Sunday, May 31, 2009

Animal Kingdom Cricut Cartridge - Cute and Lovable

The animal kingdom cartridge is an example of a shape cartridge from Cricut. It is meant to be used with a Cricut cutting machine. After setting the specifications such as the size or creative feature desired, all that the user needs to do is press the button so that it can be cut from the paper fed to the cutting machine. Animals are very difficult figures and cutting through them would take ages. With the use of any of the Cricut cutting machines together with the help of this cartridge it became a simple feat.

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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Cricut Cartridge - All Mixed Up

All Mixed Up cartridge is one of the many font cartridges. Designed by Cynthea Sandoval, this specific cartridge makes use of characters that are very playful. Derived from doodlebugs, people are going to have fun with all mixed up font. This font is much like a child's but is quite readable. This cartridge has a fun font of the small case and upper case letters of the alphabet, some punctuation marks, a few symbols and a few words. The words that are spelled out as a whole are proven to be useful in most paper craft projects.

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Friday, May 29, 2009

What You Need to Know About the Cricut Personal Cutter Before You Buy

Before investing your hard earned money into a die cutting system, you need to do your research. There are various models on the market and after much consideration this is the one I have chosen and why.

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Enhancing Your Scrapbook Process With Personal Details

When making scrapbooks the main thing you will need to take care of is the album. The album is probably the most important part of any scrapbook. They have the major role of preserving and keeping your memories fresh.

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Thursday, May 28, 2009

What's the Difference Between a Scrapbook and a Photo Album?

You need special words to make a special scrapbook. Scrapbooking is an art, but sometimes you need a little inspiration too.

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Faithbooking - What's it All About?

Faithbooking is a unique form of scrapbooking. It borrows from the tools, supplies and techniques of scrapbooking. However, the focus is different. The story within the pages of the Faithbook reveals a Spiritual one. Discover who, where, why and how as you read what Faithbooking is all about.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Digital Scrapbooking Tutorials - You Can Learn To Scrapbook With Your Computer Too!

Ever wonder what digital scrapbooking is? How to do it? An abundance of tutorials on the Internet will get you there!

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The Many Uses of Scrapbook Brads

The fun part of scrapbooking is the embellishing. Learn how to use brads, one of the easiest and versatile embellishments there is.

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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Scrapbooks - The Perfect Gifts

Scrapbooks are the perfect gift. They show thought and love and aren't terrible expensive. Everyone enjoys getting a scrapbook because of the memories they hold.

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How to Design Digital Scrapbook Pages

Learn how to design digital scrapbook pages in 5 easy steps. Whether you're a beginner or a pro, this article can help you quickly and easily design digital scrapbook pages for any event.

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Monday, May 25, 2009

Organizing Your Photos

Many people dread organizing their photos because they think it is such a daunting task. It does not need to be feared. It can be done and once started most people are amazed at how quickly it all comes together. The key is to taking the first step.

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How to Get Started Scrapbooking

Do you have piles of photos stuffed into cabinets? Boxes of them? Old style "magnetic" photo albums bursting with photos, clippings and memorabilia? Have you ever looked at them and wished you could organize them into stories and share with other people your feelings about the events and people in those photos? Have you ever seen a modern day scrapbook? Wished you could express yourself creatively through telling stories about your ancestors, your children, your everyday life?

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

Creating Spectacular Scrapbooks With Memorabilia

Memorabilia comes in many forms and including it in your scrapbooks is a great way to make memories come to life. People make scrapbooks for many reasons.

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Saturday, May 23, 2009

Scrapbooking and the Use of Digital Photography

Digital photography has made scrapbooking easier than ever before. Digital cameras allow you to view your pictures immediately instead of waiting hours or days for film to be developed.

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Friday, May 22, 2009

Photo Ideas to Make Your Scrapbook a Work of Art

Photos bring your scrapbook to life. The placement and type of photos you choose will make the difference between an ordinary scrapbook and a scrapbook that truly tells a story.

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Three Rules of Thumb in Good Scrapbook Layout Design

In scrapbooking, just like in any other job pertaining to graphic design, there are several rules of thumb that can transform a layout from being dreary to being extraordinary. The main idea in any of these rules of thumb is to stop and think before jumping in with the photos, patterned papers and embellishments.

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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Organize 1000's of Photos Easily

Getting your pictures organized before you sit down to scrapbook is a must! Whether you just had a baby or your baby is now 15, now is the time to get started!

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Scrapbooking For Beginners - A Step by Step Guide to Your First Scrapbook

In my scrapbooking for beginners guide, I hope to save you all the mistakes I made when I began my first scrapbook and the mistakes which other guides have cost me. When I began my first scrapbook I spent nearly two hundred dollars on everything from how to books to layouts and magazines. Five years later I haven't used half of what I bought, despite having several scrapbooks. My mistakes were two-fold. First I had no organization, and second I had no planning. While not as fun as buying all the stickers and layouts, planning your first scrapbook album will save money and save time.

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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Ideas For Mini Scrapbooks - The Perfect Gift

Mini scrapbooks are fun and simple to make. They are also the perfect gift idea for any occasion. A thoughtful, personal gift means much more than an item grabbed off the shelf at the store. There are so many occasions and ideas for using a mini album as a gift idea.

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How Do You Make an Interesting and Attractive Photo Album?

As a modern artist I am continually intrigued by the many diverse aspects of art we can take up. I also consider that you can spend many hours of pleasure and also obtain much fulfillment from producing your own unusual, yet individual, crafts. With this in mind I decided to experiment to make an album, which in essence, was not that hard to do.

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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Sure Cuts a Lot Cricut Software

Finally a piece of Cricut Software that runs on a Mac, and doesn't require any Cricut cartridges. Unlock the full potential of your Cricut machine with the Sure Cuts A Lot software!

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Scrapbook Layouts For Digiscrapping

I guess you could say that I'm fairly new to the digital side of scrapbooking. While I've been doing traditional scrapbooking for many, many years, I have only just recently delved into the digital realm and begun creating my own unique layouts using computers to aid in my designs. I have found that while this style of scrapping doesn't have the same tactile familiarity as traditional scrapping, the final product is somewhat easier to make clean and neat.

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Monday, May 18, 2009

Craft Idea - Scrapbook a Special Event

You can make it a family event to create the scrapbook and everyone can have a piece of the creativity. You can also choose to give it to someone for a special gift or as a holiday gift.

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Home Scrapbook Business - Top Tips to Find Customers

The number one priority for your home scrapbook business has to be customers, right? You might be a great designer, you might have lots of scrapbook supplies, great ideas, etc., but without customers all you've got is a hobby!

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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Blending Your Family Through Photographs and Scrapbooking

It's difficult for adults and kids to get used to the newly blended family- new step-parents, new step-siblings, and new home - quite a lot of changes in a short time. By using photography and scrapbooking, you can creatively begin merging your family into one unit.

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Saturday, May 16, 2009

Theme Ideas For Your Scrapbook

Whether you're new to scrapbooking or an old pro, coming up with ideas for a new album is not always easy. Here we'll talk about different ideas and how organizing your photos will help determine the theme of your next scrapbook.

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Friday, May 15, 2009

Home Scrapbook Business - Can You Cut It?

If you're considering starting a home scrapbook business even a confident, outgoing kind of person (if they're honest about it) will at some point wonder whether it's right for them. Not to put too fine a point on it, is a scrapbooking business really your thing? Excuse the pun, but can you cut it?

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Ideas For Mini Scrapbooks - Collector's Scrapbook

A collector's scrapbook is the perfect place to record your collection, along with the memories that go with it. How wonderful would it be to inherit a collection from your grandparents, complete with a book of pictures, memories and the history and meaning of that collection. Start today and create a treasure for your children and grandchildren. Preserve what ever it is you collect in a collector's scrapbook. Keep reading for some great ideas for doing scrapbooking.

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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Scrapbooking - How to Make a Scapbook Session Productive

You have a scapbooking session all planned. Maybe a 'midnight crop' or half a day or even (lucky you) a whole weekend. How do you make this the most productive you possibly can?

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8 No-Fail Scrapbooking Layout Idea Starters

Are you hitting a wall on your scrapbooking layout ideas? Try one of these 8 'No-Fail' inspirations to see if one of them can help you break out of your creative doldrums, and start designing again.

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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Scrapbooking and Visual Journaling

If you are used to creating painted pages, collaging, adding rubber stamped lettering or your own personal hand lettering to your Journal pages you just might want to add Scrapbooking to your repertoire. You can add pizazz to your pages and still add photos and create your own unique style of scrapbooking.

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Have All of Your Scrapbook Page Layout Ideas Left You?

Scrapbooking is a fun and wildly popular hobby. In just the last few years, scrapbooking stores have popped up all over, with scrapbooking supplies and classes for the enthusiast. Within all of this enthusiasm for scrapbooking, however, reside indesicion and frustration, two things that all scrapbookers face at any given time. After sitting there with blank pages, big ideas, and mounds of photographs, the frustration sets in when the realization comes that you are not actively designing anything let alone something creative!

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Ideas For Doing Scrapbooking - Heritage Recipe Albums

The smell of banana bread baking in the oven bring back fond memories of Thanksgiving at Grandma Olsen's house. Sometimes, something as simple as food can evoke strong emotions and memories. Most of us associate certain foods with particular events, people or traditions. Heritage recipe scrapbooks are a great way to capture the memories we associate with our favorite family recipes.

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How Much Are Your Pictures Worth?

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much is a whole album worth? Many would say, "Priceless!" We invest so much into the type of camera we use, developing pictures, and back up hard drives to store our pictures. Yet how often do we get to enjoy them? There is something to be said about sitting on the couch next to someone fondly looking at an album. It is not the same feeling you get looking at the computer screen.

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Monday, May 11, 2009

Fun Ideas For Scrap Booking

There are many ways to save and cherish those precious memories in your life. But how can you do it? The answer is scrap booking. Learn different ideas to start scrap booking now.

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How to Find Cheap Cricut Machines and Discount Cartridges

Cricut Machines and Cartridges can get a little pricey if you don't shop around. They are a dream come true for many enthusiasts, but they represent a big investment for many. If the price is holding you back, then rest assured we can help you to find some great discounts and sales.

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Sunday, May 10, 2009

A Guide to Scrapbooking Digitally

Digital scrapbooking is one of the more popular forms of putting your pictures together in this digital age. In the past if you had a bunch of pictures you wanted to put together you only had a few options. You could stick them in a photo album, you could put them in a makeshift collage by using paste, pins, tape, etc and it could take a lot of time.

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Saturday, May 9, 2009

Make Your Own Photo Book - Book Store Quality and Cheaper Than a Photo Album

Photo books are a great way to show off your collection of digital photos in a fun and attractive way. There are a number of photo book publishing companies out there who will provide you with the tools to make your own photo book with lots of great page layouts, background designs, picture frames and fonts that you can use. Best of all, photo books are great value. Small books start as low as $10 and a standard hardcover 8.5 x 11 in book will cost around $30.

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Friday, May 8, 2009

Scrapbooking Tips For Creating Boys Layouts

Have you ever wondered how to make a boy's layout look great? Have you ever wondered how the professionals approach layouts for boys? We have compiled a list of tips from the pros.

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Use Your Cricut Machine to Make Money Scrapbooking

If you are into scrapbooking at all then no doubt you have heard about Provo Craft's Cricut cutting machines. They are amazing machines that take a lot of work out of tons of projects, they don't require a computer to use, and they are so simple and intuitive to learn even we can understand them! If you've ever used one then you probably have seen how much fun they can be, but have you ever thought about how you could make money doing what you love?

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Thursday, May 7, 2009

Take Professional Photos For Your Scrapbooking - Candid Shots

Photos are the essence of what scrapbooking is all about. If it wasn't for those old boxes of photographs hiding in the cupboard, this craft would never have grown into what it is today.

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How Will You Celebrate National Scrapbooking Day?

Have a scrapbooking party with your friends! No scrapbooking friends to invite? Teach a friend your love! Tell them to bring some pictures and you'll share your supplies! What more could you ask for than companionship and scrapbooking!?

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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Don't Forget to Back Up Your Pictures!

This is coming from someone who 6 months ago had their hard drive crash. Do not forget to back up your pictures. It is a devastating loss to realize that years of pictures are just gone.

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Scrapbook Rolling Totes Are a Must For Crops

Scrapbook Rolling Totes are critical to carry all the items you need for long crops. They come in lots of shapes, sizes and some are even specific to certain tools. If you know what is out there you will have a better chance to buy what you need the first time.

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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

6 Tips to Happy Scrapping

Scrap booking your memories is a wonderful way to bring your photos to life. Here I will give you 6 tips on getting started and having fun with all those photos you have stored in boxes.

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Bring Out Your Scrapbook Scentimentality

Flowers are one of the favorite accessories used in scrapbooking. Pressed flowers bring a different but extraordinary aura to a scrapbook. This article teaches how to have a perfect pressed flower for your scrapbooking masterpiece.

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Monday, May 4, 2009

Scrapbooking Your Holiday

When you arrive home from your wonderful holiday, what do you do with all those photos? There are so many memories contained within all those photos. How do you display the photos and record your memories?

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Card Making As a Scrapbooker

Greeting cards are a fantastic way to allow your creativity unlimited freedom. Nothing is out of bounds here. Have a look at some of the wonderful reasons why you create cards and how to go about it.

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Sunday, May 3, 2009

What Are You Doing For National Scrapbook Day?

Come on fellow Scrapbookers, there is a National day for us. On this day there will be no doing laundry, no cleaning the house or even doing yard work on this day. All we are going to do is have fun and scrapbook!

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Saturday, May 2, 2009

Make Your Own Photo Book

Do you have a lot of digital photos on your PC? Do you email them and share them on photo sharing sites but wish that you had a some way to do something more creative and interesting with them? Just because your photos are in electronic format, it doesn't mean that you are stuck to viewing them on a screen. In fact, digital photos can be printed in many more attractive and creative ways than you could have dreamed of with old fashioned film. One of the exciting things that you can now do with your photos is to make your own photo book.

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Friday, May 1, 2009

Scrapbooking Tissue Paper - More Than Just Wiping

Most of us think of using tissue paper for the purpose of managing bodily issues. However, for scrapbookers this is not always the case. Scrapbookers are known to take products, and ideas, and stretch them to the limits of their uses. And tissue paper is a great example of this.

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Four Easy Tips to Find Time For Scrapbooking

"I don't have time to scrapbook!" I hear this all the time, but I know many busy people who manage to find time to work on their photo projects. Do you keep a calendar, have a buddy or want to go digital? Here are some tips to help you make scrapbooking a part of your busy life.

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