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The Scrapbook Embellishment Handbook – Why A Creative Scrapbooker Shouldn’t Just Ignore It

Embellishment is something that’s always on the list of creative scrapbookers and crafters alike. When they go to the craft store, they might spends some times checking out the embellishment sections in the shops for new and in season embellishments kits and ideas.

To me, in this part of the world, buying embellishment kits can be an expensive thing to do .What more if you just cannot stop putting it in your scrapbook ‘to buy list’. That’s why sometimes, creating your own embellishment kits can be a good thing. It might not be of the same quality or shape as the one in the shop but you can be more creative in making it.

You can make use of your colorful scrap papers that you keep and combine it with buttons, ribbons and other items to make a brand new embellishment kits for your creative scrapbooking project.

But where do you go for ideas on embellishment for your scrapbook?

In my opinion, you can check out Scrapbook Embellishment Handbook by Sherry Steveson.

The Scrapbook Embellishment Handbook

The Scrapbook Embellishment Handbook

This book is cool and you can get a lot of ideas from it. It covers popular types of embellishment and also shows how you can use them in your layouts. Some of things that they cover include fibers, buttons, die cut, flowers and many others. There are 17 of them altogether.

Having 17 different embellishment can be overwhelming for beginners but don’t fret about it because they cover how a beginner can use it and later progress to intermediate and advanced level for each type. There are mini step by step for you to check out also.

My favorites among the 17 are flowers and stamps. Maybe it’s just me because I’m a beginner scrapbooker :)

The Scrapbook Embellishment Handbook

One thing that I like most about this book is the color and design inspiration that I can learn from the scrapbooking artists that take part in the book. They make the process looks so easy and simple..heck..maybe it’s easy and I should try it myself.

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Gift Ideas Using Your Creative Scrapbooking Skills

Do you create gift using your scrapbooking items?

I like to make gift cards or bookmarks tab using whatever scrapbooking stuffs that I have. They are quite easy and fast to make and does not use lots of items.

When I was browsing the net for ideas today, I come across this videos by Roxy on how she made notecard set for gift. It looks really beautiful and I really like them. I thought you might like them to so I’m including the video here. She gave very good explanation on her creation too, so you’ll definitely benefit from it

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Some Creative Scrapbooking Tips for Your Beloved Pet Album

We live in the world where pets play important part of our family life and share beautiful memories together. Some people have dogs, cats or hamsters that help enriched their lives. Whatever it is, for scrappers, I think it’s very natural to have those moments captured in scrapbook album or pages specially dedicated to their pets.

Do you want some ideas on how to do pet scrapbooking album and pages?

1. Your pet ‘first’ moments

How about focusing on your pet first moments? It can be first vet visit, first night at home, first toy etc..well, you get the ides.

2. Your pet ‘favorites’ antiques

I really like this one because I think this will be the easiest one to do.

For example, my cat, Abie likes to sleep in a  tissue box when she’s small. So, my sister captured that photo of her sleeping with her head rolled to the side and we use it to make a scrapbook page. We always have a laugh when we see that photo because we think that it’s so funny.

So, does it give you the idea?

Your pets must have their favorite spots or things that they do that really capture your heart. So, why not use it for your pet scrapbooking pages.

3. Pet and family moments

Sometimes pets like the attention of their human friends and do unique and funny actions. If you’ve photos of these, why not use them in your pet pages?

The next thing you have to worry about is some ideas for your pet scrapbooking pages. I’m very bad in doing layouts for my scrapbook so I feel that these site below will give you a better explanation on the layout ideas for pet scrapbooking theme. Just click on the photo to go to the site. Hope you’ll like it :)

Creative Layout for Pet Scrapbooking Album and Pages

Creative Layout for Pet Scrapbooking Album and Pages

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Creative Scrapbooking Ideas for Valentine’s Day

Creative Scrapbooking Ideas for Valentine’s Day – Are you up for it?

Valentine’s Day is coming and I believe many of us are looking for creative ideas to celebrate it with our loved one. With the financial recession and rising prices, many people are feeling the pinch and having shrinking budget. While it’s nice to splash on your loved one, celebrating your Valentine’s Day on budget can be romantic too. Nobody said that it’s has to be expensive to be loved :)

Sunday, Feb14th is just around the corner so if you plan to have a DIY creative scrapbooking present for your partner, I suggest that you start now.  You can use your scrapbooking skills to create a budget gift for your loved one.  If you really don’t know what to buy, you can even purchase a gift card and create a beautiful gift card holder using your scrapbooking papers and embellishments supplies to go along with it.

I saw somebody posted this you tube videos on scrapbooking ideas for the valentine’s day. You might find some inspirations in it.

How about scrapbooking album or card for your Valentine’s Day gift?

If you’ve beautiful and meaningful photos of yourself and your loved one together, why not use them to create a Valentine Scrapbooking Album and use it as a personalize gift? You don”t need a full album for that, few pages should do. Light blue or white with red might be a good scheme for theme color. You can use heart ‘cut out’ or embellishments to decorate your special pages. Embossing can be good too.

Check out this short video for some creative scrapbooking ideas for the Valentine’s Day

Ideas anyone?
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Scrapbooking Color Scheme – How do I Select Color For Scrapbook Pages

Choosing a color scheme for my scrapbook pages is not something that I’m good at.

I’m always on the lookout for tips and ideas on choosing the suitable color themes that will make my pages stand out. Whenever  I find interesting tips, I normally blog about it. My main intention is to share what I found and also for own own reference in the future. You’ll find several posts about color schemes that I wrote previously in the related post below.

When I was browsing the internet for some color ideas for my other websites t0day, I found this useful site called color scheme designer. Basically, it gives preview of the color when you choose different schemes. I found it very useful so I thought you might be interested as well.

There is a color wheels for mono, complement, triad, tetrad, anologic and accented anologic that you can play around on the site. I’m not quite sure what most of them mean but by playing with the wheel you can see how the color changes. There’s also option for warm and cold hues, which gives you ideas of what color is considered ‘warm’ and ‘cold’ respectively. If you can’t remember -  red, orange and yellow are considered warm color and green, blue and violet are grouped under cold colors.

You can also adjust the color wheel to see the effect of the color combination.

Color combination using accented logic pallette

Color combination using accented logic pallette

In my opinion, this color wheel is not only useful if you’re building sites or doing some color works but can be used for ideas for the scrapbooking projects too. You can play with the color combination to see the one that is pleasing to the eyes without the need to invest in anything upfront. Once you’re comfortable with your color combo, then you can snap a photo of it or print it for your shopping list later.

Check out Color Scheme Designer at this link and start playing with the color wheel for your scrapbooking color scheme ideas :)

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