Scrapbookers love to help other scrapbookers. When we get together at a crop or scrapbooking event we share ideas, tools, and even supplies. Here you can share your ideas and tips for scrapbooking with other scrapbookers just like you from all over the world.
Sometimes scrapbooking is a long and labored creative outlet. I can work for hours on a scrapbook page layout to get it just right. However, sometimes we have only minutes that we can squeeze out of our busy lives that we can spend on scrapbooking. During those times, when you have to get a page done quickly, what is your best tip for quick scrapbooking?
How did you get started scrapbooking? Did a friend introduce you to it? Did you attend an at home party or a class at a local scrapbook store? What made you fall in love with this craft when you picked up your first paper trimmer? Share your story about getting started scrapbooking and then read the stories that other readers have posted.
We all have our favorite scrapbooking tools? Your trimmer, your die-cut machine, your favorite brand of tape runner, etc. Which one is your all-time, must-have, can't scrapbook without it, very favorite tool or supply? Perhaps it is your favorite brand of cardstock, or your fabulous camera that helps you get those perfect shots. Share your favorite and then see what other scrapbookers have to say. Have more than one favorite? Feel free to post them in separate response forms.
Getting started can be the hardest part of scrapbooking. Share your best tip for a brand new scrapbooker. Do you have ideas on how to select paper? What supplies do you consider "must have" itmes? Do you get more done when you scrapbook with a friend? Share your ideas and help someone else get started saving their memories in meaningful scrapbook albums.
Sometimes the most perfect words to finish off a scrapbook page are those from someone else. Quotes are popular as journaling and page titles. One of the most famous is "We Do Not Remember Days, We Remember Moments." What are some of your favorites? Share them with other readers today.
Photo mats are the most basic scrapbook page embellishments, however they can also become some of the most prominent when you include some exciting scrapbooking techniques. What is your favorite way to embellish a photo mat? Do you decorate with punches, stickers, buttons, brads, hand-stitching? Share your scrapbooking ideas with other readers here on About.com Scrapbooking.
While the famous quote says that a picture is worth a thousand words, in your scrapbooks pictures can only be counted on to tell part of the story. What is your secret to making sure that you include meaningful journaling on your scrapbook page?
Hybrid scrapbooking is combining digital scrapbooking and traditional paper scrapbooking techniques to make books and pages that have the best of both worlds. Several ways that you can do this include, printing out your digital pages and adding 3-D traditional embellishments, adding text or other embellishments digitally to your photos before you print them for use in a traditional scrapbook, or adding your own paper touches to a digital photo book. How do you combine digital with traditional? Do you consider yourself a hybrid scrapbooker?
If you have been scrapbooking for some time then your "scrapbook stash" is most likely overflowing with buttons. You can find buttons in almost every color, style, and design to fit any theme of scrapbook page. I attach buttons to my scrapbook pages with GlueDots to instantly add dimension without any drying time. What is your favorite way to attach buttons to your layouts? Do you stitch them on with cross stitch floss, glue them with craft glue? What works best for you? Share your tips with other About.com Scrapbooking readers.
Have you ever had a scrapbook disaster while working on your albums? Did you place a sticker in completely the wrong place? Did you spell a word wrong right in the middle of your title? Did your child bump the table and spill your beverage across your layout? Share your problem and how you solved it with About.com Scrapbooking readers.
