Book Review - "Prints Charming" by Rebeca Seitz

Hi Scrappers,

Just thought that you might be interested in a book of fiction by Rebeca Seitz call "Prints Charming."

Book Description:

"Picking up the pieces of her life after a divorce from her cheating husband, Jane Sandburg's living large with the help of her scrapbooking friends. Her wedding scrapbook tossed in storage and forgotten, life looks promising again as the hunk across the breezeway shows interest and Jane convinces the girls to open a business networking scrapbooking women. Yet just when Jane's romance with Jake blossoms and the business starts taking off, her ex comes back begging forgiveness and assuring her that he'll never hurt her again. What's a girl to do but grab her old wedding album and head to the scrapping table with her friends? Whether it'll be revived or recycled remains to be seen!"

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Would You Like To Start The Exciting Hobby Of Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking your favorite memories is fast becoming one of the most interesting and popular hobbies that you can take up. With scrapbook supply now a multi-billion dollar industry, it’s hardly surprising that its popularity has even surpassed golf.

So, what is scrapbooking? Scrapbooking involves compiling photographs, magazine and newspaper articles and clippings, and other memorabilia into artistically decorated albums.

It’s tremendous growth rate has resulted in ‘scrapbookers’ getting together at each other’s homes, local scrapbook supply stores, scrapbooking conventions and even cruises. As well as being social events, these gatherings enable the sharing of tips and ideas.

Keeping pictures of events in life is one way to keep those memories alive. Happy moments and special occasions such as vacations, birthdays, graduations, weddings, and many other occasions are very often captured in photographs. Furthermore, such photos keep the memory of the event alive, and enable others a brief insight of the scene and to share some of the emotion surrounding them.

Other items that you could include are: love letters, cards, restaurant menus, concert tickets and programs and dried flowers. The list is endless. Anything that is a part of your past or present life is suitable.

So ask yourself, do you really want to let those wonderful memories to remain in plain and old-fashioned photo albums, or do you want to really spice them up? What about using the wonderful scrapbook supplies that that you can buy nowadays to house your precious photos and memorabilia.

Scrapbooking allows you to keep those memories alive by using poems, quotes, love songs, or simple statements expressing your feelings at the time, as captions for your photos and memorabilia. Your most intimate feelings will then live on forever in your artistic creations.

Before starting your scrapbook, assemble all the pictures that you want to include in your work. Next, sort them into date order. Before actually inserting the photos, set out all the materials including the captions that you are going to use, in the sequence they will appear in the scrapbook. Don’t forget to occasionally, add in artistic embellishments to personalize and decorate the pages. These embellishments could consist of stickers, trinkets, die cuts and fancy lettering. Do this all throughout the pages of the scrapbook.

When reliving the events surrounding your photos, you may perhaps recall some funny or memorable incident. Include these to make the caption more expressive and alive.

Colors also play a great role in your scrapbook. Softer colors such as cream and blue or silver and gold are mostly used. These colors make the pages of the scrapbook more attractive and lively.

By using the scrapbook supplies available, scrapbooking can become the outlet for all your artistic talents.

It is not necessary to be an expert photographer or artistic designer to create a scrapbook. You simply need to present your photos and memorabilia in a personal way that expresses your deepest feelings about them. By doing this, anyone looking through your scrapbook will be able to experience the emotions that you felt.

Don't let those treasured memories just fade away, make history and save them for future generations to enjoy - start scrapbooking today.

Are You At Risk Of A Scrapbook Supply Excess?

How can you keep your scrapbook supply items to a minimum and so bring down the costs of this engrossing hobby?

That’s simple! Just purchase the basics and avoid buying too much equipment to begin with. You can always add to your scrapbooking supply as and when you need more. This way will help you to keep the costs down.

With the nation going scrapbooking crazy nowadays, it’s only natural that you would like to have a go too. But what scrapbook supplies do you actually need to product a scrapbook album?

Of course, with so many scrapbooking supplies on sale, it can be a bit daunting for new scrapbookers to know exactly where to start!

Well, you’re in luck because finding a scrapbook supply has been made really easy these days with the huge variety of products available online. Whether it’s a scrapbook album, scrapbook paper or embellishments, the internet can be a great place to purchase your scrapbook supplies. Beginner or experienced, there will be an online scrapbook store with all of the scrapbooking accessories and equipment to help you put your creative ideas into practice.

So what are the basic items that you will need to start your very first scrapbook?

• Photographs and memorabilia – all compiled in sequence. These being the main items in your scrap book, they determine the theme for your page, and what your scrapbook is all about.

• Scrapbook Album – there are many different colors, sizes and designs of albums that you could choose but, the one you purchase should be free from acid and lignin. These substances could cause damage to photos and memorabilia. A smaller album, say 8½” x 11” would help to keep the costs down and be much easier to fill. You could move to a larger album for future projects.

• A Pair of Scissors – a good quality pair of sharp plain scissors is the basic requirement. There are some fancy scissors available such as ones with a patterned cutting edge but, they are not essential. If maintaining straight lines is a problem, then a straight edge cutter will solve it.

• Adhesive – it is essential that you use photo-safe adhesives only. Using other adhesives puts your precious photos and other memorabilia at risk. Various glues and affixing options are available including, glue sticks, glue dots, two-sided tape, acid free photo tabs, and polypropylene corners.

• Pen – to add your descriptions of what’s on the pages and what they are all about. This process is known as journaling. You cannot use any old pen however; it has to be one that does not ‘bleed’ where the ink soaks into the paper away from your writing causing a ‘blotchy’ look. A black pigma pen is a good choice.

What if you feel you would like some help choosing scrapbooking supplies for your first or subsequent scrapbooking album?

One way that many beginners opt for is a scrapbooking kit. They are available in a large range of themes like weddings, vacations, holidays, kids etc., so consequently you get a selection of co-ordinated scrapbook supplies to suit. If you feel your artistic skills are a little lacking, then a ready-made scrapbook kit may be just what you are looking for.

That’s all you need to create a simple scrapbook, so make a decision and actually start – NOW.