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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.
FREE Photo Calendars as Holiday Gifts
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010FREE Photo Calendars as Holiday Gifts
Hi Scrapbook Friend,
I’ve been working on my own families 2011 photo calendars today. I give them to both my side and my hubbies side of the family each year for Christmas.
I actually have to!
See, two years ago, I did it for my brother and sisters and my husbands sister and parents. Everyone showed the rest of the family and before I knew it, I had been tasked with creating 4 more for my aunt, my parents, my cousin and hubbies aunt.
Now, everyone starts sending me their summer and fall photos the end of November so that they can have their new personalized photo calendars for Christmas. It’s so popular in fact, I’ve got my sister-in-law helping me out this year so we can get them all done.
It really doesn’t take too long, as I put all of one side of the families birthdays and anniversaries on one set of templates, then make another copy with the other side of the families dates.
Then I create about half the calendar with photos from family events and gatherings that work for the whole family. The other half of the photo calendar pages get custom images of the family the calendar is for on them.
Since the templates have all the graphics and formatting done for me, it takes me less than 5 minutes per page to paste the photos behind the transparent openings and to add my journaling text to each page. The only time consuming part is gathering all the photos and placing them into separate directories for each person.
So easy to do and yet so personal a holiday gift. You can print them yourselves as I’ve created the templates to fit on standard 8.5×11 photo paper, card stock or paper. You can even put them on your thumb drive (usb drive) or on a photo cd and have them printed at any photo lab.
It really is the perfect gift for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza or any other holiday or birthday event. I’ve even made them for baby shower gifts using mom’s pregnancy photos and first photos of the baby after they are born.
All the common holidays are there for you and you can insert text to add any other anniversary, birthday or event on the dates you want.
Here’s my finished page for December 2011… what do you think?
Kim and David
The perfect holiday gift and plenty of time to download them and get them done in time for your holiday gift giving.
The templates are at: http://www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com and you can also get your FREE Holiday Stationer for your Holiday letter writing at: http://Free-Stationery.com
Happy Holidays,
Kathy Waddell
www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com Free Photo Calendar Page Templates
www.ComputerScrapbookTraining.com The Greatest FREE Digital Scrapbook Gift
Your Family Scrapbooking For The Holidays
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010Hi Scrapbook Friend,
We have a great pre-holiday article for you today: Family Scrapbooking For the Holidays.
Before we get started, here’s a few updates on what’s new on our digital scrapbook pages for you.
Kathy just added 3 autumn and 6 thanksgiving digital scrapbook sets for our Scrapbook of a Lifetime Landscape format area.
She also added new sets on the Printable pastels 12×12 area consisting of Autumn 1 thru 5 and set 6 (not the a or b sets yet… next week for more.)
On our 8.5×11 and 12×12 members areas we added:
– Autumn Scrapbook sets 65 thru 67
– Thanksgiving digital scrapbook templates 34 thru 39
Kathy says that we Will get the rest of the Scrapbook of a LIfetime Landscape sets done and loaded as soon as possible. Extreame cold and Thanksgiving Holiday are slowing things down a bit.
For our FREE Scrapbook Downloads:
There are new Thanksgiving and Christmas Stationery on www.Free-Stationery.com
There is a Fall Mini-Page on the www.PrincessCrafts.com main page
and we have our 2011 Photo Calendars for you on www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com
One last note before we get to our article today:
Our kids are going through some really tough times right now due to our son’s medical bills and our daughters car accident medical costs. Insurance on both is refusing to pay anything and with the holidays so close… well it’s tough.
We know that the economy is hitting everyone hard these days, but we wanted to help in the only way we could.
Look for a new Kids Can Cook Cookbook in the next week. We are setting the kids up with a new site and 100% of the sales go towards helping pay off the kids medical bills. If you can help out and get a copy for one of your kids or grandkids or …? We would really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance,
Now, on to our Article:
Title: Your Family Scrapbooking For The Holidays
Author: Wes Waddell
Article:
Family is everything during the holiday season.
It’s the one time of year that even your teenagers will make an effort to participate in family activities. They may even instigate one or two of their own.
One of the activities we started while our kids were teens was to use the joy of the season to create holiday scrapbooks for other family and friends. We found that it wasn’t hard to get the kids involved as even they loved going through the photos from the last year and even years past.
The actual hard part was usually getting them to focus on just a few pages worth of pictures and not trying to create a 200 page complete family heritage project. Some of the details they remembered from the past year alone were quite the eye openers. To be young and see the world like that again…
We would take one of the early long weekends, like Veterans Day in early November, and use the long weekend with no school to plan, start and complete our family holiday scrapbook. We would start on Friday evening after school was out and use that time to brainstorm ideas to create the theme for that year. Once we got started, we would have little ideas pop up all night, during dinner, while watching TV and just before bed. We wrote each of them down on a long list, not stopping until lights out.
On Saturday morning, we would go over all the ideas over breakfast and choose one for the project. Each year, on member of the family was chosen (we went in order of birth and rotated each year) as project lead and they held the final decision power if we couldn’t narrow it down to just one idea.
It was amazing how being responsible for the final outcome of the project that was being given to other family and friends made everyone cooperate and get along.
The rest of Saturday was spent gathering up the photographs (digital and print) and writing down all the stories that went with them… again, this was sometimes very interesting from the kids point of view.
Sunday and Monday were spent in all kinds of different conversations while we worked to put it all together and match the themes into one finished book. The only boring part at times was all the duplicate pages for each gift. We don’t have that problem these days… but more on that in a few minutes.
It was sometimes amazing what you could do with an assembly line of family members once everything was planned and laid out. It’s funny, we never could get that organized any other time of the year.
One item of note: we took lots of photo’s as we did this and would make 2 to 4 pages of our own each year to add to our own growing book of memories.
Today, the kids are all grown and out on their own. But, we still use the phone and other technologies to keep the tradition going. Computers have made the duplication process a thing of the past as we do all our scrapbooking on the computer now. Everything is digital! Even the final gifts are CD and DVD presentations to most of the extended family. We have the books printed into real hardbound books for our special heirloom gifts that the grandparents (and now great grandparents) get.
The grandkids are even getting old enough to start joining in and the childhood perspective is again with us when we tell the stories.
This years project will be our very first Storybook Scrapbook. All our best holiday memories of the past 20 years are being added to the story of Twas the Night Before Christmas. We can’t wait to read the finished book to our youngest grandchildren Christmas Eve.
I hope that this gives you some ideas on how you can spend more quality time together as a family and make new memories in the process of remembering past ones.
Families really are everything… especially during the holiday season. I hope you’ll all find more time to spend with yours this year.
Happy Holidays!
About the author:
Wes and Kathy own and operate multiple digital scrapbook membership sites, including: http://www.twasthenightscrapbook.com Membership offers much more than just scrapbook templates, it’s help when you need it and a friendly push to keep you on track. Visit http://www.MyPrincessCrafts.com for details on all our Scrapbook membership sites.
