Scrapbook ideas and tutorials

by Debbie Hodge An Irish proverb says: “It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.” I love that idea of connecting the idea of shelter to friendship. On these pages, our creative team scrapbooks about one fast friendship in their life. See how they’ve recorded these connections with photos, words, color, [...]

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Scrapbooking a little personal indulgence that you give yourself is FUN. First: you indulge. Second: you take a fun photo of that indulgence. Third, you relive the indulgence as you spend time with its memory making a page that doesn’t require getting lots of photos onto the canvas or coming up with extensive journaling or [...]

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Collecting related photos onto one page achieves several things: it allows you to see both the “trees” and the “forest” it reveals the patterns in your life over time it is a great way to scrapbooking more photos efficiently A trend isn’t a trend until it’s been happening for a while, and you don’t always [...]

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by Debbie Hodge “I want to go home to the dull old town, with the shaded street, and the open square, and the hill, and the flats, and the house I love, and the paths I know — I want to go home.” — Paul Kester place shapes character The places we come from, the [...]

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By Amy Kingsford Every year around this time, we find ourselves making resolutions, setting goals and exploring changes to better our everyday lives.  Upon researching the Top Ten New Year’s Resolutions made each year, I noted that many of the goals below seemed to always make the list.  And believe it or not, you can [...]

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by Debbie Hodge spurring your memory for scrapbooking past times Are you ready to scrapbook your younger years, but unable to remember specific details? Maybe you’re working on “all about me” pages or a “book of me” and just trying to get scrapbook page subject ideas by remembering incidents. The first few lessons in our Scrapbook [...]

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consider yourself: How Do YOU Do It? Look to your behavior to find material for scrapping yourself: Begin with your habits and routines around daily life—from what you like for breakfast to a look at the errands you run regularly. Chart out a typical day. Think about how long it’s gone this way, what it [...]

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consider yourself: your interests & passions What are your interests big and small? What are you good at and what do you enjoy doing? Ask yourself these questions about yourself at different times in your life. Have your passions changed since childhood or are you still loving animals and painting? When you look around your [...]

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consider yourself: your stuff OK . . . so it’s hard to find quotes and inspiration about scrapbooking material possessions. Almost anything quotable notes that material possessions are not what bring happiness. I get that. As a former business student, I also get that much of us in the world live in capitalist economies, which [...]

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consider yourself: friends & other folk who are they? Think about the many people with whom you interact: Who are the (non-family) people in your life–the ones you’ve chosen (or who’ve chosen you) to spend time with? Do you have friends for different parts of your life? Work friends, neighborhood friends, mommy friends, hobby friends? [...]

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