Scrapbook Tips Tuesday – 8 Simple Scrapbooking Tips

Posted on January 4th, 2011 by wwaddell.
Categories: Free Downloads, Scrapbook Articles, Scrapbook Tips, Training.

Hello 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

www.MyPrincessCrafts.com

www.Cookbook4Kids.com

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Using FREE Stationery for Invitations in Lake Tahoe

Posted on December 1st, 2010 by wwaddell.
Categories: Scrapbook Tips, Training.

Hi, Wes and Kathy

So far, I’ve created two invitations using your free stationery…and I’m doing a holiday photo collage for my own personal use.  Attached are the invitations… I also cut the major icon and placed it onto the envelope that these invitation were mailed in, to coordinate the look.  I think they both came out GREAT!!  Thanks again for your fabulous website…

Best,

Millie

Millie Szerman

Administrative Director

 

995 Tahoe Boulevard

Incline Village, Nevada  89451

Website:  www.LakeTahoeSchool.org

 

From: Millie Szerman
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 10:56 AM
To: PrincessCrafts Scrapbooking 101
Subject: Your website…it’s FABULOUS!!!

Just discovered your www.Free-Stationery.com website, via Google!  I wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your designs FOR FREE, since I’m now working for a non-profit school and we always need flyers (which we print on recycled paper), and your designs are terrific! 

THANK YOU!!

Millie Szerman

Administrative Director

LAKE TAHOE SCHOOL

Incline Village, Nevada   89451

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Free Scrapbook Downloads & Member News

Posted on April 7th, 2010 by wwaddell.
Categories: Site Information.

Hello Scrapbook Friend,

I know, it’s been a full month since we last updated you on all your scrapbook pages.  So much going on here.  We’ve moved PrincessCrafts to a new faster server. With all the new sets and members, we wanted to make sure you didn’t see any slow downs or interruptions.  Just let us know if you find anything missing or not working.

Just in case you are here onl for the freebies, then just skip right to the bottom and you’ll find them there.  For our members and close friends, here’s what all we have added in the last month.

  • Added new scrapbook elements:
    • 2 sets of balloons
    • 5 Easter Egg Sets

 

  • Added 9 New Easter sets to both the 8.5×11 and 12×12 areas

 

  • Added 9 New Easter Landscape sets (Scrapbook of a lifetime area)

 

  • Added 23 New cliparts to the Members Clipart area

 

  • Added the St. Patrick’s Day category for Scrapbook of a Lifetime (landscape)

 

  • Replaced the entire Soft Expressions and Printable Pastel St. Patrick’s Day categories

 

  • Added the St. Patrick’s Day category to the Landscape sets.

 

For our Freebies this last month:

 

 

 

 

Next month look for a brand new Wedding Scrapbook area added to our Platinum Membership area. Also look for a new simplified menu system as we move even more scrapbook page sites under the PrincessCrafts Digital Scrapbook Membership umbrella.

We were the 1st Scrapbook Membership site on the Internet and we are still the largest.  If you are getting your digital or even your traditional scrapbook pages anywhere else, we guarantee you are paying way too much for your scrapbooks.

Happy Scrappin’

Kathy and Wes

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Creating Beautiful Keepsakes is Easy!

Posted on December 28th, 2009 by admin.
Categories: My Thoughts, Scrapbook Ad, Scrapbook Articles, Training.

Dear Scrapbook Friend,

Create beautiful keepsakes and preserve your most treasured Christmas memories…

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas with family and friends and that you’ve got some memorable family photographs capturing the festivities. With the post Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanza clean up in full swing, it’s easy to get caught up in the cleaning and simply file pictures away in a box or on your hard drive. 

How much is forgotten and lost when you do that?

Why not simply preserve your memories by creating an easy, no mess, digital scrapbook or Christmas memory book.  It’s perfectto share with your loved ones or give as a New Year gift?

Shouldn’t preserving your families most treasured memories be part of your new years resolution?

As a valued PrincessCrafts Member, you can download all the scrapbook page templates, digital elements and embellishments you need… They’re all included in your Platinum or Gold membership at no additional charge.

No limits, no days of wasted time searching for the right page and most of all, no mess to clean up or time wasted waiting for glue to dry. 

You are also saving loads of money as compared to the old fashioned out of date hand scrap methods.  Digital Scrapbook pages can cost as little as 50 cents including printing and even cost less than 50 cents to put your entire memory book on a CD or DVD. Hand scrapped pages cost more than $2.00 for just a simple page with nothing but the photos and some small elements on them.

… OH THE MESS!

Remember the mess it makes to hand scrap?  How about the huge input of time and money to put just one page together? Whole rooms of space needed for storage, tools, cutters, and other expensive equipment… What about the damage the dimensional elements, frames and stones do to your finished book in a very short amount of time? What if you make a mistake? How much does that cost the hand scrapper?

I could go on and on, but the fact is, you know why hand scrapping is so difficult and why you never want to start another project.

Digital scrapbooking has none of the problems associated with out dated hand scrapping processes. Digital takes up no space (your computer is already there), digital makes no mess, digital needs no expensive tools or equipment, digital can be started and stopped at any time and picked back up when time allows again.  Digital is cheap and elements and templates can be used over and over and over again, combined and redesigned. Digital can be mass produced with just the touch of the print button and digital scrapbooking can be viewed on large movie screens or mailed on CD/DVD.  Digital scrapbooks can include sound, music and even the voices of loved ones.  Digital scrapbooks can be made into true hardbound books.

Hand scrapped pages can do none of this!

Digital scrapbooking is really very easy and entire memory books and even wedding albums can be created in a weekend of free time.  You don’t need months to create a scrapbook with digital scrapbooking techniques.  Programs like Serif’s digital scrapbooking Artist or Indigo Rose’s Scrapbook Max allows anyone to create outstanding designs with all the style, texture and charm of a an old fashioned traditional scrapbook – digitally!

Whether you celebrated a baby’s first Christmas, captured the joy on the face of a child opening a much desired Kwanza gift, or took some great group Hanukkah photos of family and friends enjoying their time together, Digital Scrapbooking can help you transform your images into beautiful holiday scrapbook pages. You can then share them digitally – online and via email – or as printed cards and scrapbooks that will be cherished in the New Year and generations beyond.

Click to our secure order site, it’s quick and easy

Create stunning scrapbook memory pages in minutes rather than hours

Making beautiful, textured scrapbook pages is so very easy with Digital Scrapbook Techniques. Take a look at what we’ve produced using only the amazing features and tools you’ll find in our Totally FREE digital scrapbooking 101 Course…

Twas the Night Before Christmas Scrapbook  Baby Scrapbook Page from Computer Scrapbooking 101 Course

Why scrapbook digitally?

Old Fashioned Time Consuming Traditional Scrapbooking is the art of preserving moments and memories, by capturing photos, memorabilia and stories in a visually rich, textured album, and enhancing your photos with dimensional embellishments such as ribbons, buttons and stitches. Digital Scrapbook software lets you do exactly that, but on your computer with no mess, no expensive tools and in a small fraction of the time!

Thanks to Digital Scrapbook techniques, you can store your most treasured family moments as stunning digital scrapbook memory pages that look just like the old expensive hand scrapped pages, but without the cost, time or the mess associated with out of date scrapbook processes!

Plus, with Digital Scrapbooking, sharing your precious memories is easier than ever before too, thanks to its range of flexible printing and sharing options not available to hand scrappers. Why not publish your finished scrapbook on our very own free scrapbooking community or web page and show off your treasured moments for all your friends and family to enjoy all over the world?

How about having your memories bound in a real hard bound book, complete with full color custom cover that you design?  You can easily and for less cost than if you had hand scrapped the pages and put them in a glued together cloth covered 3 ring binder. 

Whether you’ve considered scrapbooking before and decided it’s too expensive or time consuming, or even if you’ve never heard of scrapbooking and are not sure if it’s for you, we’re convinced when you’ve tried Digital Scrapbooking you won’t look back, and you’ll agree that it offers the best way to store and share your most treasured family memories.

Best of all, if you are anything like me, digital lets you create pages even if you have a handicap or when arthritis makes it hard to move your hands and fingers.  I even had my best handwriting made into a digital font so I can type my journaling notes and still have it in my own hand written style. 

You sure can’t do that with hand scrapped pages!

Click to our secure order site, it’s quick and easy
Unlimited creativity, unprecedented quality, unrivalled flexibility

With Digital Scrapbook Artist, you’ll enjoy unlimited editing capabilities at no cost and creative freedom like never before.  What’s more you’ll be able to delve into a treasure trove of embellishments, backgrounds, edge effects, scissor like tools, stitches and simulated hole punches. Whether you want your pages to look ripped, frayed, covered in glitter and glue, sand and sprinkles, you name it, Digital Scrapbooking has it – and with all artwork supplied at premium-high resolution, you’ll be blown away by the exceptional quality and realistic textured results you can create!

Now you can even scan in all your precious souvenirs with ease and create your own embellishments easily.

Click to our secure order site, it’s quick and easy

Why not try Digital Scrapbooking for FREE today?

As a valued PrincessCrafts Member, we’ll let you have our full Computer Scrapbooking 101 Course that is based on totally FREE software that you can download and use forever.  We’ll even give you all the elements and scrapbook templates you need for your first project, absolutely FREE!

All you have to do is signup and start learning!

No catch, just to to: www.ComputerScrapbookTraining.com to get started today at 0 cost.

Then, if it’s right for you and you want access to the largest digital scrapbook members area on the Internet today… User you members home page or come on back and

Click to our secure order site, it’s quick and easy
REALLY! Nothing To Lose

As always, this amazing offer is covered by PrincessCraft’s 100% Satisfaction Promise. We’re totally confident that you’ll find that all our products really do give you the very best in value for money and if you’re not completely satisfied with any of them, you can get a full refund within 45 days.  But we’re convinced that once you’ve used any of our sensational products you won’t want to part with any of them!

Thanks for taking the time to read all this…

Happy Scrappin’

Kathy Waddell

www.MyPrincessCrafts.com

www.PrincessCrafts.com

www.TwasTheNightScrapbook.com

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Turn Holiday Cards into Treasured Keepsakes

Posted on December 18th, 2009 by admin.
Categories: Scrapbook Articles, Scrapbook Tips, Site Information, Training.

Hello My Dear Holiday Scrapbook Friend,
 
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Kwanza and Happy Holidays to everyone.
 
Wes and I are all settled in at Millersylvania State Park in Washington State. We’ve been here since the 5th of November and finish up just before Christmas. Next stop is back to the first State Park we hosted at… Camano Island State Park. We are both looking forward to exploring more of the WA islands and western shores.
 
You’ll have to check out the photo stickers I made from the mushroom & hiking pictures we took here in the park. They are in the PC-ScrapbookElements.com section.
 
Are you ready for the holidays yet?
 
Turn Holiday Cards into Treasured Keepsakes
 
We got a great idea for Holiday Cards from one of our members a while back and I want to pass it on here again. It’s the perfect way to turn a simple Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanza card into a real keepsake.
 
Whether you make your cards or use holiday cards from the store, adding a family year in review letter on the inside will turn the card from just a nice gesture into a keepsake that friends and family look forward to receiving each year. I know we sure do.
 
If you make your own cards, and it’s so easy with digital scrapbook techniques and some card stock; you can easily print the inside of the card with a special holiday stationery and place your letter right there on the inside.
 
If you use boxed cards from the store, you can still put them through your printer and put a short letter on the blank part of the cards inside. If that isn’t enough room, you can use another sheet of paper and print your stationery and letter there. Then just include the letter with the card.
 
You may even want to turn the letter into a PDF file so friends and family can download it from your personal web site or you can eMail it to them complete with decorative stationery.
 
Don’t forget that you can get your totally FREE stationery downloads with no signups or hassles at: www.Free-Stationery.com or www.1-Computer-Stationery.com
 
We even just added 3 new    Christmas Stationery   , Hanukkah Stationery & Kwanza Stationeries to the site. We also just added a new A4 size category for all our European Scrapbook and Journaling friends.
 
If you are still in need of a really special gift that takes almost no time to create and is one of the best gifts you’ll ever give…
 
You can give our FREE Photo Calendars a try. They come all ready to just insert your photos, add any personal birthdays or events and then print as many as you need. They are also totally FREE with no signups or other hassles at:
 
www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com
 
Now, let’s go over the Scrapbook and Journaling news for this month.
 
New Landscape Format Sets –
 
We are working hard to get the new landscape (11×8.5) area called Scrapbook of a Lifetime loaded with new scrapbook template sets. I added 2 new categories for our Scrapbook of a Lifetime Landscape site:
 
Grunge and Kwanza
 
Pastels and Soft Expressions 8.5×11 and 12x12s
 
To date we have the Animals, Christmas and Halloween categories for Printable Pastels and Soft Expressions replaced with our new png format. I will be working on the New Years, Thanksgiving and Valentines categories next. So, get the ones you want on the site now before I replace them.
 
PC-Scrapbook Elements and Embellishments
 
I have 2 new ornament sets for our PC-ScrapbookElements site loaded now and I will be removing some of the alphabet tags and ornament sets in the Christmas category from this site after Christmas.
 
New Elements:
 
2 sets of Photo Stickers (Photo Art category)
 
2 sets of Christmas Stickers (Stickers category) Plus 2 bonus Christmas Stickers Mini-Frames (same stickers, but made into small mini-frames)
 
3 new alphabet tags (Santa and Church and Christmas alphs)
 
8.5×11 and 12×12 Scrapbook Templates
 
Just in time for the holidays, I have added 6 new digital scrapbook Christmas page sets to both the 8.5×11 and 12×12 areas of the members sections.
 
Hope you all have a wonderful holiday season and that you truly enjoy yourself, treasure your family and friends and feel unconditionally blessed by the joys they bring.
 
Happy Holidays
 
Kathy & Wes
 
www.PrincessCrafts.com
www.MyPrincessCrafts.com
www.TwasTheNightScrapbook.com

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