tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17900676898583482962024-03-08T03:00:08.654-08:00Wedding Scrapbooking Ideas | Digital Scrapbooking LayoutsExcellent Resources on Free Scrapbooking Ideas, Scrapbooking Paper, Scrapbooking Embellishments, Disney Scrapbooking, Wedding Scrapbooking, Scrapbooking Designs, Scrapbooking Techniques, Creative Scrapbooking, Scrapbooking Materials, Scrapbooking Websites, Free Digital Scrapbooking, Beginner Scrapbooking, Scrapbooking Quotes, Scrapbooking Layouts, Scrapbooking Kits, Scrapbooking Softwares, Free Online Scrapbooking, Computer Scrapbooking and more..scrapaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06958743265052362177noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790067689858348296.post-45348851665452190922010-05-10T10:22:00.000-07:002010-05-10T10:23:08.545-07:00Scrapbooking Layouts - Creating the Perfect Memory<h1 style="text-align: center;">Scrapbooking Layouts - Creating the Perfect Memory</h1><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(75, 75, 75); font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div id="body"><p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">One of the benefits of scrapbooking is the organized and attractive way your memories are preserved. It's important to take your time with the initial layout because that's what really makes the core of your design. A good layout will be beautiful to look at and it will preserve your memories so you and the generations to come will truly enjoy them.</p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Your imagination is one of the best places to start your layouts. Just take a look at the number of pictures you have and the themes you'd like to create and go from there. But, if like everybody, you find yourself stuck for ideas sometimes that's OK. There are lots of places to look for inspiration.</p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Scrapbooking idea books and magazines are great for getting ideas. They have lots of layouts and you can often find them centering around a theme, such as "baby's first year" or "school days." This will help jump start your own creativity.</p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">You can also find lots of layout ideas online. Spend time browsing scrapbooking sites and looking at galleries of the pages others have put together. You'll get some excellent ideas.</p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Don't limit yourself to just scrapbooking resources, though. Pay attention to the layouts of your favorite web pages and magazines. You'll find a wealth of beautiful layouts to draw inspiration from.</p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Kits and software are excellent sources of pre-made layouts. If you're just getting started with scrapbooking they can help you create beautiful pages right away. You will find that you can come up with your own ideas more easily as you gain experience.</p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Start planning your layout by taking stock of what you have to work with. How many pictures are you going to be using? Do you want to add a lot of words (journaling) to this particular page or spread? Is there children's artwork to be incorporated into the layout. How about mementos such as napkins, invitations, or programs? These things will all influence how you should lay your page out.</p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Are you going to have one picture be the focal point, or will you have many pictures and mementos working together to build your memory? Layouts often center on details of each photograph, in which case the pictures are cropped and several smaller pictures are used together. Then there are always classic pictures that deserve to be the focal point of your entire page.</p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Go with simple layouts. Pictures and words will get lost on a page that's too cluttered. It also helps to have a consistent look and feel for an entire album, so consider what will be going into it. Don't forget to leave space for journaling.</p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Remember that themed kits can be a great way to get started with scrapbooking. They're also wonderful if you're going to be creating your scrapbook as a gift for someone else. They contain a nice selection of stencils, card stock, and embellishments that match the overall theme of the kit. You'll find kits for everything from babies, to weddings, to anniversaries, to graduations, to birthdays, and more.</p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Taking the time to plan out your layouts before you actually start working on your scrapbook pages will help you create the perfect memory in an attractive and organized way. So spend a little while thinking about it and trying different things to get the look you want.</p></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "><div id="sig" class="sig" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(75, 75, 75); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Kristen loves gadgets and electronics. Check out her new site where she shares her opinions on the <a target="_new" href="http://www.bestheadset.org/" style="color: rgb(25, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline; ">best headset</a> and includes reviews of her favorites like the <a target="_new" href="http://www.bestheadset.org/the-logitech-usb-headset/" style="color: rgb(25, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline; ">Logitech USB Headset</a>.</p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span>scrapaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06958743265052362177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790067689858348296.post-64292006893292781302010-05-10T10:18:00.000-07:002010-05-10T10:22:07.514-07:00Creating Digital Scrapbooking Layouts - Resizing Your Photos<h1 style="text-align: center;">Creating Digital Scrapbooking Layouts - Resizing Your Photos</h1><div id="body"><p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">If you are new to creating digital scrapbooking layouts, there are a few skills you will want to master early on. One of these is: How Do I Resize a Digital Photograph to fit the digital template I've chosen?</p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "><strong>Let's look at a typical scenario:</strong></p><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">A new mom has taken tons of pictures of her child (what new mother doesn't?)</li><li style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">She loves scrapbooking, and wants to create a mini-album with digital layouts featuring several small photos, or just part-photos, on each page.</li><li style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">She plans to use mostly head shots, and the standard 6x4s are too large for use on her page.</li><li style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">She wants to be able to print the multi-photo page(s) as a part of her mini-album.</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">She already has Photoshop Elements, but you'd follow the same overall process for most photo-editing software.</div><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">First, <strong>Open a Blank Canvas</strong>, then</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Define the size and resolution of the page (250-300 dpi should give a good result when printing the page)</li><li style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Choose RGB color mode, unless you want a monochrome grayscale finish</li><li style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Set background color to transparent</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">You now have a canvas and are ready to start scrapbooking</div><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "><strong>Side Note:</strong> I find the checkered background you see (when color is set to transparent) makes it very easy to align photos and embellishments.</p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">In PhotoShop each part of your design will be placed on a separate layer and you can adjust how far forward an item is by moving it up and down the layers.</p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Next, <strong>Open the Photo File</strong> to be resized.</p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">There are now several options to resize your photo:</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "></p><ol><li style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Simply make the whole photo larger or smaller.</li><li style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Crop to a section of the photograph, thereby removing all that extra sky or foreground, then sizing the cropped image to what you need.</li><li style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Use a mask which is an easy way to create identically sized photographs in a multi-photo layout.</li></ol><strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><strong>1. Resize your whole Photograph:</strong></span></div></strong><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "></p><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Go to Image, resize, image size</li><li style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">in the 'Document size' section select your units (inches, mm, cm, pixels, etc) and enter the width or height you want</li><li style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">you will want a resolution of 250-300 dpi to get good printing results</li></ul><strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><strong>2. Crop a Section of the Photo:</strong></span></div></strong><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "></p><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Select the crop tool and define the area to be kept</li><li style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Drag the crop 'window' around your photo to make the best selection</li></ul><strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><strong>Side Note:</strong> if you want several photos exactly the same size in a layout I recommend using one of the fixed options instead of the freehand ones.</span></div></strong><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "><strong>3. Use a Mask to Reveal only the Part of your Photos You Want to Display:</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">This is a technique I wish I'd learned about much earlier in my journey into Digital Scrapbooking...</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Create a new layer and select the Marquee Tool</li><li style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Select the size you want (choose from freehand, fixed ratio, or fixed size options)</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">if you chose either the fixed ratio or freehand option:</div><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "></p><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Draw your mask shape on the new layer while holding down the left button on your mouse;</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">If you chose the fixed size option: (good when you want multiple images the same size)</div><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "></p><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Click on your new layer, and the fixed size you've chosen will appear in outline with the 'marching ants'</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">Whichever style you used, the next stage is to</div><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "></p><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Select the Paint Bucket Tool and fill the shape with color (just so that its easier to see while you are working)</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">Now you have a photo mask layer ready for use in your current project. You can also duplicate the layer for as many photos as you plan to use.</div><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "></p><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Place your photo on the layer above the photo mask, and clip the two layers together. You can still move your photo to select the best part, and you can grab a corner to adjust the size.</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">Do this for each photo until you have all you need for your digital scrapbooking layouts.</div><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "></p></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "><div id="sig" class="sig" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(75, 75, 75); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "><b>Genie Balfour</b>: As a paper crafter and scrapbooker for many years, Genie is well-versed in the ins and outs of paper and digital scrapbooking. As the founder of the popular website ScrapbookingGems.com, she writes regularly on paper and digital scrapbooking topics.</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Click this link to read Genie's <b>step by step photo resizing instructions</b> and other <a target="_new" href="http://scrapbookinggems.com/resize-your-photos/" style="color: rgb(25, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline; ">digital scrapbooking layout</a> tips. Or <a target="_new" href="http://www.scrapbookinggems.com/" style="color: rgb(25, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline; ">click here</a> and check out her free scrapbook sketches and layouts series.</p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>scrapaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06958743265052362177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790067689858348296.post-66610465125242265602010-05-01T10:30:00.001-07:002010-05-01T10:30:46.850-07:00Premade Scrapbook Layouts - A Variety to Add Personalization<h1 style="text-align: center; ">Premade Scrapbook Layouts - A Variety to Add Personalization</h1><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(75, 75, 75); font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div id="body"><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">It cannot be denied that mothers and young people from all over the world are getting more and more engrossed with the hobby of scrapbooking. When you go to bookstores and craft stores these days, you would notice that there would always be scrapbooking kits for both the beginners and the experts. Most of these kits already include premade scrapbook layouts.</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">But have you ever heard of the new and more modern concept of scrapbooking? Digital scrapbooking is the term used when you plan to make scrapbook albums without having to leave your seat in front of your computer. It offers a wide range of available premade scrapbook layouts that you can use to incorporate your photos with.</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">To get started with this modern way of scrapbooking, all you have to do is to choose first from the many premade scrapbook layouts that you will be presented to online. Then you can start creating your very own embellishments by using graphic and photo programs along with your selected photos. Nowadays, there are many interactive websites which can give you more ideas on this new innovation in scrapbooking.</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">The hobby of scrapbooking has been known all over the world for encouraging majority of the female market into getting involved with it. For mothers, it has contributed to improve their lives by adding variety to their everyday routine and for some, has even become a form of additional income. This can be said true for the young female market.</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Teenagers have also fallen in love with this idea of scrapbooking that they have even formed clubs and organizations that encourage everyone to be an enthusiasts as well as a member. In nursing homes for the elderly people, scrapbooking has also taken a place of its own as a form of hobby for those who have been starting to lose their capacity to remember memories in their lives.</p></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="text-align: justify; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; "><div id="sig" class="sig" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(75, 75, 75); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Do you need Scrapbooking Ideas?</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; ">Check out <a target="_new" href="http://www.premadescrapbookpages.org/" style="color: rgb(25, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline; ">Premade Scrapbook Pages</a> and <a target="_new" href="http://www.premadescrapbookpages.org/scrapbook-page-idea/" style="color: rgb(25, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline; ">Scrapbook Page Ideas</a></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span>scrapaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06958743265052362177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790067689858348296.post-31197368343659408422009-09-28T02:00:00.000-07:002009-09-28T02:02:28.345-07:00Nickelodeon's Spongebob Squarepants Cricut Cartridge<h1 style="text-align: center;">Nickelodeon's Spongebob Squarepants Cricut Cartridge</h1><div style="text-align: justify;" id="body"><p>Nickelodeon's Spongebob Squarepants Cricut cartridge includes fun and exciting images of Spongebob and his friends which you can now more easily cut and paste and use as design for your custom made scrapbooks. It is a package of bright and amusing pictures and letter fonts that pertains to Nickelodeon's longest running Nicktoon show next to The Rugrats.</p><p>For the customer's excitement and delight, this cartridge has included the following features that let you choose from a wider variety of Spongebob icons: Body/Detail 1, Outfit/Detail 2, Eyes/Detail 3, Icon, Icon Layers, and Shadow creative features.<br /></p><p>These very special features can only be found when you buy Nickelodeon's Spongebob Squarepants cartridge by Cricut. This package has been enjoyed by buyers, especially to children who love Spongebob Squarepants because they can now easily create and cut his likeness without the use of computers.<br /></p><p>With only one click of Cricut's button, the compact cutting machine will do everything you want to do from accurate and artistic cutting to producing the icons exactly how you like them to be.</p><p>In addition to this, this cartridge also contains lots of different cool shapes and letters. His friends' shapes and images are also available such as Patrick Star, Squid Q. J. Tentacles, Sandy Cheeks, Eugene H. Krabs, Sheldon J. Plankton, Gary, and many, many more!</p><p>You can now cut out letters, names, and fun phrases exactly the way you see them on TV while watching your favorite Nicktoon show. Not only that, they are also available in the precise colors and layouts the way they are shown on TV.</p></div><p style="text-align: justify;">The <a id="link_79" target="_new" href="http://hubpages.com/hub/Nickelodeons-SpongeBob-Squarepants-Cricut-Cartridge">Spongebob Squarepants Cricut Cartridge</a> is designed for children who want to make not only scrapbooking projects, but also greeting cards, paper crafts, beautiful designs, artistic alphabets, home or room decors, and a lot more using pictures, logos, and signs from the Spongebob series.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Those who still want to purchase a <a id="link_80" target="_new" href="http://www.cartridgehelper.com/cricut-soaks-in-spongebob-squarepants/">Spongebob Squarepants Cartridge</a> are advised to do so as soon as possible. Cricut has been receiving thousands and thousands of orders because of the popularity of Spongebob amongst children and youngsters.</p>scrapaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06958743265052362177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790067689858348296.post-63070760188285987672009-05-10T01:39:00.000-07:002009-05-10T01:42:24.381-07:00Shooting Star Falls From the Vegas Sky<h1 style="text-align: center;">Shooting Star Falls From the Vegas Sky</h1><h3 style="text-align: justify;">By Heidi Genoist<br /></h3><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span> <p><strong>LAS VEGAS</strong>—How does a show go from being a TSW Fastest 50 winner to nearly nonexistent in just two years? The answer isn't entirely clear, but has something to do with a date change and a disagreement between the show's management and one of its vendors.</p> <p>The 8-year-old <strong>MemoryTrends Trade Show</strong> for the scrapbook business won Tradeshow Week's annual award for being one of the 50 fastest-growing shows in 2005 and 2006. In 2005, it filled 106,659 net square feet at the Sands Expo & Convention Center and attracted 388 exhibiting firms. That was the year Primedia sold the show to Enthusiast Media. Nobody has released statistics for it since then.</p> <p>According to a list on MemoryTrends' Web site – and backed up by a quick head-count on the showfloor – only nine exhibitors turned up for the most recent show, held Jan. 31-Feb. 2 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. They were stashed in a back corner of the much larger <strong>Photo Marketing Assn. Intl. Convention & Trade Show</strong>.</p> <p>“This year, we had to do a soft launch with MemoryTrends,” said Ted Fox, CEO and executive director of PMA, the Worldwide Community of Imaging Assns. Last summer PMA struck a deal with MemoryTrends' current producer, CK Media, to collocate the two shows.</p> <p>They must have known it would be challenging for MemoryTrends, which took place in September (for the last time at the Sands), then again in late January, less than two weeks before its biggest competitor, the <strong>Craft & Hobby Assn. Annual Convention & Trade Show</strong>, Feb. 10-13 in Anaheim.</p> <p>What they weren't counting on was a little extra resistance to make it even more difficult.</p> <p>Fox explained: “An issue came up with a third-party vendor that MemoryTrends was using for the show they had in September. There was a disagreement over the terms and obligations between the third-party vendor and MemoryTrends, and we weren't able to resolve that issue to our satisfaction until late November. As a consequence, we fell behind on our deadlines.”</p> <p>He added that PMA had hoped to market the collocation aggressively to participants at September's MemoryTrends, but “we weren't able to do that because of some legal issues.”</p> <p>Nobody from CK Media could be reached for comment.</p> <p>PMA attendees, particularly retailers, liked the idea of collocating the scrapbooking and imaging events.</p> <p>Don Hite, co-owner of Hite Photo, said, “I do like that they're converging, because we're expanding our store to include (scrapbook items). This makes it easier for us to find everything in one place.”</p> <p>Melvin Hiller, manning the We R Memory Keepers booth in the tiny MemoryTrends area, said his company's decision to exhibit was based mainly on price. Although it was too early to tell whether he'd get a good return on the investment, he added that We R Memory Keepers would probably continue to participate in both PMA-MemoryTrends and the CHA show, because the company does a lot of albums, which are popular among PMA attendees.</p> <p>Still, he added, “MemoryTrends is dead, isn't it?”</p> <p>Jenny Pitchford of the Stamping Station said, “I think more people should have supported MemoryTrends.” She went to the collocated show in hopes of meeting more photo retailers and said that was going fairly well.</p> <p>All the MemoryTrends exhibitors who spoke with TSW said they would continue to participate in CHA's show.</p> <p>Fox is hopeful for the future. Asked whether he'd forge ahead with the PMA-MemoryTrends collocation, he said, “Absolutely.”</p> <p>If they do take place together again next year, the pair will have more distance from CHA's show, scheduled Feb. 8-11 in Anaheim. PMA is slated for March 3-5, again at the LVCC.</p><p>Taken From <a target="_BLANK" href="http://www.tradeshowweek.com/index.asp?layout=talkbackCommentsFull&talk_back_header_id=6506984&articleid=CA6528914">TradeShowWeek.com</a><br /></p></span></div><span> </span>scrapaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06958743265052362177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790067689858348296.post-77478653365706301322009-04-27T16:18:00.000-07:002009-04-27T16:20:10.339-07:00Scrapbook: Hannas Celebrate 75th Anniversary<h1 style="text-align: center;">Scrapbook: Hannas Celebrate 75th Anniversary</h1><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>ANNIVERSARY</strong></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Hanna</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">William Sandoe Hanna and Mildred Ruth Swarner Hanna will be celebrating their 75th anniversary at their Gilroy home with friends April 14.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Both were born and raised in Gilroy. William was born July 25, 1911 to Walter and Fannie Hanna. And Mildred was born Dec. 29, 1913 to Roy and Ruth Swarner. The high school sweethearts married April 14, 1934 and had four children - William, Sandra, Roy and Tom.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Hannas opened a custom fabrication business in 1941. They also grew prunes, walnuts and other orchard crops. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">After their children were grown, the Hannas continued to donate their time in the community.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The couple sponsored Rainbow for Gilroy and Sandoe served as a Rainbow Dad. The Hannas were part of the original Gilroy Historical Society where they were instrumental in helping to save the Old City Hall in 1966 and establishing a museum in the building.<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">They also assisted in saving the Mayock House, getting it moved to Gavilan College. After the 1989 earthquake, they again assisted in helping to save the Old City Hall. They also helped restore the Wheeler Hospital.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Hannas contributed space for several of the society's large historical objects being restored. Mildred is a volunteer at the Garlic Festival.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Spence</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Jack and Evelyn Spence, of Gilroy, celebrated their 50th golden wedding anniversary March 28, 2009.They enjoyed an elegant dinner with their children and grandchildren at Westside Grill followed by cake and a slide show of their 50 years of marriage.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>ENGAGEMENT</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Padilla-Quintero/Blythe</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Tania Padilla-Quintero and Rowdy Blythe recently got engaged. They will be married Oct 16, 2010 at the Willow Creek Chapel in Abilene, Texas. They will have a sunset wedding and reception and a second reception in California.<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Time and date for that reception are TBA. Tania, the daughter of Rosalio Quintero Sr. and Lillian Silva, is a homemaker and student at Penn Foster Career School in Austin, Texas, studying child psychology.<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">She attended Central High School in Morgan Hill. Rowdy, the son of Dale Blythe and Barbara Blythe-Harris, is a tire service technician. He attended Texas Tech and received a degree in computer graphics and animation.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>BIRTH</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Gonzalez</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Cipriana Emily Gonzalez was born March 26, 2009 to Bertha Eugenia Hernandez and Miguel Angel Gonzalez at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital in Hollister. She was 5.5 pounds.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Taken From <a target="_BLANK" href="http://www.gilroydispatch.com/lifestyles/255222-scrapbook-hannas-celebrate-75th-anniversary">GilroyDispatch.com</a><br /></p>scrapaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06958743265052362177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790067689858348296.post-89853887043721488452009-03-18T03:02:00.000-07:002009-03-18T03:04:13.099-07:00Digital Scrapbooking<h1 style="text-align: center;">Digital Scrapbooking</h1><p style="text-align: justify;">A growing number of people are skipping the paper photos and putting their entire scrapbook together online. We found a Sioux Falls mom who says for her, it's the perfect fit.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Melanie Zeman and her husband have four kids under the age of six, and she says for her, traditional scrapbooking just isn't an option. Melanie says, "Last year, a friend of mine who sells Creative Memories came to me and showed me some of her scrapbooks, and I loved them.<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I fell in love with them, and I thought, this I could do." Now, Melanie does almost all of her scrapbooking online, with photos her husband downloads to the computer. She says, "There are options of pages that area already set up for you, that you can just pretty much put a picture in the different frames, or you can custom create a page, if you want to."</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">If you choose to have more creative input, it's a lot like traditional scrapbooking. You pick your background, borders, anything that would personalize your page. But Melanie says you have even more options than going the old-fashioned way. She says, "I can do the entire layout and decide the background paper is not the one I want, and I can change it."</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Jennifer Nelson is a consultant for Creative Memories, one of the scrapbook companies that offers digital programs. Scrapbooking has been a passion of hers for more than 10 years. She says, "I thank my dad for that because he was the editor of 3 local newspapers while we were growing up and he always carried a camera with him and felt that every person had a story to tell."<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Jennifer says the majority of her clients still scrapbook the traditional way, but she is seeing it catch on. Jennifer says, "If you have trouble getting those prints processed, digital scrapbooking is for you."</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Melanie Zeman says one of the things she likes most about digital scrapbooking, is all she needs is her kitchen table and her computer, and she's good to go. She says, "I can just side down and I can work for 5 minutes, or an hour and if my family needs me, I can get up and it's saved and it's still all where I left it when I get back to it."<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Melanie's says if anything happens to her completed scrapbooks, all she has to do is re-order a new one. It's something you can't do with a traditional scrapbook. But Jennifer Nelson likes it that way. She says, "I'll probably enjoy traditional scrapbooking for a long time."</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">But for busy mom Melanie Zeman, the digital way, is the best way. She says, "It's memories for my family that will last forever." Melanie says, besides digital photos, she's able to scan in older pictures, even some of her son's school work into her scrapbooks.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Taken From <a target="_BLANK" href="http://www.ksfy.com/news/local/41342697.html">KSFY.com</a><br /></p>scrapaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06958743265052362177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790067689858348296.post-90102591362831899062009-03-05T02:02:00.000-08:002009-03-05T02:11:22.838-08:00Two Thumbs-Up For Digital Scrapbooking<h1 style="text-align: center;">Two Thumbs-Up For Digital Scrapbooking</h1><p style="text-align: justify;">Well, this is <a href="http://blog.syracuse.com/family/" target="_blank">Gina Chen, Family Life editor</a>, busting into Scrapbook Mom's blog again. This time I just have to tell you about my experience with digital scrapbooking.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">I tried it for the first time a few weeks back. We had gone to California to visit my in-laws, and we were wracking our brains to come up with a gift to thank them for their hospitality. I decided a scrapbook of the trip would be a great gift, but I knew there was no way I'd have the time to do a traditional scrapbook.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">So I decided to go digital. It was great.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">I've been scrapbooking the traditional way -- with stickers and paper -- for about 12 years, and I've finished more than 10 albums that way. I love doing it. I love expressing my creativity, reliving our family fun and chatting with my girlfriends.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">But going digital had one big draw: speed. In about three hours I had an album done. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">I selected my pictures, uploaded them, added captions and headlines.<a href="http://www.mycmsite.com/sites/annamaria/catalog-index?event=productlocales&eventId=277&productGroupId=11281&categoryId=&categoryIdParm=%7C275%7C276%7C&pageTitle=FREE+StoryBook+Creator+2.0+Software+Download&relatedItem=N&qtyOrdered=&productId=&itemSku=&act=&selectedCategory=277" target="_blank"> I used Creative Memories free software</a>, so I had follow the pre-determined picture format. (But it's free!) </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">It was simple to use. Point, click and move a picture. I could change the color of the text. I could put a picture on the cover and a title. It allowed me to do all the basics things one would want, although eventually I'd probably spring for the $59.95 program. That allows you more flexibility and choice in picture placement, size, embellishments.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">A few days after I put my digital scrapbook together, I proofed it, tweaked a few things, ordered it. Less than a week later, it had arrived at my in-laws' home. They loved it. I haven't actually seen the finished copy because I sent it directly to them, but my father-in-law's thank you e-mail speaks of it being of high quality.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">This doesn't mean I'm ready to turn in my page trimmer and circle cutter. I still much prefer old-fashioned scrapboooking mainly because I love the social aspects of scrapbooking. (In fact, tomorrow I'm spending the day at National Scrapbooking Day) But to do something different, scrap an album quickly or make a gift, you can't beat going digital.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Anyone else have experience with digital scrapping? Please share.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Taken From <a href="http://blog.syracuse.com/scrapbooking-mom/2009/02/well_this_is_gina_chen.html">Syracuse.com</a><br /></p>scrapaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06958743265052362177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790067689858348296.post-42105794911034519472009-01-31T17:53:00.000-08:002009-01-31T18:08:00.552-08:00How to Scrapbook Your Own Day Planner!<h1 style="text-align: center;">How to Scrapbook Your Own Day Planner!</h1><div style="text-align: justify;" id="body"><p>Try finding a day planner that affords you the space to stamp and scrapbook month to month! You can create your own monthly masterpiece by applying your favorite photo on an index tab divider, or even on a sturdy calendar page itself.</p><p>Apply you favorite stickers and stamps to significant dates to remember or celebrate. Consider tacking pictures of those who will celebrate memorable moments such as birthdays, anniversaries or graduations on the index tab dividers for each month.</p><p>Some planners even have a covers that have picture pockets that you could easily modify with the passing seasons! Changing the look of your day planner cover will keep it fresh and exciting all year long.</p><p>Try inserting a few mini scrapbook pages within the planner itself. Sharing your favorite photo masterpieces can be as easy as reaching for your purse.</p><p>Your creative scrapbooking is meant to be shared and enjoyed. Scrapbooking the pages of your planner could also serve to promote a business, whether its stamping, scrapbooking or day care! Share your talents each and every time you open your planner to make an appointment or just to jot down a note or two.</p><p>Adding your own personal scrapbooking touch to your day planner or calendar will encourage you to be more organized and will inspire at the same time!</p><p>It can make a great personal gift for you or someone you love. Enjoying the space we live in makes everyday a little easier. Have fun and get scrap happy in January right on through to December!</p></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Author, Tammy Matthews, is a mom of three and creator of the Bizzi2Go Planner. For more information please visit: <a id="link_74" target="_new" href="http://www.bizzimom.com/">http://www.bizzimom.com</a></p>scrapaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06958743265052362177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790067689858348296.post-43434773353389222552009-01-05T02:49:00.000-08:002009-01-05T02:50:32.429-08:00Scrapbooking Catalog Request<h1 style="text-align: center;">Scrapbooking Catalog Request</h1><div style="text-align: justify;" id="body"><p>The scrap book catalog is a pamphlet that gives you information on the many types of scrapbooking activities that you can be engaged in . It has lots of colorful features that you can easily make use of to enhance the general outlook of your scrap book. It contains about 500 stamp designs and card ideas that you can borrow from as you endeavor to improve your scrapbooking.</p><p>One thing to note is that the scrapbooking catalog request is available online and you can download it from one of the many web site that specialize in this memory-preserving activity.</p><p> The stamp designs on the catalogue are quite interesting varying in shape, size, color and theme and they include flowers, birds, horses, babies all of which can be attached to different pots with different messages.</p><p>The scrapbooking catalogue request also allows you to receive some working tools like scissors, knifes, paper trimmers and many more items like the acrylic block set.Apart from the tools you also stand a chance of receiving rubber images worth $ 30 for free.<br /></p><p>You will find that the themes that come along with these scrapbooking catalogs will include greetings, in-laws, parents, siblings and other themes that you can think of.</p><p>The scrapbooking catalogue requests assists you in knowing exactly what it is that you want and eventually as you make you order you find that you are better placed for having the information at hand well in advance. You can request for the catalogue free of charge by filling in a subscription form and sending it online to the relevant people.</p></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Peter Gitundu Researches and Reports on Scrapbooking. For More Information on Scrapbooking Catalog Request, Visit His Site at <a id="link_74" target="_new" href="http://www.merpetsales.com/scrapbooking/Scrapbooking-Catalog-Request.php">SCRAPBOOKING CATALOG REQUEST</a></p>scrapaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06958743265052362177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790067689858348296.post-25798874905341761932008-12-04T19:29:00.000-08:002008-12-04T19:32:16.329-08:00Creative Wedding Invitation Ideas - Add Some Creativity To Your Wedding Invitations<h1 style="text-align: center;">Creative Wedding Invitation Ideas - Add Some Creativity To Your Wedding Invitations</h1><div style="text-align: justify;" id="body"><p>Wedding invitations are one of things couples begin to think about as they plan their wedding. Here are some creative wedding invitation ideas that can add some flair and creativity to your wedding invitations.</p><p>Using technology for your wedding invitations is a good creative idea. For instance, you can use technology to create CDs with pictures of you and your special someone. Then, simply insert a title page in the CD case with the wedding information.<br /></p><p>A similar idea is to put your favorite love songs on the CD. You can also add the music to a slideshow of your pictures. Some couples totally get away from traditional invitations by emailing their invitations. With this method, you can also share pictures and music. As an added bonus, it will be easy for your guests to reply.</p><p>If you want to go the more traditional route but still have a touch of creativity, you can add pressed and dried flowers into your wedding invitations. With this idea, you could have flowers pressed that will be echoed in some of the later bouquets or arrangements at your wedding so your guests can have a preview of your wedding style.</p><p>Many of today's brides take a cue from the popular hobby of scrapbooking when trying to come up with a new and original wedding invitation idea. By using the same principles of scrapbooking (minus the cheesy stickers), you can layer patterned and textured papers under the text of your invitation for a personalized invitation that will be 100 percent unique for your wedding.</p><p>Altering pictures through photo-editing software can get you a professional look for photos that you want to include on your invitation and will allow for a beautiful style to come across with your own creative flair.</p><p> You could also include items related to nature or even a type of chain to symbolize the binding of two lives that occurs within the marriage ceremony. Thinking about items and ideas that matter to you and your fiancé and incorporating them into the invitations is the key to coming up with the perfect creative wedding invitations.</p></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Are you looking for beautiful wedding centerpieces that will impress your guests?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Visit <strong> <a id="link_74" target="_new" href="http://wedguide.info/">http://WedGuide.info</a> </strong> and learn some <a id="link_75" target="_new" href="http://wedguide.info/creative-wedding-centerpiece-ideas-add-creativity-to-your-wedding_14/">creative wedding centerpiece ideas</a>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Also, learn how to add that creative touch to your wedding favors. Here are some <a id="link_76" target="_new" href="http://wedguide.info/unique-wedding-favor-ideas-add-personality-to-your-wedding-favors_29/">unique wedding favor ideas</a> that your guests will enjoy - even the male guests!</p>scrapaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06958743265052362177noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790067689858348296.post-46938598670876937262008-11-20T11:57:00.000-08:002008-11-20T11:59:44.734-08:00Scrapbooking Websites - Some Of The Best Ideas Can Be Grabbed Online<h1 style="text-align: center;">Scrapbooking Websites - Some Of The Best Ideas Can Be Grabbed Online</h1><div style="text-align: justify;" id="body"><p>Looking at your marriage album? Found good snaps that tend to bring back fond memories? Retaining the photos in the same album doesn't distinguish itself from the others. Such pictures need a special place. Scrapbooking these photos can make it exceptional. Worthy!</p><p>When scrapbooking strikes you, you are automatically attracted to provenances such as journals, websites, magazines, newspapers, print ads etc... Such provenances are always reliable as they portray very well what the determined product exactly brings out!!</p><p>Details regarding the start of a project, required materials-that are worthy and how to proceed with scrapbooking are elaborated well.<br /></p><p>Hearing your friend's talks on what they actually do with their scrapbooks, you must have imagined more on how to explore it yourself. Your interests may be boosted with the photographer's ideas of preserving the pictures in a impressive manner.</p><p>Don't be afraid if you are new to scrapbooking. One does not require professionalism in photography for this. There are ample quantities of websites that provide you with scrapbooks. So what improves the quality of your scrapbook? What makes the photos prominent? What are the steps to be followed to create a scrapbook?</p><p>Basic Thoughts:</p><p>Wondering how your start can stay for days? In the end, the difficult thing in scrapbooking is the optimization of the design and the preferred design. You can then move on to think about the products that can be utilized for scrapbooks after the opinions are recognized. With all these confusions, the required help and guidance can be sought from the websites that you consult.</p><p>Behind every remarkable scrapbook are highly refined supplies for it that has been mixed and matched artistically. Nothing would cherish in a scrapbook when the supplies are not considered. You can get amazed when you look at scrapbook supplies that online stores sell.<br /></p><p>They are available in many colors and designs. They come in different shapes and sizes too. So when you are ready for scrapbooking, what you have to do is just choose and conclude which scrapbook supply to put in use.</p><p>Now your caption for your scrapbook is your wedding day. Select the colors that perfectly suit your theme. Take special care that it should also match with the garments in the photo (worn on that day). The color combinations of the material should correlate the colors in the picture.</p><p>Some colors that would fit a wedding album are gold, silver and white. But you can have it as per your wish. Dealing with the content you can start the first page with the wedding invitation narrating the story to give it a good start followed by the remaining pictures.</p><p>Decorate the borders and male it attractive. You can choose your favorites and leave the remaining. Exceptions arise when you would like to have your scrapbook, a worthy of remembrance.</p><p>Scrapbooking websites-in the round:</p><p>People often surf the internet for scrapbooking websites. On visiting them, you can come across loads of ready-made designs and contents you need for your scrapbook. Some websites allow you to print them. Some do not. If you can utilize the internet to its maximum then you can extract very good ideas from such websites. In the end, it's their service for our purposes.</p><p>Scrapbooking websites teach the beginners on how to use its supplies to bring out an outstanding product. It also teaches the steps to be followed, and designs to make it stylish. In short they can be merely called tutorial websites.</p></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Abhishek is a Scrapbooking expert and he has got some great <a id="link_78" target="_new" href="http://www.fun-galore.com/821/index.htm">Scrapbooking Secrets</a> up his sleeves! Download his <b>FREE 73 Page Ebook</b>, "Scrapbooking Made Easy!" from his website <a id="link_79" target="_new" href="http://www.fun-galore.com/821/index.htm">http://www.Fun-Galore.com/821/index.htm</a>. <i>Only limited Free Copies available.</i></p>scrapaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06958743265052362177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790067689858348296.post-72645971829042247982008-10-24T15:58:00.000-07:002008-10-24T15:59:55.266-07:00How Can Scrapbooking Quotes Brighten Up Your Scrapbooks?<h1 style="text-align: center;">How Can Scrapbooking Quotes Brighten Up Your Scrapbooks?</h1> <div class="content"><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://scrapbooking.isnowmy.biz/scrapbookingquotes.php"><strong>Scrapbooking Quotes</strong></a>. Scrapbooking isn't just merely keeping fond memories and maintaining the freshness of events right in the pages of your scrapbook. It is more than just remembrance. It is history itself.<br /><br />Moreover, nothing could be better in your scrapbook than to have quality quotes to enliven the sprit and rekindle the thoughts that were once part of the memories.<br /><br />Indeed, scrapbooking quotes are necessary in any kind of scrapbook. Scrapbooking quotes are devices that can take your scrapbooks to new-fangled and creative altitude.<br /><br />For so many years now, scrapbooking has been an all-time favorite <a href="http://scrapbooking.isnowmy.biz/scrapbookinghobby.php">hobby</a>, and creativity has made it more attractive than ever. Thanks to the wonderful additions of scrapbooking quotes that continue to perk up different scrapbooks.<br /><br />It has been a well-known fact that pictures can speak for themselves. However, there are so many instances where words are still the most powerful means of communication. When pictures can't convey the message, words are important to express the total meaning of the image in the picture.<br /><br />In scrapbooking, pictures aren't the only main attractions. Quotations are also considered as one of the most important parts in scrapbooks. This is because even if there are many <a href="http://photography.isnowmy.biz/">photographs</a>, magazine articles, news clippings, etc., that are worth remembering, there are also some statements or words that are worth cherishing. These words don't merely explain the material but can also add drama to the subject in focus.<br /><br />Most <a href="http://scrapbooking.isnowmy.biz/professionalphotographers.php">scrapbooking experts</a> contend that scrapbooking quotes are actually words that speak from the heart. These are the sentiments of the hobbyist who would like to express his or her feelings through words as much as he or she would like to express them through images or any other scrapbooking materials.<br /><br />The very essence of scrapbooking quotes is that they intensify the beauty that hobbyist forms and establishes on every page that captures every single moment as history itself unfolds. The beauty that it creates is something that is priceless.<br /><br />For those who are interested in getting <a href="http://scrapbooking.isnowmy.biz/scrapbookingideas.php">fresh ideas</a> for quotations, they can easily acquire beautiful quotes to live by on the Internet. All they have to do is browse the web, look for quality scrapbooking quotes, add them into their scrapbooks, and rekindle the memories once more.<br /><br />Indeed, scrapbooks and quotations are perfect combinations to keep those memories well appreciated and full of life.</p> <p style="text-align: right;">by <a href="http://scrapbooking.isnowmy.biz/">Scrapbooking Is Now My Business</a></p></div>scrapaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06958743265052362177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790067689858348296.post-49921434188768833882008-10-06T06:46:00.000-07:002008-10-06T06:48:17.085-07:00Scrapbooking Ideas<h1 style="text-align: center;">Scrapbooking Ideas</h1> <div class="content"><p style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2326/2177740218_ea43ca1459_m.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 176px; height: 178px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2326/2177740218_ea43ca1459_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://scrapbooking.isnowmy.biz/scrapbookingideas.php"><strong>Scrapbooking ideas</strong></a>. Even if you don't have a creative bone in your body, you can still come up with something which is pleasing to the eye when making a scrapbook.<br /><br />Just go with whatever it is that you feel like doing, have fun or do it with somebody else – a friend or a younger member of the family.<br /><br />You can look at samples online or have a <a href="http://www.scrapbooking.isnowmy.biz/"><strong>scrapbooking</strong></a> enthusiast show you his or her work. Then you can gather concepts to apply when you make your own.<br /><br />Here are some great <a href="http://scrapbooking.isnowmy.biz/scrapbookdesign.php"><strong>ideas</strong></a> for you to use when making the ultimate scrapbook: <strong><br /><br />1. Album </strong><br /><br />You can buy these online or at a local crafts store. The album that you choose will dictate the overall design of the album so take your time in picking one.<br /><br />Look at the material used in the paper. If you plan to make a collage and include heavier materials, look for a thicker paper. The regular thickness of craft paper will do if you just want to stick many different <a href="http://www.photography.isnowmy.biz/photographynewbies.php"><strong>photos</strong></a> in your scrapbook.<br /><br />There are various sizes to choose from, beginning from a letter-size album which is 8 ½” x 11” or the smaller square-sized paper of 6” or 8”.<br /><br />For a smaller format, you can use just one or two pictures to showcase on each page and just add on embellishments.<br /><br /><strong> 2. Themes </strong><br /><br />Look around you and you will surely find an inspiration when it comes to the theme of your scrapbook.<br /><br />The weather is one example, look for a bright-orange or yellow-based color. Then, you could cut out photos of sunflowers and loop a yellow yarn and glue it on to represent the sun.<br /><br />Next, paste the pictures on the pages of your scrapbook and finish up with writing a personalized quote or paste a clipping from a newspaper. Glue on additional memorabilia of a different medium then your scrapbook is as good as gold.<br /><br /><strong> 3. Borders</strong><br /><br />You can use the same theme for the borders as the page itself or the borders of the <a href="http://www.photography.isnowmy.biz/photographyhobby.php"><strong>photos</strong></a>.<br /><br />Pasting a picture on top of a paper which will serve as your border will add depth to your scrapbook layout.<br /><br />You can also cut a big shape then inscribe another shape or pattern – like a square inscribed in a circle, then place the photo underneath the border.<br /><br /><strong> 4. Design and Layout</strong><br /><br />You can either go with the theme and coordinate it with the design or make a completely different design altogether.<br /><br />Within the layout, you can go with the standard photos or memorabilia items in the middle or you can put them on either side of the page.</p> <p style="text-align: right;">by <a href="http://scrapbooking.isnowmy.biz/">Scrapbooking Is Now My Business</a></p></div>scrapaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06958743265052362177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790067689858348296.post-81291098731856118112008-08-24T10:34:00.000-07:002008-08-24T10:47:16.517-07:00Scrapbooking Tips For Your Invitations Of Marriage.<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/173/371063762_3217add34b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 204px; height: 154px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/173/371063762_3217add34b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>It becomes increasingly popular to conceive the single invitations of marriage. The declaration with your family and friends whom you will marry is one special moment, and you can create some manners amusaèves of announcing them your plans for this special day!<br /><br />Your single invitation of marriage is your first impact on your family and friends about your marriage. It is the first stage towards your marriage. You can depict to feel it totality of your day of the marriage in your single invitations of marriage.<br /><br />If you are a jokester, you could want to do something which will mystify them at the beginning and then you can announce at the person that you marry. If you are romantic, you could want to create a quotation of your experiment with your been engaged and how you consider your life will be as like a couple wedded.<br /><br />If you are an occupied person who travels much, you could choose to send the advertisements outside to your family and friends who show your love of voyage. A single idea of invitation of marriage is to create the plane tickets false which have an image far with far from a destination (or of much far with far from destinations if you desire).<br /><br />That have your specific information of marriage printed on the � of “ticketâ€. If you like the time and the money of economy, you can send your advertisements like easy and creative invitation single complete of marriage. There is a broad set of the models to choose of by selecting your own invitations of marriage, if you want to do it the formal manner with a gracious single invitation of marriage.<br /><br />Your basic elegant colors: black, white, silver plated and gold are always an astonishing manner to conceive your invitation for a formal business. However, and your fiancé be distinctive for you. If you want to show your individuality, you need one or the other find that a place which can help you to adapt your invitations or you can conceive your own single invitations of marriage.<br /><br />You can conceive something exclusive that nobody could find in any " of ½ of ¿ of ï of store; in line or with far. You can employ astounding colors, or the earthy colors invite the family and the friends with your ceremony of marriage. The majority of the couples choose to conceive their invitations of marriage around their colors wedding chosen, however you can choose to make the opposite.<br /><br />A fantastic manner to conceive your own single invitation of marriage is to visit a store scrapbooking. You can find all the materials which you can imagine to conceive your own imaginative and single invitations of marriage. You could have a time crafty one to obtain your fiancé to be implied by doing them, however.<br /><br />However if you ask him that to carry out an easy task of invitation for you (like putting the chart of RSVP inside the invitations carried out) and to make your request resemble He relieves much of weight in addition to your shoulders, should easily obtain the assistance to you which you want.<br /><br />Not to forget to have the recreation with finding the good invitations of marriage for you and your fiancé. By maintaining it similar to your own interests, your own single invitation of marriage will become an enormous memory to remember your very special day.<br /></div>scrapaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06958743265052362177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790067689858348296.post-68685580086843799942008-07-22T09:48:00.000-07:002008-07-22T10:00:15.527-07:00Creating a Wedding Scrapbook<p style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2395/1724376761_b91667659c.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2395/1724376761_b91667659c.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>A scrapbook of a wedding is different than a photo album of a wedding. I believe a photo album is to showcase the photos taken at the wedding. I believe a scrapbook of the wedding is to share the story of the days/years leading up to the wedding and then share photos of the event itself.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The following suggestions are just that, suggestions. There is no right or wrong in creating a scrapbook. It is my goal to provide some thought starters to creating a wedding scrapbook.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Consider starting with a few photos of both the bride and the groom as children. Add a few photos of them as teens and then some photos of the couple during the dating process.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">During the planning stages, often banquet rooms are looked at, dresses and tuxedos are looked at, and invitations are looked at. Taking a few photos of the various planning days are great additions to the scrapbook. If the bridal shop will allow it, it can be fun to take photos of the bride in each dress she tries on.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">When you decide on a banquet room, take a few photos of the room empty. Take a few photos of the building housing the banquet room.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Once a menu is decided on, save a copy of the menu provided by the banquet room. One event I helped with, we actually made the menu ourselves. We wanted guests to know what was being served that night and so we included our self made menu in the scrapbook.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">You’ll also want to save one copy of all of the following:</p><p style="text-align: justify;">• An invitation<br /><br />• An R.S.V.P. card<br /><br />• A place card<br /><br />• A thank you note<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">• A copy of the guest list</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If you order candy bar wrappers, or any other wedding favor, save one for your scrapbook. If you use a D.J. or a band, save one of their business cards, or one of their brochures, to include in your scrapbook. If you hire any other type of entertainer, again, save a business card or brochure.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">As you plan your wedding, it can be fun to journal the days. There will always be mishaps along the way and as you are celebrating your first anniversary, you will laugh over the mishaps and the other notes you took as you planned.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">When the R.S.V.P. cards come in, often times folks will write personal messages. Save those. Just like a high school yearbook, it’s fun to go back and read what others wrote, several years later. And now, the day of the wedding has arrived. It’s time to take those photos that you’ll want for both your wedding photo album and also your wedding scrapbook.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Audrey Okaneko has been scrapbooking for several years. She can be reached at <a id="link_75" href="mailto:audreyoka@cox.net">audreyoka@cox.net</a> or visited at <a id="link_76" target="_new" href="http://www.scrapping-made-simple.com/">http://www.scrapping-made-simple.com</a></p><div style="text-align: right;">by Audrey Okaneko</div>scrapaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06958743265052362177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790067689858348296.post-6178365386024571352008-07-18T08:27:00.000-07:002008-07-22T11:04:46.061-07:00A Very Unique Wedding Scrapbook<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/187/412289536_03fb60efe4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/187/412289536_03fb60efe4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>We have all been to weddings where the bride and groom have placed a pretty signature book somewhere near the entrance. A pretty pen or pens usually accompany this pretty signature book.<div id="body"><p>While these books are lovely, they almost never are looked at again. I know when I looked back at my own wedding guest book there were actually a couple of names I couldn’t read.</p><p>With some planning, you can create a guestbook that will be created as the guests arrive. You’ll need to choose a scrapbook prior to the wedding. You’ll also need to hire someone who can take and print digital photos on the spot. Next, find a local scrapbook consultant who will put together the album as the photos are being taken, so that by the end of the evening, you’ll have a scrapbook-guestbook that everyone can enjoy.</p><p>As your guests arrive, you’ll have someone at the entrance taking their photos. I am not a fan of Polaroid photos. This is why I recommend digital photos. With a laptop and photo printer, the photos can be printed out as they are taken. There are electrical outlets in almost every lobby I’ve seen.</p><p>You’ll also want to have available precut acid free paper and pens that your guests can write a personal message to you on. After their photo is taken or while they wait to have their photo taken, they can both write you a personal message and sign their names.</p><p>If you have someone there who can create the pages as the photos are taken, you’ll have a completed guest book by the end of the evening. Embellishments and enhancements can be added by the bride and groom after the wedding, if they want to add these items.</p><p>This is a very unique way to create your guestbook and have a lasting memory of your very special day that you and others will look at over and over again.</p></div><p>Audrey Okaneko has been scrapbooking for several years. She can be reached at <a id="link_79" href="mailto:audreyoka@cox.net">audreyoka@cox.net</a> or visited at <a id="link_80" target="_new" href="http://www.scrapping-made-simple.com/">http://www.scrapping-made-simple.com</a></p><div style="text-align: right;">by Audrey Okaneko<br /></div>scrapaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06958743265052362177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790067689858348296.post-38370542916332015952008-07-13T11:39:00.000-07:002008-07-13T11:43:04.494-07:00Wedding Scrapbook Albums - They're Not Just For Brides and Grooms<p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2349/1724374951_3e4aefbb79.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2349/1724374951_3e4aefbb79.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>These life changing, always memorable events are frequently the catalysts for nuptial-themed scrapbook albums. But true creative scrapbooking artisans have come to realize that only <i>one</i> wedding scrapbook might not be enough!</p><p><b>Here Comes the Bride... Her Dad... Your Cousin... The Neighbors...</b></p><p>Take a moment to consider how many people are in attendance at the typical wedding. Aside from the bride and groom, there are usually bridesmaids, groomsmen, attendants, flower girls and ring bearers. Add to that the plethora of family members and friends-fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, former roommates, school chums, grandparents-and you have a bounty of people for whom scrapbook albums would be perfect mementoes.</p><p>Of course, this is great news to the professional scrapper who desires to make a partial living off her creative scrapbooking abilities, selling her innovative scrapbook albums by the dozen.</p><p>It's also terrific for the recreational scrapbooking fan (and new bride!) who wants to test her skills at arranging wedding scrapbook albums as a "thank you" for everyone who attended her special day.</p><p>But no matter who is putting together the scrapbook (seasoned scrapper or newbie artist), it's critical to have a plan in place before setting off on this exciting adventure. Otherwise, you could find yourself with tons of scrapbooking embellishments and few finished projects.</p><p><b>The Wedding <i>(scrapbook album)</i> Planner</b></p><p>The key to arranging phenomenal wedding scrapbook albums is to develop a strategy before ever lifting a gel pen or unpeeling a sticker. This game plan can be as intricate as you need. Some scrappers prefer to simply write down the names of recipients for whom they'd like to make albums and then jump right in to their work. For them, a simple list is enough of a guideline.</p><p>Other scrapbooking gurus prefer to establish a more comprehensive blueprint, describing their intended scrapbook albums in greater detail (e.g. including approximate number of pages, size of album, theme of album, anticipated scrapbook products.)</p><p>Regardless of your organizational style, once you've written down at least a general idea of how you want to create your wedding scrapbook albums, it's time to check your scrapbook accessories. (Nothing's worse than finding out you've run out of card stock in the middle of a fun project!)</p><p>Evaluate your inventory, then decide whether you need to purchase scrapbook supplies online or if you have enough items in your scrapbooking kit. If you're unsure as to whether you need more, know that it's always better to have a little too much.</p><p><b>Making Memories Come Alive Again</b></p><p>Your next step will be to sort applicable photos and nostalgic items for inclusion in the wedding scrapbook albums. Simple enough, but don't breeze through the process.</p><p>For instance, if you're creating an 8-page scrapbook for your six-year-old niece who served as your flower girl, you'll want to create a very special scrapbook using photos of her (don't forget about those silly candids that make such delightful creative scrapbooking items!) If you have dried flowers, pictures of flowers or even flower-themed scrapbook products, you could add them, too.</p><p>Taking this hypothetical creative scrapbooking scenario a step further, you could also choose card stock that mirrors the colors (and perhaps fabrics) of both your wedding and your flower girl's dress. Remember-there's no "right" or "wrong" way to arrange scrapbook albums, but they should have a strong sense of originality and personality.</p><p><b>I Do... Thank You</b></p><p>Once your scrapbook albums are completed, the method of transporting them is entirely up to you.</p><p>Sent in the mail to friends and relatives who took part in your marriage ceremony, wedding scrapbook albums make a lovely surprise. Of course, a face-to-face delivery is a powerful way to say, "Thanks for being a part of our marriage", too.</p><p>In the end, your creative scrapbooking generosity will not go unnoticed, and the thoughtful scrapbook albums you've produced will be treasured for generations to come.</p><p>Michele Cardello, director of marketing and creative for Life Imprints, a <a id="link_79" target="_new" href="http://www.lifeimprints.com/">creative scrapbooking</a> supplies company also offering contemporary picture frames, in Cleveland, Ohio, has worked in the photo packaging industry for 10 years. Cardello helps customers find creative ways to preserve and appreciate a lifetime of memories.</p><p style="text-align: right;">by Michele Cardello<br /></p>scrapaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06958743265052362177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790067689858348296.post-15362290507220941732008-07-13T11:34:00.000-07:002008-07-13T11:38:43.638-07:00Capture That Special Day with a Wedding Scrapbook<p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2313/1725225788_a5aa42e9fd.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 187px; height: 187px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2313/1725225788_a5aa42e9fd.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Nothing is more special than the union of two people, and a wedding can be the inspiration behind starting to take up scrapbooking as a hobby. Wedding scrapbooks ensures that the day of joy and celebration lives. A couple can bond through reminiscing on the feelings and events of their weddingand can be captured through your wedding scrapbook.</p><p style="font-weight: bold;">Your Wedding Scrapbook is more than just memories</p><p>It is clear that as time goes by so do the memory of events in our lives. Your scrapbook can be worked on as a present to yourself and others in the future. The crucial thing to remember when starting your wedding scrapbook is that you need to work on layouts. This will ensure that you have a firm foundation upon which the wedding pictures will be showcased.<br /></p><p>Wedding scrapbooking is more than just putting pictures into a fancy book. It is a story of its own that can be retold with the visuals provided, and in the end you could use your wedding scrapbook for your children to see and experience the beginnings to their past.</p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;">Helpful tips for creating Wedding pages</p><p>You do not have to feel alone and overwhelmed with your project. There is a whole lot of help to be found so that you get the right steps in making your wedding scrapbook project a reality. You can often go to search engines and find out how to tackle the project and get some great advice. There are books and magazine written out there that will help with layouts and techniques you can use to liven up your pages.</p><p>Save your favors, cards and wrapping papers to add dimensions to your pages. If you haven't had you wedding yet, try having your guests write a special moment they remember of you or your spouse and leave it is a vase at the guest table. Use these thru your scrapbook pages as part of your journaling.</p><p>Remember that a scrapbook is a journal as well as a photo album. Take the time to write memories down shortly after your wedding so you don't loose the little details that you remember so much at the time. A great way to do this would be to write them on the back of family pictures when they are returned from the store.</p><p>Find a color combination that will bring the colors of your photos out. Try and stay with that theme thru out the book.</p><p>At the end of your project, remember that this will be a cherished family gift for years to come for all to enjoy.</p><p>Marcy Larsen - Close To My Heart Consultant. CTMH offers much more than just scrapbook supplies, including opportunities to make money while scrapbooking. I love to help people get started in scrapbooking. To learn more, please visit my website at <a id="link_75" target="_new" href="http://www.marcylarsen.com/">http://www.marcylarsen.com</a>.</p><p style="text-align: right;">by Marcy Larsen<br /></p>scrapaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06958743265052362177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1790067689858348296.post-2890555170568184152008-07-12T11:18:00.000-07:002008-07-12T11:26:08.017-07:00Wedding Scrapbook Album<p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/178/382778865_6495e8fa09.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 158px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/178/382778865_6495e8fa09.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>A wonderful way to start your scrapbooking tradition is with a wedding scrapbook album. It is a good idea to plan page layouts and ideas ahead of time. You can start by making a list of activities that will be taking place before the wedding. Or plan the activities around the pages you do want to include in your album. Bachelor’s or bachelorette’s parties, rehearsal dinners and even your honeymoon can offer very memorable and unique keepsakes to use in your scrapbooking.</p><p>One way to begin a wedding scrapbook album is to display both of your lives before the wedding. Make a his and her page with a photo and journalize, use photos or small items that show personal hobbies, friends, sports, interests and anything that defines characteristics or personalities. You can also have his and her pages about “how we met” and both of you can express your feelings about your first meeting.</p><p>Make some of your pages unique and pass around a page for friends and family to offer advice to the happy couple. Other memorabilia to include in your album might be an invitation, guest lists, specially made napkins or pressed flowers from your bouquet. When the wedding is behind you, a great way to close your wedding scrapbook album is for the both of you to write down your thoughts about your wedding experience.</p><p>Keep a notebook with you to keep track of ideas, thoughts or details that you might want to include in your scrapbook. Careful planning and attention to details before the big day creates a beautiful memory you can share for years to come.</p><p>Vera Raposo has been scrapbooking since her oldest child was 5. With tons of scrapbooking tips and ideas, Vera is now sharing some of her best scrapbooking ideas on her radio show at <a id="link_75" target="_new" href="http://www.scrapperstalkradio.com/">http://www.scrapperstalkradio.com</a></p><div style="text-align: right;">by Vera Raposo<br /></div>scrapaddicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06958743265052362177noreply@blogger.com0