album in the 10-15 pages that come in a standard album. The easiest type of album to use is a post-bound album, which makes it easy to add extra pages and generally opens flat even when it is full.
Embellishments
Beyond the basic scrapbooking supplies are embellishments. These are the little extras that you can add to your scrapbook pages. Stickers are a very basic scrapbook embellishment supply that can add a lot to your pages. They come in every theme imaginable; there are also hundreds of letter stickers to create your titles. As you add more advanced scrapbook supplies to your pages, you can also incorporate brads, buttons ribbons, rub-ons, stamping, and more.
Paper
The most basic scrapbooking supply you need is paper. Most people like to include a mix of cardstock (thicker, plain colored paper) and patterned paper in their scrapbooks. Scrapbook papers come in the same sizes as albums (with 12x12 the most popular) and are acid-free. Before using a paper in your scrapbook, make sure that it is acid-free; this will keep your photos and scrapbooks safe for generations to come. All of the open-stock scrapbook paper sold at major craft store chains is acid-free. Choose colors that you like and that go well with your pictures. There are also a multitude of themed paper for occasions (holidays, vacations, etc.).
Adhesives & Pens
Next to paper, the scrapbooking supply that you will use most often is adhesive. This is what you will use to glue down all of your paper and pictures in your scrapbook. Adhesive should also be acid-free, and comes in a wide variety of styles. I prefer a roller-type adhesive that comes in a refillable dispenser. Adhesive squares are also popular as are glue sticks. You will also want a pen to journal in your scrapbook with. A plain thin-tip black pen will go the farthest (of course, make sure that it is acid-free and designed for scrapbooking), but you can also buy a wide variety of tips and colors to add doodling, titles, and flair to your pages.
Albums
Finally, you need an album to put your scrapbook pages in. Choose an album that opens flat and that comes with refill pages, as few scrapbookers can complete an entire album in the 10-15 pages that come in a standard album. The easiest type of album to use is a post-bound album, which makes it easy to add extra pages and generally opens flat even when it is full.
Embellishments
Beyond the basic scrapbooking supplies are embellishments. These are the little extras that you can add to your scrapbook pages. Stickers are a very basic scrapbook embellishment supply that can add a lot to your pages. They come in every theme imaginable; there are also hundreds of letter stickers to create your titles. As you add more advanced scrapbook supplies to your pages, you can also incorporate brads, buttons ribbons, rub-ons, stamping, and more.
Nov 20, 2007
Make Scrapbooking Part of Your Life
Making scrapbooking part of your life will help you to create some of the best things for you to remember your loved ones by. Luckily for you, you will find a wide range of helpful tips to get you through the first hard project and well on your way to making some very unique and perfectly designed scrapbooks. All you need to do, of course, is to come up with a few ideas to get you started. Then, you can work through the project, meeting all of your goals and creating for yourself or your loved one a book that they will cherish forever.
Nov 4, 2007
How To Get Started With Scrapbooking
Whenever a big event happens in our lives, we grab a camera and take lots of pictures to put in our photo album. But there is a growing hobby that is being adopted by many more people every single day, and that hobby is scrapbooking. This hobby is doing away with the process of filing photographs away in an album, and taking them to a whole new level by adding extra elements to them to ensure that the memories are kept in much sharper focus.
The great thing about scrapbooking is that it enables you to create themed books that relate to different occasions. You could do a book dedicated to a friend’s wedding and give it to the bride and groom as a wedding gift. Another idea is to make one for your parents, showing them a range of photos from when you and your siblings were growing up. This would also make an ideal gift for Christmas or a birthday.
The possibilities with scrapbooking are endless – in essence they are limited only by your imagination.
Using Different Materials To Create Different Effects
Sometimes it’s good to create a certain mood when you are displaying your photos in a scrapbook. For example, photos that are taken at a certain time of year can be embellished as such. Seasonal pictures of your family opening their presents at Christmas can be surrounded by cut outs of trees, gifts and holly and ivy. You can also use stencilled lettering to add messages or notes to the pictures, as well as noting the date on which they were taken.
Scrapbooking allows you to add far more detail to your pictures than a standard photo album allows. You would often be restricted to writing the date on the back of the print, but with a scrapbook you don’t have to do this. You can also include notes on who is in the picture and what was happening. Embellishments will add to the overall theme of the photos and can transform a simple set of pictures into something really special.
Stocking Up On Craft Items
As you begin to delve deeper into the art of scrapbooking, you will start to build a collection of papers, rubber stamps, lettering, stickers, stencils and much more that you can use when adding a page to an existing scrapbook, or creating a completely new one. If you are new to the hobby of scrapbooking it can be worthwhile to buy a few ready-made kits, which usually include a variety of materials that adhere to a specific theme.
You can personalise your scrapbooks even more by including items other than photos in them. For example, if you want to create a scrapbook devoted to your summer holiday, be sure to keep anything related to it, such as brochures, tickets, and any other paperwork that could be used when you eventually make the scrapbook itself. If you go skiing you could keep the cable car ticket to tuck halfway underneath a picture of you on the cable car itself. This all adds further depth to your scrapbook and makes it more of a memory book than if you included nothing but the actual photos.
In short, scrapbooking makes more of our photos than an album would. The fact that we can add as much or as little to them as we wish makes them extremely versatile, and a great gift for someone else – either as a starter kit or completed by you as a memory of a specific occasion.
Finally, keep everything you can lay your hands on that you think might be good for a future page in your scrapbook. You never know when that bus ticket, cinema ticket or receipt for that romantic meal might find a place in your scrapbook.
The great thing about scrapbooking is that it enables you to create themed books that relate to different occasions. You could do a book dedicated to a friend’s wedding and give it to the bride and groom as a wedding gift. Another idea is to make one for your parents, showing them a range of photos from when you and your siblings were growing up. This would also make an ideal gift for Christmas or a birthday.
The possibilities with scrapbooking are endless – in essence they are limited only by your imagination.
Using Different Materials To Create Different Effects
Sometimes it’s good to create a certain mood when you are displaying your photos in a scrapbook. For example, photos that are taken at a certain time of year can be embellished as such. Seasonal pictures of your family opening their presents at Christmas can be surrounded by cut outs of trees, gifts and holly and ivy. You can also use stencilled lettering to add messages or notes to the pictures, as well as noting the date on which they were taken.
Scrapbooking allows you to add far more detail to your pictures than a standard photo album allows. You would often be restricted to writing the date on the back of the print, but with a scrapbook you don’t have to do this. You can also include notes on who is in the picture and what was happening. Embellishments will add to the overall theme of the photos and can transform a simple set of pictures into something really special.
Stocking Up On Craft Items
As you begin to delve deeper into the art of scrapbooking, you will start to build a collection of papers, rubber stamps, lettering, stickers, stencils and much more that you can use when adding a page to an existing scrapbook, or creating a completely new one. If you are new to the hobby of scrapbooking it can be worthwhile to buy a few ready-made kits, which usually include a variety of materials that adhere to a specific theme.
You can personalise your scrapbooks even more by including items other than photos in them. For example, if you want to create a scrapbook devoted to your summer holiday, be sure to keep anything related to it, such as brochures, tickets, and any other paperwork that could be used when you eventually make the scrapbook itself. If you go skiing you could keep the cable car ticket to tuck halfway underneath a picture of you on the cable car itself. This all adds further depth to your scrapbook and makes it more of a memory book than if you included nothing but the actual photos.
In short, scrapbooking makes more of our photos than an album would. The fact that we can add as much or as little to them as we wish makes them extremely versatile, and a great gift for someone else – either as a starter kit or completed by you as a memory of a specific occasion.
Finally, keep everything you can lay your hands on that you think might be good for a future page in your scrapbook. You never know when that bus ticket, cinema ticket or receipt for that romantic meal might find a place in your scrapbook.
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