Scrapbooking Tips: 20 More

Here's some more scrapbooking tips to help inspire you creative artistic talents.


20 More Scrapbooking Tips by CJ Roberts

1.) Go to a workshops!!

2.) Organize your paper by color. Take all your short cuts and paper packs and put all the same colors together. This will make it really easy when looking for that perfect color you want!

3.) Use idea books. CASE!! Copy and Steal Everything and then act like it was your idea! Idea books are great and really help you get going on a page.

4.) Designate an area in your home that you can scrapbook (if you can - many can't) It is best if you can leave it out all the time so that if you just have 10, 20, 30 minutes or more you can sit down and do it!

5.) Get your kids involved. Mine use to (what I thought) bothers me because they wanted to scrapbook too. I got them all an album and a tape runner so they can be with me and work on their own albums. They love it!

6.) Give your kids the photos you want to throw away because they aren't that great or you have duplicate copies. They will LOVE them. My 6 year old just wants to do what I am doing and doesn't care how "good" the photo is.

7.) Take your personal trimmer to your kid's practices. You can fill the drawer with photos, corner rounder, sm. Circle & oval cutter. and blades, and crop while at practice. Bring journal boxes too! See next tip!

8.) Journal at your kids practice. Bring some pre-made journaling boxes and write about some of your photos or vacations.

9.) Start a Crop Club. Set one night a month or every other month so that you and your friends can get together and CROP the night away! Rotates who hosts the crop club.

10.) Crop your photos and photo mounting paper first. After you have done this it is easier to come up with a page layout.

11.) Use White Space Generously. It is OK to have some white space on a page. Giving your pictures room to breath helps declutter your pages and achieves a pleasing layout.

12.) Bring your camera to as many places as you can. That way you never have to say "I wish I had my camera" It is easier these days with camera phones but not everyone has one!

13.) Are your pictures always of your kids and spouse? Make it a point to have someone take pictures of you being there too! (this is something I am still working on)

14.) Zoom IN! Take some close up shots. These are some of my favorite photos of my kids and pets

15.) Take pictures of the water at the beach, flowers at the flower patch, etc. You can use those pictures by punching them out into shapes and creating a border.

16.) Get your photos developed! If you have a digital camera get them off there and printed up. A great way to organize your pictures on the computer is to use the Memory Manager (make sure you make prints of them too). This is the best photo organizational tool I have used on the computer. It is perfect for those of us with a scrapbooking mind.

17.) Have a new baby? Purchase the 7x7 Disney Album and a Large T-shirt (one that would fit when the child is 12 or so) from the Disney store. Every year take a picture of your child in the T-Shirt. You will have a complete album about the incredible shrinking shirt. You can do this with other items too, such as a rocking chair, rocking horse - use your imagination!

18.) Vacation Tips. Collect memorabilia wherever you go. This includes: maps, postcards, ticket stubs, itineraries, menus, brochures, hotel stationary, restaurant matchbooks or coasters and boarding passes. Plan to journal everyday. Bring a journal and take note of such things like; feelings, initial reactions, sounds, smells, tastes, weather, places you loved or didn't love, surprises and disappointments. This is going to really help when it is time to create your pages. Take pictures of signs too, they will add words to the images in your story.

19.) Be selective with your photos. Make your album a showcase of your best photos.

20.) Go to a WORKSHOPS!!!!


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