Scrapbooking can be a balm for the soul. In the new movie, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock, a young boy is dealing with the grief of losing his father and trying to make sense of a loss that doesn't make any sense. As he goes on a quest to maintain a feeling of contact with his father, he creates an art journal scrapbook. In this article, I show you the three main types of Tribute and Grief Scrapbooking to help you decide if one of them might be right for you.

Being organized helps us get more scrapbooking done because we can find everything quickly and easily. You can spend a lot of money on very pretty and very useful scrapbook organization systems, however this new article is all about getting organized without spending hardly any money. This step by step article, Scrapbook Supply Organization with Recycled Materials - Jars Hanging Storage, will show you how to use recycled jars with lids to make beautiful and useful hanging scrapbook storage.

I had a blast working with the Family Tree Year in Review Free Sketch and Tree Patterns. The scrapbook page turned out to be a treasure and the patterns are so versatile that I will be able to use them on other scrapbook pages, greeting cards, and paper crafting projects. This week, I wanted to share with you some tips that I learned while working on this scrapbook page. In this week's new article Rebecca's Family Tree Year in Review Scrapbook Page, I give you some ideas that will help you create and assemble your own layout. In the article, be sure to scroll down to read my 3 Quick Tips for putting it all together.

These 6 Quick Tips for Making Hand Cut Flowers from Floral Print Scrapbook Paper will help you make very inexpensive flower embellishments for your scrapbook pages. When I began working on my Family Tree Year in Review scrapbook layout, I realized that I would like my tree to be a flowering tree. This article shows you how I made lots and lots of flowers for my layout with just one sheet of patterned scrapbook cardstock weight paper.