This title is suitable for ages 9 to 12 years. Kids choose from eight ‘almost-instant’ styles: Make a simple spiral with craft-foam designs, a hole-punch style (with lace-ups!), a wrap around scrapbook with decorative papers, or an easy loose-ring binder that holds chunky treasures (like shells)! Create a friendship ‘buddy’ book, a home-made post-bound design, a fabulous folder for art or photos, and an awesome accordion scrapbook. Kids design cool covers!: What’s your style – bold and bright, soft pastels, lacy and delicate, or far-out and funky? Go for colour with a bright felt design; create a denim cover from old jeans; make an old fashioned padded cover; paint a canvas cover masterpiece; decoupage a theme. Add a pocket surprise and a personalised padded photo frame. Sew on your name in yarn. Use natural finds (like leaf prints), around-the-house finds (like old ‘gems’ from costume jewellery), and colourful papers to give your scrapbook pizzazz! Ages 9 to 12 years.

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Imagine the possibilities that come from today and make life’s memories even sweeter: Feeling the sun on your face, smelling fresh-cut grass, cuddling a puppy or a kitten, wanting to sing at the top of you lungs. That is precisely the spirit of Imagine -a brilliantly designed scrapbooks from industry innovator Jeanette R. Lynton, who is dedicated to helping scrapbooking enthusiasts preserve their memories for years to come. Featuring a stunning collection of 50 two-page layout patterns with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and cutting diagrams, Imagine offers fresh, innovative designs that allow for a wide variety of photo sizes and placements, assembly preferences, color combinations, and embellishments.

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While a full-sized scrapbook can take months to put together, the charming gift scrapbooks in this guide can be created in a few days, allowing scrapbooks to easily share their craft with those they care about most. Pam Klassen, a long-time editor for Memory Makers, teaches readers how to construct smallformat scrapbooks, perfect for gifts, through concepting the gift book while maintaining quality and creativity. Offering readers dozens of dynamic ideas for themed albums, including books for new babies, weddings, teachers, and anniversaries, this guide provides scrapbookers of all skill levels with valuable techniques and inspiring ideas.

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If you’re a scrapbooker, you know you can never get enough inspiration. With more than 500 all-new layout designs, The Big Book of Scrapbook Pages is the ultimate idea gallery for every scrapbooker. You’ll find the inspiration you’re looking for here. Never-before-seen layouts from numerous contributors feature a wide variety of styles, from contemporary to classic, digital to traditional, one page to two, and everything in between. Plus, you’ll get ideas for scrapping all kinds of events, from daily routines and jobs, to faith and hobbies, travel and play, special relationships, holidays and seasons, and loads of pages with little ones. This book gives you everything you need to capture all your memories!

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So the process that follows can apply to both traditional and digital scrapbooking. The steps are the same just the medium that you use is different.

Step 1. Choose the photos

The main purpose of any scrapbook page is to capture memories. The majority of the time this is done by using photographs as the centerpiece of the design. So it’s just fitting that step 1 in the procedure of making your first scrapbook page is to choose your photographs.

There are no hard and fast rules of how many photographs you should use. I’ve seen many successful page layouts made using just 1 image and others using as much as 10 or more.

My tip is to choose one photo as the key focus, the entire page design can then be based around it, which makes your job as a scrapbooker all that more simple.

Once you have picked your principal photograph you may want to use others to compliment it. Attempt to use extra photographs that enhance the story that you are trying to tell. These maybe photos taken from different angles/view points.

Step 2. Pick a theme

Picking a theme is usually less complicated when you’ve decided on your most important picture, as everything can be based around that main focal point.

Pick out one or two colors from the photograph to base your page around. Or for a bolder statement try a contrasting colour.

Also see what textures are present in the photograph and incorporate those into the design. For traditional scrapbooking this is going to be gluing similar textures and objects to the page. For digi scrappers you could use digital elements or additional textured overlays.

Step 3. Organise your materials

This step is generally directed towards traditional scrapbookers who have picked up a huge stash of scrapbooking supplies. Going through your supplies now will both save time later but could also give you more inspiration for the next step. If you are scrapping digitally sort through the files on your PC in the same way will help. You might even need to have a look online and see if a kit is available based totally on your selected theme – this alone is one of the great benefits of digital scrapbooking – the convenience and speed of gaining more supplies by a click of the mouse.

Step 4. Plan the layout of your page

My tip here is to take a look at what other scrapbook designers are doing. This is great way for inspiration and new concepts to try in your scrapbook layouts.

Whatever you do always try to add your own stamp (no pun intended) and do not copy everything precisely.

When you start to work out your layout try to not be too symmetrical. To the eye this may be uninteresting. A page can be far more engaging with 1 or 2 layout tweaks.

Many artists around the globe use the rule of thirds when they’re composing an artistic work. The same rule can apply to scrapbooking too. Divide the page into thirds. This may be horizontally or vertically and try and include a fascinating part in each 3rd. Try hard not to be too stiff with the structure by laying your pictures and elements slightly outside of the 3rd to link everything together.

If you’re traditional scrapbooking don’t fix anything down until your certain on the layout. Obviously digital scrapbookers can experiment and play around as much as you like, even saving adaptations of the layout which may even be used on different page later down the road.

Step 5. Add depth by layering

One of my fave systems of giving my scrapbook pages a lift are by adding depth. I do this by layering.

Now this could be using 2 or 3 different papers with a touch offset overlaps as the base of the page. Or I use the same technique underneath my photos.

Step 6. Add journaling

The final step is to add journaling. Don’t include journaling for the sake of it. Everything on your page ought to have a purpose. Often I won’t include any journaling at all. But if I have a story to tell that reinforces the photographs, or there had been an event that proceeded the actual photo being taken, I’ll document this memory on the page.

Making your first scrapbook page shouldn’t be disconcerting. There is not any wrong or right way to scrapbook. There are only less complicated strategies. It’s a easy formula that I find works for me. Give it try yourself.

Rich Pargeter is an artist and digital designer based in the United Kingdom. In his free time he enjoys making digital scrapbook designs and shares them together with more scrapbook page ideas on his blog at TopScrapbookPageIdeas.com

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