One of the best parts about scrapbooking is getting together with other scrapbookers. Sometimes you may be having just one or two friends over to work on your albums, but other times you may be helping to plan a large crop event. A quick or ongoing game or challenge can inspire creativity when you are scrapbooking for hours and hours. Games can add excitement to the crop or help break someone's "scrappers block." These 5 games are all things that can be played without interupting cropping time.

This year, scrapbookers are looking for ways to be frugal with their gift giving while still giving meaningful gifts to friends and loved ones. Mini books, small project scrapbooks are the perfect solution. In this gallery, you can find ideas for many different types of mini books. Start scrapping now and you will be able to complete a mini scrapbook for everyone on your list. Also, this month, if you have a mini book idea that you have created that you think I should add to the gallery, be sure to read the Current Page Calls to see how to send in a photo to share with About.com Scrapbooking readers.

Quotes are a quick way to add journaling to your scrapbook pages. These quotes about Thanksgiving reflect the history of the holiday and have been selected especially for card making and scrapbooking.

If you need ideas for getting started on that Thanksgiving layout you can check out the gallery of Scrapbook Pages About Thankfulness.

And finally, this week, if you are looking for an inexpensive way to dress up your Thanksgiving layout, you will want to visit the Free Fall Patterns and Page Ideas gallery.

When you first started scrapbooking, you were probably told that you needed a corner rounder. This little punch that snips off the square corners of both photos and paper, has long been listed as an essential tool. In the past several of years, we have seen fewer scrapbook pages in magazines that have used a corner rounder on the photos. Lately, however, this tool is making a come back! The revival of the corner rounder has begun. The return is driven by the fact that now rounded corners are being incorporated into the overall graphic design of the page. By using this tool judiciously you can impact the design of some of your layouts. The pages in this gallery give you ideas of how rounded corners can be used as an integral part of the page design. Also included here are three page plans/sketches to use to create future layouts.