Digital Scrapbooking 101 BLOG

5 Easy Scrapbook Tips and News

Posted on June 11th, 2010 by wwaddell.
Categories: Scrapbook Articles, Scrapbook Tips, Site Information, Training.

I have just a little news for you today on what’s going on with your members areas and what’s coming soon. 

Then, I have a few little scrapbook tips that people sent me off Twitter this week.

First, here’s what’s happened so far this month:

I will be removing the floral category the end of June so be sure and get any of the old scrapbook template pages you want now.

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Back on topic:

I will also be removing the Headers, Mini-Pages and Occupations categories the middle of June to make room for all the newly updated scrapbook page sets.

I have already replaced the Numbers category with a brand new number element clipart area.

I have also added the new Free page toppers throughout the PrincessCrafts.com site for our NON-Members and paced them all on a single page for our members in the 8.5x member’s area.

Yesterday I got around to adding new Father’s Day papers to both the 8.5x and 12x areas as well as in the new Landscape categories.

MORE FREEBIES:

I just replaced all the chilren’s bookmarks on our kids free stuff page on PrincessCrafts.com and I’m making some new stationery for 1-Computer-Stationery.com and I’ll have them loaded this weekend.

What’s coming soon:

We have been hinting at a new Wedding Scrapbook site now for a couple of months.  Well, Wes has been uploading the new scrapbook template pages this week and is almost done.  Once they are uploaded, we’ll be opening the area for our Platinum Members first.  Then, we’ll open them to the public when the new website is finished. 

Here’s what you’ll be getting next week if you are one of our Platinum Members:

30 Wedding (2-page sets) in 12x, 8.5x and landscape format. That’s 60 pages in each size.

Bonus:  12 journaling sets in all 3 formats (2 page sets with photo areas and journaling areas on them) Total of 72 scrapbook page templates for journaling.

Bonus:  6 sets of wedding element tags in Silver and the same 6 scrapbook tags in gold.  That’s 6 sets of 6 in silver and 6 sets of 6 in gold for a total of 72 wedding scrapbook tags.

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5 Easy Scrapbook Tips

1.  Most flowers & plants are not scrapbook safe – even dried. They contain acids, and harmful gases.  If you are going to place them in your scrapbook with photos, be sure and seal them in an air tight bag or even better, coat them with a scrapbook safe clear spray coating.

2.  Use the dictionary as a journal prompt – writers block or hung up on what to say to open a new journaling note… open up the dictionary, close your eyes and choose a random word on the page.  Now, read the defenition (if you don’t know what it is) and start writing memories!

3.  What to do when scrapping with low-res or small photos (like the ones from your camera phone).  Easiest solution is to just print them small and use them that way. They’ll look much clearer and you can compensate with lots more photos on the page! The alternate solutions is to print them out small, then scan them at a very high resolution like 800 or 1200 ppi.  Then print the new scan as a larger size print.

4.  When making a mini scrapbook album by hand in a hurry, use the same structure on each page to speed up the hand scrap process. This will save you lots of time as you can cut out elements for each page in advance and all at once.  Of course, the better solution is to create the mini-scrapbook album digitally using digital scrapbook templates. This way, you can very the design of each page, but create the whole album in a fraction of the time it would take to do it with the old fashioned hand scrap process.

5.  My final scrapbook tip for today is to “just have fun.”  Sometimes you need to stop planning every little detail and just create intuitively as you go.  It may amaze you to put a stop watch to your planning process sometime and see just how much time it takes up for your scrapbooking.

Happy Scrappin’

Kathy & Wes

www.MyprincessCrafts.com

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