Scrapbooking Ideas

Scrapbooking ideas to spark your scrapbooking creativitiy and help you design better scrapbook layouts

5 Tips for making a Great Mini-Album

A mini album for someone special makes a great gift. Here’s one I made for my daughter’s 30th birthday. When you’re used to making full sized scrapbook layouts making a mini one can present some challenges. Here are 5 tips that will make your mini-album a fabulous project and delight the reciever.

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Hybrid Scrapbooking a 50th Card

I’ve just made this 50th birthday card and I thought I’d share it with you. It’s a Hybrid scrapbooking card made using both paper scrapbooking and digital scrapbooking techniques and combines the touchy-feely satisfaction of working with paper with the convenience, versatility and virtually unlimited paper and embellishment options of digital scrapbooking.

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Saturday Scrapbooking Ideas

Saturday Scrapbooking Ideas #30 When you’re making your Christmas cards this year, don’t confine yourself to just the traditional Christmas pallet of Red, Green and Gold. Christmas symbols such as stars, snowflakes, bells and Christmas trees look fantastic against a more modern background. So have a rummage through your stash and try picking some more [...]

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Saturday Scrapbooking Ideas

Saturday Scrapbooking Ideas #29 Sometimes  the thought of creating a scrapbook album of someone’s life or maybe creating an album for an older child can seem daunting when you think of all the photos and events there are to go through. Start scrapping the most recent events first. We tend to fall into the trap [...]

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Saturday Scrapbooking Ideas

Saturday Scrapbooking Ideas #28 Sometimes it can be really hard to come up with just the right words for your journaling. You rack your brain but nothing seems to really work. Ever had that experience? Well why not turn to your kids for the inspiration? Ask them what their memories of the event in your [...]

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Saturday Scrapbook Ideas

Saturday Scrapbooking Ideas #27 Create your own transparencies and overlays by applying paint to foam stamps and then stamping on acrylic transparency sheets. Once dry, you can cut around the shapes and attach them to your layout using brads or glue dots. Make sure you place the glue dots behind areas of solid color or [...]

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Saturday Scrapbook Ideas

Saturday Scrapbooking Ideas #26 Remember the Rule of Thirds when positioning your photo on your scrapbook layout. It’s easy if you imagine a tic-tac-toe grid and try to place the eyes of the subject of your photo along one of the imaginary lines. And if you can get it as close to one of the [...]

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Saturday Scrapbook Ideas

Saturday Scrapbooking Ideas #25 Use the empty spaces on your photos for journaling. Even if it’s just the date of the photo it can really help to create a strong link between the photo and the rest of your layout. And if you have enough space on your photo some relevant journaling about the subject [...]

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Scrapbook Albums vs Scrapbook Layouts

What kind of a title is that?? They’re the same thing, I hear you say. Wee-eeell … yes and no. Yes a scrapbook album is a collection of scrapbook layouts. But I’m really talking about scrapbook albums with a theme here. It’s easy to get caught up in the inspiration of individual layouts. And we [...]

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Saturday Scrapbooking Ideas

Saturday Scrapbooking Ideas #24 Rub-ons can be quite expensive for paper scrapbookers. Well why not try making your own? Print your rub-on design onto a sheet of transparent film using your home printer. You don’t want to load too much ink onto it so change the setting to Draft. When you’ve printed out your transparency [...]

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