Enjoy Portable Scrapbooking with a Tote

Filed under: Scrapbooking Tips — Kelli Morris at 9:20 pm on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 | No Comments »

A scrapbooking tote comes in a different of shapes and sizes, just like its owners! What that means is that because scrapbooking is now the third most popular hobby in the US and one out of four households has someone interested in scrapbooking, it is no longer for teary eyed moms fussing over their babies first steps.

Scrapbooking has come a long way since it was introduced and therefore much younger and more diverse people are getting involved. A scrapbooking tote will have lots and lots of pockets and this is a good thing because if you give every scrapbooking supply a home, it is easier t o find it and easier to pack up. Scrapbooking totes also have zippers and clear pockets so that small items like eyelets and beads can be safely contained. Scrapbooking totes also usually have wheels so that you can cart them around especially if you have heavy scrapbooking albums inside too.

When you’re on vacation and finally have some minutes to yourself without the laundry or mopping calling out to you, you can just take out your scrapbooking tote and make a few pages or even hand made postcards instead of the cheap souvenir store ones

If you’re short on space at home and do not have the luxury of a scrapbooking desk or even better, a room, then a scrapbooking tote can contain all your supplies and you can pull it out whenever you want to make your kitchen or dining table your scrapbooking space.

If you’re really organized and assignment oriented, you can even wok on your scrapbooking layouts while waiting for your kids after football exercise or dance classes. If you’re chauffeuring them from place to place like so many ‘stay at home’ moms do, then having a small scrapbooking tote in the car can help. This does not mean that you are scrapbooking obsessed; it just implies tat you like to do a little something for yourself and you need to squeeze in that time whenever you get the chance.

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Poem Scrapbooking: Accentuating Photos

Filed under: Scrapbooking Tips — Kelli Morris at 6:11 am on Saturday, January 17, 2009 | No Comments »

Yes, at their inception, scrapbooks were mostly about photos; scrapbooks are a way to showcase pictures in a way that’s slightly more fun than a pure photo album.  However, some people are more drawn to words than to images, hence the new type of scrapbooking, which is poem scrapbooking.

Some poem scrapbooking is done by choosing poems that one really, truly loves, and then finding a way to express part, or all, of what is expressed in the poem through the background of the page and the scrapbooking accents that are placed on the page with the poem.  Other people consider adding poems to their photo pages to be a kind of poem scrapbooking.

The pretty side with scrapbooking is that each album is an separated product, creat by an separated , and each one goed out looking varied from other scrapbooks creat by other people.If that weren’t the case, scrapbooking would be seemly irksome, and it wouldn’t be so prevalent.

In order to go about making a poem scrapbook, you first need the poems, or you first need the pictures.People doing a scrapbook of their own personal photos tend to have the photos primary and then go looking for poems that suit the photos that they are getting on each page.But, if you are expecting to creat a book of the lyrics of a special beloved singer, you’ll need to manage the poems as your scrapbooking establish. 

First gather the different poems that you would like to use, or the lyrics to the songs that you are including in the book, and then take a look at each text individually.  Make a list of themes that each relate to each text or poem in your scrapbooking project and then go to the scrapbooking supply store, or to the internet, and start looking for materials on which to print the lyrics and accents that will go nicely with it.  At the end, you’ve got yourself a perfectly unique anthology, which makes a wonderful gift for someone special.

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Military Scrapbooking with Layers of Implication

Filed under: Scrapbooking Tips — Kelli Morris at 11:14 pm on Friday, January 16, 2009 | No Comments »

Many military families find solace in thinking about their lost sons and daughters, wives or husbands by immersing themselves in military scrapbooking as an heirloom to pass down to their kids. Military scrapbooking can include letters or emails your navy seal sent to you days before he was missing in action, his badge or special photos provided to you by the government when they broke the news. Newspaper articles about another young life lost or pictures of when they were babies can all make beautiful military scrapbooking accents.

For those of us with children, spouses or siblings serving in the Army, Navy or Air Force, we can send them layouts of what is happening at home and make it a way of keeping in touch with members of the military through scrapbooking. Dad would love to know what his children wore and got on Christmas even if he is thousands of miles away.
Creating a layout of the kids uncovering gifts along with their authentic words and sentiments showed when they open the shiny paper makes more layers of significance to an otherwise routined photograph. Hand made cards and notes, report cards from school or certificates from swim or piano lessons can also be made in to scrapbooking pages for military family members.

If you can not send actual layouts to your loved ones overseas, many US bases have easy access to email. Digital scrapbooking has made significant strides and now it is easy, perhaps even easier than actual scrapbooking once you get the hang of it, to make a digital military scrapbooking layout. You can save the page where you left off with no packing up to do. You can just crop the pictures instead cutting with scissors – and still not making a straight line and you can ‘adhere’ as many embellishments as you like without a drop of glue on your fingers.

So, sort your pictures and send a scrapbooking page or card to someone who is serving our country. You have no idea how it will make his or her day!

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