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Summary: Scrapbooking ideas can stem from family vacations, special events or a collection of postcards, and each theme can be created into a separate book using drawings, cut-out images and paint. Put together a scrapbook in a unique way with helpful advice from a creative craftswoman in this free video on craft projects.
Coral Stoudt has been a creative force in the arts and crafts world since she could walk. She is the office "go-to" gal whenever there's a creative or artistic project that requires...read more
"In this clip, we have cool scrapbooking ideas. When thinking about making a scrapbook, you want to figure out if you're making it for you, a friend, your family, a loved one and that's how you get the basis for your ideas. And also it will help you with how you want to lay out the pages, what you want to put on them such as stickers, souvenirs, postcards, anything like that. Now here's a scrapbook that I made for a family function a few years back. It was a little family reunion. And we went to Disneyland, we had a few pool parties at my house. And basically what I did with this one is I made everything myself. I altered the pictures by cutting them. And I drew on the paper that they gave me as well as put stickers on it. So one of the ideas that I really liked was taking the picture and cutting it in different ways. You take a picture. You cut it piece by piece and then you glue it all back together on the paper. It makes an effect like it's broken. But you can still see the full picture. So it's a really good effect. I also made it look like some of the pictures were from a movie because in my head I can replay all the events that I had with my family. And by doing that you can just print out pictures on the computer or buy little pieces of rolled up film and stick it onto the pictures and glue them onto the canvas and then you've got a really nice little photograph. OK. You can also use puffy paints. Puffy paints are a great way to make the paper pop out. And they also help bring out the colors and contrasts to whatever picture you're applying it to. In this scrapbook page, I took hibiscus flowers and drew them out. But if you want you can print one out from your computer or buy one. And I color them and then I pasted them on to the different pictures and behind the pictures to make it pop out a little bit more. For this one you can buy stamps or you can buy postcards and then put your picture on the postcard or make your own postcard. And then put it in the book, in the scrapbook, and it looks like you're part of a postcard. You're part of a past, you're part of something. And then I also made a little mailbox which is really cute because that's what the postcards go into. So if you put the postcards and the mailbox together, it makes a very, very cute scrapbooking page. Now these were just some scrapbooking ideas that we have. You really want to keep in mind what the event is about, who you're with and that will determine how you want to present your scrapbook."
eHow Article: Cool Scrapbooking Ideas
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