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Creating a Heritage Scrapbook
One of the most interesting places to record your family's history is in a heritage scrapbook. Here are some ideas to help you get started making your own.
heritage • scrapbook • family • history

Customized Scrapbook Lettering
Do you have those packages of left over letters that you will never use from buying prepackaged alphabets? Time to make your own.
embellishments • scrapbooking • alphabets • scrapbooking embellishments • alphabet embellishments

DIY Scrapbook Craft Supplies
Keeping your memories in scrapbooks with all of the beautiful embellishments and papers doesn't have to cost a small fortune.
budgeting scrapbooking • free scrapbooking • scrapbooking embellishments • crafts • scrapbooking

Ideas for Scrapbook Collages
Instead of the store-bought, mass produced, manufactured, retailed, formatted, processed, and cookie cutter pages, give your scrapbook individual flavour?
scrapbooking • collage scrapbooking • budget scrapbooking • free scrapbooking • crafts

James Henke's Jim Morrison Scrapbook
This biography by James Henke on Jim Morrison's life and death includes poetry, lyrics, new interviews and personal documents.
jim morrison scrapbook • poetry pictures • quotes letters • the doors • biography

On Hiatus Blues
Find yourself with nothing to do when racing is finally over? Don't dispair, I've provided a few ideas to fill your time.
sports car • grand prix • sonoma • pictures • scrapbook

Scrapbooking Baby's First Year
A list of creative ideas to record Baby's growth in a scrapbook. Themes, photos, moods and quotes are all useful tools to make a wonderful memoir.
scrapbook for baby • record baby's first year • creative scrapbooking • memory book for baby • scrapbooking and photos

Falling Leaves
Autumn is here. It is the time of the year when leaves change their green coats for those of red, orange, yellow and brown. Forests and woods are a blaze of color. Let's explore the world on a lovely autumn day.
science for kids • mary alward • red • leaves • autumn

Paper Cards, Gift Bags or Journals
This site has some great ideas. Check out the ideas and then e-mail me what you think. I want to hear from you.
paper craft projects • free crafting ideas • family craft projects • family crafting • papercrafting

Color Selection
Color is a pragmatic problem for many scrapbookers. It's hard to know which colors to pull from your pictures, how much is too much and how to use a color wheel.
color • color wheels • scrapbooking • memories • photos

Traveling Crafts
During summer, many families take vacations. Often these include car trips, plane trips, or train trips. When we vacation, my son and I bring along a craft travel pack. It is full of supplies for easy crafts and activities to make and enjoy and don't require a lot of space. You can remember your trip with homemade postcards or please a friend with a flower bouquet or greeting card.
travel • backpack • paper • scissors • crafts

Walnut Ink Techniques
Walnut ink is an easy way to add some character and aged appearance to papers that look too “new” for your layout. There are so many ways to use it to get different effects. Want to learn more?
album • age • aged • bleach • crumbled

Art Journal Project for Spring
Spring is in the air! Birds are chirping, flowers are blooming, and trees are budding. Let's bring some of the spring season into our art journal pages.
art journal • art journal prompt • art journal ideas • journal • journal prompt

Collage Picture Frame Matte Gift
Mother's Day is right around the corner and, with that, comes handmade gifts from both young and old! Find that perfect picture, and frame it with a mixed media matte.
mothers day gift idea • kids craft • spring craft project • photography art • collage art

Project Planner: Altered Covers
Creating handmade books are wonderful projects, but we're going to focus solely on the covers of these creations in this week's Project Planner.
art journal • art book • handmade book • handmade journal • altered book

Creative Computer Crafts
I promised I would give you Craft Book reviews and I always keep my promises. Here is one work looking into by Marcelle Costanza on crafting using the computer.
book review • craft book review • computer crafting • craft projects • free craft projects

Homemade Cardboard Ink Stamps
Are you frustrated at the selection of Rubber Stamps available? Do you have trouble finding one in the topic you want?
rubber stamping • creating rubber stamps • crafts • stamping • inexpensive rubber stamping

Mixed Media Pumpkin Decorating
Who says mixed media artists can't play with pumpkins, too? Have fun during Harvest Festivals, Halloween and during parties with these uniquely decorated pumpkins.
original halloween pumpkin carving ideas • artistic jack o lantern • creative halloween kids craft • halloween party activity • mixed media art

Stamp, Bead, or Paint Gift Bags
Need gift bags? Would you rather spend your money on the gift instead of the bag? Here is a quick and easy way to create personalized gift bags for almost nothing.
gift bags • gifts • crafting gifts • make your own gift bags • scrap crafts

Grandparents as Tools for Language Learning (Part II of II)
One of the strongest regrets I’ve heard voiced by the grandchildren and great grandchildren of immigrants is that they never took the time to learn language from their grandparents. As a grandparent, even if you know only a few words in Norwegian, you have the opportunity to open the doors for your grandchildren into their heritage and the international community. It is hoped that the strategies listed here will guide you in stimulating your grandchild’s interest in, and understanding of, the language.
grandparents • grandchildren • learning norwegian • language loss • heritage

Distress Inks
Learn how to incorporate Distress Inks into your scrapbook layouts and cards for more depth or for the aged antique look! Use in conjunction with Walnut Ink.
aged • alcohol • brush • buy • cards

How To Make Shaker Boxes
This month we’re going to look at a great and inexpensive way to fill that empty spot on your layout that will add not only add charm, but movement and “that extra pop.” I’ll be showing you how to make shaker boxes. Shaker boxes are not only a fun addition to the page, and fun to make, but they can be customized to your theme the way that no store bought item could.
beads • buttons • charms • confetti • craft

Scrapbooking for Less: Found Item Freebies, and Trash to Treasure
Want to save money on your scrapbooking supplies? Who doesn’t! Going along with October’s theme of saving money, this article outlines ways to incorporate items you already at home into your scrapbooking. Then, find out more cost effective places to shop that you may not have thought to look for scrapbook supplies!
adhesives • album • ball chain • book store • books

Web Graphics for Doodlers
Anyone can have original and unique graphic art to illustrate their websites. It just takes a little imagination and creativity. Be bold, daring and display your art for the world to see.
art • illustration • graphic • software • picture

Customized Rubber Stamps
Previously we looked at creating a rubber stamp with a minimal of expense. Those work great until you want something with a great deal more detail and durability.
rubber stamping • carving • custom stamps • how to • make your own stamp

Artist Date Idea #5
In keeping with a lot of your goals to go on Artist Dates through use of Julia Cameron's book, The Artist's Way, I'll be presenting Artist Date Ideas weekly.
artist date • artist date idea • paint chips • assemblage art • mixed media

Artists Date Idea #4
In keeping with a lot of your goals to go on Artist Dates through use of Julia Cameron's book, The Artist's Way, I'll be presenting Artist Date Ideas weekly.
artist date • artist date idea • paint chips • paint chip art • assemblage art

Don't Throw That Away!
Don't throw those pieces of cardboard from food boxes or other boxes gathered from regular household use! There are several uses for these recycled pieces of cardboard.
mixed media art • mixed media • mixed media arts • recycle. recycling • recycled art

Dry Flowers for Crafts or Display
With so many flowers in bloom, it is a great time to think about preserving your blossoms to enjoy all year.
flowers • preserving flowers • dried flowers • how to dry flowers • how to preserve flowers

Stamp and Scrap, Part 1
In this two-part article we will discuss the basics of stamping in your scrapbooks and the various ways to use the stamps.
albums • stamping • stamps • scrapbooking • memory albums

Altered Art Projects for Fall
The ideas outlined here are appropriate for kid's craft projects, as well as for mixed-media artists working in their creative spaces. Let's explore the art of autumn!
altered art project • object • autumn • fall • themed

Use Autumn Events In Art Journals
We're wrapping up October and, with that, come festivals, parties and other autumn activities. Let's bring in the season using art journals!
autumn art project • art journal ideas • prompt • mixed media art • assemblage

Use of Distress Inks
Use of distress inks on a wide variety of projects is highly addictive. There are a lot of different inks to choose from based on an artist's taste and project needs.
using distress inks • aging paper • aging artwork • mixed media • art journal

Cool Tools for 2002
Products are the heart of scrapbooking. Everyday a new product is introduced to the market. In this article, I will give you a look at some new products that have been introduced this year.
products • tools • supplies • scrapbooking • photos.

My 1999 Trip To Abilene, Kansas
This is an article about my latest trip to Abilene, Kansas and the Greyhound Hall of Fame.
abilene • kansas greyhound hall of fame greyhounds

Stamp and Scrap, Part II
In part II of "Stamp and Scrap," we'll learn different stamp techniques to use when designing a scrapbook page.
embellishments • journaling • scrapbooking • stamps • crafts

Trash to Treasure: Bottle Caps in Scrapbooking
Beautiful bottle caps are popping up in scrapbook stores and web sites everywhere. You can buy these beautiful embellishments for nearly a dollar per cap, or you can save your hard earned cash, because for little or no money you can turn discarded bottle caps into customized treasures that fit your scrapbook pages perfectly!
bottle caps • charms • embellishments • liquid embossing • paint pens

Collecting Campaign Memorabilia
What and how to collect campaign memorabilia during this election year. This is a learning project for students and will be of interest to all collectors.
election memorabilia • presidential elections • election collections • items from elections • collecting campaign items

Election and Political Curriculum Resources
It’s another presidential election year and that is a great time to introduce your homeschooling children to government, politics and the election process. Here are some ideas and resources to help you put together a great election year unit!
election political curriculum worksheets activitie

Found or Lost?
To be a successful scrapbooker, organization is essential. This article will give tips on how best to find a place to store supplies, and get the important photos organized and safely stored.
scrapbooking • organization • photos • memorabilia • supplies.

Bed Rest Armchair Travel
Getting put on bed rest during pregnancy means even travel to the end of your driveway is banned, but there are many ways to be a bed rest armchair traveler.
bedrest • bed • rest • pregnancy • pregnant

Digital Storytelling in Wales
Digital Storytelling Festival in Aberystwyth, Wales, June 20 to 22, 2006
digital • storytelling • wales • personal • narrative

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