Archive for February, 2011
Every child loves to cut up paper, peel off stickers, or stamp. They get overly interested with art supplies too. Scrapbooking is a great way to spend time with your children, share a favorite hobby, and reinforce skills learned in school without them realizing it.
Every child needs notebooks for all of the subjects they have in school. So why not have them decorate the covers of the front of the notebooks using colorful patterned papers and stickers? The child might keep from losing an item that they have put a lot of time into decorating, although that’s not a guarantee!
Today’s scrappers use lots and lots of paper. Many different kinds of paper become the countless pages of their scrapbook albums. All kinds of paper are used as design elements for layouts–cutting, crinkling, and crimping them as fast as the manufacturers can produce them.
When choosing paper, think about these four categories: color, size, thickness, and texture. Decide which colors best express what you want your pages to say and what paper sizes and thicknesses you need for the album that you plan to make. Be sure that the paper is acid-free, lignin-free, and buffered.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Markers tend to obscure the character of your writing. They are used more for color and design than for journaling, although using markers for short phrases and titles is sometimes effective in adding a splash of variety to a page.
Markers are good for outlining stamped or other kinds of lettering. Pick up a package of markers with assorted points so you can experiment with them and discover which of them you favor. Markers in white, black, gold, and silver are important tools for creating dramatic highlights. I would recommend that you have one of each color in your scrap box.
Paper-cutting dies are a little like cookie cutters; they come in different shapes and sizes. They are popular with scrapbookers. Die-cuts give you a fast and easy way of accessorizing your pages with various pre-cut paper shapes.
Die-cuts come in packages usually with a certain theme. They are available in just plain solid paper colors, which means they can be flipped over when necessary, so you can achieve an opposite effect.
Scrapbooking information flows fast and very freely over the internet now. Scrapbookers around the world communicate with one another and share ideas, inspirations, and tips on the Web.
Not only can you shop for scrapbook materials online, you can also find scrapbooking techniques, discover what’s new in the industry, ask questions, and get answers. You name it, and you’ll find it!
Fabulous treasure boxes aren’t always found buried under the ocean floor or where “X” marks the spot. They can also be found on the work tables of creative stampers everywhere.
You can create your own treasure box to hand down as a family heirloom or give away as an amazing gift. Use your creative juices to design a unique, stunning treasure box using stamps, stickers, beautiful scrap paper, tags, etc.
Valentine crafts allow children to be involved mentally and physically. Having them design their own Valentine mailbox always sparks a lot of interest for them. It helps kids to bring that awesome feeling of love to the senses.
I’ve worked with children who make their mailboxes by using a shoebox, but any smaller sized box will work. The fun part for the kids is that they get to design their own boxes with stamps, stickers, colored paper, glue, glitter, scissors, and any other essentials. There is something about glitter that makes any craft very elegant and luxurious. Allow the glitter to dry so that it can be perfect. The above items are easy to get and all kids everywhere can undertake this craft on that special day of love.
When I shop for scrapbooking kits, I always look for the packed box that is designed to coordinate with at least one of my stamping sets. The sets allow me to create even more accents, as well as add additional colors to my pages.
I also search for a kit that coordinates with one of the alphabets that I currently own and will look marvelous with it. This way I can customize titles or add letter accents whenever I so desire. It will also saves me money by using the tools that I already have and is less time consuming.
One of my favorite movies is the Wizard of Oz. Recently, I used the classic film as inspiration for a scrapbook detailing my daughter’s first year of elementary school. On each page I featured a different characteristic: heart, brains, and courage. To complete this project on your own you will need: pictures, yellow paper, markers and pens, letters, blue and white checkered paper, and glue.
On the first page I pasted the blue and white checkered paper and used scrapbook markers to draw our home (‘Kansas’). At the bottom right of the page I drew ruby red slippers and pasted yellow paper as the start of the yellow brick road. The yellow brick road is present on all pages as the connective element. The next pages each featured my daughter accomplishing something in the categories of heart, brains, and courage. Each page was decorated in the style of the character associated with that particular category. Though this is a great children’s scrapbook idea, it can also be adapted to suit any age or occasion.
An adorable springtime tag is a snap to create for a card. Simply emboss a stamped flower image using clear embossing powder. Next, scribble around and over the image using a watercolor crayon, and blend using a painter. Wipe the color from the embossed image, and allow to dry completely. Punch out your image, and adhere it to a metal edge tag. You should have designed a tag for a perfect finishing touch!