How To Get Started Scrapbooking

Answers to Your Scrapbooking Questions - Readers Share Ideas and Tips for Scrapbooking. Ideas for scrapbooking from About.com Scrapbooking readers.

What Got You Started Scrapbooking? - Readers Share Their Stories

Ideas and tips for making quick and easy simple scrapbook page layout designs.

Scrapbook Design Basics – The Rule of Odds - Learn how the rule of odds can help make your scrapbook pages even better.

Scrapbook Album in a Weekend - 4 Tips for Coordinating a Theme or Gift Scrapbook

How to make a balanced scrapbook page with a symmetrical and asymmetrical scrapbook page layout.

Scrapbook Design Basics - The Visual Triangle - Learn to scrapbook using basic design principles.

Question: "I've been scrapbooking for 9 months or so now and I find it very hard to settle into a project . My problem is that I don't want to print out photos until I'm sure which one I'll be using and at what size. I can't figure out which paper to choose until I know which photos I'm using, I can't decide on a layout until I know how many photos I'll be using. So like I said chasing my …

The new year is a great to resolve to do more scrapbooking. These six tips will help you get started and also direct you to ways to keep your new goals.

Perhaps the author Mark Twain was a scrapbooker. He is quoted as saying, "The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one.'' This is exactly what we need to do as scrapbookers in the new year. If you are one of the thousands of scrapbookers who are hoping...

Matting photos is the most basic thing that you can do to embellish your scrapbook pages. Decorating those photo mats allows you to take your scrapbook pages to a whole new level. Here you can find eight quick and easy ways to embellish your photo mats for your scrapbook pages and add that extra special touch to each of your layouts. From lift-the-flap photo mats, to adding embellishments such as…

Embellishing Photo Mats for Scrapbooking - Scrapbook Photo Mats. Readers share ideas for embellishing photo mats for scrapbook pages.

How to Mat a Photo - Photo Matting for Scrapbooking

5 Tips For Taking Digital Photos of Your Scrapbook Pages - How to Take a Photo of Your Scrapbook Page. You do not need to scan your scrapbook pages when you can take a digital photo of them instead. These 5 tips will show you how easy it is to take beautiful digital photo of your scrapbook pages.

If you are getting started scrapbooking and have more questions than answers, you are not alone. This FAQ for scrapbooking will help you get off on the right foot. Find out what supplies you absoultely must have to get started scrapbooking, how you can protect you precious investment of time and money - your albums, and how to come up with creative scrapbook page layout ideas as Rebecca answers s…

How to Print on Tags, Journaling Boxes, and Other Embellishments for Scrapbooking.

About.com Scrapbooking Readers Share About Overcoming Scrapbooking Disasters

5 Tips for Creating a Focal Point on Your Scrapbook Pages. How to resize, crop, and arrange your photos to create a focal point on your scrapbook page layouts.

Scrapbookers Tips for Perfect Holiday Photos

Cropping Photos for Scrapbooking - Learn when and how to crop photos for scrapbooking.

Scrapbookers share ideas for using recycled items for organizing scrapbook supplies, embellishing scrapbook pages, and as tools for working on scrapbook page layouts.

How To Scrapbook - Making A Basic Scrapbook Page

Removing Photos from Old Photo Albums and old scrapbooks

Choosing an album, gathering supplies, and getting out your photos are just the beginning of a hobby that will preserve your family's most treasured moments for years to come. This article gives you the "know-how" you need to get started with confidence.

Simple scrapbooks. You’ve heard the term, seen the magazine and maybe even read the book that started it all. But perhaps you’re still wondering—what exactly is a “simple scrapbook”? Does “simple” imply that it’s just for beginners? Or lacking in creativity and content? Not at all! This article gives you all you need to know to get started making simple scrapbooks this weekend.

Read this first. This article will change the way you think about scrapbooking. Are you really planning to scrapbook every photo you have taken for the last 30 years in chronological albums? Read this article first.

Scrapbook Design Principles - Repetition and Gradation - Learn to scrapbook with basic graphic design rules.

Scrapbooking is based on the same basic design rules and principles as other arts such as home decorating, painting, and graphic design. Some of these rules include Creating a Focal Point, The Rule of Odds, working with a Visual Triangle, and Repetition. If you want to learn to scrapbook or are just getting started scrapbooking, these principles will get you started creating fabulous scra…

The most important thing for beginning scrapbookers to remember is to s tart with your photos. They will lend the inspiration needed for the scrapbook page design. Do not let yourself get overwhelmed with the abundance of supplies available to you when you begin working on a scrapbook. Instead, keep you focus on your photos and the pages will come together to tell your family's story. These thre…

Tips for New Scrapbookers - From About.com Scrapbooking Readers

Repetition is a basic design principle in the visual art world. It is defined as simply using an element more than once on a your scrapbook page. Repetition brings a calming sense of unity to a scrapbook page. It can be used to pull together the two sides of a double page scrapbook layout, and also to add that final touch to a single page...

Create a Focal Point on Your Scrapbook Page - Learn how a focal point transforms a scrapbook page layout.