Luisa’s Scrapbooking IdeasCapture Family Memories With Fun Scrapbooking Ideas

Hearts, flowers, shoes, rings, doves are only a few of the many motifs considered to be standard when it comes to weddings.

Rings are a challenge to cut out. The best way to create a ring embellishment is through a rubber stamp. Using gold or silver embossing powder, stamp and emboss the ring on a square of card and if you can, make it look as much like THE ring (wedding or engagement) as you can. Remove the square, mount on a slightly larger square of contrasting or gold or silver card (preferably textured) possibly using a foam pad for dimension, and what you get is a simple yet compelling wedding embellishment.

Wedding scrapbooks are usually full of wedding cake shaped embellishments, but if I can get hold a good wedding cake shape, I like to use them as tags. Every page needs at least one tag, so if you’re working on a whole wedding scrapbook rather than just a layout, you can save time by making a batch. One of the easier things to use is a simple die cut of a wedding cake. These can be easily found on ebay or you can have your own die cutting machine for personal use. If you can make your own, pearlised card looks lovely, and is usually available in white or ivory as well as shell pink, all good colors for a wedding. There is a sizzix bigz die which is perfect for this. Cut one from plain paper and one from fancy and write your journaling on the plain version. Make sure you complete that before you set up your tag, it’s not fun afterwards! You could turn the fancy tag into an elaborate cake by adding tiny pearly dots from a soufflé pen to give an icing effect and then decorate with the smallest cut out flowers you can find in several toning colors. You can then stick your journaling on the back and add to your page with enough ribbon for someone to turn it if they want to read. Or trim the journaling until it is slightly smaller and mount it on top of the full size cake shape. In either case add a ribbon or fiber so you can add the tag to the page. You can use the same technique to cut out shoes and add some tiny flowers where the buckles would be. Personally I like to finish most things with a little transparent glitter, but not everyone likes glitter as much as I do!

Flower embellishments can be made by cutting out flowers from any flowery paper, such as the le-romantique two sided paper ‘loves labyrinth’. The design features a number of rose pairs. Cut out one entire design to use as a base and then cut out single elements. Add these to the base with a spot of silicone glue and tease into a 3D shape. When dry you can add tiny spots of clear glitter to finish it off. The final product is an embellishment that matches perfectly with a layout made of l-romantique papers, frames and tags.

Another option is to create flowers out of die cuts or a stencil for more savings or template such as ‘20 Blossoms’ from Hot off the Press. A number of acrylic stamps include flower heads that are varied in size. You can stamp these, cut them out and layer them together, gently curling the petals for a 3D effect. For something modern try ‘Mindy’s flowers’ from Mindy Terawasa which provides swirls and stems you can stamp on your scrapbook pages while you add the 3d flower heads you have created. For a truly delicate look, try making your flower head from vellum and add just a tiny amount of sparkle. Then glue several flower heads together to make a simple bouquet.

Little flowers in 3D look amazing when attached to nearly anything, a standard tag, even one originally designed for a parcel, can be made to look good with a few 3d flowers. But weddings are one place where a heart motif is most definitely appropriate. It is readily available so you would have no trouble finding it. There are several craft punches that can make different heart configurations, but don’t just use the cut outs. You can use the heart punches to embellish your wedding pages by cutting a strip of paper, plain if your background is patterned, patterned if your background is plain. Punch the strip and remove the punched out hearts (for use on other pages), then either placing the paper strip back direct over your background, or put a ribbon below it to make a very decorative border. Ribbon can be very useful in creating a contrast of texture as well as color and satin ribbon provides a beautiful shiny surface which looks very luxurious.

A myriad of possibilities are there for you when you are thinking about wedding pages, I am often surprised that some people shy away from them in the belief that there’s little creativity involved. Your scrapbook is what you make it and that’s half the fun. One day create a layout from a design you’ve seen and embellishments supllies you’ve bought, the next do it all from scratch and really express yourself. There are no rights and wrongs. Simply go for what you want!

Are you overwhelmed by the thought of all those travel and vacation photos?  Don’t be!  It’s as easy as getting a journal and organizing your thoughts  ahead of time and  then having fun scrapbooking your  international or domestic travels when you get back.  Here’s how;

Planning the Scrapbook ahead of time: Take some time before you pack your bags to think about your scrapbook travel album. You’ll only have one shot to take most of the pictures and gather artifacts from the different locations you visit. Consider the types of photos and embellishments you want to include in your scrapbook so you can capture those items. You might want to pick up a travel diary before you board your international flight.

The materials: You’ll find many travel-themed scrapbooking paper and scrapbook embellishments in the scrapbooking section of your favorite store. These materials work well as wide-ranging backgrounds and accents in your international travel layouts. A travel scrapbook also benefits from actual artifacts from the trip . As you travel, vision all of the items that would work so well as embellishments with your scrapbook project.

• Airplane tickets and boarding passes
• Tickets to monumental places, concerts and other events you attend while traveling internationally
• Wristbands to events
• Badges to places you went
• Postcards
• City maps
• Brochures from locations you visited
• Train tickets or other transportation documents
• Photocopies of passport stamps
• Fabric or Patches from that specific country
• Lapel pins (used as brads)
• Local newspapers
• Coasters or napkins from restaurants.

While your on the trip: Take plenty of pictures to document all of your favorite parts of the trip. Sometimes just changing the simplest things often turn into artistic pictures, ideal for a scrapbook.A steadiness of close up shots and wide shots adds interest to the album.I might express, better more pictures then not enough.  Make sure you take along a travel journal so that you can document the  time, date and place of your photo.  Jot down any little thought in you journal .After your family trip, you’ll be glad you did this.  It will not only save you  time, and organization, but add a wealth of inspiration.

Put in order all your pictures when you return from your special trip: Look through your notebook.  Decide what you really want to capture and how you would like to tell your story through scrapbooking travel experience.Turn out all your pictures as necessary.Print out a handful of your favorite pictures and work with that.  Do a little at a time, so that the task isn’t overwhelming.Gather all those souvenirs you saved while on your trip and let those be your inspiration.  Remember the goal of scrapbooking is to capture what you want to remember.  Not every little detail.Sometimes we have tough time finding a scrapbooking embellishment to go with your photo, try looking in toy stores or fabric stores, or even <strong>clearance items</strong> in local or <strong>on-line internet stores www.scrapbookdiscounters.com .  Give your local internet store your email address and ask for their monthly specials.

Did you recently have your dream wedding? Sure enough, everyone would want to remember their wedding – it’s something every girl has dreamed of and every guy has hoped for. What better way to relive the memory than to put it in a scrapbook? Of course, if you’ll be creating a scrapbook for your wedding, you’d be needing scrapbook embellishments to highlight your memories and bring the best out of the photos. With the hundred different types of embellishments you can use for your scrapbook, it may be a little hard to figure out what the best material you can use. Here are two factors in choosing the right supplies.

Theme

The theme is most important when trying to figure out what type of scrapbook embellishments would be needed. Since this is a wedding scrapbook you’re creating, it would probably be more appropriate if the theme used for the scrapbook was the same as the theme used in your wedding. Las Vegas theme, Hawaiian theme or maybe a beach theme, there are scrapbooking kits with materials specific for each theme.

Type of wedding

The type of wedding you had will help determine the type of scrapbook embellishments needed. If it was a white wedding in church, white ribbons, yarn, silver glitter and light colored embellishments will help highlight the beauty of your wedding in a scrapbook. Candle residue and slices of candle sticks will also be unique for any scrapbook. If it was a beach wedding, shells, sand glitter and glass stones would look good to outline any beach wedding.

The best thing about a wedding is that it’s a memory that will last forever. When you look at your scrapbooks again in 50 years, your wedding scrapbook will still be the most beautiful souvenir out of the best day of your life.

Scrapbook embellishments like flowers are a popular use in scrapbooks. Flowers are pretty, colorful and can lighten up any page on a scrapbook. Flowers can also be used in any kind of theme, may it be for your baby girl or even boy, for the 1st birthday of your daughter or your first trip to the beach. It may be for a summer or spring outing in Europe or even for older events like a graduation or a debut party for your daughter. Still, when you’re using flowers as your scrapbook embellishments, it shouldn’t be the same quicklets all the time. Spice up your flowers with these power scrapbooking tips.

Brads and Buttons

Brads and buttons are very useful scrapbook embellishments especially when it comes to flowers. This is because most buttons are in the shape of a circle and most brads are small enough to fit in the middle of flower quicklets or flower accents. Give your flowers visual interest by placing brads and buttons in the middle of the flower. Use embroidery floss and adhesive dots on the button to adhere it to the flower.

Ribbons and Yarn

Ribbons and yarns are always great embellishments when it comes to flowers. Aside from using ribbons as petals, you’ll also be able to use yarn to outline the petals and the circle in the middle. Double the yarn for bigger flower accents and use double sided adhesive to stick onto the flower. For an exotic look, try using dried leafs or fossilized leaves as the flower’s background.

Flowers are such common scrapbook embellishments that you need to spice it up a little to make it unique. Still, because flowers look really good as a decoration and it would be quite a waste not to use it especially for girly or baby scrapbook themes. At least, if you use other supplies to spice up your flowers, you’d be able to make a difference with every ornament.

Scrapbook embellishments like flowers are a popular use in scrapbooks. Flowers are pretty, colorful and can lighten up any page on a scrapbook. Flowers can also be used in any kind of theme, may it be for your baby girl or even boy, for the 1st birthday of your daughter or your first trip to the beach. It may be for a summer or spring outing in Europe or even for older events like a graduation or a debut party for your daughter. Still, when you’re using flowers as your scrapbook embellishments, it shouldn’t be the same quicklets all the time. Spice up your flowers with these power scrapbooking tips.

Brads and Buttons

Brads and buttons are very useful scrapbook embellishments especially when it comes to flowers. This is because most buttons are in the shape of a circle and most brads are small enough to fit in the middle of flower quicklets or flower accents. Give your flowers visual interest by placing brads and buttons in the middle of the flower. Use embroidery floss and adhesive dots on the button to adhere it to the flower.

Ribbons and Yarn

Ribbons and yarns are always great embellishments when it comes to flowers. Aside from using ribbons as petals, you’ll also be able to use yarn to outline the petals and the circle in the middle. Double the yarn for bigger flower accents and use double sided adhesive to stick onto the flower. For an exotic look, try using dried leafs or fossilized leaves as the flower’s background.

Flowers are such common scrapbook embellishments that you need to spice it up a little to make it unique. Still, because flowers look really good as a decoration and it would be quite a waste not to use it especially for girly or baby scrapbook themes. At least, if you use other supplies to spice up your flowers, you’d be able to make a difference with every ornament.