Pet pages talk- pet album People are not the only ones who should be passed down on our scrapbook pages. Our pets’ time on this earth is so much shorter than ours, that it just feels right to honour them, and enjoy the time we have with them while we can. To not seem like one of those crazy pet parents, I have created a separate doggie album for my dog Charlie. I will be featuring a pet pages layout each month. Introducing Charlie’s pet talk album I loved many of the pet pages I had seen... Read Full Story

Technique Sunday   Acrylic Paint Acrylic paints are an econimical way to add texture, camoflauge flaws and tone down bright hues to make your layouts flow and blend together better. Using paint is by far one of my favorite techniques because of how verstatile it is. Paint white wash By using acrylic paint you can tone down a racy background that might overwhelm your photographs. Example: By using blue paint on a hat patterned paper background, it tones it down but still allows the... Read Full Story

QuicKutz Silhouette This is the best scrapbooking tool ever! I am not affiliated with this company at all, but recently bought one of these machines and wanted to share my knowledge. What is it? The Quickutz Silhouette is a scrapbook cutting tool designed to make cutouts from paper, to make your scrapbooking life easier. You can use any .TTF font you can free on the internet and will never have to pay for cartridges ever again. You can find a brief overview by clicking on the... Read Full Story

Clip It Up Knockoff The Clip It Up is a huge hit with Scrapbookers for hanging up stickers, embellishments and more, and to have them at our fingertips.   Here is the original Clip It Up version. Looks nice right? The price and design itself are not for everyone, though. www.clipitup.com After getting some great inspiration from other Scrapbookers, I came up with my own Clip It Up knockoff.   What you need to make it: * Curtain rod or similar * Binder rings * Paper... Read Full Story

Technique Sunday   Video and photo cds I am always looking for ways to put more photos and interactive elements on a layout. By making my own burned cds with my computer, I can add all my extra photos and video clips and put them in a cd pocket on the page. Merry Christmas Harry Potter layout The cd here is hidden in a pocket behind the photo, and ribbon is wrapped around it so you can pull it out. Read Full Story

Different viewpoints A interesting layout is to take photos from an event and get yourself and your spouse to both do journaling about it and put it on the page. Its always interesting reading what you wrote later on.   Example:   In this one I have it hidden the text hidden in a flap.   Wagonfest   Read Full Story

  Technique Sunday I have decided to focus on separate techniques on technique Sundays. First up: Mosaic Layouts. Mosaic layouts Doing a mosaic layout despite how it looks is very fun and easy. Basic instructions: Make a photo matt a least 2 inches bigger than your photo size Turn your photo over and measure it out evenly. One inch per box for example Write numbers on the back of each box Cut out the numbers with a cutting tool so they are straight Line up the boxes by number... Read Full Story

10 Ways To Save Money Scrapbooking Here are some tips I have collected over the years to help save you some of your hard earned scrapabooking dollars.   1)Go to the dollar store This goes without saying, but be sure to keep your eye out for unconventional things as well that you would not find in the scrapbook isle. For example buttons, felt, wine charms, flower petals, photo books, tissue paper, paper money, playing cards, fabric from scarves that can be used on a layout... Read Full Story

Scrapin confession time I don’t shop at the LSS. Please don’t shoot me yet! I have tried, really I have. There is just something about walking into a store and having an owner's eyes on me while doing my shopping that makes me cringe. "Are you going to buy something? Well are ya? Are ya?" There is so much talk online about LSS' closing, which in part seems to want to make people like me feel guilty. The fact of life is that businesses flop, even when you have an organized... Read Full Story

Scrapin confession time   I don’t shop at lss, please don’t shoot me yet! I have tried, really I have. There is just something about walking into a store and having an owners of eyes on me while doing my shopping that makes me cringe. Are you going to buy something? Well are ya? Are ya? There is so much talk online constantly about LSS stores closing, which is part seems to want to want people like me feel guilty. Fact of life is that businesses flop, even when you... Read Full Story