I have always been a proponent of cheap scrapbooking. I mean, I totally love using new products and I’ll admit to spending into the double digits for some scrapbooking pages. But I love being frugal too and I like the creativity that can come from not having a ton to spend on scrapbooking supplies. So what are some of the ways that you can keep your money in the bank and still make great layouts? Here are some of my suggestions to be “cheap” without looking like it:
1.) Look around the house. You would be surprised what “scrapbooking” supplies you can find. I have used many household supplies or products including: paperclips, craft paint (not only can you use it to accent a page, but you can use it the same way you use stamp ink), old envelopes and used stamps (great for destination/travel pages), old/broken jewelry (use as embellishments), shopping/clothing/market tags (you can paint over, dye, or cover them), wrapping paper, gift ribbon, hair ribbons or rubber bands, game pieces, old maps, book pages (as backgrounds), cereal/shoe boxes (for chipboard) and much more. Just be careful that these items are acid free or at least if they are not, won’t be touching any of your photos.
2.) Go digital - or at least a little bit. There are many sites out there that offer freebies every week or so. I have stated loading up on these free downloads. Not only can you use them to do digital scrapbooking layouts, but I take parts of them and print them off to use on my regular scrapbooking layouts. And the great things about these is that you can print them again and again for different pages. Check out http://www.scrapgirls.com and http://www.digitalfreebies.com for some freebies.
3.) Have a scrapbooking supply swap. The next time you want to get together to scrapbook, just tell everyone that you will be having a “swap” table where people can bring supplies they don’t use any more or don’t want. You could also make it a sale too if someone wants to sell something they have. The last time I did this kind of “swap” I ended up going home with a ton of papers and stickers that others didn’t want.
Scrapbooking may not be the cheapest hobby out there, but it needn’t be expensive. I am sure there are lots of other ways that each individual can make it even more affordable. If you have any more ideas for making scrapbooking cheaper, let me know your great discoveries.
Robin M. King is a photographer and long-time scrapbooker. She is a contributer to ScrapbookFinds.com, a comparison shopping tool for scrapbooking supplies. Read her blog and 'Ask Robin' at blog.scrapbookfinds.com.
Kids love making craft projects out of foamies. You can find them for almost any holiday or occasion. Watch for them on sale after holidays, one container can last you for several years! Joann's and Walmart usually have good selections of them.
We had fun making crafts with our Easter foamies last year, and there were still enough left over to play with this year. I got out some Easter pictures from last year I hadn't scrapbooked yet, and came up with a couple of cute layouts using the Easter foamies.
For these scrapbook layouts, you will need a container of foamies that includes alphabet letters. The Easter set I found had a bunch of pastel letters to spell out the word "Easter", so that worked out perfectly.
Supplies:
Easter foamies
Eight family Easter photos
12x12 sheet of pastel, solid-colored scrapbook paper
2 12x12 sheets of coordinating spring or Easter patterned scrapbook paper
Scrap of white scrapbook paper
Paper cutter
Glue stick
Coordinating pastel brads (optional)
I created two different layouts for these sets of pictures. The background papers are the same color but a little bit different pattern, and then I used one sheet of solid-colored paper for matting for both layouts.
Easter Scrapbook Layout #1:
For the first layout, I cut a long, vertical piece of solid-colored scrapbook paper. It is about 2 inches wide, and is placed about an inch from the left edge of the patterned paper, and an inch from both the top and bottom of the page.
If you want you can attach pastel colored brads to the corners of this vertical piece to draw more attention to it. If you are going to use them, attach them to the four corners of the piece and then glue the entire piece centered about an inch from the left hand side of the patterned scrapbook paper.
This vertical piece will be used to showcase some of the Easter foamies. After I glued this piece in place I placed four foamies vertically on it, two Easter eggs and two bunnies.
I next cut out a white piece of scrapbook paper for the heading on the page. It is about 6 inches long and 3 inches high. I then matted this piece with solid-colored scrapbook paper. I then glued this piece approximately an inch from the top and an inch from the right hand side of the patterned scrapbook paper.
On this heading piece, I spelled out the word "Easter" with the foamies. I let my pieces go slightly over the left and right-hand edges of the matting, but if you want you can cut out a bigger caption piece to fit all the letters.
Lastly, I arranged and glued on four Easter family photographs. I arranged them so that they were slightly overlapping the solid piece on the left and slightly overlapping each other. For time's sake, I didn't mat these photos. If you want to, you can use the solid-colored paper to create mats for the photos.
Easter Scrapbook Layout #2:
For the second layout, I cut out and glued on the solid colored piece on the left the same as for the first layout. Instead of using the bunnies and Easter egg foamies, I vertically spelled out "Easter" with the foamies.
On this layout I did not include a caption at the top, but I did use the solid-colored scrapbook paper to create mats for the photos.
After I glued the solid colored piece on the left-hand side of the page, I arranged the four matted photos on the page and glued them in place. I then used Easter egg shaped foamies to fill in the spaces between the photos.
There you go, two easy Easter scrapbook layouts using Easter craft foamies!
Rachel Paxton is a freelance writer and mom of five. For scrapbooking, card making, gift-giving ideas, and more family memory-making activities, visit http://www.crafty-moms.com.
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Embossing is a technique that creates a full installation of non-ferrous metals and surfaces. She is using stamping tools, dies, stamps, powder templates and other reliefs. The tools used to enhance the surface raises the dot plot lines of the surface. The effects used in relief makes the area more beautiful and catchy, compared with the simplest. It adds style and elegance to his artistic creations of the effects of relief.
Types Printing
There are four types of custom embossed giving a different aspect of the stamped image.
Join Relief: This is a stereoscopic image that is exactly records in a stamped image Print
Blind Relief: The image is the same as that of a metal or metal surface. The stereoscopic image is marked by a printed image.
Combo emphasize: This type of bonding is also the stamp sheet.
Glass: This type of help that seems to be polished.
Management and training
Placement Paper is very necessary during the recording of images. The document is inserted in the direction of the work of the embosser. This is a need to specify the hand to make the order. The image is placed side if the right side with a relief fund provided. The image will be upside down if placed in the top to the bottom as in relief.
Make sure that the image contains bold, without details. Sharpening can not keep all the details in the image. In general, the embosser has a text in a circle with a table between inside and outside. The embossers are available in various shapes and sizes. Prices are based on die size, scope and also varies if used graphics provided by the client. He rightly said that the chip size, the best quality embossed paper.
Depends on the thickness of the paper should be burned. If the paper is thick, then the negative should be deeper and wider to give the desired results.
Stamping and Tools
The most commonly used metals are magnesium, copper and brass. It is determined by the shape of the image in relief. These tools highlight great photos and letters. Brass dies are made by a photographic process semi-public. It is used to enhance the fine lines, stamped paper and the combination of reliefs.
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Do not buy cosmetics wrong again by answering some simple questions to determine if you are yellow or title = "Are you shades of yellow or blue? "> Blue skin tone base.
This knowledge will ensure your selection of cosmetics and clothing are to improve your overall look and complement your complexion.
1. Can you clearly see a blue or yellow tint to your skin?
If your answer is yellow! You are Yellow founded. Have a look or Rosey pink or blue? So you're blue, most likely based. It is important that you know that most people cool tones.
2. How What color is your hair? Is that your natural color? Are you stressed? If so, are gold or platinum?
Very warm tones like gold hair or red light golden blond or brown hair with golden yellow is tonic. The most obvious would be that the platinum blonde hair blue tones or highlights, gray and clearly brown.
3. What is your eye color? Blue? Green? Brown? Hazel? Gray? Black?
This is slightly more difficult reach a definitive answer on color, no doubt well served to reach the final result to the above questions are answered. Asians and Latinos are very pure olive oil cool toned skin.
4. Do you think they look better in gold or silver jewelry?
Yellow gold is equal and, of course, Silver Blue equals.
5. You see the best tones more on clothing, like purple, royal blue, dark pink, red, blue? Pure white? Or does look better in oranges, browns, earth tones green, yellow, orange, red and ivory?
If you choose the pure white tones and then you are most likely blue base. Do you feel better when you wear earth tones, olive green, with touches of orange? It is likely that you're warm tone.
There is an exception to most rules and this is not an exact science. The interesting aspect is that some women are lucky enough to be of neutral colors. These women were lucky the possibility of mixing two warm and cool tones, and finally, also welcomed by both.
Hopefully this has had the mystery of whether they are blue or yellow base. If not, the good news is that many companies, including international Senegence neutral are adding products that will be enough for each side.
About the Author:
Carol Clifton is a respected leader in the cosmetics industry. Currently, Carol runs many online beauty sites and is an independent distributor of Sense Cosmetics, the makers of LipSense. Carol is authority when it comes to talking about cosmetics and beauty.
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