Scrapbooking Tips - Four Secrets to Telling a Great Story

Whether creating a traditional scrapbook by hand or a digital one on the computer, recording memories is essentially storytelling using both words and pictures. Here are four steps to creating vivid, enjoyable books your family will treasure forever.

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Cricut Expression Die Cutting Machine - A Scrapbooking Tool That You Should Have

Scrapbooking is one exciting paper craft that interests any individual of all ages. If you are one of those paper crafters who are interested to draft papers in variety of ways, then you may make use of a tool such as a cricut expression machine that can assist you in creating your paper crafts.

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Beginner Scrapbooking - Five Reasons to Try Digital Storybooking

Want to get your photos out of a shoebox or beyond your screen saver without having to learn to cut, crop, and mount? Here are five reasons digital storybooking offers an alternative to traditional scrapbooking you should consider!

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Scrapbooking Die Cuts - You Can Make Your Own!

Scrapbooking die cuts can be made by you if you use a lot of them, or they can be purchased online. Do check to see if the dies are interchangeable with other machines or exclusive to one company.

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Frugal Scrapbooking Ideas

Tips on how to keep the costs down in making scrapbook albums, handmade cards and gift items. Scrapbooking is expensive enough without being able to keep the costs down, this article will help you with that plus more!

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Scrapbooking - Beating Scrapper's Block

Scraplifting -- using inspiration from other people's pages and designs -- can help you overcome many of the causes of scrapper's block, including overwhelm, distraction, perfectionism. Here are some ways to help you stop procrastinating and get scrapping.

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Baby Scrapbook Ideas For a Lifetime of Memories

Gathering tiny baby clothes and decorating the nursery are labors of love during pregnancy. Starting a baby scrapbook before the new family member arrives can be just as heart-warming and important for lifetime memories of the special time.

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How to Overcome Your Scrapper's Block

The most typical reasons for scrapper's block is actually choice paralysis. There are so numerous ideas to pick from that you simply cannot settle on the one that could be best. So, how do you cope with it?

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Ways to Save Money Using Scraps of Paper

Making scrapbooks can be expensive with all the tools and things you can buy. Using scraps will save you money - we will give you tips and ways to use your scraps...other than just for your scrapbook layouts.

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Stranger Danger?

These were all programs designed to keep our kids healthy and safe that have been undeniably and quantitatively proven failures. Most of us were raised being told not to talk to strangers by our parents, teachers, and the media.

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A Brief History on Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking is a popular method used for preserving personal history and family history in the form of printed media, photographs, memorabilia and more, contained in decorated books or albums. The idea of keeping printed materials for the future or of personal interest probably began shortly after the invention of printing.

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Tombow Glue Makes Scrapbooking Easy

A core part of scrapbooking involves a method to attach the item to the scrapbook page. Over the years, there have been a number of different ways to do this including tape, sticky paper, etc. The introduction of good quality, acid free glue was one of the best things to ever hit scrapbooking besides acid free paper. Here's a quick review of what I consider the top scrapbooking glue on the market today.

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Christmas Scrapbooking Embellishments - Felt Or Velvet

It may be too early to start thinking of Christmas now in the middle of the year, but some of us are celebrating Christmas in July. Christmas Scrapbooking Embellishments in felt or velvet give a great festive feel to your scrapbooking layouts.

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Before You Use Printable Scrapbooking Embellishments Or Digital Scrapbooking Embellishments

Before you use printable scrapbooking embellishments, why not look around your house for something more personal. Digital scrapbooking embellishments are great to use when you have nothing else, but first see if you have the following, as they add a personal touch and a three dimensional aspect to your layouts.

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Quilling - A Paper Scrapbooking Embellishment

The history of quilling dates back hundreds of years, but has recently seen a renewed popularity since people have discovered paper quilling for scrapbooking embellishments. It is a good way to embellish invitations, announcements, and decorate homemade cards.

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How to Begin Scrapbooking Although You Have Not Done it Before

When I surfing the internet, I always fascinated by how easily people make a scrapbooking page with everything they saw or have. For me, it's completely the opposite. I even don't know what to do with this pile of photo albums in my cabinet.

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Make Great Scrapbooking Titles

Your scrapbook layouts can be greatly enhanced by finding attention-getting titles. A good way to do this is to begin with a plentiful supply of scrapbooking alphabets. As many of us are not happy with our own handwriting and we're always on the lookout for alternatives, here are some that make a great start.

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Scrapbook Page Layout With 17 Chocolate Photos

A scrapbook page layout idea for 17 photos at the chocolate factory? Yes, count them! I think it's pretty effective. Working with grids lets you get loads of photographs on one layout, and this is a little more unusual. Read on for all the yummy details behind the photographs.

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Would You Benefit From the New Cricut Expressions?

The Cricut Expressions is an amazing cutting machine that will certainly make your scrapbooking routine a lot easier. But with a high price price tag, it is not for everyone. If you are considering buying one these babies, you want to make sure this is the right scrapbook cutter for you!

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What is the Best Size Scrapbook Album to Use?

There is no real right or wrong answer to this question. It is all up to the individual. The main size albums on the market are 12 x 12 inch and 8 x 8 inch. The only other choice I know of is an A4 album but I have never seen one in a used or seen one.

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Great Scrapbook Paper Giveaway

We're talking about scrapbook paper again, and looking at another idea for what to do with all those paper scraps and unloved scrapbook papers in your stash. Today's suggestion: give away the papers you don't like. There's nothing new in that, but we can be selfish about it and give them to friends whom we know will return the favor soon.

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Easy Scrapbook Layouts For Beginners

It is really not difficult to begin scrapbooking. All it takes is a little imagination, a couple of tools, some mementoes that you would like to use, and off you go. When I started scrapbooking I was always looking for easy 8 x 8 scrapbook layouts, and spent quite a bit on 8 x 8 scrapbook layouts and kits. But as the saying goes, practice makes perfect, and the more you scrapbook the more the ideas will begin to flow. You may even surprise yourself.

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Precision File Set by Basic Grey - Simplifying Personalized Raw Chipboard

Incorporating chipboard onto any scrapbook page is a great way to add dimension onto any page. What's great about chipboard is that the size and options are endless, since chipboard can be used as alphabets, shapes, frames and more.

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Scan in Your Scrapbook Pages? 7 Question to Help You Decide If This is Something For You to Consider

Are you one of those or know someone who says, "I will grab my scrapbooks first if the house is on fire!" I never understood this comment until I started working with traditional scrapbookers and teaching them how to begin digital scrapbooking. The stories they told about the time, money, and effort they put into their projects amazed me.

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Fun 4 Ways to Teach Scrapbooking to Kids Without Breaking the Bank

A "mom and daughter" time is very important, especially if the latter is already growing up. When she turns 16 or even 20, she will be off spending most of her days with her friends and even a loved one.

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What is the Best Type of Adhesive to Use on My Scrapbooking Pages?

There are many different types of adhesives that you can choose from to use on your scrapbooking pages. One thing you need to remember when choosing your adhesive is to make sure it is acid free and photo safe.

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Scrapbooking Fonts - Get Them Free Online

Scrapbooking fonts are the types of lettering you can choose for your scrapbook pages. There are many different styles for you to choose from online.You can just use one font throughout or have different fonts for every page.

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Scrapbooking Everyday Life

The photos that go onto everyday life scrapbook pages have a great variety. Figuring out how to scrapbook them and organize them in your albums requires a different approach from that you might use to scrapbook photos from defined events like parties and holidays.

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Organizing Events Photos For Scrapbooking

Often the biggest impediment to getting parties, holidays, and celebrations scrapbooked is making the time to go through the many photos you took at the event. Here's an approach for organizing and winnowing down the number of pictures you put onto your events scrapbook pages.

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How to Begin Scrapbooking

Many years ago when scrapbooking was started, people just used newspaper clippings, photos and glued them onto paper with maybe some ribbon or even hair. But back then, it didn't last very long, due to the bad paste they had and the paper having acids and things that modern manufacturing has taken out of today's paper.

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What is Vellum?

True vellum is made from mammal skin that has been soaked, limed and scudded and then dried under tension. However this is not what we use in scrapbooking. The stuff we call vellum in scrapbooking is actually a modern imitation called paper vellum and is made from plasticized cotton.

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Scrapbooking Supplies - 10 Must-Have Scrapbooking Supplies For the Beginner Scrapbooker

Read our list of 10 'must-have' items for your scrapping kit before you rush out and spend your hard earned money! The range of scrapbooking supplies can seem crazy however, you don't really need everything when you're just starting out. You can gradually build up your scrapper's kit as you go but to start we recommend the following 10 'must-have' items as the basics.

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Scrapbooking Ideas and Solutions - Transferring Photographs

To add some variety to your pages, why not try transferring your photographs directly onto fabric, which you can then use on your scrapbooking layout. Transferring photographs onto material is relatively easy to do if you have a computer.

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Scrapbooking For Beginners - 10 Items to Set Up Your Starter Kit

Start small and build up your kit over time with our 'must have' list of top 10 items... If you've just started to scrapbook, you may be wondering about the huge range of scrapbooking supplies and what is really necessary. With that much choice, it's hard to figure out what you really need to start your kit.

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Saving Family Memories by Scrapbooking

Almost everyone has at least one box of photos gathering dust in the closet. Instead of keeping them in the closet where you can't enjoy them, devote a bit of time to preserving your photo memories in a scrapbook.

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Scrapbook Page Ideas - Tips For Beginners

Being crafty involves wide imagination. For others, it is a passion, and doing crafts give them joy and also satisfaction. There are a lot of things which you can think of that involves crafts, likewise, it includes scrap booking.

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5 Fun Winter Scrapbook Themes

If you've taken lots of pictures throughout the winter, now's the time to get them into scrapbooks before you forget the details and get too busy with spring. Here are five ideas for fun layouts for your winter pages.

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How to Come Up With Scrapbook Page Titles From Quotes, Famous Lines, Lyrics and More

Making the connections Discovering a movie title, a line from a song, a well-known phrase, or a lesser-known and eloquent line of poetry that connects your photos to their story is always satisfying. The following are ideas (and even a technique) for coming up with scrapbook titles that give your layouts extra punch.

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Creative Scrapbook Piecing

Scrapbook piecing is generally another term for paper piecing, and is a great technique which is not difficult, but it does require some time and patience. My first scrapbook piecing project was an idea that I took from Marina's book.

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Paper Scraps

Any avid scrapbooker will find they are left with lots of scraps after they have completed lots of scrapbooking pages. Some people will just throw out these scraps others will keep them with the thought of using them one day.

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Scrapbooking - The Who, What, Where, When and Why

In years to come when we are reminiscing and looking over our cherished scrapbooks are we going to know who is in our pictures? Why they are in our pictures, where the picture was taken, when it was taken and why.

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Scrapbooking and the Colour Black

In scrapbooking trends come and go and then come back again. One that has come back is the colour black. Black is now being often used as a background colour for scrapbooking pages. One good thing about having a black background is that it goes with everything.

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Ideas For a Family Reunion Memory Book

Next family reunion, why not give each family a gift they will keep and remember always? Creating a memory book is a fun and interesting project that will be greatly appreciated. Here are a few ideas to help get you going.

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How to Plan Your Memories Scrapbooking

Nowadays, most people will choose paper piecing to create their albums that will give the great result. This is the easiest technique to develop an album that demands you to collect all the piecing paper. You will like this technique because it is as fun as you play the puzzle games. You can do this technique as putting together all the teddy bear part to become a whole pattern that head, arm, leg, body and other parts can be created from separated paper.

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Scrapbooking Ideas and Solutions - Making a Page About Your Vacation

We all know how many photographs we take while we are on holiday. Scrapbooking is the perfect way to preserve these memories in an interesting and original way. Our vacation for most of us is a precious bit of time out from our everyday activities.

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Scrapbook Kits - What to Do With Papers You Don't Like?

I frequently buy scrapbook papers in stacks, books or kits because it saves me a lot of time and takes all the hassle out of matching and coordinating papers. However, if you are like me, the question always arises of what to do with papers you don't like? You know what I mean, those that fall to the bottom of your paper trays and have been in your stash forever.

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Scrapbooking Ideas and Solutions - Scrapbook Ideas With Fabric

Fabric can add something extra to those scrap booking pages. Never throw those scraps of fabric away, as there will always be a place for them within your scrapbooks. Why not try matting your photographs onto fabric for a somewhat different look?

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Scrapbooking - More Than a Photo Album

So what IS scrapbooking? A scrapbook is more than just a photo album. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, defines it as: "Scrapbooking is a method for preserving personal and family history in the form of photographs, printed media, and memorabilia contained in decorated albums, or scrapbooks."

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Cricut Personal Die Cutting - Easier Scrapbooking, Crafting and Paper Cutting

I knew there had to be a better way to cut out all of those custom, personalized shapes for my scrapbooking projects. The time and effort was making it more of an endurance hobby than a pleasure, until I discovered the personal cutting machine.

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Fun Things to Do With Mulberry Paper

Want a great new idea for making your beach pages come to life? Take a beach break and bring the beach to your pages without bringing back real sand! You will surprised how easy this is and how your pages will spring to life.

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