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Making Corrections To A Scrapbook Page

You are just about finished with a cute scrapbooking page. It took you hours to get everything just right, and then what happens? Your finishing touch rub-on or stamp message is a disaster. What should you do?

• a. Use Un-Du Adhesive Remover. This product is a life-saver. It will remove rub-on mistakes without messing up the whole page.

• b. Turn your mistake into a new creative technique. Try laying small ribbons or strips of paper over part of the stamped words and restamping over it. This will add dimention to your page.

Adding Texture to Your Scrapbook Page

Think texture. Texture adds so much character and personality to scrapbooking pages. As you scrapbook, think about trying to add depth to your pages. This can be done many ways from adding 3-D embellishments to using puff paints and textured paper. Creatively plan your pages to include dimension.

Enhancing Your Digital Photos

If you take pictures with a digital camera, you can enhance your photos with programs like Photoshop. You can do things with this programs like lighten dark photos, fix red-eye, and erase blemishes. You can also turn your photos to black and white. There are online tutorials that can help you learn how to enhance your photos with programs like Photoshop.

Determining Your Scrapbook Page Layout

Layout your scrapbooking page before you glue anything down. This will give you a chance to be creative and work out potential problems before they become mistakes.

Monogramming

Here is an idea to use some of those left over stickers, tags, rub-ons, etc. that enevitably collect in your scrapbooking supply box. Start monogramming. You can use these items in the first letter of a word on your scrapbooking pages, such as for a name or page title. Monogramming is a fun and cute technique that is also great for using extra supplies.

Getting the Most From Die-Cut Patterns

Instead of buying expensve die-cut patterns over and over again, trace your die-cuts before you use them for future use. Also consider using cookie-cutters as a die-cut pattern.

Lisa Robbins is a businesswoman and an enthusiast for sports, family, and crafts. She is the creator and maintainer of ScrapsAndCrafts.com, a scrapbooking tutorial and wholesale scrapbooking supply website. She is also a contributor to ScrapbookFinds.com, a search tool for scrapbooking products.

In addition to these roles, Lisa is also one of the owners of RobbinsSports.com, a team sports and fitness products store.

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Kids grow up so fast and if you don’t try to capture some of these wonderful memories through some means, they’ll all slip through the fingers just in a snap. And scrapbooking is a fabulous way to preserving those memories, by combining the photos and journaling of your kids.

As parents, scrapbook pages of your adorable boy or girl probably fill up many pages. But these are stories told from your perspective. How about including your child’s perspective into those pages as well?

Children have many stories to tell and share and through the shared scrapbooking experiences, he or she will have a mean of documenting those wonderful stories that impacted his or her life.

Try scrapbooking not only about your kid, but together with your kid. As in combined forces and powers of mommy and kid. Your child’s views will certainly add a heart-rending air of innocence and specialness to those pages.

Not forgetting that scrapping together with your kid is an excellent hobby to bring the two of your even closer. And you’ll become a tirelessly cheerleader and supporter, to encourage your child to grow his or her art and language skills. Scrapbooking also enhances the worth and sense of uniqueness in your kid.

If your kid is still very young and hasn’t mastered the art of doing a basic layout, you can always do the layout while your child dictates the journaling portion. Consider pointing out a few layouts options and let your kid do the selection. The ideas your child has of how the page should look might take you by surprise!

Journaling is important even if it’s just a few keywords or short sentences. This can be a fun session with your child. The creative answers generated from the little brain of your boy or girl are what make these pages special.

By supporting your kid in expressing his or her own choices and thoughts, it’s a great way to inspire farther creativity in your child to want to do more scrapbook pages.

You can choose a topic and then present it to your kid. “Bobby, would you like to do a page on your favorite toys?”. “Jeannie, would you like to do a page on your trip to Paige’s birthday party at the McDonald’s?”

If your child is excited about the topic, then use a series of about five to ten prompts to get your child’s answers to them. Your boy’s or girl’s answers would then go into the journaling boxes of your page.

If possible, it’s a good idea to get your child to write out the answers in his or her handwriting. Then another piece of your child’s uniqueness would be retained on the pages.

The basic idea is for you to help your child scrapbooks the page, but the words would have to come from your kid. This would not only put your child’s originality into the page, but would let others glimpse into your child’s own perspective on the event or topic.

Many times, you’ll realize that though the two of you experienced the same event, but would form vastly different impressions of the same experience. You may be touched by the loads of affection exchanged between your daughter and her best friend. But it’s how she finally had the chance to order her first Oreo cookies ice-cream cone, which left the sweetest memory on her mind that day.

Having your child’s stories on the pages will reinforce the self-esteem in your child. How? Your child will begin to understand that what he or she has to say means something.

There are some general prompts that you can ask your kids to guide them in weaving their stories:

- What are your favorite ….?

- Why do you like about … the best?

- What do you like to do with it?

- What is so special about … ?

- What would you like to do when you …?

- Can you describe …. and what do you know about it?

- What are your likes about … ?

- What are your dislikes about … ?

- What have you learned from … ?

- What have you learned about … ?

- What do you admire about … ?

- What makes a good … ?

- What’s the funniest thing that happened on … ?

- Where and how did you meet … ?

- What do you do when you meet … ?

- What do you talk about when you are with … ?

- Can you draw a picture on … ?

By combining efforts with your kid, and with little prompts, meaningful scrapbook pages can be achieved.

In this way, you can capture the early growing phases of your child on those pages forever. And these scrapbook pages are bound to light up your kid’s and your faces over the years.

“Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.”
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Happy scrapping with your kid!

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Fion Lim writes for Great Inspirational Quotes. For scrapbooking quotes, please visit Scrapbooking Quotes.

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22% of all scrapbooking searches, completed on the internet, in October, were for scrapbooking ideas. New and fresh scrapbooking ideas are at the top of every scrapbookers mind. Whether newbie’s or veterans, many scrapbookers have a hard time coming up with innovative ideas. Scrapbooking addicts find themselves spending hours at online forums and buying idea books and magazines, hunting down the latest scrapbooking ideas and projects that they can do themselves.

This isn’t some crazy fad, either. Some estimates put the number of women who scrapbook in 1 out of every 10 families. SPAM, although controversial, is one great, secret stash of scrapbooking ideas for scrapbookers. It’s ironic that something everyone hates, can offer such exciting ideas for scrapbookers to use. Not only can they get ideas for their layouts, from SPAM, but they can find inspiration for gift projects and albums as well.

So, in their ever widening hunt for innovative ideas and concepts, SPAM may be a great untapped resource for scrapbookers. Here’s a warning, though, you don’t want to top open your SPAM emails without a good quality virus scanner. Here are a few more reasons your favorite scrapbooker might be interested in SPAM inspired scrapbooking ideas…

- Quick and Easy Color Themes and Ideas - There are so many different color options out there. This is a great way to gather new ideas on color, and using colors together.
- FREE Ideas They Definitely Won’t Find Anywhere Else - Find various idea inspirations, from small layout elements, to whole page designs, and from simple catalog-style sketch samples, to complex, layered ideas.
- Lots of Different Page Element Shapes and Design Inspirations - Discover mountains of creative shapes, themes, and motion ideas that the advertising designers use.
- Different Photo Sizes and Photo Layout Options - Although somewhat advanced, enlarging and cropping your photos is a fantastic way to spice up your designs. Ads give tons of ideas for resizing photos, laying them out in new ways, and cropping them to complement your layouts.

This short list gives scrapbookers a brief glimpse into a NEW source for inspirational scrapbooking ideas.

Al Speer runs http://www.ScrapbookRadio.com a FREE online scrapbooking resource, with audio interviews of scrapbookers about what inspires them and what helps them with more creativity. Online since June 2004, you can listen to the Scrapbook Radio interviews any time you want, on your own schedule.

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