Scrapbooking

Quick and simple flowers can also be sleek, stylish, and modern. This week's new article is called Quick and Simple Paper Strip Flowers. It has step by step instructions for these flowers that will look great on any scrapbook page or greeting card. The best part is that you can make these flowers using patterned paper scraps and complete them in just minutes. Try making some of these great flowers today!

You do not need fancy techniques or lots of supplies to make beautiful flowers for your scrapbook pages and greeting cards. These Folded Ribbon Flowers can be made in minutes with supplies you already have on hand. This new step by step article will show you what supplies you need to gather and guide you through the simple steps needed to create 3-D ribbon flowers.

Quilling is a centuries old art form that uses rolled strips of paper to piece together shapes and designs. Using the basics of these techniques you can create beautiful, 3-D flowers for your scrapbook pages and greeting cards. The best part about this flower embellishment technique is that it requires very few supplies. This article, Simple Quilled Paper Flowers, will show you how you can make quilled flowers using only glue, toothpicks, and strips of cardstock or patterned paper.

April showers bring May flowers, so this May, here on About.com we will have a series of flower technique ideas for scrapbooking. Flowers are some of the most popular embellishments used on scrapbook pages. This article, Tissue Paper Flowers for Scrapbook Pages, shows you how to take items that you  most likely already have in your craft closet and turn them into beautiful, textured, delicate flowers.

Patterned paper is an great tool for dividing up the visual space on a scrapbook page. It can be used to quickly add interest to any page. This new article, 7 Tips for Using Patterned Paper to Make Quick Scrapbook Pages, shows you ways that you can use patterned paper to your advantage when it comes to getting scrapbook pages done quickly and easily. Remember that you can click on each scrapbook page in the article to see it in greater detail. Allow this article to challenge you to get scrapbooking and get more pages done this spring.

With the end of the school year in sight and summer vacation approaching, the amount of time that you will have for scrapbooking tends to shrink.  This week's new article, Keep It Simple - 5 Tips for Simple Scrapbook Pages, is all about helping you make the most of your limited scrapbook time. These five tips will help you focus on what is important in your scrapbooking and get some pages done for your family albums.

Creating a visually balanced scrapbook page is one of the most basic and most challenging aspects of scrapbooking. This new article 6 Quick Tips for Making a Balanced Scrapbook Page is perfect for the scrapbook pro who needs a little refresher and some quick ideas and also for the new scrapbooker who needs help getting started. Learn how symmetrical and asymmetrical page designs can be created quickly and easily for magazine-worthy scrapbook page layouts every time.

Challenge yourself with this new scrapbook design article, Using White Space in Asymmetrical Design - A Scrapbooking Lesson. In this article you will find a stylish, quick, and simple scrapbook page idea plus a free sketch that has been broken down into two parts - the background and the completed page. The step by step instructions will walk you through the process of making the page, getting you used to the idea of leaving "white space" on your scrapbook pages. If this idea is something that you have seen but never tried then this is the perfect article for you!

Birthday scrapbook pages are some of the ones that you make every year. Sometimes you need some new inspiration to get you excited about creating another birthday page. Birthday Scrapbooking Resources is a list of articles, techniques, and layout galleries all themed around birthdays. It contains everything you need to make fabulous pages including links to birthday quotes and free birthday patterns.

Just as birthdays mark milestones small and large in our lives and the lives of our family members, birthday themed scrapbook pages commemorate those moments and memories in our treasured scrapbooks. This new Birthday Scrapbook Page Idea uses a free candle pattern and very simple hand-stitching to make the page stylish, fun, and yet affordable.