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5 Fun Spring Scrapbook Themes

5 Fun Spring Scrapbook Themes By Deborah Leaverton While there's something monochromatic about winter, spring is best suited to pastel colors and soft textures. Here are some ideas for fun spring layoutsLamb's a Leaping: Using pale blue card as a background with a wide border of pale green, create the grass and the sky. Add some flowers using a stamp (such as Flower Stems from Rhonna Farrer) Use a cricut or another die cutting machine to create fluffy sheep in black and white, and add these to your layout. This looks really good with baby pictures. Add the word 'Spring' and you're done!Spring has Sprung - the ideal spring motif - copy out the poem on or two journaling tags, (one for each of two facing pages) or write the words with soft souffle pens on cloud shaped tags and attach to a pale blue (sky) background. The whole text goes 'Spring ...

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Scrapbooks – Two Ways to Make Your Own Scrapbooks From Scratch

Scrapbooks - Two Ways to Make Your Own Scrapbooks From Scratch By Susan Luke Making your own scrapbook from scratch can be just the thing to do when you cannot find one in the size, colour shape or at the price you are looking for. Let me share a couple of ideas with you.Making Custom Sized ScrapbooksWhen you want an album to be a particular size that is not standard, the stationer or printing shop is your friend. Printing shops carry light to heavy duty card in poster board sizes in a range of colours. They have super cutting machines too and can make you pages to your exact specifications. You may only need one piece of card to make an album with many pages, depending on the size you want to wind up with.Simply choose your cardboard and ask your printer to cut it to size. Your pages will be exactly ...

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Top Tips For Finding the Best Die Cut Machine

Top Tips For Finding the Best Die Cut Machine Top Tips For Finding the Best Die Cut Machine By Sarah M. Russell If you're a scrapbooking fanatic, then you'll be thrilled to learn about the many different die cut machines that are out there these days! You'll find everything from inexpensive machines that just get the job done to electronic machines that do most of the hard work for you. There is truly something for everyone when it comes to these scrapbooking and crafting machines! If you're someone who is often pressed for time and has the money to spend, then you may want to choose something like the Cricut Personal or Cricut Expression machine. Both of these machines are incredibly popular because they are efficient and Cricut makes high quality machines. These are best suited for those who will be frequently using die cuts. If you just use die cuts here and there, you'll ...

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Scrapbook Color Schemes – Choosing Them Just Got Easier!

Hello All! I am so excited to share with you (if you haven't heard yet) Scrapbook.com's new Scrap By Color interface. This is a free color matching tool to use as you begin creating your layouts. In short, you can color match your photos, use a color wheel to find color schemes and matching products, color match any product in their store, and view sample sketches for any color scheme you choose to test. You simply upload you photograph (I used my dog here) and then Scrap By Color "reads" your photo and gives you recommended color schemes that you can use to create a layout. This is so FUN! I know there are other color matching resources on the web, but this one is great because it is a one-stop-shop. What I mean by that is... If you look at my photo, I chose green. Then below Scrapbook.com shows me all of ...

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Picture Christmas Cards – Yes, It’s Coming…

OK, I love getting picture Christmas cards in the mail from my friends and family... and being a scrapbooker, I love photography. Now, some of you may have a photograph of the family already, and some of you may be taking your own using a tripod and timer. Others, may just send a picture of the pooch... Cute. So I think that at least once in one's lifetime, they have to send a picture Christmas card...lol. Since we're getting close to that time (eek!) I thought I would share with you all a couple of companies and their new line of holiday photo greeting cards. One: Minted.com - If you're looking for a discount (15% off) for early birds, you'll have to act fast because it ends on October 11th. 15% Off Holiday Photo Cards at Minted with code EARLYPART09 Either way, I think you'll love their collection of luxurious paper options, and ...

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Making Memories – Slice Cordless Design Cutter Machine

This is the coolest little thing since sliced bread!! Digital design cutter OK, maybe a little overboard here but I was thinking... The Slice cuts alphabets in different sizes. I am always spending money on letters, and sticker letters just don't have the class that diecuts do. Rather, I prefer the look of diecuts. Plus you can cut on paper that you bought and love. no more trying to match up paper to your stick-on letters. Anyhow, I'm sure we'll all be adding this to our Christmas lists this year. Click on over  and you can watch a video to see just how it works. It's less than 5 inches square in size. Weighs less than 2 pounds and it will run on the battery for about an hour. Then when it runs out of battery, you can plug it in and continue using it. The reason I am so in love with this ...

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Scrapbook Supplies – Wholesale

Yup, buying scrapbook supplies doesn't always have to be an experience that stresses you out afterward because that budget you are ("ahem")sticking to, just got trampled on after the last order you placed online... Buying scrapbook supplies at the wholesale price point, or close to is something that all avid scrappers try to take into consideration. The funny things is that buying scrapbook supplies is like shopping for groceries - lol... you end up buying throughout the month, you have to go back for more when you get close to running out, and when things are on sale, you stock up big time! If you've been scrapbooking for any length of time, you already know that this can become addicting. And you're probably already looking for deals. Some of the best places to shop online and get the most bang for your buck are... (They always have something on sale!) ScrapbookPal.com Scrapbook.com eBay (Think Cricut...) You ...

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Print 12×12 Digital Scrapbook Pages Online

So, you've put all this effort into creating your digital scrapbook pages and you are finally ready to print them... There aren't too many companies out there right now who will print just your 12x12 pages. They all usually want to sell you a photo book - which isn't all that bad, but some of us just want to get our pages printed and put them in our own scrapbook that we bought. I presume that as time goes on, there will be a preponderance of options in this department, but for now the pickins are slim when trying to find a good deal. Yeah, many companies will print your 12x12's, but they charge a pretty penny. And that will put a damper on any scrapbook enthusiasts budget... The pricing will probably end up being about the same by the time you either order a photo book or buy a scrapbook ...

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Scrapbook Page Layout Ideas For Quick Pages

I thought I would give you all a sketch that I made for scrapbook page layout ideas. Use these sort of as a template or as inspiration to create an idea of your own. For those of us who just get "stumped" once in a while these come in handy and stir your creativity.  500 scrapbook page layout ideas I will be making more of these so if you have any special requests, just let them be known in the comments section. :-)

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How to Digital Scrapbook – Supplies You Need to Get Started

Alright - all of you out there who are itchin' to give digital scrappin' a go but don't know what you'll need to do it, here is a list of supplies that you will need sooner or later in order to get started. Below is a video tutorial on just the basics with Photoshop. Brought to you by digiscrap101.com. If you would like more in-depth digital scrapbooking tutorials you can check out the rest of their videos on the site. Enjoy! Software: There are many on the market and some are free, and do it all, (see my post about Picaboo) some are a bit pricey, but - once you make the initial investment, you've got this tool forever. The free scrapbook software usually will not offer as much versatility as Photoshop CS3 but, it will certainly get the job done... Below are the most common software products used in the world ...

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