Scrapbooking has joined the digital age. We can now make confirm scrapbooking pages on our computers. Even those of us who prefer traditional scrapbooking tend to use the computer for our journaling to print clean, neat captions and narratives on our layouts. Handwriting on pages may not be as pretty as a computer font, but it is so much more personal and meaningful to our families.
Does your mother scrapbook? Many women first start this hobby when they have children. Not only do all those baby photos start to accumulate, but your child changes so quickly in those first months and years, you need a way to preserve your memories of this special time. Mothers aren’t the only ones who scrapbook, so do grandmothers. They may take photos of their grandchildren, or they may want to spend time on a new hobby like scrapbooking. Most scrapbookers have a wish list of scrapbook supplies and tools they’d love to add to their collection. Scrapbooking products make welcome Mother’s Day gifts.
Scrapbookers have their own holiday. National Scrapbooking Day is the first Saturday in May.
As the hobby has grown so has the popularity of this celebration of all things scrapbooking. Don’t let the day go by without making it special.
How can you celebrate?
Here a just a few ideas to make this year’s National Scrapbooking Day memorable. Read the rest…
Sometimes we are so busy scrapbooking our children and family that we forget to include ourselves in our pages. Are you lacking in photos and pages of yourself? With a little planning, you can capture more of yourself in your scrapbooks. While it’s important to document our memories, we want our future generations also to know as much as possible about the person who took the time to create our scrapbook albums.
Plan to take more photographs of yourself. You don’t have to have individual photos, but include yourself more in the group photos of activities and holidays. Teach another family member to operate your camera and pass it to them at least a few times at every photo opportunity.
You may have heard that making scrapbooking borders adds interest to your scrapbook page layouts.
You may want borders around your photos, the page itself, your journaling, and so on. How can you go about making scrapbooking borders that fit your theme and tone of the page, but that won’t clash with other elements, and that won’t make your page look too busy?
These are important questions because you can easily overdo it when you add borders to any page and ruin an otherwise great scrapbook page.
If you’ve recently been to Disneyland or just love Mickey, you may be searching for some great Mickey Mouse and Disney scrapbooking ideas. How do you add these elements to your page for a child or a family vacation without having them look as if you just slapped some stickers on a page? What are some ways to make these scrapbooking pages unique and original to you?
Any serious scrapper is probably familiar with Frances Meyer scrapbooking supplies.
From stickers to paper and embellishments, and everything else you need to create wonderful and memorable scrapbooks, you’re sure to find it in the Frances Meyer scrapbooking supplies line of products.
They’re fun, creative, and best of all they coordinate so you can make some really professional and beautiful scrapbook page layouts.
One of the reasons that Adobe is such a great company for modern-day computer users is that they offer a wide range of products.
These products help you to not only create documents, but to really enhance them when you’re working with photos and other graphics.
So, using Adobe for digital scrapbooking can be a fun and enjoyable way to create stunning graphics and pages for your own albums.
When it comes to scrapbooking, you’ll find that you’ll become bored with beginning practices quickly. It won’t take long before you’ll start experiencing with advanced techniques to enhance your scrapbooking projects. The best way to gain experience with different scrapbooking techniques is to simply implement them into your projects. The more you use them, the easier they’ll become. Here are some advanced scrapbooking techniques to get you started. Read the rest…
Scrapbooking is one of the fastest growing hobbies today. It is a fun activity, allows people to use their creativity in witty and imaginative ways, and allows you to create a beautiful product that will endure for many generations to come. Because of this, many people are learning how to scrapbook. Read the rest…
