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Tips to Get Started on Creating a Teacher Album

While some might object, if you plan to create a teacher album for your child’s teacher either for Christmas or even the end of the school year, now is a great time to get started. Why? I’ll show you. In order to create a great album, there needs to be lots of photos and journaling. If you want to get the children involved in the class, you will need plenty of time to contact parents, work with the children, get photographs developed and doubled as well as obtain copies of school pictures in applicable and then assemble the pages. You … Continue reading →

Album in a Weekend

Creating an album in a weekend, is much easier than completing an album in a day. Some scrapbookers spend most of their time dedicating themselves to getting an entire album done in one single weekend. Sometimes this is because their schedules are so busy that they only have time to scrapbook on the weekends. Other times it is because that particular scrapbooker works best when they are organized and keep everything simple and clean. Tips to completing an album in one weekend: Papers and cardstock, as well as added embellishments should be kept simple, and only two or three colors … Continue reading →

Album in a Day

You’ve heard of an album in a weekend, but lately I’ve heard a lot more about an album in a day. It isn’t impossible if you plan ahead. In fact, the key to getting any scrapbooking done at all, at anytime, really is planning. You will scrapbook much faster and get loads more done, if you take the time to prepare a plan. Planning The key to getting an album done in one day is to choose your color scheme, papers, embellishments, photographs and anything else you wish to include, before you get started. Having all of this accomplished will … Continue reading →

Scrapbooking Gifts For Father’s Day

Father’s Day is just around the corner, have you started your gift making yet? Perhaps you have decided to go the store-bought route this year. If you haven’t decided on anything yet, you might want to realize the great gifts you can create, using your scrapbooking stash. Gift Albums Of course, every day enjoys getting an album made just for him. Fill it with reasons you love him, reasons he’s a great dad or just fill it with things that he likes. A gift album is always a good gift choice. Cards Every dad needs a card on Father’s Day. … Continue reading →

Taylor Hicks – The Single and the First Album

With the finale of this year’s American Idol competition counting down just a couple of weeks away, I thought it would be fun to take a look at the music of Taylor Hicks, last year’s Idol. Taylor’s first release was a single, with “Do I Make You Proud?” on one side and “Takin’ It to the Streets” on the other. You’ll recall that “Do I Make You Proud?” is the song chosen for both Taylor and first runner-up Katherine McPhee to sing, and the winner would record it. (And he did!) I didn’t find it to be at all his … Continue reading →

Heritage Albums

Do you know what a heritage album is? In short, it’s an album you make of photos of your ancestors. I did my first one last year. We took a trip the summer before last down to Southern California. While we were there, we dropped in on dh’s dad. We hadn’t seen him in years. Paul’s parents divorced when he was young and he was raised by his stepfather. It was an interesting time as we spent several days there really getting to know them for the first time. Chuck (Paul’s dad) had saved a lot of photos of his … Continue reading →

Hawaii Album Cover

My sister and I had some fun this weekend working on some album covers of a recent Hawaii trip that she took with some friends. She had created the inside pages for 3 albums so that she can give one album to each of her traveling companions. We had so much fun altering the covers of the albums, that I thought I would share our process and the results. Here are the materials we used: Heidi Swapp 6 X 6 Spiral bound album Map of Hawaii Making Memories Foam Stamps and Paint Heidi Swapp Floral Mask Modge Podge (Matte Finish) … Continue reading →

Celebrate Your Friends

There are so many things that we do with friends: go out to dinner, hang out at one of our houses, visit on the phone or meet up at the park. But if you are like me, you may not be documenting these important people in your life. What are some things that you might was to capture and remember about your friendships right now at this time in your life? I’ve thought up a few ways that we can include and remember our friends when we are creating scrapbook layouts and projects. I’d like to share them with you. … Continue reading →

Scrapbooking Travel Tips

Travel Scrapbook Ideas Summer is here and many of us are setting off on vacations near and far. It is important to many of us to find ways to preserve the experiences we have while exploring away from home. I would like to share a few tips that should make scrapbooking your next vacation fast and easy. Buy a small album. I suggest using a 6 X 6, 8 X 8 or 5 x 7 inch album if you are recording the events of one trip. These smaller sized albums are just the right size for sharing highlight of a … Continue reading →

Year in Review Album

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One of my favorite types of albums to make is a Year in Review album because they generally come together quickly and they give a great summary of my family’s main events of the year. Really if you only do one album a year, this is the type of album I would recommend creating. I would like to share a few things I have learned from creating this type of album. Included in this article are pictures of my most recent Year in Review album. This album was from one of my classes at a Creating Keepsakes Convention that was … Continue reading →