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Free Printable Scrapbooking Pages

scrapnmom — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:13:30 +0000

You can shop liberally without leaving the comfort of your home computer. There’s not much which can be easier or even cost less than to print scrapbook pages, letters, layouts, frames, clipart and more, free from the computer. Moreover, free printable scrapbooking pages can be acquired at no charge, and you can even personalize them with an image editor.

From the search engine, you can type in “Free Printable Scrapbooking Pages”, hit enter and then you can access hundreds of websites that offer free printable scrapbooking pages. Free printable scrapbooking pages saves time and costs, offer beatific designs for your scrapbook, and just a mouse click away. Free printable scrapbooking pages make any memory novice look like an erudite scrapbooking enthusiast, with popular designs and easy-to-follow instructions.

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Several examples of theme types are on hand which offer free printable scrapbooking pages: A website that offer Gulf Beach photographs for scrapbook projects; shamrocks and other Irish sites offer proficient scrapbook designer with original design concepts; gardening enthusiasts, musicians and tennis buffs’ pages are all free printable scrapbooking pages from any search engine; patriotic stain glass with an American flag theme scrapbook pages; aviation free printable scrapbooking pages which feature the history of avionics; travel pages can be customized with flags from across the nation and around the world; stamp collectors can enjoy countless hours, examining variations from a historical significance, to pure celebrity power; any professional athlete player can be immortalized in your scrapbook with free printable scrapbooking pages on the Internet; and any cartoon character you can possibly imagine for a scrapbook page is accessible and at no cost online.

John Foster has special interest in arts. He gives advice to anyone who wants to know about online art school and scrapbooking and others. He refers to www.layersofourlives.com in many of his sessions for art school class for scrapbooking, scrapbooking and DIY scrapbooking art,Free Printable Scrapbooking Pages .
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Digital Scrapbooking is All About Moving Ahead With Time!

scrapnmom — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:28:56 +0000

Everyone is getting tech savvy, then how can one expect scrapbookers to be away from the magic of digital world. With the invasion of internet in almost every field, life has come full circle. Now scrapping too is getting digital with the scrapbookers due to many reasons, firstly, it reduces time and secondly every thing is available on the web. All that one needs to have for digital scrapbooking is equipment, such as scanners and color printers. Digital scrapbooking offers various scrapbooking solutions on the net. You can also install high-performance good scrapbooking software that is easy to use and is compatible to your desktop.

In fact, it is a newer concept and provides a variety of fun activities at a lower cost in comparison to traditional scrapbooking. You just have to download animated images, stencils and fonts in a wide range of styles that are available in the clip art section. In fact, you can also download digital scrapbooking in various frames and borders for your cool looking digital scrapbook. Digital scrapbooking additionally offers experience by providing you with the computer programs that are easy to follow and takes out frustration that you always experience while creating a conventional scrapbook. In fact, the software that you are using to make a digital scrapbook comprises of fonts, templates, layout designs and various other tools.

It is also a pleasurable thing for those who are always on the run and because of the time constraint do not get time to maintain their scrapbooks, hence a digital scrapbooking is a fantastic idea for them. The digital scrapbooking involves very less time, and one just has to place or drag his or her material like pictures, e-cards, downloaded personal photographs and many more with just a click of a mouse! And voila your digital scrapbook is ready for viewing. In fact, you can also let others to view your digital scrapbooking by connecting it with various other links for both limited and unlimited viewing.

7 Secret of Recycle Scrapbooking

scrapnmom — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:32:23 +0000

Do you know about recycle scrapbooking? I have learnt about recycle craft, but not too sure about recycle scrapbooking, until one day my 3 years old daughter show me her scrapbooking using recycle material that she used to keep her craft and papers. My little angel gave me an idea of we can recycle our children school craft to create a very creative memories craft! Here I share my experience and 7 secret of recycle scrapbooking, if you are a cost saver person, you may find it useful!
Secret #1 Think twice before you throw anything.
Lots of material at home such as color paper divider of your file folders, your childrens’ craft work from school, faulty printed paper, tissue paper cover, presents wrapper, ribbons etc if the design is neat, clean and nice looking, keep them for your scrapbooking. You can use them as embellishments or decorations in your scrapbooking. I used to throw all these away, but now I am getting passion on recycle all the them!
Secret #2 Storage for recycle stuff.
You need to have some storage space to keep all your recycle stuff, try to keep in sorted or grouping by same category for easy of searching.
Secret #3 Recycling from other craft.
If you have been doing lots of craft at home, reuse this craft material again to do recycle scrapbooking. For example, if you have created a pencil case craft using recycle cartoon box, cut out excess area of cartoon box into A5 paper size and paint some beautiful flowers or insects on it, join all the A5 drawn design together with a threading string or folder rings to create a mini scrapbook album.
Secret #4 Recycle Scrapbooking paper excess from previous scrapbook.
Reuse the scrapbooking paper that was excess from previous scrapbook. You can create a new design by using the excess scrapbooking paper. This can be done by doing patching or overlapping pasting different paper on top of each to create an unique look!
Secret #5 Recycle your digital scrapbooking or computer scrapbooking.
You can reuse your same computer scrapbooking printed layout on another new scrapbook topics. Note that you also can recycle scrapbooking digitally besides recycling the printed layout. Besides that, there are a lot of layout, images or pictures on the web are free for download and you can reuse them for this case.
Secret #6 Print on recycle paper.
Print most of your design on recycle paper. This is to save cost at the same time save the earth. Most of the printers will print a test page when you changed new cartridge, keep this paper for recycle printing purpose. Perhaps the test printed page can be reused to create another creative memories, because the test page always printed in multiple colors and text.
Secret #7 Do it freely.
Last by not least, create your every scrapbook freely. It is important if you are using recycle stuff to scrapbook. Do not restrict your creative mind to fly. Explore along the way, will help you have more creativity ideas to create a unique design of your creative memories.
Hope you enjoy reading this article while enjoy your scrapbooking!
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Digital Scrapbooking – Great Tips For Advanced Scrapbookers

scrapnmom — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:36:42 +0000

Scrapbooking is one of the most popular hobbies around these days. Scrappers are well-acquainted with the craft, working with the materials and tools like pros. Combining cutting lots of paper shapes, gluing photos, and sticking a collection of ribbons, die-cuts, and stamps on each page is their passion. It’s hard for an experienced scrapper to imagine doing it any other way.
But computers can invade anything – even scrapbooking. Modern technology introduces a whole new approach to scrapbooking that uses grahics programs to create the basic scrapbook elements and page layouts. Using a computer to create scrapbooks, known as digital scrapbooking, involves creating page layouts with the help of computer software that edits photos, creates graphics, inserts borders and text, and allows you to “paste in” digital embellishments.
Using high-quality paper, you print your scrapbook pages on a high-resolution printer and then attach your traditional scrapbook materials. More tech-savvy scrappers can even save elements and pages on the hard drive or store them to DVD or CD to share with others electronically. These days, several websites give you the ability to create an online scrapbook by uploading your photos and images to their prepared digital scrapbook albums.
There are several computer programs that are great for scrapbooking. Most popular are Adobe PhotoShop Elements 2.0 and CS, Microsoft Picture It!, Lumapix, and JASC’s Paint Shop Pro. They are all effective for manipulating designs. The features that scrappers will appreciate include cropping photos, replacing backgrounds and colors, adding text, and inserting borders and graphics.
The programs we’ve mentioned weren’t created for scrapbooking, but they offer many features scrapbookers will find useful. It’s easy to isolate and “cut out” specific images from a photo. You can apply color schemes to your designs. Cropping photos and trimming page elements is easy and quick, and the programs allow you to create your own design elements.
The major obstacle to applying these high-end programs to scrapbooking is in learning how to use the software. For people who haven’t used graphics programs, there can be a steep learning curve, and becoming adept may take some time. They’re expensive too. You can expect to pay several hundred dollars for one of these software packages.
Once you are familiar with the programs, though, using the software for other projects is interesting and fun. Their great value for scrapbooking lies in their versatility. You’re only limited by your imagination in what you can create to make a super scrapbook. You can blend your own colors, create your own borders, and add texture digitally. These programs offer a variety of virtual textures: marble, canvass, cobblestone, leather, silk, and a range of natural color-texture combinations.
Easier programs dedicated to scrapbooking are also available. They include Hallmark, CK, Scrapbook Studio, and Scrapbook Assistants. Designed specifically for digital scrapbooking, they’re easier and faster to learn and much less expensive. However, they are not as flexible as the high-end programs, and your options can be limited to a prescribed set of colors, pre-set page settings, and canned layouts. But they do make the job easy, and you won’t spend weeks to months trying to figure out how they work.
An in-between solution might be a program like Microsoft Digital Image Pro. Less expensive than Adobe PhotoShop, it’s easier to learn and has more features than the digital scrapbooking programs.
If you’re not sure whether you want to try digital scrapbooking, you can try it out by downloading free digital scrapbooking programs from the Internet. Be aware, though, that these programs may not be as effective as those you purchase. That’s because free downloads are often used as product samples, and not all menu features are turned on in the free trial offers and downloads. They will give you a sense of what the software can do, and trying out free digital scrapbooking software may help you make your decision.
Most programs come with tutorials and help features that teach you how to do major tasks. The step-by-step instructions allow you to explore features and sharpen techniques as you learn the software. You can also probably get online help through blogs and forums run by scrapbooking websites.

Digital Scrapbooking Wins Over Traditional Scrapbook Lovers

scrapnmom — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:38:13 +0000

Digital scrapbooking is becoming so popular that even traditional scrapbook enthusiasts are making the switch. Read why so many are learning to scrapbook on the computer and why you should give it a try.
1. Saves Time
As in all things digital, there are many ways scrapbooking digitally saves you time.
If you’re really lazy or think you can’t even combine two elements without messing something up, you can buy pre-made pages with spaces for your photos and journaling and just drag and drop your pictures onto the page.
Printing your pictures before you put them into your scrapbook pages is no longer necessary. Just download your digital camera pictures to your computer.
No need to spend hours going from one store to another looking for the right color paper to go with your daughter’s Easter dress. Shopping the Web is faster or you can create your own paper. This also eliminates those unwanted 2-year-old tantrums in the paper aisle of the local store.
Everyone I’ve spoken with that’s made the switch to digital says they love how much faster they can complete pages.
2. Saves Space
For some traditional scrappers, the idea was whoever dies with the most supplies wins. Setting aside a permanent corner, room, basement or annex for your supplies was a way to beat your husband at his game of collecting tools.
On the other hand, the only physical space required for digital scrapbooking is for your computer, scanner and printer. The other “space” requirement is the size of your hard drive in your computer. Digitized images do take a lot of megabytes of drive space, but have you seen the price of hard drives lately? You can get a 500 gigabyte drive (that’s 512000 megabytes) for under $100 these days.
Many digital scrappers also like the fact that printed digital scrapbooks are just like any other book. No bulky pages filled with buttons and ribbons.
3. Clean and Tidy
With your supplies on the computer, there’s no need to physically sort through all the punches, paper, ribbon or other embellishments you might have lying around. No worries about leaving a project partially done and laying out where kids can spill a soda on it. No need to get supplies out on the dining room table only to put them away later so you can serve dinner. Just click save and don’t leave your computer screen where someone can accidentally delete your work.
Since you don’t have to worry about the hassle of getting supplies out and cleaning up afterwards, you will find many more opportunities to work on your pages than ever before.
4. Saves Money
You already own a computer, now all you need is the right software. Cost of software such as Adobe Photoshop Elements is $75 – $100.
Digital scrapbook kits usually go for around $5.00 to $7.00 and have lots of paper and embellishments included. The equivalent in physical paper and embellishments costs $20 to $35 and are “consumable” meaning once you use them, they are gone. Digital kits can be used over and over to your heart’s content.
Once you learn how to use your digital scrapbooking software, it’s not hard to create your own supplies if you feel adventurous.
Oh, and saves a lot of gas money too since there’s no need to spend hours going from one store to another looking for the right color paper to go with your daughter’s Easter dress.
5. Waste Proof
This naturally follows number 4 because you can literally re-use any digital scrapbook element as many times as you like. No more buying extra paper to avoid running out of a certain pattern or color. No more keeping piles of leftover paper scraps. Imaging starting each new project with a complete new scrapbook kit. With digital scrapbooking, you can.
6. Mistake Proof
The most precious items in your scrapbooks are your photos. So why take the chance of butchering them with scissors. With digital scrapbooking, there’s no worry of ruining the only photo you have of Great, Great Grandpa. Scan the photo and make as many copies as you need. Resize and crop as many times as you like. Don’t like it? Back up a few steps with the Undo function or start over.
Ever place a sticker on a page and didn’t quite like it? Oh well, it’s stuck on the page now. Digital scrapbooking allows you to experiment with a multitude of possible combinations until you get it just the way you want.
7. Photo Manipulation
Restore vintage photos to make them look just like new. Take current photos and purposely make them looked aged. Remove the red eye in that otherwise perfect candid shot. Get rid of ugly facial blemishes (the proverbial pimple in the Prom portrait) or too much sweat making the face glisten. Crop, enlarge, tint, age — there are so many options to make your photos even more attractive, you’ll be absolutely amazed. Photos you thought were hopeless are given new life.
8. Easier to Share
Ever create a scrapbook page only to duplicate it once again for your mother? Not anymore. In addition to being another time saver, digital scrapbooks can be shared so easily in so many ways. Print multiple copies of your completed books to share with family. Upload pages to your family blog. Email pages to relatives wherever they live. Use the same digital template for multiple photos. Get the idea?
9. Archival Quality
Remember when everything had to be acid free? First it was the paper, then the sheet protectors, the inks, the glue. Then came all the embellishments. Were they acid free too? Wait a sec…with digital scrapbooking, everything is acid free because there is no ink or glue to mix with your photos. Everything is preserved digitally either on your computer hard drive or on CDs or DVDs. Print as many copies as you need as often as you like. Not only is this archival, but keeping extra copies of your photos digitally either in a fire-proof safe or in a second physical location is the best way to ensure against your keepsakes being destroyed by a disaster such as a fire.
10. Unlimited Styles
With traditional scrapbooking, you’re limited by whatever paper you can find in your local store or on the Web. Even then, you might find a pattern you like but sometimes the color isn’t quite right.
Not a problem with digital scrapbooking. It’s so easy to adjust the paper color from one hue to another so you can always match your daughter’s Easter dress perfectly.
11. Trendiest
Scrapbook paper manufacturers use designers to create a new line of products. Then they decide which designs go into production. From there, retail buyers decide how much of the line to carry in their stores. By the time you get around to shopping, you’re lucky if the product is in stock and in the right color.
Digital paper is not limited by any of the above. There’s a multitude of online purveyors of digital scrapbook kits and there’s no waiting for the product to hit the store. New designers don’t have to have a big company behind them to sell their own designs. You get the trendiest designs and they are guaranteed to always be in stock.
12. Makes Anyone an Expert
So what if your handwriting looks as bad as a doctors prescription. That’s what computer fonts are for…to make you look like a professional calligrapher. But the best part is, there’s no commitment, so if you misspelled a word in your journaling, you’re free to go correct it without damaging your layout. Cropped photos always have perfect edges and text is always straight. Using a computer to scrapbook brings out the real artist inside you when you don’t have to worry about making mistakes.
13. Flexibility
Try this exercise: Take a piece of pattern paper and attach a photo. Now add some ribbon and some journaling. Now go back to the pattern paper and change it to another style to see if it will look better. Can’t do it? You can when doing it digitally. That’s what layers are for. It’s like making a big Dagwood sandwich and deciding you want relish instead of pickles after the sandwich is already built. With layers, you can change any element on the page at any time.
14. Professionalism
Sure we like homemade stuff, but if we can make it look professional, it makes us all the more proud we created it. Submit your digital scrapbooks to printers like Viovio to have them professionally printed and bound. Then show everyone how talented you really are.
15. Versatility
Take any design you like and turn it into just about anything you want. Change the opacity to make it look like vellum. Tweak the colors to add a little more blue or red. Increase the color saturation or decrease it. Change it into anything you desire.
16. Endless Supplies
Never, ever run out of the letter “S” when using a sticker set again. And always have it in the right size, color and style. With digital scrapbooking, you will never run out of supplies again.
And who knows, maybe you’ll start designing your own paper lines.
17. Easy on the Furniture
No more hammering eyelets! No more dents in your oak dining table. Enough said.

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Digital Scrapbooking – Great Tips For Advanced Scrapbookers

scrapnmom — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:41:39 +0000

Digital Scrapbooking: Show your Creativity to All

scrapnmom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:03:45 +0000

The very word scrapbooking brings back all my childhood memories. Scrapbooking was one activity that used to fascinate me and I would always find time to indulge in making my scrapbook. Today, times have changed, but making a scrapbook is something which has not changed, in fact today you will find many new additions which have made the whole process of creating a scrapbook, all the more interesting and appealing. Scrapbooking is one of the most popular hobbies and even today this is one hobby which is not on the wane. In fact, with the new innovations in the field of technology, you will find that more and more people are getting interested in making a scrapbook. This is one hobby where you can give vent to all the creativity through the personal touch that you can put in the scrapbook. Digital scrapbooking is one of the newest styles in the field of scrapbooking and as compared to traditional scrapbooking method, this is easier to do.

In digital scrapbooking you can make use of a computer to enhance the pictures that you use for the scrapbook. Due to the increase in the use of digital photography, you will find a large number of scrapbooking enthusiasts using pictures taken by a digital camera for scrapbooking. With the help of digital scrapbooking, you can retouch the pictures, perhaps you would like to remove certain elements in the picture, enhance some aspects or probably blur some other aspects of the picture. This will help you in making a scrapbook in just the way you like and that is one of the major advantages of digital scrapbooking. Whenever a new thing enters the arena in any sphere, it is natural to find some people who welcome this and some people who vehemently oppose this. So, it is very natural to find scrapbook enthusiasts who are dead against digital scrapbooking.

In digital scrapbooking one can also come across many types of software which help them in making a beautiful scrapbook. There are also free layouts available on the web which can be used for making a scrapbook of your choice. Since these things are available online, one can actually use the trial and error method to make the scrapbook just like they want. You can choose different backgrounds and see how things look with the collection of pictures and words that you have selected. A scrapbook is all about putting up pictures, words, phrases, events and happenings in an attractive manner, so that you can preserve all those memories for a lifetime.

Digital scrapbooking has another advantage which is perhaps best among all the advantages that one can enjoy with this type of scrapbooking. You can upload the scrapbook online and invite friends and family from all over the world to see this. For this you can go to sites which allow you this facility and let me tell you, there are several sites that do so. You just need to browse the web and find out such sites, or probably you could join an online community for scrapbooking and from there you can easily find out the information that you are looking for.

John Foster has special interest in arts. He gives advice to anyone who wants to know about online art school and scrapbooking and others. He refers to www.layersofourlives.com in many of his sessions for art school class for scrapbooking, digital scrapbooking and DIY scrapbooking art,Scrapbooking Book.

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