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New FREE Valentines Day Digital Scrapbook Paper Downloads Added
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
We just added 4 Brand New Digital or Computer Scrapbook Paper Downloads for you.
They each come in 12×12, 8.5×11 and Landscape format.
As always, there are no hassles and no signups needed, just go and download all you want. We just hope that you’ll visit a couple of our sponsors when you are done as this helps support the site and keeps it FREE.
Happy Scrappin’
Kathy and Wes
P.S. We also have hundreds of Totally FREE Digital Stationery and Free Kids Cookbook Recipe’s and Photo Memory Journal page sets.
Great Holiday Gift Idea: New FREE Kids Recipe and Memory Journal Pages
Sunday, November 6th, 2011Just in case you missed the BIG NEWS:
PrincessCrafts just opened a new Totally FREE Scrapbook website on Halloween!
What a great idea this site is too.
Free Children’s Cookbook or Kids Recipes pre done for you on colorful fun scrapbook pages.
So, What’s so different about it?
The free kids recipes come complete with a matching photo memory journal page. Now, you can not only create lifelong memories in the kitchen, you can preserve them (complete with photos) right there when you’re done. Create your own children’s cookbook and memory journal and then, pass the memories down to their kids and even their kids. Generations of memories made in the kitchen, preserved and cherished.
It’s the holiday gift that keeps giving for more than a lifetime!
Still not sure what I’m talking about exactly? Then head on over to:
where you’ll find all the answers and see the scrapbook cookbook for kids for yourself.
Hope to see you there!
Wes
P.S. If you are looking for a children’s cookbook already fully complete for you, then check out our…
www.Cookbook4Kids.com and www.KidsRecipeBook.com sites.
You can even get a real custom hardbound version if you want one.
Adding Fall/Autumn and Thanksgiving Scrapbook Page Sets
Monday, October 17th, 2011Quick note for today,
I’m working on our www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com site today and adding some new Fall / Autumn and Thanksgiving Digital Scrapbook Paper Downloads to our Free Scrapbook Page Sets area.
I’m also adding FREE Autumn or Fall stationery along with some more Halloween Stationery to our www.Free-Stationery.com site in the Holiday area there. These are not only great for your Halloween Party invitations, Children’s coloring papers and holiday letters, they make great digital scrapbooking page backgrounds as well.
Have a great week!
Wes
Your 2012 Scrapbok Photo Calendars are Ready to Download
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Aug 2012
- Oct 2012
It’s that time again folks, our 2012 Digital Scrapbook Photo Calendar Templates are ready for download. We even have alternate themes for April, July, September, October & December for those of you outside the US and Canada.
Scrapbooking Tips Tuesday Again
Friday, February 4th, 2011Tips for Scrapbookers Block
Here’s a couple of ideas I use all the time when I’m finding it hard to find idea’s for my digital scrapbook pages.
First, I turn on memory music. What’s memory music? That’s the music you hear that floods your mind with memories of the past. It’s also music that makes you think about the subject you are trying to scrap. For example: I put on 70s ballads when I’m scrapping Valentines Day pages as this brings my dating years to mind and makes it easy to envision love themes.
Even Christmas music in March works wonders for my Holiday photo themes from the last Christmas. You may want to try a few Celtic tunes for St. Patrick’s Day.
If that doesn’t get your ideas flowing, then the step 2 I use is the Blank Page Shuffle.
All I do is to lay out a couple blank white sheets of paper either on the table (for hand scrappers) or on the computer screen when digital scrapping. Then I take 4 to 8 photos that go together and start arranging them on the pages until they look right and flow with the eye. Once they do that, it’s easy to add small elements and some color until I like the finished look.
Some times the simplest look is the best look for the memory story you are trying tell.
Happy Scrapbook Tips Tuesday. Hope these two scrapbook theme generating ideas get your creative juices flowing again.
Until next time…
Wes Waddell
Http://www.MyPrincessCrafts.com
Scrapbook Tips Tuesday – 8 Simple Scrapbooking Tips
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011Hello Scrapbook Friend,
It’s Tuesday and that means that it’s Scrapbook Tip Tuesday… at least today it is. So, I’ve collected 8 really simple and easy to follow scrap book tips and jotted them down with some notes for you.
This should get your holiday scrapbook pages off to a great start and make sorting through the hundreds of images you took over the holidays easier to arrange.
Scrapbook Tip Tuesday – 8 Simple Scrapbooking Tips
It’s Scrapbook Tip Tuesday and I’ve collected 8 easy to follow tips that will make your scrapbooking; both digital and the old style hand scrapping go a lot easier. I’m keeping this short, so here we go.
1. Keep a small journal or small planner handy 2 jot down memories, thoughts, events.
This is especially handy while you are on your vacation or holiday, but works really well while you are sorting through all the photos you took. If the photos are printed, number them on the back and make your notes corrospond to the photo numbers. If you are working with digital images, put the number in the file name at the beginning and it will sort your photos for you as well.
2. Keep your photos organized.
Speaking of sorting your photos… It’s so much easier to scrapbook when you can easily find the pictures you want for each page as you need them! For printed photos, I use an assortment of ziplock bags and boxes and plan my scrapbook pages as I sort them. For my digital images (which is most of them these days) I create subfolders on my hard drive and number/name the photos in each directory to make for easy sorting.
3. When hand scrapping a page, write your journaling in pencil first, to make sure it fits and to rectify any mistakes before you ruin the page!
Better yet, even if you are not usine the much easier digital scrapbooking techniques, you can still use your computer and it’s 1000s of fonts to print your titles and journaling and then cut them out and afix to your scrapbook page. This way, you can arrange the page in several ways and get just the look you want.
4. Batch tasks such as photo editing, cropping, and layout planning and do each for several layouts at once.
This should make it possible to get more hand scapped pages done in the time you have. You can be working on another page while glue or other elements are drying on your original page. Digital scrappers can use this techniqe too. Just create your file with several blank pages and save your photos, elements and background to individual pages. Then go back to each page and arrange and finalize your pieces.
5. Don’t be afraid to hand-write some of your journal entries. The way you write can be just as important as what you write.
If your hand isn’t as stedy as it used to be or you have a condition that makes it difficult to write, the computer can still use your handwritting. Kathy, my wife had her best handwritting made into a computer font. It’s not that expensive and adds a really nice personal touch to not only her digital scrapbooks, but to her letters and emails as well.
6. Use Calendars and Greeting cards in your layouts or clipart versions from the internet.
It gives a different look and feel to your scrapbook layouts. Hand scrappers, be sure and make sure that there are no acids or lingon in the papers as they can destroy your photos. I don’t recommend anything with glitter or thick dimensional objects as they can cut and perferate your pages that surround them in your scrapbook when stored. Scrapbook Photo Calendars also make great holiday, wedding and baby shower gifts.
7. Try to make scrapbooking a part of your daily or weekly schedule.
Even if it’s just an a hour a week, you’re 1 step closer to being finished! Don’t forget, that if you are digital scrapbooking, you can start and stop at any time by just saving where you are at. So, with digital scrapbook techniques, you can scrapbook with as little as just 10 minutes a day. If you have followed the sorting and organizing tips above, you can even finish a digital scrapbook page in just 10 minutes.
8. I like to save lots of souvenir’s from vacation places or special events I have been to.
They are an added bonus to the page layout. Ticket stubs, napkins, invitations and other paper type souvenir’s work great. Be really careful with leaves and flowers as they need to be sealed, even when dried, to protect your photos from the gases and oils they contain. As stated above, avoid thick and sharp items as they will damage your surrounding photos and pages, especially when stored in stacks. If you really like a large thick object, consider taking a photo of it and using the image on your scrapbook page, then place the object in a shadow box for display with your page.
See, 8 simple easy to follow tips and you are preserving your life’s most precious memories in no time at all.
By: Wes Waddell
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Kathy also just finished some new Winter Themed FREE Digital Scrapbook Page Downl0ads at: www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com in 8.5×11, 12×12 & Landscape 11×8.5 sizes.
You’ll also find new FREE Stationery Paper Downloads in Winter, Christmas, Kwanza and Hanukkah Themes at: www.Free-Stationery.com
No hassles, signups or junk… just go there and get all the scrapbook and stationery designs you want. Support the sites by checking out our sponsors links while you are there.
Happy Scrappin’
Wes & Kathy
