Scrapbook Tags and Trimmings
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To make your scrapbook still more attractive and special you can make use of tags. These can be made from different material like fabric, pieces of furnishings, or anything that catches your fancy.
If you are not too creative, you can pick them up from shops.
Tags are very useful for highlighting some special incidents from ones life and can be in any shape, color or texture. Tags allow you to be as creative as you can get.
You can use any kind of trimmings to personalize your scrapbook. It could be the centre piece of a page, could be used as the border or just to emphasize on something interesting or some special moments captured.
You can use your own creativity and imagination to make these trimmings. They could simple ribbons to exquisite pieces of decorative items, which can be made by using odd things or small little nothings picked up at garage sales.
Trimmings can also be left over’s from other projects, you just have to use anything that catches your eye and fits into the theme. Again there is no hard and fast rule of what you can use and what you can’t. It’s entirely your wish on how you want the end result to look.
Accessories
While you are looking at the accessories make sure to pick up a marker to write in the scrapbook and to highlight letterings, and borders.
There are a variety of markers available in the market make sure to pick up the ones that will not smudge on the scrapbook pages. These are available in reputed stationary shops and are available in a variety of colors. They are acid free and do not fade over a period of time.
Making a scrapbook will not be possible without the wax pencil. These are specially made to enable you write on glass, photographs and plastic. You can also use this for coloring, making borders or for highlighting something on the pages. The ink used in these pencils is acid free and comes in many colors.
While making scrapbooks for children stickers can be used extensively. Stickers specially ones involving favorite cartoon figures immediately endear the book to the child and add a personal touch. They can be used to hide mistakes add a little humor and can be used as trimmings. Before using stickers, you must take care to see that the stickers are lignin free and acid free and the glue is not dried.
One more exciting trimming that can be used is a rubber stamp which when dipped in acid free ink can be used to make various trimmings. You can make charming designs on scrapbooks for children in attractive colors. Souvenir can be decorated with different rubber stamps
If the scrapbook is not a formal one you could casually tear up paper and stick it in different shapes and give your page a very informal trimming effect. These could also be used as borders and backgrounds. Great care should be taken to see that this is not used with any other theme other then casual ones. Fraying paper and using it as a border looks very nice in children’s scrapbook.
They also go well with scrapbooks being made for someone who has a great aesthetic sense. Fraying cannot be used with all themes. One must learn the art of fraying before trying to practice it.
This is an excerpt from my eBook “Intro to Scrapbooking”, I hope you enjoyed reading it! You may receive the first two chapters of this digital book at Cascade Scrapbooking.com
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Mike Snyder, owner of Cascade Scrapbooking
Three Tips for Creating a Beautiful Wedding Scrapbooking Layout
The present article has been read by many of our visitors and greatly appreciated. Hopefully you will enjoy it likewise.
With the popularity of scrapbooking today, many brides are decision making to create their own wedding scrapbooking layout. With the huge smorgasbord of papers, stickers and other tools for adorning the wedding scrapbooking layout, you will not be disappointed in your results. And in addition to that, there are even scrapbooking kits specifically made for weddings that will allow you to contrive your wedding scrapbook with minimum coordination and shopping for supplies.
At any rate, even if you prefer to include a professional photographer create an album in their cost, you will in all likelihood want to have a wedding scrapbooking layout of the photographs that your family and friends take of your special day.
Once you take action and create the scrapbook layout, the rest will be fun and easy. Remember the quote, “Action is the antidote to despair. ~Joan Baez
Considerations When Assembling Your Wedding Scrapbooking Layout
The special thing about a wedding album is that you do not need to confine yourself to the photos, patterned papers and stickers that adorn most scrapbooks, although the supplies to choose from are plentiful as well as beautiful. Just imagine how you can include unparalleled mementos to the ceremony and the reception, such as a copy of the toast, a few petals from the grooms boutonnière, or a piece of sheet music from your special song.
Before this, keep in mind that if you select items to let in in your wedding scrapbooking layout that are not photo-safe, that you protect your precious pictures by matting them on acid-free papers. Of course do not let anything that is not of archival quality touch your photos, since this can handicap them by scratching or causing discoloration.
What you Should Admit in Your Wedding Album
As a matter of course there is a good chance that you will have so many wedding pictures to select from, it will be hard to determine what should go into your wedding scrapbooking layout. It will be a bit easier to make your selections if you focus on ensuring that you include scenes from all of the significant events of the day. Exchanging vows, lighting the unity candle, and that first kiss as married man and wife are all significant moments that you will want to remember.
During the reception, you will have many special parts to include, such as the toast, the first dance, and the cake cutting. Try to add a few playful pictures of the bride and groom as well as the family and wedding party. The garter and bouquet are excellent examples of these more wild situations. In summary, If you take the time to run through each special moment, it will be easier to choose your photos, and will make a more efficient scrapbooking story for your special day.
You will experience many adversities during the wedding planning process and scrapbooking design should not be one of them! Plan this well in advance and you will not experience adversary. “Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.” ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
I hope this article provided you with the knowledge and understanding you were looking for. I highly recommend checking out my New scrapbooking book and audio course titled “Intro to Scrapbooking: Ideas for Getting Started on your First Project”, You will love it, I completely guarantee it or I will give you a full money back refund with no questions asked! These have been selling like hotcakes and I have not had any refunds, only glowing reviews!
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Thanks for reading and have a wonderful day!
Mike Snyder
Owner, Cascade Digital Scrapbooking tutorials , Portland, Oregon
How To make a Scrapbook
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Hello friends,
Today I received a question from one of my scrapbook newsletter subscribers. Kathy is a newbie and wants to know “How Do I Start Scrapbooking?”
Thanks for your question Kathy!
The most basic thing that you will need before you commence with assembling your scrapbook will be the album; there is any number of these available in the market today. I recommend selecting a beautiful one that will be most appropriate for your theme.
Other than this you will need a good pair of scissors, glue, pictures, photographs, clippings from the newspaper, and any assorted decorative bits and pieces which will enhance the beauty of the scrapbook. There are many other things which are indispensable to a scrapbook maker.
An exact knife is a must have for anyone making a scrapbook, since everything can be cut into any shape. It is devised in such a way that when the tip gets blunt, it is broken off and a new sharp tip is exposed.
Care has to be taken while using this knife, you should always cut the desired picture after placing it on a mat or newspaper, or else you will end up cutting things which you had no intentions to cut!!!
There are a variety of glues such as glue dots, Xyron and two-sided tapes available in the market, do a proper survey and pick up what suits you most. Tweezers though unconventional are very practical to pick up tiny gummy bits and move them around without creating a mess.
It is worth taking the trouble to look for albums which have acid free, lignin free pages; they enhance the life of the scrapbook. They prevent the paper from turning yellow and disintegrating.
Getting started with Scrapbooking
At the onset you must have the theme for the scrapbook you want to make. You can make it as simple or as complicated as you want to. Scrapbooks can be given as gifts for baby-showers, wedding anniversaries, weddings or birthdays. They could be made to immortalize special moments from the lives of your favorite actor, sportsperson, grandparent or child.
Small details that are special to these people can be a part of this book, which will eventually be symbolic to them. These little details can be decorated with trimmings, dried flowers, by fingerprints or
anything, which is special to the theme.
Once you have settled on your theme you have to think of what you are going to name the scrap book and then name the individual pages .It should have an identity of its own so that the viewer knows what he is going to view. This name could be the person’s name, date or some special event. It could be slogan like, dressy or simple quotes, the choice is entirely yours.
A lot of attention will have to be paid to the color scheme of the scrap book. You can work on a single color scheme if the book is a personalized gift idea and you are sure of the color preference.
It could be a mix n match concept provided you are confident of the outcome. You have to pay a lot of attention to the color scheme as this could highlight the beauty of the scrapbook or make it look
gaudy and distracting. You could visit your neighborhood paint and hard ware shop and refer to the color wheel.
This article is continued in my “Getting Started with Scrapbooking” digital book and audio home study course.
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Happy Scrapin’
Mike Snyder
Hello scrapbooking friends,
There are three excellent scrapbook magazines that I highly recommend. I subscribe to them all and read every page!
The second magazine I enjoy is Simple Scrapbooks magazine:
The third, but not least, is Digital Scrapbooking Magazine:
Enjoy! I know you will love these scrapbooking magazines as much as I do.
Happy Scrapin’
Mike Snyder
Baby scrapbooking layout
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Creating Special Memories that Last: How you can create an amazing Baby Scrapbooking Layout
Greetings fellow scrapbooking enthusiast! Allow me to guide through the aspects of this exciting baby scrapbooking technique.
As you already know, there is just one thing that is nearly universal about proud new parents, it is the number of pictures they love to take of their new little child, their angelic little bundle of joy. But then what do they do? As the little infant quickly grows into a busy toddler, those photographs seem to grow in number with no real organization or means of display until the parents get around to it and finally put their treasured picture collection into a baby scrapbooking layout.
I have found that I will teach many of my clients these techniques but they won’t put them into action. As Ernest Hemingway says, Never mistake motion for action.
Fortunately, retailers of scrapbooking supplies have recognized the colossal need for keeping those darling photographs safe, and now they make available an impressive and nearly endless supply of patterned paper stock, beautiful sticker art, and cool dye cuts to memorialize just about every special moment in a baby’s life! A baby is born with a need to be loved, and never outgrows it.
A question I often receive is “What Should I be Including in my baby scrapbooking layout?
Well first of all, the down side is that you can be faced with an overwhelming number of choices for craft supplies used to make a special album to hold all your treasured pictures; it is easy to get frustrated with the large variety of choices.
My favorite way to overcome this overload of selection is to determine what photos you would like to work with before heading to the craft store. Many experts in the field of scrapbooking will suggest a baby scrapbooking layout by working with your most recent photos first. They will start with the recent and then work back to earlier times.
Other helpful people might advise you to choose one of your favorite moments, perhaps one such as a birthday or religious holiday. This special moment is perfect to create your beginning baby scrapbooking layout. Whichever system or plan you decide to work with, having an idea in mind of the theme you will be creating will help you enormously when you start to pick your supplies and materials to create your original baby scrapbooking layout.
Working with a plan is the most important thing to do. If you don’t start with a plan, you plan to fail. I want you to succeed and get your first baby scrapbook completed. This will be a great gift to your child and love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Something else to consider as a newbie in scrapbooking, is that you do not have to be fixed with narrow choices by stickers, papers, and photos as you are building the baby scrapbooking layout. I highly recommend using unique things such as the footprints and handprints from the hospital, copy of the birth certificate, and a lock of hair from the first haircut to make your album special and unique to your child.
As far as this hobby is concerned, remember that many of these keepsakes will not be acid-free and photo-safe, so when you place them onto the baby scrapbooking layout please do not allow them to touch your pictures. As I have mentioned, if your photos comes into contact with anything in your scrapbook that is not of high archival quality, it has a good chance of causing damage to the photos by scratching them or causing them to loose their shine and luster.
In other words, a new baby is a miraculous addition to your family that should be celebrated in a heart warming way. Creating a beautiful album full of pictures and keepsakes will be a treasured family heirloom for many generations to come.
I hope you have been able to gain something from this article, thanks for reading! You may read more articles on the various aspects of digital scrapbooking at www.CascadeScrapbooking.com