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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

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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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Scrappers nightmare – struggling with the right color combination!

It is the aim of scrappers to present their scrapbooking works in such a way that enhance and improve the photos on the layout that they choose. One thing that they should pay attention is the color and it is not a myth that scrapbookers sometimes struggle when they try to find the right color combination.

Why color is so important in your scrapbook project?

Color can set the mood and has power to evoke the emotion and bring out the essence of what you are trying to potray in your scrapbook. Color can be made to harmonize and blend with the rest of the scrapbook items.

Are you struggling to find the suitable color combination?

It is no doubt that color is influenced by personal taste but a little help from color wheel will not do you any harm. Use it as a guide when choosing your color combination. It provides you a basic for different intensity, hue and ‘harmony’.

You can use contrasting harmony blend or even use two analogous or ’similar’ colors if that appeals to you. Always remember that different color has different energy and vibes and you can create different mood and scene by picking up the right combination.

Speaking of which, I found this great scrapbooking website and they are giving away some freebies. One thing that really strike me is how beautiful they combine the color and make the place where you want to put the photo really stand out. I really like the “Cluster – You are beautiful”. Why not check out their site here.

Anyway,I hope you find some inspiration from their work and happy scrapbooking - say NO to scrapbook color combination nightmare :)

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Cheap Scrapbooking Method Using Potato Stamp

Have you ever thought of a cheap scrapbooking method using a potato stamps technique?

When I was in primary school, I still remember our art class where we use potato to make prints and stamps. It was actually pretty simple and the results were quite good.

How can we use potato to make stamps for our scrapbooking project?

You’ll need potato, knife, marker or pen, scrapbooking papers, paints and paint brush and any unused plate.

First, you need to cut your potato into half and  draw your pattern on it using pen or marker. You can  sketch your idea on a piece of paper first  before you try it on your potato. You can also use cookie cutter to make an imprint on your potato so that you can trace it using your marker.  This is the easiest method but you need to find one that can fit your potato size.

Once you are satisfied with your pattern, use the knife to carve the shape on the flat side. Be careful when doing this because you could easily hurt yourself if you’re not paying attention to what you’re doing.

Pour some paint on the plate and use brush to apply it onto your potato stamps. If you’re lazy, you can just dip your stamp directly into the paint but it’ll be a bit messy. Once you’ve it covered with paint, you can start stamping your scrapbook paper using your very own potato stamps. You can wash and dry it using paper towel if you want to use different color.

Let your stamped papers dry for  a while before you start using it. Walla.. now you have a new scrapbooking paper for your scrapbooking project.

I found this video on You Tube (TM) that explain how to make potato stamp using cookie cutter. Thought you might like it. Enjoy :)

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