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Finding free Halloween craft projects is a great way to entertain the kids! This Halloween craft project is made with materials that almost anyone would have around the house.
Digital scrapbooking is still miles cheaper then tradtional cut and paste scrapbooking.The pages can be beautiful, your images can be showcased exactly as you want them to be, and the sky is the limit. All you need is your creativity.
The hobby of digital scrapbooking has increased in popularity in recent years. Read about it here.
It adds color, depth and dimension and just brings the page layout all together. And if you want to use it for the upcoming Easter theme layouts - how perfect is that going to be!!!
Memories deserve the utmost care in preserving and everybody loves freebies, even scrappres. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced scrapper, finding new ideas to showcase your priceless photos is always welcome!
A brief history of scrapbooking over the last century, and how it has evolved in the digital age.
Seeing some the prices of the supplies, scrapbooking can seem like a rich person's hobby. I have a modest income, but I have no problem financing my hobby because I keep it cheap. Here are some creative suggestions for scrapbooking on a budget.
it offers the perfect way to have many photos on one layout without having to crop and matte each one and be limited on how many photos I can use.
Know your camera's settings, avoid staging photos, learn about lighting, and alter that snapshot for the ultimate scrapbook layout.
If you have that very first layout page about what makes that person "tick", "who" they are, the memories are sure to flow for you as the creator of the album as well as for the person as they enjoy perusing their lifetime and reveling in the memories of "their time".
If you love to craft then you know the challenge often can be finding a new pattern or a project idea. Fortunately there are a number of websites that offer free patterns and projects for many types of crafts for you!
There are plenty of great scrapbooking resources on the web. Here is a collection of links to get you started with this wonderful hobby.
Preserving family photos is important to any family. Digital photography has offered many different options as to how to do this these days. Scrapbooking can be a fun hobby and creative outlet for anyone.
Learn how to make digital scrapbooks with your computer using Scrapbook Flair.
Scrapbooking can be overwhelming at times because of all of the choices in supplies and layout ideas. I've narrowed down the top sites to help make it a simpler hobby that everyone can enjoy.
Pull out your imagination and see what one of a kind scrapping creations you can create to make your scrapbook layouts the most unique and talked about layouts in town
A wood burned jewelry box is perfect to hold small items like jewelry, school pins, awards, and any treasure you kid may acquire. This is also a great craft project if you like to make crafts with your kids.
This easy and free Halloween craft project is simple to make, looks like a Mummy, and can be made in a matter of minutes.
Finding free Christmas craft projects is a great way to entertain the kids! This Christmas craft project is made with materials that almost anyone would have around the house.
This cool Halloween craft project allows you to make a haunted house out of a milk carton.
Making a piggy bank is a fun craft project to do with kids. A piggy bank craft project can play double duty by occupying your child with something constructive to do and encouraging them to learn how to save money at the same time.
This simple Thanksgiving Pilgrim Hat Craft project is perfect for a school play, a fun afternoon at home, and even as a learning craft for home schooled kids.
This easy Halloween spider craft project can be easily made using materials you probably already have on hand.
Handmade metal Christmas ornaments are fun family craft project anyone can make. These ornaments are easy, small, and very affordable to make.
This Halloween bat craft project can be easily made with materials you probably already have on hand.
This sweet pumpkin doormat is the perfect way to recycle an old or used doormat into a fun Halloween doormat craft project.
This craft project is a fun and easy basket that kids can make from scratch. The project includes weaving the basket as well as decorating it with Thanksgiving touches. Fun additions of cutouts make it look like a Turkey.
love all things vintage, but I can't always afford to buy them. Sometimes you can't even find specific items like a vintage Chinese checkers board. This Vintage Chinese Checkerboard is a fun and easy wood working craft project.
If your household is like mine, then you get tons of candy and chocolate given to your during Valentine's Day. Now you can make a simple Wreath to decorate your home with instead of letting the kids gorge themselves.
This simple and easy Christmas candy wreath is a fun project that every kid I know would love to make! If your household is like mine, then you get tons of candy and fruit given to your during the Christmas holiday.
If you love to preserve your family memories through digital scrapbooking, but can't afford to purchase the sometimes-costly kits in online digi-scrap stores, take heart!
With a wealth of FREE resources on the Internet, digital scrapbooking is a fun and easy way to creatively capture your memories without blowing your budget. Even beginning scrappers and computer novices can figure it out. The trick is knowing where to look.
Digital scrapbooking is a new concept to some people in the scrapbooking world. Four informative and fun digital scrapbooking websites are suggested to help get people started.
Digital Scrapbooking is a new twist on an old theme. Using Paint Shop Pro, your photos and some helpful tutorials, you will soon be turning out artistic layouts with minimal fuss and muss.
From personalized ornaments to personalized aprons, there is an abundance of craft projects waiting to keep kids busy this season.
"Digital scrapbooking is an amazing hobby. It is the type of thing that makes you want to do more and go farther and farther. The good thing about digital scrapbooking is that you never have to leave your home or computer. You do not have to run out..."
Some pros and cons of each scrapbooking method.
Making a Retro Tablecloth upholstered headboard is an easy weekend project. I always find great vintage tablecloths at the flea market and yard sales.
Making a Football Jersey upholstered headboard is an easy weekend project you can make with the kids. Use their favorite football jerseys to make this simple upholstered headboard.
This Vintage Sheet Music wall art project is the perfect way to cover a large amount of space when you need some art! Vintage Sheet Music is such a beautiful way to add some black and white décor in your home.
This antique map wall art project is the perfect way to cover a large amount of space when you need some art! Don't worry if you do not have an antique map, you can always work around that!
Easy ideas for Easter craft projects, which can be for personal enjoyment or party decorations.
A guide to a few of the best online sources when in search of crafts for kids.
Here is a collection of links to some of my favorite craft videos for the summer!
Halloween candles votives are the perfect grown up way to decorate for a Halloween party.
Digital scrap booking is a great way to scrapbook all of your digital pictures. Here's a guide to getting started and a step by step process of creating an easy layout in Adobe Photoshop CS to give you practice.
Four excuses not to get into scrapbooking and why you should still dig out those scrapbooking supplies and get scrapping!
The Halloween season offers a chance for some creative fun with your kids making fun and spooky craft projects. Here are just a few Halloween craft ideas for children to get you started.
It seems we still tend to pile up a stack of photos just waiting to be placed in an album, but we haven't found just the right paper or embellishments yet, or maybe we can't decide what scrapbooking techniques to use on them.
This simple French door coffee table is great wood working project for a beginner.
This is the perfect project for someone who loves to collect all things Coca Cola and I know there are quite a few of you out there.
Along with technology comes change and now there is digital scrapbooking. This type of scrapbooking is worked on the computer and is quite simple. Instead of cutting paper and gluing pieces together all of ones memories can be stored on a digital file.
Making homemade costumes doesn't have to be a Halloween affair! Consider Indian and Pilgrim costumes for Thanksgiving.
There's no better time than Mother's Day to present a new mom with a beautiful scrapbook that she can treasure always.
This Woven Yellow Rain Jacket Scrap booking Cover is a fun way to recover a scrapbook in a whimsical look. You can use any old shiny plastic rain jackets you can find, you know the shiny yellow kind your mom made you wear as a kid.
Scrapbooking is a fun and great way to keep advanced years seniors connected to their environment. I have done your foot work to create a beautiful book at around $6 per resident.
Whether it is to accommodate more space on the layout page or to add an interesting aesthetic feature to the layout, expanding a photo is quick and easy to do and it is one of my favorite ways to accentuate a scrapbook layout.
The scrapbooking industry has grown so much since its start. Take a closer look into your scrapbooking purchases and how they have changed in more recent years.
Don't get me wrong: I love scrapbooks (when they're made by someone else). However, I don't scrapbook-until now.
I found a few scrapbooking/ crafting magazines that are definitely worth signing up for, if you are interested in these types of hobbies. It was so exciting to get these in the mail and look for new projects, ideas and lessons.
With these new "layout recipes" it makes scrapbooking a beautiful page a breeze!
Use layout organizers to pre-plan layouts. Pre-planning means you can scrapbook with a moments notice and you'll always be ready to attend a crop.
Moving tags give a wonderful, playful substance to the layout, but it also offers inquisitive lookers a fun way to remember.
A very common question asked in scrapbooking is..."How do I get more photos on a single page layout?". The answer....
This article gives seven ideas for getting your spouse more involved in your scrapbooking hobby and preserving a point of view different from your own.
Scrapbooking magazines make great gifts for a friend or for yourself. Every month a new seasonal, scrapbooking inspiration delivered right to your door.
Here is a free layout and tutorial for this fun, digital scrapbook page using Photoshop.
Scrapbooking is all about the story, a story using the visual and tactile focus, as opposed to oral. It is also a method of preserving your legacy in the form of photographs, cuttings, and memorabilia, for you, your friends and loved ones to explore.
Is trying to follow the "rules" or scrapbooking making you bored with your favorite hobby? Forget them!
Traditionally, family stories transfer knowledge and allow family members to bond. Audio scrapbooking allows these stories to span time and place and provides the next generation with a sense of family history.
Scrapbooking has become insanely popular. As a result, countless tools are available to do everything from cut paper into fancy designs to puch teddy bears out of pictures. Do we really need all this stuff?
Scrapbooking has joined the digital age. We can now make complete scrapbooking pages on our computers. Even those of us who prefer traditional scrapbooking tend to use the computer for our journaling to print clean, neat captions and narratives on our layouts.
Ready to break some more scrapbooking rules? Here are 5 more rules to help you break free from the rigidly defined focus of scrapbooking.
In the scrapbooking industry, artist trading cards (or ATC's) are becoming more popular as trendsetting companies like 7 Gypsies release more ATC supplies and holders.
Want a creative way to organize a vacation, event or special occasion? Making a scrapbook is the perfect way to do so.
7 steps to create your own amazing scrapbooking page regardless of the material or subject.
PhotoScape makes it easy and fun to create digital scrapbook pages. In this guide I will show you how to create these scrapbook pages.
Scrapbook layouts do NOT have to be elaborate, extremely ornate, completely filling the page or use a lot of embellishments. Simple is sometimes the best embellishment you can use!
This is an account of some of my own experiences with scrapbooking, journaling, and making photo albums. It also includes musings on the limitations of the human brain to accurately store memories.
Do you ever have one of those layouts you just can't find that right embellishments for? There is so much out there, that it is common to just get overwhelmed with it all and get "scrappers block".
Creating a scrapbook for you mom is the perfect idea for an original Mother's Day gift that lets you include the entire family in the project, and at the same time creates a book of memories for a lifetime.
The title and embellishments are important parts of every scrapbook page.
A list of the Top Ten articles on AC that are all about Scrapbooking!
If you don't have video of a past event, it might seem like it's too late now. But by using pictures, narration, and effects, you can bring that event to life in a video scrapbook.
Paper Mache is a fun activity for kids and adults of all ages. Paper Mache is an ancient art form that is sure to be popular for many more years. Paper Mache creates an endless amount of possibilities of projects.
How and why a die-hard paper scrapper was converted to digiscrapping.
In this tutorial I will show you how to use PhotoImpact to create a basic scrapbook page.
I've done an article on pumpkin carving. I thought why not help my readers even more by sending them to other writers who might know more about the subject.
Not everything you want to save will fit in flat scrapbooks. Here's a cute new scrapbook for holding smaller items....
It seems like the entire country is now into scrapbook making, and if you want to have the very best scrapbooks, there's a few things you absolutely have to have.
While everyone loves looking through other people's scrapbooks, for some getting started on their own is quite difficult. In this article, I will explain a simple method for creating a beautiful finished page.
Scrapbooking is so popular and now you can protect your projects from wear and tear, moisture - even fire - by storing them online.
What's the point of putting antique pictures into a scrapbook filled with modern day papers and trims? Give the entire book a distressed look in no time.
In this article I give some tips on how to make scrapbooks inexpensively but with the quality intact. Scrapbooking - a fun hobby that makes memories last a lifetime!