09sweetheart asked:


I am making my best friend a scrap book for christmas. What should i put in it?

khurram asked:


Scrap booking, a preview for the enthusiasts on how to create one we enlist some tips that would help you.

Creativity is something that uses imagination and there are various things in your house that you can use to create an attractive scrap book. Search the market to find collectables. There are so many decorative items you can buy without spending much. Inexpensive gems and fancy ribbons, the markets is filled with them. There is a lot that you can do with tiny things like sparkle stickers etc. Such efforts will bring great results.

If all these smalls bits of border outlining and fancy sparkle is not your taste then you can find things in your house, try creating a border outline with wood chips of your pencil sharpener then use pencil colors carefully to beautify that outline. Most of it is usually imagination and creativity, it’s your playground.

Now we shall learn the steps while designing an alphabet along with multiple patterns for a Digital scrap-booking project? Through this article you shall learn to create a text combining with design using Photoshop that helps you to make your own neat digital scrap booking. By the way of learning this process one could easily design alphabets and numerical, print and ultimately use to write names, titles or special heading on your scrapbook.

Now lets learn to operate Photoshop software, move the mouse cursor to click on file and select New to initiate a new document. Pick the size you’d like to create, like 250 x 400 pixel or what ever size you require.

Attention: All the above said steps can be found at photoshoptrail.com website, then use the option digital scrap booking available on the left menu.

Start with initiating a new document and save it, then create a new Layer, type with letter C and use the font – (Swis721 BlkOul BT) with 200pt and align it in the middle of the document.

Now go back and select the layer from last step and use keyboard to press Crtl simultaneously click on in use layer and select the letter C. Now select option gradient tool and choose a color option for example Dark Blue = #276D25 and Blue = #5C9159. Pull by using gradient tool diagonally from bottom right to top left corner and unpick the selection. Take the help of using the above said procedure you have learnt to make a Letter C with varying Blue color.

In the next step go to top menu bar, click on filters and then blur. You find that this way the letter C will turn the color a bit blurred.

In the next step we are shown how to make a shape which will be the design for the scarp book, this shape is created using the Pen Tool in the Photoshop toolbox palette. Now choose your color and fill it in with Gradient tool.

I hope that these steps have helped you well in trying to create the alphabet C with the color blue along with a design of your choice. To read and learn more you can always visit the site in the below signature.

Muna wa Wanjiru asked:


Scrap booking is an addiction but it is healthy addiction. When you see a friend’s scrap book you will feel bored with your plain photo albums. Then you think about what you can do. You may have a specific idea or you may be confused with lot of idea. Hence it is difficult to decide. Once decided the subject, you will start searching the material for that.

If you get perfect information about the sources of these things you will be enthusiastic to carry on your scarp book. Beginner scrap booking is not difficult today as there are many websites giving information about the scrap booking.

The basic thing you must remember is that you can do scrap booking though you may not be an artist. It is desire which counts than the skill. To keep your enthusiasm up, your fist scrap book should be simple and small. You will need only few basic things like scissors, glue, few pieces of colored paper and a simple album. Day by day you will improve your skill of decorating the scrap book.

Scrap books tells a story. So it should be arranged in such a manner that it will give nice presentation of the central idea. Mostly the photos or the clippings of the drawings are arranged in a system or sequence. In case of photos they are arranged date wise. They may be starting from the current most and ending at past one or vice versa.

Once you have decided the subject for scrap book you must decide the method of sorting. Suppose you are preparing a family album then you have to decide whether to present the photos of each individual separately or to show the photos as per the important events and occasions. You have to sort them accordingly. Then you have to select the central photo. This has to be decorated nicely. Photos will be impressive if they have photo mat.

While preparing your first project you are beginner and hence you are the only judge of your scrap book. When you will be satisfied with your work, it will be definitely nice. After completing the scrap book you will feel the satisfaction of fulfillment. But before that you can experiment with the different layouts of presenting the scrapings.

Then you have to add some simple color papers to each photo. Once you have fixed it then it is time to write down something about every photo. This writing gives meaning to your scrap book hence you should write your feelings in your crisp language and in short. The emotions of photos are explained to tell the story.

Simplicity is best thing to start with your first scrap book. But the few colored paper strips, stamps or stickers may give your scrap book a nice and artistic look. It should not be too much.

After you have decided everything you should start pasting the photos and writing. Then you should give your personal touch with few striking additions of paper and other things. Don’t do any analysis of your first scrap book. Just look it as a first experiment. You will be inspired to continue with the other scrap book and this time you are experienced.

Nicholas Tan asked:


The scrapbook is a story that features a day in the life of an individual. There are only a few words that will describe what is happening when the picture can speak for itself. These are usually presented in a colorful manner that many perceive to be much better than an album.

Traditionally, scrapbooks were made using the imagination of the individual. These days, the same things can be done online enabling the user to download the templates to finish the scrapbook and have this also posted on the web.

Research shows that there are more than 100,000 downloadable templates available to date. This allows the person to use a different one on each page of the scrap book since it will be quite boring to use one or two very often.

There are a few things people should know about the templates. Some of the sites offer this for free while there are others that will ask the person to pay a small fee. Those who decide to become members can even view the works of other people that will give an idea on how to finish the scrapbook.

When a template has been downloaded, the person can choose to print this on paper or do the work on the computer. The photo will be scanned or uploaded from the digital camera and then pasted on page.

This will make it faster for the individual to have this posted on the web should this be shown to a much larger audience which goes beyond the family.

Has this drastically changed how scrap booking is done? The answer is no. This is because many still prefer to use cut outs and other art material to decorate the other things in the background.

The technology just helped a bit in the production time when one is busy thinking of the proper layout. Users will still have to do rest by hand. Aside from templates, some of these sites even sell the materials needed if these things are not available or are more expensive in the bookstore. 

Not all the sites offer the same thing. The person will notice that there are a few that even give helpful tips to beginners and veterans alike on new techniques that can improve the skills in this hobby.

It is also a good thing that viewer’s are allowed to post questions and discuss about scrap booking. This will surely help those who may have a hard time understanding the tips mentioned when making this work.

When the scrapbook has been completed, this can be posted on the web. The individual can post this in the same site where the templates were acquired or have this posted elsewhere such as one’s personal website.

Scrap booking is not new. People have been doing this for years and it is only recently that there is an upsurge again for those who want to make it. Maybe because people have more free time to do it or are not content anymore with just putting everything in an album.

Regardless of the reason, the one sure thing is that online scrap booking is here to stay. This will give the hobbyists more options when it comes to the planning and the final outcome of the scrapbook, which can be finished in a few weeks or months.

go4it22 asked:


I want to get may mom a scrap book kit but I dont know what a good starter kit is. I need one I can send her that includes every thing she needs. Including paper stickers, scissors, glue, etcs. So I want a good kit she can already use. Should include a book. Thank you.