If you love scrapbooking, then you will love the idea of starting a scrapbooking business. What is involved in a scrapbook business? First off, you get to teach "students," especially beginners how to start making scrapbooks. And when your class is over, then you can collect the money! It is a great way of earning extra side cash while enjoying making scrapbooks yourself!
If you are really serious about the scrapbook business, you can even build it up to a full time income! The possibilities are endless. Part of operating a scrapbook business also includes representing scrapbook stores in selling their wares. What good is teaching someone if you don’t have quality scrapbook binders, pages, embellishments or tools?
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Scrapbooking is catching on around the world, but no where is it most popular right now as with the seniors. Since they have much more time to spend with this project versus their children or younger counterparts, this is a natural hobbie for them!
To start out, seniors have so much life experience that it is no problem trying to find topics of interest or the people in their lives that they can dedicate a scrapbook too.
The only thing that may be a challenge is the budget. We went over that with an earlier post regarding scrapbooking on a budget. There are plenty of knick knacks around the house and of course tons of pictures in boxes and and everywhere at relatives houses and such. The first thing a senior should do is pick an obvious topic for the scrapbook. Do you know what we are thinking at the top of the list?? Grandkids!!
There is no end to how many pictures there have been taken with the grandkids, especially from the time of birth at the hospital. What senior does not have pictures of the grand children from at least their first several birthdays. So, gather the pictures first. Next, comes the theme of the scrapbook. It could be the "growing years" or the "next astronaut." or the "future rock star." If these young ones show any aptitude for any musical talents or dancing, or "brains" answering each city name in Africa, the themes are endless.
Once set on a theme, you should get embellishments and other scraps to complement the theme. Going to a scrapbook store near you could give you so many more ideas of the page design, embellishments, and other material items. I would suggest not to plan for a very large scrapbook because it could get so bulky that it will be uncomfortable to lug it around.
If a senior has never done a scrapbook before, it is wise to buy a beginning book in scrapbooking. Make sure it has a lot of pictures. The less words the better! We want the seniors to have fun while learning.
Here is a very interesting video telling you how to make 3-D flowers for your scrapbook page. All you need is a die cut machine and colorful paper. Great video.
Did this ever happen to you? You are at a family event or some memorable event that you want to capture with your camera and definitely plan to use in your next scrapbook. You get the pictures developed only to find a lot of them are too bright, not centered in the frame, blurry because you shook the camera, or you even found blank pictures all together!
This is when you should think about how you use your camera before you go to the event! Most of the time we do not think about how we are going to use the camera, much less even checking if we have film in the camera before we leave our home!
So, here are the basics of what to do to prepare:
1) Make sure your camera has new film. (if film is already in the camera, make sure you know the expiration dates of the film and change out if needed)
2) Check the camera lens to make sure it is clean and not scratched.
3) Check to make sure the on board batteries are still "alive."
4) Keep the camera in room temperature setting if possible. In the dead of summer with extreme heat or the cold of winter, these extreme temperatures can affect the quality of the pictures.
5) When aiming the camera, make sure you take extra care in centering the person or subject in the picture.
6) Hold your camera steady!! Even with high speed or "shake proof" cameras, you can still get a blurry picture if not completely still.
7) If you can find a setting for "day/night," use that setting because it is a general setting that can make the best picture for you.
8) When taking film in for developing, compare photo processing charges with at least two different stores. Quite often you will be surprised at how much you can save for developing per picture costs.
So, if you follow these common sense ideas, you will be guaranteed of outstanding pictures to mount in your scrapbook.
Feel free to make comments here if you would like to add your clever ideas for making great pictures!
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Along with the advances in technology, comes digital scrapbooking. This is an online version of your "table top" way of doing things. Consider the the savings of not having to buy expensive binders, specialty paper, bulky and often times hard to find embellishments, and so on. You can go to a website like www.smilebox.com and sign up for an account and simply upload your own digital photos into their custom made themed pages and voila! An instant virtual scrapbook that you can email to anyone in the world.
Now, although there are advantages to this because you dealing with just a computer interface to make all your pages, there is a small piece of real sentimental feeling that is missing when you sit down at your kitchen table and, with the help of your kids or relatives, get "down and dirty" on real artifacts to paste into a real binder. Call me sentimental, but you can never replace a real binder and scrapbook that you can hold in your hands versus something that you can email and save to disk!
Some computerized scrapbooks now can add video and audio to parts of the digital pages which is a nice touch. Whichever way you want to go, make sure you keep the same intensity of creativity when making layouts. Keep your themes consistent and most of all, make sure the person or people you are dedicating the scrapbook gets a good vibe and can feel the emotion that went into making the scrapbook! You cannot hide the care and love that went into any scrapbook! Scrapbooks are truly a labor of love!!
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We have covered just about every holiday during the calendar year. As you can see, there are endless ways to start a scrapbook. There is another scrapbook site that has a boatload of scrapbook pages submitted from the readers there. In this post, we will be featuring the site, "Scrapbookingwith love.com"
You must visit that link at http://www.scrapbookingwithlove.com/scrapbookidea.asp
If you are at wits end trying to figure out what theme your next scrapbook will be about, check through all the pictures of different scrapbook pages there. Click on the thumbnail pictures and you will see a large picture of one page of each scrapbook. I guarantee, that after checking out this site, you will never run out of ideas!
This site is owned by a family who operates a scrapbook store in Tampa Florida, USA.
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Here’s a new concept. Why not make a storybook scrapbook?? What is that? Scrapbooker and writer/photographer, Denise Gormish, has been writing articles for scrapbook sites and enjoys being a full time photograper. Her love for scrapbooking along with photography resulted in a merge between scrappin’ and telling stories with photographs. Hence the "storybook album." Here is how it is laid out.
It starts out with journaling. Journaling on a layout provides information and details about the event or person in the layout. It reveals a feeling for an event or person that is featured on that page. Journaling can be limited to one page or extensively cover an entire mini-album.
Story-oriented journaling can be limited to one page, but it can also cover an entire album. A storybook album is an entire album centered around one event told in a story format.
Choose a story. Any good book starts with an idea. A good story would involve some conflict and some final resolution to the conflict. The more conflict, the better the story. Consider situations in your life that had to be overcome or an event that was filled with conflict. When writing my storybook "The Misadventure," I remembered a time when we were hiking and a few unusual things happened including getting lost on the trail. These conflicts could create tension and a good resolution for my story.
Write the story. A storybook is different from other journaling in the way the story is told and in the words it uses. Often a story is told from the third person point of view, and often through the eyes of the main character. Like a fictional book, it will depend on a central character and the actions and thoughts of that character. Another similarity to fiction is the use of words. Active description and details are used. Not everything is necessarily really as it happened. While the event may be real, the dialogue may be invented or something may be described differently than reality. A storybook mixes the real with a bit of fiction to make a story. It could be entirely fictional as well.
Merge the story and illustrations or pictures. Now it’s time to get the story and the illustrations or photographs together. Just like any other scrapbook page, you assemble them in your favorite scrapbook style.
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This post will talk about the many different items you can add to your scrapbook. The most popular category is embellishments. They can consist of anything other than a photograph, page or a journal entry.
Here are just some of the materials you can add to your next scrapbook.
Buttons are most common. They can be found on hand me down clothes, or bought very cheaply at your local fabric store. Speaking of fabric, you can buy very unusual and decorative fabrics that you can use to spruce up photos, full scrapbook pages, or make shapes that accents the theme. Paint can be a very viable way of making your pages unique. Just think of what you can do with custom colored paper and then add a touch of paint from your own paint brush. Ribbons can be used to make patterns or frame photos. Rub on transfers and stickers are great to add a special touch. Stickers are available in many materials such as paper, plastic, foil, vellum and glitter, to name a few. And of course we cannot forget the many different paper and paper textures available. The sky’s the limit on how you can use paper.
Some helpful tools used to make your scrapbook are: punches, scissors, and edging scissors, knives, paste, glue, ink pads, embossing machines, die cutting machines, double sided tape, adhesives, brush markers, cutting mat, eyelets, mini drill, glue gun, laminating machine, stencils. paper trimmers, stiching machine, foil press, and acetate. Of course there are many other tools used for making scrapbooks but these are the most common.
When scrapbooking, the most important thing to know is that there is no right or wrong way to make one. There is no rule that says you have to do anything in a certain way. Actually the more you are a "newbie" to this craft, the better! Make sure you have a plan of at least knowing what the theme is and make it consistent with the theme. For example. if you are doing a Valentine scrapbook, make sure you are consistent with having the color red throughout the binder and pages.
