With Valentine’s Day out of the way, we have to look towards March and St. Patrick’s Day. There is a wide variety of embellishments that you can buy from any craft store in your local area. Some of the embellishments that are available arel; green clover leafs, green hats, leprechaun silhouettes, lucky charms, shallelies, dancing elves, banyon trees, pot of gold, rainbows, and so much more.
You can make a short binder full of pictures, embellishments and journaling. It is just like the Valentine’s Day scrapbook where, it is obvious that there will not be many pictures inside. Now some creative scrapbookers are buying royalty free pictures from sites like istockphoto.com or Getty Photos, etc. and either printing them out or getting hard copy prints from their local camera store.
For journaling, there is a site, http://www.quotegarden.com/st-patricks-day.html that has many St. Patrick’s Day quotes that you can use. As a matter of fact, this site, quote garden is a great place to bookmark for any type of themed scrapbook.
May the luck of the Irish be with you!
Having trouble finding ways to say "I love you" to your special someone in the Valentine scrapbook? There is a website called Love Quotes that has over 100 most popular and obscure sayings about romance. I would expect that most of you will have the least amount of pictures and plenty of space for embellishments, frames, binder styles and journaling. You may have to bulk up on embellishments and journalling of special sayings…many different ways of saying how much you love the object of your love. We posted a short video below for ideas on how to make your Valentine themed scrapbook when you are short on "love" photos.
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As we end January, Valentines Day is just around the corner. As mentioned in a previous post, any avid scrapper should keep track of all holidays and national celebrations for ideas on making your next scrapbook.
Which comes to the point of time management. Many of our email tells us that scrappers often do not have enough time in the day or week to keep building their scrapbooks. A good way of making sure you are getting your scrapbooks done in time is to make sure you have a scratch pad on a table in a set place and a daytimer with you at all times that you keep track of "to do’s" That way, you can make an entry in the scratch pad and the daytimer of when you need the scrapbook done by. In either case, make sure you start a system in which reminds you of the deadline in which to finish your scrapbook. This is true especially for time sensitive themes such as birthdays, anniversaries and holidays.
For Valentines Day, now is the time to go to your hobbie or craft store because they probably now carry Valentine themed embellishments. Do be late! You need to start looking late in January or early February before all the products and embellishments are all looked over the the best of the best items are taken!
Obvious embellishments are: foil valentine shapes, red colored yarn, small valentine shaped candy, cutting heart shaped silouttes from construction paper, red buttons, lace, call out "clouds" that you can fill in "love you" messages in it, small valentine shaped sprinkles, and so on. A great idea is to cut out a medium sized heart shape out of construction paper and insert a picture of you and your loved one behind it so the heart shape becomes a "frame" around it.
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, start your scrapbook now!
As we approach a new year (2009) there is much to do in thinking about your next scrapbook. If you have not finished your holiday scrapbook or any other scrapbook that you were working on for someone else, you should either putting them aside for now or complete it soon. As with the new year, ideas for a new scrapbook abound. You may even be planning a "2009" scrapbook theme or an upcoming birthday of a grand child or a "valentines" scrapbook as a gift to your loved one.
Here are more ideas for new scrapbooks you might consider to start planning for:
- Upcoming wedding
- Welcome home military
- New Year
- Valentines
- Spring Break
- Mother’s Day
- Wedding Anniversary
- Graduation
- New Baby
- Birthday
- Family Reunion
You can see that there are many ideas you can plan for now. Time goes by so quickly so you need to get a head start on purchasing materials, sorting out through photos, choosing a binder cover, selecting embellishments, and what journalling elements you will put into it.
Whatever theme you choose for the next scrapbook, get on it!
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With the Thanksgiving holiday coming up (November 27, USA) what perfect idea to start a scrapbook for this memorable celebration.
For embellishment ideas, you can use; hard corn kernals, wheat stalks, turkey stickers, fall leaves, Pilgrim hats, cornucopias, blossoms, fall colors, vegetables and harvest wreaths. I suggest that you use warm colors such as gold, yellow, brown, and cream for your pages. Photos you can use could be made up of pictures of Thanksgiving holiday get togethers of you and your family. Many of the journaling can bring up the purpose of Thanksgiving…to give blessings and thankfulness of the European peoples meeting the Native American peoples on the continent of America.
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For those of you that need more ideas for making a Halloween scrapbook, we have an excellent idea. At this time of year (October) take a trip to your local party store. These are the stores that have imprinted balloons for birthdays, party napkins, holiday decorations, greeting cards, and tons of miniature toys. Well, you will find the aisle that has miniature toy packets. You will find that there are many 3-D items in the form of: small plastic halloween masks, witches broomsticks, miniature jack-o-lantern faces, orange colored Halloween stickers, etc.
The perfect plan for a Halloween scrapbook would be to, take lots of pictures of your children and family in full Halloween costumes. Buy a load of miniature Halloween themed toys from your local party store….which is going to be your embellishments. Then get a good sized binder/album and make sure you decorate the cover in orange and black. For pages, use alternating black and orange construction paper to mount the pictures. Now you see the unlimited possibilities with using the miniature Halloween toys throughout the scrapbook pages? Of course, your Halloween costume pictures will speak for themselves. If you have a pet, don’t forget to "costume" them up too!
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An attractive technique for placing photographs into scrapbooks is the photograph mosaic. Mosaics stretch photographs into an artistic rendition of the original photograph. Maps can also be stretched in this way. This method might be employed to create a funky look for a friend scrapbook or as a background for someone who likes computers, GIS, or geography.
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If you have a hard time finding a theme for your next scrapbook, how about picking a theme on national or international holidays and celebrations? As we start October, we think of Halloween (USA celebration) and the popularity especially among children. As mentioned in previous posts, scrapbooking should be a home hobbie that is family friendly. The kids will enjoy working on the scrapbook with the grown ups.
This theme is a great one for embellishments. Imagine, candy corn, wax pumpkins, yellow and black construction paper, pictures with the kids in their Halloween costumes, silhouettes of witches and goblins, and many more items you could insert with a nice 3-D effect.
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Color coordination and contrast will highlight and accent your scrapbook. A well thought out color scheme can help define the theme of a page, attract attention to specific items, or detract away from mistakes. Poorly chosen color schemes, on the other hand, can cause your scrapbook page to look gaudy or mismatched.
Background colors can either be matched, coordinated, or contrasted with the colors in your photographs, mementos, or embellishments. Matching colors add to the continuity of the color scheme. Coordinated colors add depth to scrapbook pages. Contrasted colors focus the eye. In this way, color can be used to create the effect you desire.
A great way to see how colors look together is to collect and compare color wheels from your local paint or hardware store. Paint wheels are usually available free for the taking in nearly any paint department. If you do not have access to a color wheel, use your best judgement on what colors contrast the best. It is recommended to have either a bright color or dark pastel color behind photographs
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well a picture with a scrapbook quote with it is worth many more than a thousand words! Scrapooks are based on enhancing the "story" of what a picture depicts. What a wonderful change if you were to put above or below, a "quote" that refers to the picture with it. It can be in the form of humor, a description of a once in a lifetime event, a specific memory, or a thought generated by yourself that conjures up a specific feeling you had inside.
It is like a comic book. Remember when you would see the "dialog bubble" near the mouth of the people talking to each other. It further depicts what is said along with the drawings of the people who are interacting with each other. Comic artists also draw a "cotton ball" bubble to represent what a person is thinking as opposed to what is said. You can paste a white piece of construction paper in the form of a dialog bubble or cotton bubble to make some comments from the people in your picture.
Either way, whether you have dialog boxes or a quote above or below your pictures, it is a great way to make your design more interesting!
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