tbear luv asked:


I am trying to find somewhere w/ a good selection of dolls that I can use when scrap booking?
I love scrap booking and recently I’ve seen some pages where instead of pictures people use dolls that are personalized to look like them or who ever the page is about. The dolls are about the height of a scrap book page and I would like to try this for my next page. Any ideas,books or websites that will help ?

Muna wa Wanjiru asked:


Scrap booking is the most popular hobby nowadays. And the types of scrap books I’m talking about are done easily with your computer. A beginner at the craft can get guidance through many websites and he can easily finish his first project in short time. Even he can use the templates and freebies available with many free digital scrap booking sites.

Digital scrap booking is open to all readers on internet. It is very good to go through the memories of the person which you can do from distant places. Hence it is very popular hobby. However you can change the appearance of the digital scrap book after some days with use of different freebies.

Digital scrap booking enhances your collection of digital photos and you can present it in a fabulous way. Memories are cherished with computer graphics and various software kits. Freebies are available with special websites for digital scrap booking. Freebies are the special pictures or images which will give the message clearly or explain about the scrap book subject. It attracts the viewer towards your scrap book.

Freebies include different types of icons, buttons which can tempt the reader to go through the pages. If you want to make your pages beautiful and attractive then you have to make the design of page impressive. It improves the possibility of reading by many people.

Digital Scrap booking freebies make scrap booking economical. Your scrap book’s quality will be improved if you try some of these elements. The websites provide many clips, images, which are free to download. There are many paper cutting patterns which will increase the background and crafts effect in your scrap book.

So after some days your digital scrap book will be a new one with the use of new freebies. With the growing popularity of digital scrap books, freebies are used extensively to give them unique style and impressive look. Visual should be pleasant with your imagination and use of freebies. Reader can go through your scraps with important images and your scraps are crispy with use of free elements.

You can find a humongous collection of freebies on websites. They include templates and layouts, buttons, graphics and new innovative icons. Usually they are updated once in a week or in a month. Freebies are normally sorted as per the event like Christmas, thanksgiving or Halloween, Birthday, anniversary, Best wishes etc. There are many websites providing the review of the freebies. They give the star rating of the freebies. It depends on popularity of the images.

Before using them you should check the disclaimers carefully. They might be changing from time to time. Some times the graphic images are for personal use. You could not alter them. Commercial use is not allowed. You should not claim it as your imagination. And they may be copy righted. You should not re sell them. Proper credit should be given to the original owner. When you download these images you have agreed the terms. They are not your property. Hence you should be careful about the use of freebies.

Digital scrap booking is now a major industry with its growing popularity. It has given rise to many internet websites and creative people have created thousands of elements which are used by many scrap bookers all over the world.

Nicholas Tan asked:


There are many ways to make an excellent scrap book. Although there are templates in the internet and books written about it, nothing comes close to the power of imagination that is something each person has inside.

Scrap books are made of many things and the backbone of this are the pictures. Those who have been doing this for years should take as many pictures as possible so a story can be created from the beginning to end.

Those who are still regular camera after having this developed should write something in the back while those using digital camera should make a note on each frame to help recall what happened when making the layout.

Other details such as tickets, cards and souvenirs from the event should also be part  of the layout. These will serve as good backdrops or as the title for each corresponding page.

When everything has been collected, this is the time to choose the right colors that will go well with each photo. This means getting the right colored crayon, marker, pen, colored paper and other accessories that will be useful when working on a page.

Some people find it easy to coming up with ideas for the layout of the scrap book. Those who are suffering from a mental block should try relaxing like watching television or doing something else since the image or the activity may simply pop a vision in the head.

Those who view the scrap book will usually view two pages at once especially when these are placed side to side. There must be coordination from left to right given that there is a story being projected here which is the basic idea of the scrap book.  

There are many ways to come up with the layout for each corresponding page. There is nothing wrong with using the same colored background because the photos used are different for each one and no one will pay that much attention to it.

The person should just be careful not to overdo it because this could make the succeeding pages boring. 

This may not apply all the time so before applying the glue on the backside of the photograph and the everything else on paper, it will be a good idea to put the things together first and then decide whether to continue to do so or think of something else.

After working on a few pages, it will be a good idea to look back to avoid losing track of what has happened previously. Again, the key here is project continuation from one page to the other just like how a writer starts and ends a story.

Completing the scrap book will take days or even weeks especially when the hobbyist has other things to work on. Should other ideas come later on, it will be a good idea to write this down and then review it when it is time to work on it again to be able to come up with a better one each time to show to family and friends.

Each page of a scrap book starts from nothing and turns into a work of art. There are many ways of making this happen so the right idea can preserve that moment in time not only in the minds of those who were there.

chrystal asked:


I’m doing a scrap book for my boyfriend for christmas. I have all of our pictures done and decorated. but there’s still a few left over pages.
I don’t know what else to put in there… I don’t have any thing else! anything creative??? any advice?? thank you.

Keysha Jecks asked:


Are you wanting to scrapbook some of those precious memories of your family but money is tight? I know how you feel, money seems to be tight for everyone and we are no different. However I have come up with some pretty unique and cute ideas for making scrap booking a little cheaper.

What are all these fabulous ideas? Well they are scrap booking ideas that I got just going about my day and they use products in the house that almost everyone has.

My first ideas is recycle, recycle, recycle. Things that you think may be garbage make beautiful decorations on scrapbook pages. For instance, that foil that was cut too short isn’t garbage, you can use it to frame pictures or cut in shapes to use on the page. However there is one rule to this, do not use anything that has had meat or bodily fluids touching it.

Or how about those candy wrappers. Well wash them if needed and some can make really excellent décor. Take for instance Snickers, you can take a few pictures of your child or children laughing and then use these wrappers to accent the page. Or WhatChamacallit can be used for baby’s first pictures.

You can use any type of wrapper. I get Parent’s Choice diapers and one of my kids favorite scrapbook page is where I cut the “Parent’s Choice” out and pasted that to the top of the page with the rest of the page covered in my kids.

The key to making this successful is to get creative, think outside the box. Just because someone else says it’s garbage doesn’t mean you can’t use it. Rags that have seen there last days make nice decorations. Or the fabric scraps left from making a dress make nice frames for pictures.

How about using string, or plastic bags, tissue boxes. In fact boxes are sometimes the best thing to use. Most items that are boxed are really decorative and make nice frames or accents for scrap booking. Just get creative and keep things that look nice. Whenever we finish a box of tissues I fold it up and put it in my scrap booking drawer for later.

Christmas is coming up and there is no better time to really stockpile great and cheap scrap booking items. All that wrapping that you bought and have used, there is no reason to let it just go to waste. The stuff that wasn’t torn to itty-bitty pieces can be fold and stashed away for later. Or even all those Christmas cards; use the pictures on them for accents, and the envelopes to frame pictures.

Even the decorations you might just throw away, like tinsel, fake snow, or the Christmas tree can be used. Now the whole tree can’t be used, but you can pluck some of the needles or cut off some of the bark.

The most important thing to remember is that scrap booking ideas can be found everywhere, and in everything. Before you throw anything away think “can I use this to scrapbook” or “how would this look on a scrap booking page.”