How to scrapbook - what is scrapbooking?

Do you want to know How to scrapbook ? Do you remember those days as a kid before you knew how to scrapbook ?. The hours spent pasting newspaper clippings onto paper and bundling dozens of papers together with some fancy ribbon or a string? you dug out of the x-mas decorations box in your basement? Do you also remember all of your hard work learning how to scrapbook falling apart two months later?
Night mare wasn't it?

Now there's a grown up way to save and preserve your treasures: Scrapbooking.

The idea behind scrapbooking really hasn't changed all that much since grade school neither have the scrapbooking tips. You can still place photographs, newspaper clippings, poems, and tickets into your scrapbook to display and preserve your memories. And the best part of it all? Learning how to scrapbook isn't really all the hard.

Just pick a few photos, decide upon a scrapbook theme, go get some scrapbooking supplies. And START!

One of my first scrapbooks now that I come to think about it, was a concert tickets, photos and autographs book, I made in high school.

If you're stuck for scrapbook ideas or just need some templates. We all get stuck here's a great product called memorable scrapbooking. I have been using for the past few weeks. I got into a bit of a rut or a scrapbookers block after my last scrapbooking project. I think I may try the origami scrapbook template in the book I linked to ,some time soon. Anyways check it out Memorable Scrapbooking

I'll bet you have noticed that scrapbooking techniques and tools have matured substantially since you were a kid. Scrapbooking albums have replaced the messy bundles of paper.
Now you can bind or place your keep sakes and photos and cards in a three-ring binder. In this way, your hard work won't fall apart. Furthermore, new specialized covers (acid free plastic) allow protection from the outside elements. I tend to scrapbook alot bigger than that but thats just me.

Paste and glue? thing of the past. Ive been using Specialized glue dots and two-sided tape. Makes mounting your treasures simple and mess free. Nothin' worse than having glue all over everything and everywhere. Many of these products are so strong that you can now decorate your scrapbook pages with ribbons, feathers, flowers, or even metal charms. I may even try hanging my kid on a wall with them, but thats another story.

Like all new inventions and innovations and the creation of new scrapbook techniques and tools, the uses of scrapbooking have expanded drastically. Scrapbooking is still used to hold personal keepsakes and for gift giving.

However, now scrapbooking techniques can be used to make baby announcements, grandparent books, gift cards, artwork for kid's rooms, recipe books, and even educational tools.

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How to scrapbook - 10 easy scrapbook tips and techniques

10 Easy Helpful Scrapbook Tips and Tricks

After a few months of figuring out how to scrapbook , I've come to the conclusion that there are a few basic and easy scrapbooking tips that might help you scrapbook more efficiently. And these 10 easy scrapbooking tips have helped me create awesome pages in my books.

So with out further ado Here are a few of my 10 favorite scrapbooking tips...

1. Keep it clean. When working with glue, markers and other messy objects, make sure to wash your hands frequently. When they are clean, they won't mussy up your pages and photos.
2. Hoard all your scrapbooking paper--you never know when you might need it. (bad tip I know the spouses freak out when they boxes of "stuff")
   
3. Whats old is new again. Have old maps? or wrapping paper and fabric scraps? USE THEM!!. These add an extra dimension and texture to scrapbook projects and They're CHEAP!
4. Use double-sided tape. To tape photos and paper to the scrapbook pages. The plus point? easy to remove if you mess up or dont like the placement of a picture or decide to make obsessive changes the scrapbook layout. TIP, double-sided tape won't make your pages ripple like glue does.
5. Protect and preserve your pages in plastic sheets. Just make sure they'll fit your scrapbook . The plastic Sheets will help keep the pages clean and neat for years to come. Learned from Grandpa hes a map maker and he uses plastic sheets to protect his maps.
   
6. Rip it up. Use Ripped edges. To create a cool look on your pages, take a piece of paper and rip it along one side. This creates a neat looking border with a cool edge again it adds that extra dimension and some texture.
7. Bigger isn't always better. Small scrapbooks that portray a particular memory, family member or friend make great gifts!!. Find books that are 6" by 6". Small books are quick and easy scrapbook themes.
   
8. Bad Handwriting? Use alphabet stickers.
9. Crumpling. Crumple up your cardstock. It adds visual interest,texture and dimension to the page.
10. TELL A STORY. Don't just display your photos, tell stories! Did something really funny happen at last year's family reunion? Did uncle Tom fall in the pool? Did little johnny face plant in the birthday cake. Tell stories and and use quotes on your pages, your scrapbook will communicate on a more personal level. Words and pictures stick in the memory longer.
    

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How to scrapbook - the back to school scrapbook project

I'm in the process of doing a digital scrapbooking project. Im going to call it the back to school scrapbook.
What we did was take a bunch of photos of our 7 year old boys school work from last year and saved them to our computer.
From this we're going to do a scrapbook project with a back to school theme. That we can then send to our far flung family in other parts of the planet. Right now I'm creating a scrapbook back ground to use for scrapbooking templates for the rest of the project to later place images on using adobe photo shop.
Here's how I'm doing it.
The first thing I did was to load up the image in photoshop. The screen capture here is small so it would fit in this post box.

Creating a Scrapbooking template
Again this is just one of the 30 or so pictures we took of his school work from last year.
Which brings up a good idea. Instead of stock piling all your child's school work and saving it FOREVER.
What you can do is to take pictures of it then THROW IT OUT.
As I am sure you know your child is going to come home with all kinds of crafts and home work and writing samples and pictures they have created over the course of their school year. WHY KEEP IT ALL. Take pictures of it and then later do a scrapbook of it.
Ok that out of the way.





Selecting an area to crop

What I wanted to do next was crop out a lot of the floor tile you see in the picture there.
I made my selection by using the move tool to grab the grid line on the edge of the photo box and the top of the photo box until I had an area I was comfortable with using and then cropping.

You can see what the process looks like.
I hope the grid lines are visible in light blue in this image.





Using the crop tool
This is what the crop tool looks like on your adobe photoshop work space.

the crop tool allows you to select an area and remove what other background you want from your digital scrapbook element.











Once you have your scrapbook template image area selected.
You right click your mouse and a little box pops up asking you to crop or cancel.
Select crop.










The Final Cropped Scrapbooking template back ground

This obviously is the final cropped scrapbooking template I am going to use as my background for this project.
Now all I have to do is to add other elements to it.
Such as other scrapbook photos and some fonts and I'm and running.

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How To ScrapBook with free scrapbooking ideas

How To Scrapbook with free scrapbooking ideas

By now, like me you have TONS of photos of friends and family and wondering How to scrapbook so you can put them altogethor and start sharing them. Scrapbooking can be a delightful way to corral those family photos and memories into an exciting book. Scrapbooking can be relaxing for you as you do it, and a pleasure as you share it.

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How To Scrapbook
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Books and articles on scrapbooking you need a book on how to scrapbook for more than 1 child.

1. Make a full-blown scrapbook for each. If you have many photos and memories to preserve, this allows the most space for each child. Your scrapbooking will require more time and money, but will be a labor of love.

The book’s theme will focus on that one child. Place his or her photo and name on the front, and theme every scrapbooking page to that child’s life.

Use family photos, of course, to show the place the child held in family activities.You will want pages that focus solely on that child: baby “firsts”. If a photo shows two of the children together, focus your scrapbooking on that one child’s part in the photo. How did the world look from his eyes or her eyes? Our memories are always, I have found, as seen through our eyes.
Each child can help add to his or her scrapbook. Scrapbooking can be a time of bonding and love that will long be remembered.

2. Make a scrapbook for each. Photos, want to be more selective, or simply have very little time for scrapbooking, a mini scrapbook will still provide individual, tangible memories that can be carried into adult life.

Select just one theme for each double-page spread, with one or two photos on each. Tie the photos together with your theme, mounting them on the same color of torn paper or using identical frames. Mini scrapbooking will not allow for as many family or sibling photos, but remember that this is a book about one child. When you make a mini scrapbook for each child, you can rest assured that each will get full attention. There will be no “left-out” feelings.

A mini scrapbook can be no larger than 6″ x 6″. Or it can be half the size of a standard letter: 5.5″ x 8.5″. You can read details about how to make your own mini scrapbooks in my article entitled, “How to do Mini Scrapbooks”.

Digital mini scrapbooks would be interesting for children, since they live in a computerized world. Digital mini scrapbooks can be less expensive to make, and people who are comfortable with one of the computer graphics programs, such as “Adobe PhotoShop”, will be able to apply interesting effects that are not possible with conventional scrapbooking.

Also check out How To ScrapBook on Stumblr

and How to scrapbook on squidoo

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How To ScrapBook

Welcome to how to scrapbook
Here you'll find information and scrapbooking tips
So you can get those family and friend photos into a scrapbook.
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