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Sunday, July 13, 2008

Scrapbooking Techniques From The Masters

Scrapbooking has been enjoyed over the years by many from all walks of life... young and old. It is also not only a female orientated craft but also enjoyed by many males (maybe they may not like to admit it to their male friends) It is also a great way for others to connect & share memories.

Learning scrapbooking techniques from the masters is a great way to evolve your skills. I find that one of the best ways to learn new techniques is to go to your library or newsagent and browse through the latest editions.

After our morning Manly Beach walks my friend and I would sit and chat....enjoying our coffee and then head off to Humphrey's Newsagency to flick through scrapbooking magazines or cards for new ideas. You'd be surprised what new ideas you can come up from looking in their card section.

If you're looking for like minded friends.... ask at your local craft shop or community centre for day or evening scrapbooking classes.

Here's just a taste of what the masters have to offer in scrapbooking techniques to take your layouts to the next level.


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Monday, May 26, 2008

Scrapbooking Daisyd

I love this collection of papers, stickers and ready to go template pages. So many hours to fill creativily with these gorgeous collection of Scrapbooking Daisyd.




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Inexpensive Scrapbook Creation

How To Make An Inexpensive Scrapbook Creation

This was a clever idea which was thought of while standing in line at the grocery store. All you need is paper lunch sacks,tape ( to close the top of the bags) hole punch and yarn,pipe cleaners,w/e to bind the bags. A crudely drawn illustration is shown to help you...




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posted by Gaida | 5:41 PM |

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Brag Book Scrapbooking Introduction

New to Scrapbooking? Have no idea where to begin... This is a great step-by step video giving you a Brag Book Scrapbooking introduction to a creative new world.

These videos will show you how to make 10 pages starting with a 6x6 format, very small, one picture maybe two on a page. Every page is simple, with no more than two colors.

These brag books make wonderful gifts, and small enough to carry in your handbag to show off your latest family or travel photos. This is so simple as to how pictures alone can become your own design by just cutting them and sticking them on a piece of paper.


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posted by Gaida | 2:12 PM |

Monday, April 07, 2008

Scrapbooking Gift That Keeps Giving

The Scrapbooking Gift that Keeps Giving

Gift giving can be a very tedious process. It can be very difficult to figure out what type of present is appropriate.

Sometimes because of this, we either sell out and give the most generic item or end up not getting our loved one anything at all when faced with the challenge of gift giving.

Luckily, there is a gift item that is very personal, novel and ideal for babies-a scrapbook!

Scrapbooking is a novel way of maintaining lasting memories while creatively recounting the stories and the wealth of emotion behind each snapshot. Anyone can scrapbook. All one needs are the regular scrapbooking materials and one's creativity will unleash itself.

This way, a scrapbook makes the perfect gift it's personal and handmade. The best thing about it is that when you give a scrapbook as a gift, the person who received it can continue the scrapbook project on his or her own.

For instance, you can give your friend who is a new mom a baby scrapbook. You can enlist the help of your other friends to collect snapshots dating as far back as the wedding up until the time she gives birth.

You can make a chronicle that will make your friend happy every time she goes through the baby scrapbook because it tells a very wonderful and precious part of her life and she can recount and recall it every time she looks through the baby scrapbook.

What's more is that other people will enjoy this particular baby scrapbooking project of yours as well. You see, a baby scrapbook is something to be enjoyed by the whole family.

The parents of the child will surely appreciate the wonderful baby scrapbook as a gift and eventually, the grown up child will be delighted to see her own baby scrapbook. In fact, this baby scrapbook may spawn the family to continue to the storytelling and expand the scrapbook onto the different stages of one's life.

While a personally made baby scrapbook is a wonderful present to a friend who has just given birth or for a godchild that can finally appreciate seeing his or her story told by a wonderful baby scrapbook, or even for an expecting mother, don't forget that your own children will benefit from a baby scrapbooking endeavor.

Even if your child or children have long grown up, it is never too late to begin a baby scrapbooking project that you can give to them as a present. They are sure to enjoy the present of their very own baby scrapbook at whatever cognitive age they may be at. It would probably be an even better idea to give this present to your child when he or she is expecting to have his or her own child.

This way, the recipient of your baby scrapbooking project will be able to reminisce about his or her own infancy as they expect their own baby to be born. The story from the baby scrapbook then becomes even deeper and makes sort of a closed loop that will perhaps encourage them to embark on their own baby scrapbooking project for their own child.

This is something that they will enjoy making, which, will be eventually enjoyed by their child when he or she grows up.

Enjoy creating the Scrapbooking Gift That Keeps Giving!

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posted by Gaida | 2:39 PM |

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Best eBay Scrapbooking Bargains

Best eBay Scrapbooking Bargains that will help your precious memories come alive.

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posted by Gaida | 12:58 PM |