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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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Happy Scrappin’
Wes & Kathy
Scrapbook Tips: #1 Themes
Sunday, July 25th, 2010Scrapbook Tips:
1. Page Theme
The theme of your scrapbook can be simple or complex. Your theme could be a special event such as a birthday, a baby shower, a summer wedding, Christmas, or Halloween. Themes can also be personalized to the scrap book recipient’s special interests. Special interest themes include your favorite colors, his favorite sports photos, your kids favorite television programs or music video artist, your last camping trip in the great outdoors, or even some of your cultural influences.
Ask yourself 3 simple questions before you begin your next computer scrapbook project:
- What is the overall purpose for your scrapbook?
- Who is the scrapbook for?
- Who or what is the scrapbook about?
The answers to these three simple questions are all factors in selecting an appropriate scrapbook theme.
For instance, the scrapbook you are giving your nephew as he graduates from law school is probably completely different than the grandparent book you send your mother-inlaw. Your nephew will probably appreciate a scrapbook with photographs from school, poems, journals, and more masculine styled embellishments. Perhaps, the theme of the scrapbook could be court rooms and law libraries. You could create embellishments that looked like gavels and white wigs around various pictures of your nephew during his college years.
Your mother-in-law, on the other hand, will love a multitude of baby pictures fancifully embellished with toy blocks, ribbon, and baby fingerprints. The theme of this book will probably be your husbands childhood. Photographs could include baby and grandma with the baby as well as photos of his childhood days. A nice journal about your husband’s most cherished childhood memories could also add a nice touch.
The key here is to have a consistent theme for you scrapbook in mind before you start. When your scrapbook tells a specific story from start to finish, it becomes a treasured memory of it’s own.
Digital vs Hand Scrapbooking Costs
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010One of our new friends here at PrincessCrafts had a question about printing digital scrapbook pages. Since this is a question we get now and again, I thought that I would post our answer here too.
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Hi Lois,
Kathy passed this on to me as I do most of the tech support for her.
If you want hard copies of your scrapbook pages, then yes you will need to get them printed. You don’t need to print them yourself though. Many photo printers, including Wal Mart now offer 12×12 print services since digital scrapbooking is such a big thing now and is becoming the #1 way to scrapbook. They can be a bit pricey on the surface, but when you consider that the average hand scrapped page now costs more than $4.00 and go more than 5 times that depending on what you put on it… it all becomes relative. If you don’t have a large format printer and even if you do, we recommend you check out www.Realbooks-Scrapbooks.com. Bill and Colleen are very good at turning your digital scrapbook pages, even the 12×12 size into the most beautiful real hardbound books you will ever see. And the cost is amazingly low. We have them do all our books for us. The quality beats anyone else out there hands down. You even get to design your own custom cover… something you can’t do at all with the old hand scrapped books.
Sorry if it sounds a bit commercial, but they really are terrific and do such amazing work.
On the other hand, many of our clients don’t make hard copies at all any longer. They create the pages and put them on DVD or Video CDs. Others incorporate them into slide presentations using PowerPoint or Open Office (which costs nothing). Still others add sound and transition effects using movie software and turn them into actual video DVDs and CDs. We have an example of our granddaughters doing the Twas the Night Before Christmas a couple of years ago on our www.PrincessCrafts.com site. This one is still a big hit with the family and gets played every Christmas.
As you can see, you can create your scrapbooks for as little as the cost of a blank DVD or you can have a full size 12×12 hardbound book with custom cover done (in multiple copies if you want) for just over a buck a page through Realbooks Scrapbooks. You can also shrink the 12×12 pages down to 8×8 and print them yourself. Our Cannon printer, that can use ink refills you do yourself prints 8.5×11 pages for less than 25 cents a page. It’s also a large format printer that prints up to 13 inches wide and we get prints for as little as 80 cents a page including the paper cost when we buy in bulk.
Hope this helps you out. If you still have any questions, please let me know and I’ll do my very best to get you the info you need.
Happy Scrappin’
Wes
PrincessCrafts.com
(877) 751-6368
28115 N. Spotted Rd.
Deer Park, WA 99006
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