Scrapbooking Fun: November 2010

Typography and words are important parts of good graphic design. It is no surprise that text has become one of the most popular embellishments in scrapbooking. You can find text printed on vellum, transparency sheets, rub-on's, or even chipboard. The words cover everything from quotes, titles, phrases, to complete journaling blocks.

You can easily add interest to patterned background paper by printing your own themed text over the paper.

How to Create Your Own Printed Text Papers:

1) Copy text into your favorite word processing program. You can find a "Love" themed text block by clicking here. Or create your own using themed words or famous quotes.

2) Copy additional blocks of the same text, over and over again until the whole page is full.

3) Change the font of the entire block to a free-flowing script, or any other font that seems to fit your chosen theme. The font used on the samples below is called

4) Trim 12"x12" scrapbook papers to 8.5"x11" to fit into your printed if needed.

5) Print your text page directly on the patterned paper.

6) Use your new papers to create elements on your next scrapbook page.

Tip: Change the margins on your document to be as small as you can for your printer so that the text will fill as much of the page as possible. Also, you may want to "full justify" your text so that it evenly fills the page.

Sample Printed Text Patterned Papers:

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Papers Used: SandyLion Gold Damask, Spring Flowers, and Textural Red

Project Sample: Click here to see a Valentine's Day card created with the Textural Red patterned paper with Love themed text printed on it.

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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

How To Scrapbook - Step 4: Create a Background

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Free Printable Flower Patterns for Scrapbooking - Flower 5

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Monday, November 8, 2010

Wedding Scrapbook Pages - Love

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Scrapbook Sketch Challenge

When time is tight, you still want to create beautiful scrapbook pages. Quick and Easy scrapbook page ideas here on About.com Scrapbook are the solution. This layout features two 4x6 inch photos. Simply pick your favorite vertical and favorite horizontal and you can put this layout together in minutes. The key tool used on this scrapbook page is the corner rounder. The rounded background matted on a solid color frames out the scrapbook page layout for a simple, yet dramatic, look. Click to the next image for the free scrapbook page sketch.

Products Used: Patterned and solid paper, 3-d embellishment, bracket, and title tab all from the Travel Page Kit by Colorbok; font - Freehand591BT; navy blue mini brads from Hot Off the Press.

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Sunday, November 7, 2010

Wedding Scrapbook Pages - Celebrate

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Free Printable Flower Patterns for Scrapbooking - Flower 3

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Saturday, November 6, 2010

Make Your Own Paper Bag Mini-Scrapbooks

Unique Mini Scrapbooks You Can Make Yourself
Article by Darcy Baldwin

I never realized how ahead of the trend my mom was. She altered paper lunch bags everyday - writing my name on it with a smiley face in the D, or tying a colored ribbon around it on special occasions, or drawing balloons for my birthday. And now, who could have imagined that what typically carries a cold lunch to cafeterias everywhere, has become such a hot trend. Using paper bags to create cute and interactive albums is a great project for brag books, cards, and special gifts. And they are so easy to make!

Step By Step Instructions:

1. Lay 2 or more paper bags together, alternating ends.

2. Fold the bags in half and you have a "spine." I found it easiest to sew a single line up the fold line to help hold the book intact while I worked on other features.

3. Punch holes along the binding area of the book. Do not place eyelets here until you have put on your "binding" if you choose to do one.

4. At this point, you are ready to decorate!

Ideas for Binding:

Ties - Use bits of ribbon, fabric or fiber tied in knots in each hole. This method can be seen on the Valentine's Day album.Paper Binding - Create a binding with a strip of coordinating paper. You can then re-punch your holes for perfect placement, then add any of the binding ideas. Paper binding shown here with brass brads.Lacing Ribbon - Lace ribbon in a zig-zag fashion through the holes, coming back in the middle with a bow. Metal Binding Clips - Found in the office supply stores.

There are a lot of hiding spots for journaling tags or extra pictures in your book. Each open end of the bag now can be used as a pocket to slide tags or pictures into. What once was the bottom flap of the bag now serves as a hidden journaling feature. Either use it as a lift the flap type of feature where you hide journaling under it, or open it, cut a slit along the fold line, and insert a tag (narrow tags work best here).

Above all, have fun decorating your new album to fit your theme. They make great brag books for grandparents or friends, special memory books for birthdays or anything you can dream up!

A special note about paper bag albums: Paper bags are not acid-free, meaning that over time, they will break down much faster than acid-free, lignin-free papers. They are also not as sturdy as a cardstock album. So please remember to only use duplicate pictures when making your albums. Precious, one-of-a-kind photos can be printed out, color copied at a quick copy shop or duplicated at your neighborhood photo lab.

Sample Paper Bag Mini-Scrapbooks:

Complete Valentine's Gift Album - This gorgeous album is fully decorated and journaled. It is a piece of art. View the pages by clicking here.

Quick and Easy Bonus Album Idea: Children's Colors Book also by Darcy Baldwin

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Orlando Vacation Scrapbook Pages - Rebecca's Universal Studios Layout

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Friday, November 5, 2010

Tip 4 Sketch

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Choosing a Scrapbook

One of the first things that you will need to decide when you get started scrapbooking will be which scrapbook to buy. When you enter the scrapbook aisle at your local craft store you will discover that there are a myriad of choices and confusing styles. Do you want a 3-ring or a post-bound album? A 12x12 inch or an 8x8 inch scrapbook? A quick run-down of the choices available and which one’s work best for which project should help make your decision a little easier.

The two primary considerations in selecting a scrapbook are style and size.

The style of a scrapbook album is primarily determined by how it is bound. The most typical styles fall into these five categories:

Post-bound – A post-bound album has machine screws and posts that screw together to bind the book. The page protectors have holes punched in them which allow the posts to hold them securely in the album. Each page protector opens at the top so that you can simply slide completed scrapbook pages right into the protectors. Two pages can be slid into each page protector back to back to create a double sided page. If you need to move pages around, you can easily remove pages from their protectors. When you want to add additional page protectors to your album, you can unscrew the machine screws and add extenders to lengthen the posts.
3-Ring – A 3-ring album uses page protectors that are usually identical to those found in post-bound albums. Instead of being bound by posts a 3-ring album uses standard 3-ring notebook style hinges to hold the page protectors in the book. D-ring albums allow the pages that sit flat in the book when it is closed. 3-ring albums offer the most flexibility if you need to remove or add pages to your album.
Strap-hinge – Strap-hinge style scrapbooks use pages that have staples built into the edges. Plastic straps slide through these staples and hold the pages in the book. Since the pages themselves are bound into the book, page protector sleeves are slid over the pages to cover them. To add or remove pages from the album the strap-hinge assembly is taken apart. Creative Memories popularized this style of album.
Book-bound – A book-bound scrapbook is book that is bound like a traditional, hard cover book. It will have a sewn and glued binding where the pages are permanently bound in the book. Pages cannot be added, however many such books have perforations that allow pages to be taken out to give more room for the bulkier items on the remaining pages.
Other – Other scrapbook bindings include rings, spiral, ribbon, or hand-made fasteners. Scrapbooks have become as individual as the person making them. If you try your hand at making your own album you will find that there is no limit to the ways that could potentially bind it, or the shapes and sizes that it could be.

The size of the scrapbook determines how much room you will have on each page for photos, memorabilia, journaling, and embellishments. Your choices, generally, fall into these categories:

12x12 Inches – 12x12 inch albums have become very popular and can be found in a wide variety of styles, colors, and designs. A 12x12 two-page spread can easily hold 10 or even more photos if needed. For ideas for adding many photos on scrapbook pages visit the 12x12 Sketch Gallery. Many people use a 12x12 album as their main family scrapbook.
8 ½ x 11 Inches – 8 ½ x 11 inch albums are obviously slightly smaller overall than a 12x12 scrapbook. They hold fewer photos but also use less expensive sheets of paper. While not as popular as the 12x12 books, a large variety of 8 ½ x 11 books can be found at most local scrapbook stores. Some manufacturers have turned this album on its’ side and created an 11x8 ½ album.
8x8 and 6x6 Inches – Following in the popularity of the 12x12 square scrapbook page design, 8x8 and 6x6 inch albums have become a very common choice for theme albums. These smaller books can be completed in a shorter amount of time. The square page seems to lend itself nicely to photos and journaling on a scrapbook page.
Other - Mini, theme, and hand-made scrapbooks can come in any size. You can make them yourself for find them made from metal tins, paper bags, or paper covered chipboard. These little books make great gifts and usually hold photos that revolve around one theme, event, or person.

After perusing all of the information on what albums are available you may feel no closer to knowing which ones to choose so I thought I would share with you which types of albums I use most often.

Family Albums – All of my general family-life albums have been in post-bound, 12x12 scrapbooks for years now. There are some many choices in manufacturer and colors that I can always find ones that I like. I prefer to be able to feel the album and the page protectors before I buy them to get an idea of the quality of workmanship and materials. Because I need to remove and add pages a lot when I use them for classes or here on About.com Scrapbooking, I have recently been drawn more toward 3-ring bound albums. I am especially found of American Craft D-ring style 12x12 albums.
Individual Albums – Each of my children has his or her own 8x8 post-bound scrapbook to create page for. They each have a tote bag with supplies, so that when I am working they can pull out their stuff and work along side me without me having to stop what I am doing and get things out for them. When I sort photos, I pull some aside or print extras of ones that I think they would like in their books.
Theme Albums – I have a wide variety of different theme albums and mini books. In general, I love little 6x6 inch post-bound scrapbooks for pictures of a special trip or occasion.

When you enter the scrapbook aisle of your local scrapbook or craft store, if you come armed with the knowledge of what style and size book you are looking for, your only choices you will have to make is picking out a manufacturer that you like based on the feel of the book and the protectors and selecting a color.

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Free Printable Butterfly Patterns for Scrapbooking - Butterfly Pattern 2

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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Free Printable Block Letters - Lower Case Reversed Letters

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Tip 2: Cut Photos to Mimic a Shape From Your Background Paper

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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Father and Son

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Rebecca's Fall Leaf Page - Inking the Leaves

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Fourteen Summer Scrapbook Page Layouts

14 Summer Scrapbook Page Layouts

Summertime Layouts to Inspire Your Creativity

This collection of Summertime scrapbook page layouts from Rebecca and several scrapbookers on the About Scrapbooking Forum contains pages that will challenge you to try new things in your summer designs. With a variety of techniques covering simple to more advanced, you are sure to find some things that you can "scrap-lift" or borrow for future scrapbooking. Click on the layout or the title to see the pages larger and in greater detail.

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Getting Started Scrapbooking - What Adhesive Should I Use?

Getting Started: Adhesives for Scrapbooking

Choosing the Correct Adhesive for Your Scrapbooking Project
by Rebecca Ludens

Question: What glue should I use for scrapbooking?

Answer: Many people who try scrapbooking for the first time make a mistake when it comes to choosing an adhesive. Here is a simple list of do's and don't when it comes to picking which adhesive is right for you.

Don't even think about any glue that you bought for your child's school box. Adhesives need to be specifically labeled as safe for scrapbooking (acid-free) in order to be appropriate for use on your layouts. You will want to purchase adhesives that you use only for scrapbooking.Don't use a glue stick. Glue sticks are inexpensive and some are even acid-free. They still do not, however, make the best adhesive for scrapbooking. As the glue dries it tends to become brittle and some items even fall off of your pages. Spend the extra money and get good quality adhesives for use with your photos.Do use a photo tab dispenser. Photo tabs are small squares of double sided tape that work especially well with photos. You only need a few per photo (one in each corner is sufficient). By adhering your photos, with limited amounts of good adhesive you will be able to remove them later if needed. Photo tab dispenser allow you to apply the adhesive squares with a rolling tool which makes using them quick and easy. Herma has a refillable photo tab dispenser, while 3L offers an inexpensive tab dispensing box that you simply throw away when it is empty.

Do try out a few different tape runners. Tape runners are the most time efficient scrapbook adhesive. Many different company manufacture runners and each has its own pro's and con's. Some are refillable and some are disposable. Some dispense a clear adhesive strip, some little light blue dots, and some white tiny strips of double stick tape. You can also choose between repositionable and permanent adhesives. Some popular choices are: EZ Runner by 3L (shown here), Herma Dotto Removable Dispenser, Xyron's Solutions, and Tombow Mono-Adhesive.Don't use rubber cement. See the first point above. While some rubber cements state that they are now acid-free, this is still a messy, time consuming way to assemble your scrapbook.Don't use permanent adhesive on photos that you may need to remove in the future. If there is any chance that you may need to remove photos from your album in the future for copying or reprinting, you will want to use an adhesive that allows you to pop the photos off the page. Old fashioned photo corners were designed for this purpose, and are great for heritage albums. Photo corners are very time consuming to use in comparison with tab dispensers and tape runners. In general, using the least amount of adhesive necessary to hold items on your page is the best rule of thumb. Small amounts of tape or just a few photo tabs will allow you to remove items at a later date if needed.

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Creating Elegant Pages with Folded Photo Corners

Click here for step by step instructions for folding the photo corners.

Background Cardstock: Sunflower Yellow from Club Scrap
Middle Layer Cardstock: Hunter Green source unknown
Printed Paper: Paper Pizazz Gold Hand Painted Papers from Hot Off the Press, 2 8.5"x11" pages of Blue Marble with Daisies
Vellum: Paper Pizazz Butterfly Metallic on Vellum from Hot Off the Press
Title Printed with The Best of Creative Lettering Combo from Creating Keepsakes using CK Cursive and CK Trellis.

This page is a good example of using 8.5"x11" printed paper for a 12"x12" page layout. To begin, trim the first page of blue marble floral painted paper and mount on green cardstock. Use the second sheet of matching printed paper to cut out embellishments to add to the page. Cut around the flowers, separating them into groupings. Trim a section of the page to use as a journaling box adhering flowers to the top and bottom of the box. More of the cut flowers are added to the right edge of the first paper to balance the page.

Carefully cut the metallic printed edge from the vellum page. Cut out as many of the gold butterflies and dragonflies as you would like to decorate your page. In the sample, the lovely golden insects have been added to the journal box, along the floral borders of the page, and a couple were mounted directly onto the photo corners. Print the title and journaling on the remainder of the vellum that you have left after you remove the metallic border, being sure to set your page size to match the new size of the vellum sheet. Use any extra vellum, after you have cut out your title and journaling, to cut 4 2" squares to fold into photo corners. After folding, embellish the corners by tracing the lines with a gold gel pen.

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Monday, November 1, 2010

Free Fall Scrapbook Page Ideas: Pumpkin Vine Border

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Disneyland Mosaic Scrapbook Pages

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Photo Transfer Step By Step

Transferring your scrapbook pages or family photos onto ceramic, stone, or marble tiles allows you to create gorgeous home decor or precious gifts. To begin, you will need to select your photos and have them digitally color copied onto special transfer paper found in any of the Tilano Fresco Transfer Kits or the Marble Coaster Kit. Ink jet prints will NOT work with this process. The transfer paper is certified safe for color copiers and the kit comes with a certificate that you may need to show at your local copy center. Here you can see the pictures that I chose and also the copy that I had made. You can also use copies of scrapbook pages or digitally editted photos so that you can add text. Be sure to ask the copy center to reverse the image on your copy so that you text or scrapbook page will end up facing the correct way when you make the tranfer. Click next below to move onto the next step of this project.

Be sure to check out more transfer projects in the Scrapbook Page and Photo Transfer Gallery. Jennifer Schmidt transferred a wedding photo onto a beautiful gold charger plate.

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