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Tips to Taking Better Pictures

You can create the most beautiful scrapbook page with all the embellishments, cute quotes, and fun textures, but if your pictures are poor your page will only disappoint you. Photographs are the heart of every scrapbook page. It is the photographs we cherish not the embellishments. The love and time that goes into a scrapbooking page is the manifestation of our love for our pictures or the subjects in the pictures. It is no wonder that so many scrapbookers also share a hobby in photography. If you are new to photography or just have been dissatisfied with your pictures as … Continue reading →

Scrapbooking Week in Review for April 28 – May 05, 2008

Is it raining in your world today? It seems as if the rain has increased, rather than let up. Isn’t the old saying “April Showers, Bring May Flowers.”? Take advantage of the continuing rain and spend some time scrapbooking and playing around with your supplies. Perhaps you could even spend some time organizing your stash, going through your albums, or even set up a fun portrait session with your kids. Here is what has been going on in the scrapbooking blog this week. Be sure and check out the new columns appearing in the scrapbooking blog that were introduced this … Continue reading →

5 Basic Photography Tips

Photography is the key to scrapbooking. Often, the better your photographs are, the more appealing your scrapbook layouts are. Photography can be tricky, and every camera is different, yet the following tips will help no matter what camera you use, and what you are trying to take a picture of. 1. Get to know your camera. Be sure and read the manual, find out what features your camera has. If you have a digital camera, try taking the same picture with several different settings. Remember which settings you used, so you can see the result when you get it up … Continue reading →

Top 10 Scrapbooking Organizational Articles

Organization is key to a productive scrapbooking hobby. Knowing where your things are, and being able to access them easily is key to time management and giving yourself a bit more time to scrapbook. These are the top 10 articles on scrapbooking organization. I hope they help you as much as getting organized has helped me with my scrapbooking. It’s a whole lot easier to get some pages complete when I know what I have and where it is. 1. Color Sorting For Organization Color sorting has become a favorite, easy to use way, for scrapbookers to organize their dozens … Continue reading →

New Year Scrapbooking Goals 2008

First, I’d like to wish you all a Happy New Year and a safe and prosperous 2008. It is hard to believe we have completed another year in our lives. It has almost been two years since I started with families.com as well. Time seems to just fly by in a rapid pace, and if we blink, we just might miss something. This is why scrapbooking is such a significant hobby. It is a great way to preserve the everyday life that occurs and save it for future generations. And if you aren’t interested in future generations, then it’s just … Continue reading →

So You Want To Be a CK 2008 Hall of Fame Winner

It is that time of year again. The contest has begun for the 2008 Creating Keepsakes Hall of Fame. If you have never been published, and always dreamed of having your layouts published, now might just be the time for you to get involved. If you need more inspiration and help, the December issue of Creating Keepsakes will be filled with some. This is traditional and will help your entries thrive. There are so many different rules to adhere to. In light of the latest CK controversy, please be sure that your entries for Creating Keepsakes Hall of Fame are … Continue reading →

Scrapbooking Week in Review for October 15-21, 2007

With so much going on in the Fall and Winter months, all the holidays and events that occur, it is hard to find time for scrapbooking. That is why the scrapbooking blog provides inspiration, ideas and tips and techniques to make scrapbooking easier. Let’s take a look at what has been happening in the Scrapbooking Blog. The Coordinated Scrapbook Page As a die-hard scrapbook supply addict, the kind that must own everything because well, you know you will use it someday, I love a good scrapbook store; the bigger the better. When I enter any scrapbook store, I tend to … Continue reading →

Photography Potpourri—-NO To “Cheese” and YES to Hats

In the last couple of weeks I’ve provided tips on how to capture frameworthy shots and what to do when you don’t have enough frames to preserve your prize-winning photos. Shooting the perfect picture and organizing the end results… you’d think I would have exhausted all of my advice by now, but you’d be wrong. I have a few additional tips I wanted to share with you. (When my daughter was an infant she would wear a different hat nearly everyday.) JUST SAY NO TO “CHEEEESSSSE.” It’s the universal method for getting photo subjects to smile (or least contort their … Continue reading →

Frugal Living Week in Review for September 23-30

Fall is in full swing in our neck of the woods, which seems to be obvious by the cooling temperatures and the trees slowly beginning to change. I never realized how busy life can get in the fall, and that there are new and different ways to save money on anything and everything. I was absent from the blog this week, but some excellent articles and tips for saving money are here for your enjoyment. Avoid Waste with A Leftover List Eating at home is one of the best ways to save money and practice a frugal lifestyle. If you … Continue reading →

Frugal Living Week in Review for September 10-16, 2007

The weather changed drastically here over the past week, and we even had to pull out the fall clothing. It was fun, and I enjoy this weather because it means a much more comfortable outside experience. Plus, the fall and winter months seem to save us money, and I am on a mission to figure out why. Here is what we have been up to in the frugal living blog this week. Frugal Seasonal Clothing Switch This weekend is the weekend where we pull out the fall clothing and pack away the tank tops and flip flops. It is always … Continue reading →