Tag Archives: albums

Experimenting with New Designs

Many avid scrapbook fans also dabble in book-binding.  Newbies may be intimidated by the prospect of making their own scrapbook covers, but once you start experimenting with new techniques, the idea of designing a memory album from cover to cover is not as challenging as you may think. There are many advantages to crafting your own covers.  For starters, you get full reign over creative control.  You can design a cover of any shape or size.  In addition, you can use a variety of your favorite materials to embellish your cover.  For example, one of the first covers I attempted … Continue reading →

Saturday Layout Challenge: Scrapbooking Makes Me Happy

Challenges can sometimes get us to create layouts and work on memories that we might not have done otherwise. It is my favorite part about doing challenges; the ability to think outside the box and get some scrapbooking done at the same time. Well, today I was sitting on the floor of my scrap area and going through old issues of my scrapbooking magazines. I came across a question in one of them that begged the question “What things in your scraproom make you happy?” “These are the exact kind of questions I like to use for my scrapbook journaling.”, … Continue reading →

Change the Way You Scrapbook

Scrapbooking is an every changing industry. As scrapbooker’s we strive to learn new techniques and find new embellishments and ways to adorn our beautiful scrapbook layouts. Sometimes we stray from the original goal of preserving our memories and sometimes we remember to keep the focus on the photos. Recently I picked up a copy of The Big Picture by Stacy Julian. While it was published a few years back, and I had glanced at it numerous times and really liked what I saw, apparently I was only scratching the surface of what the book would mean to me. I began … Continue reading →

Capturing Character Traits

This is part four in a six part series about capturing the complete personalities and uniqueness of the individuals who adorn our scrapbook pages. This article focuses on capturing each individual’s unique character traits and the qualities that make them who they are. Please keep in mind that not only does this work on your children, but also on you, your significant other and friends and family members. We are all full of traits that make us who we are. Sometimes we actually can get a photograph of someone that captures a trait or two, but there are things that … Continue reading →

Capturing Responses and Individual Reactions

This is part three in a six part series about capturing the complete personalities and uniqueness of the individuals who adorn our scrapbook pages. This article focuses on capturing the reactions and the responses from each individual. Please keep in mind that not only does this work on your children, but also on you, your significant other and friends and family members. It is a rarity that you actually have the opportunity to capture a true reaction to a situation with your camera. It is about being there at the right time and right place and snapping picture after picture. … Continue reading →

Saturday Layout Challenge – Inspirations

What a beautiful weekend we are having here in the Midwest. The sun is shining, the birds are singing and it is warm and spring like, finally! All of these nice sights made me start thinking about what inspires me. Why not create a layout about your favorite things that inspire you to be a better person, inspire you to create, inspire you to do whatever it is you do. I am a nature nut, so I tend to get inspired by almost anything outdoors. I thought it would be great if I created a layout showing some of my … Continue reading →

Using Bad Photos on Your Layouts

It is a huge disappointment when you are looking through your photographs to create a layout and realize that the photographs you planned to use for an event are blurry, out of focus, too dark, too light or the focal object is cropped. Don’t despair, there are ways to use those photographs or get your message across without throwing out those photographs. Read on to learn more. Everyone winds up with a photograph that is normally deemed unusable at some point or another. From blurry to red eye to over exposed, there are dozens of things that can go wrong. … Continue reading →

Top Five Favorite Scrapbooking Album Companies

Albums are a definite must have supply for scrapbooking. Without them, there certainly would be no scrapbook, and with them, you have a beautiful legacy to pass along. Do you struggle to find an album that works for you? I recently took a poll on my website to find out what the top scrapbooking album companies were. The poll listed ten popular scrapbooking supply companies that carry albums and over 390 votes came in. I did not include an “other” category, simply because that wouldn’t help in discovering the top five. The poll was set up so that you could … Continue reading →

Changing An Album Kit (3)

Album kits are easy to change and that has been my focus the past few days. This article will wrap up the rest of the album and hopefully encourage you to get started on your own. Since I had planned out the album, all sixteen pages, before I got to work on it, the album was easy and fast to complete. Planning is key. It also allows you to figure out what you might need in advance and not order too many photographs. The next section of the album began a closer look at mom and dad with the kids. … Continue reading →

Changing An Album Kit (2)

Changing an album kit is easier than you might think. I have already given you a quick look at how easy it can be, but now I would like to show you what I did to make it work for us. Sometimes seeing it can spark the creativity for your own changed album. You don’t have to follow the idea sheets that come with the albums, many people don’t actually realize that. You can design your own look and feel for the album in any way you want, it’s your album. Don’t forget, you can use your own embellishments if … Continue reading →