Scrapbooking

There are tons of ways to keep track of what your eating, what your planning for supper, and making lists for your grocery shopping. Here is how you can create your own meal planner book using...

New parents love to take pictures of their little ones. Creating a scrapbook devoted exclusively to baby allows parents to treasure these special early days and share them with their children as...

Vellum paper has the beautiful, translucent quality of parchment and is available in an assortment of solid colors or shades with embossed or preprinted designs. Sold at scrapbooking,...

Instead of placing all your pictures into a simple photo album and sticking it on a shelf to be forgotten, make your own scrapbook full of memories and photos. Use simple craft supplies to create...

You love scrap-booking and creating pages with photos, ribbons, and other embellishments. You have been curious about using chipboard, a hard cardboard-like paper stock. Chipboard can not only be...

Foam core boards are a versatile resource that can be used for scrapbooking and other projects. Setting foam core behind cardstock papers or photos instantly gives your work in progress a pop-out...

Fiskars paper punches allow you to cut shaped pieces of paper by squeezing two handles together. Create figures like hearts, swirls and leaves, as well as geometric shapes like circles, squares...

Made of lightweight plastic, Craft Lite Cutter offers a wide range of choices for the creative crafter. Although these cutters were made specifically for the scrapbooking crowd, they have many...

Your Cricut Expression machine can cut vinyl letters, numbers or symbols that you can use for decorating and craft projects. Vinyl decorations are easy to install, look professionally applied and...

A mat is a colored background for your pictures. The photos are mounted onto the mat, and then the entire creation is framed or affixed onto a scrapbook page. Matting photos is an art. The right...

When my children were in elementary school, I began to replace my standard boxed Christmas cards with personalized photo Christmas cards. When they reached high school, I started sending out an...

Miniature envelopes make interesting and distinctive embellishments for scrapbook pages. These envelopes can add texture and dimension to a page or might also be used to hold a particular...

These charming pressed leaf butterflies make wonderful gifts for nature-lovers of all ages. Read on for simple instructions in how to make butterfly greeting cards, bookmarks, Christmas tree...

My family and I visited the Space Needle in Seattle one day. We hadn’t planned on it but ended up there somehow and since we were just kicking around town we didn’t have a camera with us. It...

Vellum is a "paper" material made from a plasticized cotton that appears transparent and has a plastic feel to it. It is an ideal material for creating party invitations, scrap booking and other...

The Cricut Expression cutting machine is one of the hottest scrapbooking tools. Although this machine is commonly used for scrapbooking, it can also be used for vinyl cutting. A sheet of vinyl...

Scrapbooking has become quite the craft lover's sensation over the past few years, and Cricut has taken scrapbooking to a whole new level with its Expression and accompanying design cartridges. ...

If you make your own scrapbooking pages, vinyl designs, wall stencils or greeting cards, then the Cricut Expression is the perfect machine for you. The Provo cutting machine uses specially...

Any scrapbooker knows that hole punches are an invaluable resource. Whether you have a three-hole punch that you use to organize your pages, a single-hole punch or several dozen decorative punches...

Manuscript vellum has historic uses as well as modern applications. While the manufacturing materials have changed from using the stretched and dried hide of mammals to using cotton fibers, the...

Rubber stamps allow you to add art to any flat, porous surface quickly. By coating the stamps with ink, creating the same picture in several places becomes a simple task. To ensure the long life...

Creating your own personal stationary is very easy. There are a number of software programs you can use to help you. It contains many good templates ranging from labels to calendars. You can...

Do you get frustrated and overwhelmed with the amount of paper you have to organize? While here's a simple solution to getting all of your Scrapbook Paper Organized.

Mandarin Chinese isn't as complicated as some think it is--people exagerate the complexity of this language. With a little patience and practice, Mandarin isn't so hard. Learning the basics of...

Tired of buying a simple scrapbook album that cost too much? Well here in this article I am going to tell you how to make your own scrapbook album. It’s simple and cute. You can choose whatever...

The word paper is derived from the word "papyrus," a reedy plant that grows along the Nile River in Egypt. Papyrus stems were split, laid out flat, and dried together to form a sheet. When...

Bridesmaids are an important part of your wedding day. The best way to thank them for their participation and effort is to give them a gift. A wedding takes a lot of time to plan and is often...

Scrapbookers create albums to provide a family history for future generations. You dream of handing down your albums to your children, who will hand them down to their children, keeping your...

Paper flowers make whimsical, colorful and beautiful embellishments for scrapbooking layouts. Whether the page features photos of a baby's milestones, a wedding shower, a Hawaiian holiday or a...

Cutting vinyl with a Cricut is a fun and easy experience for a wide range of ages. If you have just one cartridge for your Cricut, you can cut out several shapes, phrases and many different...

In a scrapbooking layout, borders are used to frame the picture or the entire page. Many scrapbooking specialty shops sell ready-to-use borders that you simply affix to the page. If you want to be...

If you have taken the time to research your ancestors and uncover details about relatives on your mother's and father's side of the family, record the results on a decorated family tree that you...

Many seasoned croppers still have trouble adding pages to their Flex Hinge style scrapbooks and getting them back together. It's simple and easy when you know how. Here are step by step...

If you want to see a person's face light up, give her a gift that features that face. A handmade, personalized accordion fold photo display will represent her personality through photos and your...

Scrapbooking can be time consuming and expensive but with free software a person can do digital scrapbooking with less time and cost.

Immortalize your next family reunion with a souvenir scrapbook. It will take a little advance work, but the results will be well worth it. Don't be surprised if you get requests for copies.

A weekend of scrapbooking is a relaxing retreat for a crafty group of friends. Busy lifestyles prevent most people from keeping up with scrapbooking. A scrapbook event devoted to the hobby allows...

Landscape pictures are an exciting addition to any scrapbook. Whenever you visit a beautiful place where the view captures you and takes your breath away, bring your camera so that you can take...

Using a Cricut cutting machine is useful when starting your scrapbooking and other artistic endeavors. However, if you don't know how to reapply the sticky substance necessary for the mat to...

You don't have to spend a lot of money in the craft aisle or at a fancy craft store to get the die cut buttons that you want. If you have a connection to the Internet and a printer, you have easy...

Cutting felt flowers is a challenging task. Using scissors can be tedious, and using a regular shape puncher leaves you with a fuzzy and jagged edges. Die cutting is one of the easier ways to cut...

Is there a box of old family photos sitting in your house just calling out to be organized and displayed? Is your family history being lost because no has the time to gather it. Follow these...

Scrapbookers have many options for adhering the various papers and embellishments together to make scrapbooking pages. There is a an adhesive designed for every application to allow a scrapbooker...

Creating a fancy collage of your photos right into your yahoo inbox is now made possible through Picnik -- a photo editing website that allows you to fix, enhance, and add great effects on your...

Browse your scrapbooking paper and select a variety of scrapbook paper colors for Fall. Gather other scrapbooking supplies to create Thanksgiving scrapbook pages with this adorable Thanksgiving...

learn how to recycle old cards from any occasion.

Swirls add a nice touch to digital scrapbook designs. You can design your own (easily) with free software Livebrush Lite, an Adobe Air application.

Are you overwheelmed with pictures you have taken this year? Here is a quick way to organize them to put in a phot album or scrapbook later.

Browse your scrapbooking paper and select a variety of scrapbook paper colors for Fall. Gather other scrapbooking supplies to create Thanksgiving scrapbook pages with this adorable Thanksgiving...

Now that Halloween is over, what are you going to do with all those wonderful pictures you have of the celebrations? Halloween is a great picture taking opportunity. All the children in costumes...