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Scrapbook Service Outage…

Posted on August 27th, 2008 by wwaddell.
Categories: Site Information.

Hi Scrapbook Friend,

Sorry about the subject line, but we needed to make sure those of you with our RSS Feed seen this.

Kathy and Wes are on the road back to Washington State (Spokane) for the next 3 days and we will only be able to check mail intermittently.

If you need anything before about Monday… please be patient as we’ll need some extra time to see your mail and help you out.

Thanks in advance for you patience.

Until next week…

Kathy and Wes

www.EZScrapbookGuide.com

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Scrapbooks Gone Banana’s

Posted on August 19th, 2008 by wwaddell.
Categories: Site Information.

Hi Digital Scrapbook Friend,

Short and Sweet scrapbook notes today…

New Digital Scrapbook Templates sets added to both the 8.5×11 and 12×12 members areas:

• Borders 22 thru 24
• Critters 63 thru 65
• Hearts 28 thru 30
• Valentines 37 thru 39

Get them at: www.MyPrincessCrafts.com

Great new article on Banana’s and how they help your heart and health is on our www.Free-Stationery.info BLOG.  You really need to see this one… and the cute little clipart.

Finally, be sure and check out the Article below on Scrapbooking Children’s Stories.  It could just be your next scrapbook project.

Kathy and Wes

www.EZScrapbookGuide.com

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Scrapbooking Children’s Stories

Posted on August 6th, 2008 by wwaddell.
Categories: Digital Photography, Scrapbook Articles, Scrapbook Tips, Training.

Title: Scrapbooking Children’s Stories

Author: Wes Waddell

Article:

Children’s stories and scrapbooking… who would have thought they went so good together?

Kids are always telling stories and I would venture to guess that you are always telling your kids bedtime stories. Why not capture some of them in a storybook scrapbook?

You may even find that creating the story book scrapbook together with your kids will bring you closer than you ever knew possible. Besides helping them to express their emotions and capture their memories for the future… it lets you teach them life’s little lessons with the stories of your life.

Here’s a few “Storybook Scrapbook” ideas that you and your child can start with:

A) Custom Version of their Favorite Children’s Book

Yes, it’s plagiarism, but as long as it’s for your personal use and not sold or freely distributed, there is nothing wrong with getting started this way.

After all, that’s how story telling got started. One person recounted or made up a story and it was then customized and retold by others for generations.

All you need to do to turn the children’s story book into your own personal story book scrapbook is to change the names so that your child and his/her friends and family become the characters’. Then add photos of your child and his friends acting out the parts or use photographs you took while they were doing the same things.

For example: If the children’s story book is about a trip to grandma’s house, then use images you took on your last family visit to grandma’s and use your families names as the characters in the book.

B) Children’s Trip Book

The next time you take a trip to the Zoo or your child goes on a field trip to the fire house… or any place they feel is fun; go along and take lots of photos.

When you get home (or no later than a day or two) record your child telling the story of what they did and what they saw. Transcribe the story and add the photo’s for an instant storybook scrapbook treasure.

You could even use the sound track and the still and/or video images to create the child’s story on CD video or DVD.

C) Playground Monsters and Pirates

Take your child to the playground and get lots of photos of them climbing, sliding, swinging and just having fun.

While you are there or after you get home, make up stories with your child about the monsters they are escaping from or the Pirates that they are fending off. Take notes for each image and lay them out in a little story line.

Now, by hand or (even easier) using digital scrapbook techniques, add the monsters, pirates, whales or what ever they imagined into the images and fill in the whole story line.

Before you know it, you have your child’s very first custom story book scrapbook.

D) Story of Children’s Dreams

Children have an amazing ability to daydream, imagine and to dream really big! Encourage your child to explore all the different possibilities of life and their fantasy worlds. Take the time to record and transcribe these dreams and stories.

User your imaginations to help your child create the pictures that go with these stories and dreams. Digital scrapbook software can work wonders for this.

Whether you act out the stories and take photos or use photographic images of your child’s past that you then edit digitally to come up with the graphic parts of the story. The one thing that will be certain is that you’ll have one amazing story book scrapbook that you and your child will love reading for generations to come.

These are but a few of the common themes you and your kids can start with.
Once you get started, you’ll find new ideas and stories poping up everywhere.

Enjoy and preserve your children’s fantasy life while you can… they grow up and it disappears into history all too fast!

About the author:

Wes Waddell is Co-owner of Cookbook4Kids.com and TwasTheNightScrapbook.com - the first storybook scrapbook digital download on the Internet. Now you can make your families most treasured memories a part of the story.

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Scrapbook Stationery Backgrounds

Posted on August 1st, 2008 by wwaddell.
Categories: Scrapbook Articles, Site Information.

Hi Scrapbook and Stationery Friends,

Kathy and I took our two oldest granddaughters to the Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site in Colorado Springs last night for an outdoors musical theater drama presentation.

Legend and Legacy (the 4 performing players) were absolutely wonderful and the scenery from the 1800s working ranch was spectacular.  We didn’t get up to the old cabin home stead in the hills as we didn’t get there early enough to have time… but the main ranch and farm lands were beautiful.  We’ll try and get back to see the rest soon… it was that good.

We took lots of digital photos while we wondered and waited for the performance to start.  We just brought our lawn chairs and a picnic dinner and had a great time for FREE!  While there is an admission charge to enter the museum and some displays, it was no cost at all to wonder the large several hundred acre ranch and enjoy the beautiful Colorado mountain sceanery.

You can click on the image at the right and get a faded full size image to use to create your own digital scrapbook background or digital stationery template.

If you are ever in the Colorado Springs area, you really need to check out this hidden treasure.   It’s not very well publicized due to the small operating budget, but it’s very authentic, very well maintained and OHHHHHH so beautiful… especially in the spring and summer.

Allow several hours time to explore as there is quite a lot to see.

Here’s our granddaughters favorite view… Turtles on the Pond.

This was just a few hundred feet west from where the performance was held.  It was a good size pond full of small feeder fish and had a couple of small turtles just hanging out on a floating log.

Makes for a great summer scrapbook background or digital stationery template.

Like the  image above… You can click on the image at the left and get a faded full size image to use to create your own digital scrapbook background or digital stationery template.

All in all, we had a really wonderful time.  The performances were very well done, quite entertaining and gave us some facts that we didn’t know after living here in the Pikes Peak region for more than 15 years now.

Kathy will be creating some new digital scrapbook templates and a couple more FREE stationery downloads in the next few days… she just needs to finish up with the lions, tigers and cougars photos we took at the Big Cat preserve just east of our house.

It’s amazing how many really cool things there are here in Colorado that we didn’t even know existed.

Kathy and Wes

www.MyPrincessCrafts.com
www.EZScrapbookGuide.com
www.Free-Stationery.com

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