Glenn Dietzel asked:


According to the Association of American Publishers, 83 per cent of Americans want to write a book. Robert Kiyosaki, creator of the Cashflow Game and the Rich Dad, Poor Dad series, said that his book is his best business card. Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator of the popular Chicken Soup for the Soul series, stated that the best lead generator is a book. These two examples demonstrate a profound principle.

The most successful authors do much more than sell books. The money earned in royalties is incidental income as compared with what they generate from income streams such as speaker fees, membership communities, home study programs, coaching programs, consulting fees, and other products and services.

Wes Waddell is an example of this principle in action. Waddell was able to leave his systems engineering job and run his business with his wife Kathy full time because he discovered the power of having their own book.

He said, “I love that short commute past the coffee pot into the office.” He discovered that having a book boosted not only his business credibility, but his personal credibility as well. Today Wes has created the Internet’s largest membership scrap booking site.

Waddell invested in a proven system that teaches would-be authors how to write a money-making book in 12 hours of actual writing time and use it as a lead generator for a thriving business. His book, Computer Scrapbooking with the FREE OpenOffice Software Suite is one of the methods he uses to bring scrapbookers into his membership site.

AwakenTheAuthorWithin.com has dozens of video testimonials of successful clients on its website and blog, including Waddell’s.

Cathy Scraps asked:


How can you get your hands on one of Cricut’s most sought-after cartridges, the Cricut Cartridge Accent Essentials?

It’s easy, if you know the right tricks. Don’t plan on going to a regular store and finding the Cricut Cartridge Accent Essentials, though, because you won’t find it.

Cricut sold the Accent Essentials cartridge exclusively with the Expression machine, so you won’t find it on store shelves. If you’re not one of the lucky people who purchased the Expression machine, you’ll have to be a little creative in your search for this exclusive cartridge.

1. Have a “Cartridge Swap”. Invite your fellow scrap booking and paper craft friends together. In the invitation, have a list of the “Most Wanted” cartridges. All of the guests will bring their cartridges that they are willing to swap, hopefully using the “Most Wanted” list as a guide. At the swap, you can trade cartridges for a limited period of time, such as 2 weeks. During those two weeks, you can tackle numerous projects and decide for yourself if the Cricut Cartridge Accent Essentials is a cartridge that you want to have in your permanent collection.

2. Visit an online auction site. Thanks to the Internet, you can get in touch with sellers literally all over the world. Online, you can find people who have the Cricut Cartridge Accent Essentials but don’t want it and are willing to sell it. If you don’t want to navigate around large auction sites, there’s even a simpler option for you. Visit www.cricutcartridges.net to see an up-to-date listing of Cricut Cartridges listed on eBay. The cartridges, their price, and shipping information is posted for you without you having to do a search on eBay.

3. Check out the local classifieds. Lots of people list items for sale in the newspaper or in online classifieds such as craigslist. If you can find someone locally who is selling the Cricut Cartridge Accent Essentials, you will even be able to look at the product before you buy it. Classifieds are updated every day, so keep checking back if you don’t find what you’re looking for on the very first try. You can also post in the “Wanted Items” section that you’re looking for the Cricut Cartridge Accent Essentials. You may be contacted by someone who didn’t think to post their cartridge but is willing to part with it.

4. Visit online scrapbooking forums, message boards, and groups. You can search through posts or create a post of your own. You can bring up the possibility of swapping some of your unused cartridges for the Cricut Cartridge Accent Essentials, or you can offer to buy someone’s unused copy. If you are willing to purchase a used cartridge, make sure you put that in the post. The likelihood of someone responding to your query is greater since the entire site is dedicated to your target audience.

Whether you’re looking to trade a cartridge for the Cricut Cartridge Accent Essentials or you want to buy it outright, it’s simple to find what you’re looking for, if you know where to look.

Tara Baker asked:


A hectic work schedule leaves 34-year-old Jenny Wilkins very little time to spend with her one-year-old son, Jack.

“I work 50 hours a week, and when I get home, I just want to spend time with him,” Jenny said.

A desire to preserve Jack’s childhood through photography eventually led to a kitchen counter covered with loose images. And with very little time to herself and her family, creating scrapbooks was the last thing on Jenny’s mind.

“I’m not the type of person to just sit around, and I would probably have more hobbies if I had more time,” she said. “I’ve never been a scrapbooker, but I do have time to lay my images out digitally.”

Jenny’s interest in digital photography quickly became an obsession when she discovered the PhotoBook Creator. This new product by Unibind makes creating hardback books, scrapbooks, and photo books from one’s digital pages easy and fun – good news for a busy mom-on-the-go like Jenny.

“A great value to this product is how quickly you can make your book,” Jenny said. “Another value of having a PhotoBook Creator in my home is the savings. I spent about $30 plus shipping before when I ordered books online.”

But perhaps the greatest value of owning the PhotoBook Creator for Jenny is the ability to create a variety of family albums - what she calls her “catalogs for life.” Rather than purchase separate, mismatching albums from her local store, she said the clean and uniform look of the PhotoBook Creator’s cover albums is very appealing.

“I like the idea of having a category of scrap books,” she said. “It’s neat to have all these black books with dates on them. It’s like a clean catalog of my child’s life that’s very high-end looking.”

Having already made six of these “catalogs,” Jenny said her PhotoBook creations – like the growth of her son - show no sign of slowing down.

“I easily make a new book every two months, or for the holidays, or every time we go on a family vacation,” she said. “And since I like the catalogs I’ve made so far, I’ve decided that I will definitely keep doing them.”

With additional PhotoBook cover albums available at retailers for $9 each, Jenny said she finally found a hobby she can afford both the time and money to continue with – great news for her entire family.

“They make great presents for your mother or grandmother,” Jenny said. “I know my mother loves it when she gets a new album of her Jack!”

Tara Baker is a freelance journalist and enjoys digital scrapbooking and making digital photo books

MttvmariosAccount asked:

My Vanessa Hudgens Scrap Book

PrehistorikMan asked:

Naughty dog’s Scrape book containing the making of crash bandicoot 1,2 and 3 as well as crash team racing.

Father Time asked:


My name is Father Time and I have been writing greeting card verses for many years! I have had many card verses published, and then there were those that my publisher rejected, for whatever the reason. My editor once told me that some of my verses were too “overboard.” Anyway, here is a wonderful friendship verse that you can use!

Good for you, I say, to those who are into scrap booking and making greeting cards! This is a wonderfully therapeutic hobby, both for the hobbyist, and also for those who receive these paper creations as gifts! You make their day, and you spread good karma! Bravo!

IF any of you card making experts, ever create a handful of the same card using one of my fantastic verses, and you feel like spreading some good karma, you can mail me a gift of just one of those cards, for my own edification and satisfaction! This article contains my website information, and through my site you can send a message, and obtain a mailing address, where you can mail the card, and I thank you, in advance, if you end up doing this! You will be likely to receive a gift from me in return!

Here is another gift for you scrap booking and card making hobbyists, and I am happy to announce that I just completed and released an e-book…full of awesome card verses that I have written, as well as awesome quotes from famous people, that folks such as you, can use to put inside (and outside) your own homemade cards!

Friendship:

Cover:

We have been friends for a very long time,

And I just wanted you to know that your friendship…

Means more to me than just about…

Anything!

 

Inside:

Not too many people are fortunate enough

To have an awesome friend like you!

 

Thanks for all of your caring and thoughtful ways,

And for always being there for me!

I appreciate you as a friend, and am glad to have you as one!

In fact, you’re “one in a million!”

My fabulous website http://www.FatherTimePublishing.com is an awesome women-friendly site that has free recipes, free card verses, free quotes from famous people, and free lottery and lucky numbers that just may help you win something! While we’re at it, you can have a 15% discount with the code: SaveNow

My fabulous Online SuperStore also has tarot cards, good luck charms, amulets, love potions, gift items, books about interesting things such as; astrology, and the “meanings” of dreams! You can even get an over-the-phone tarot reading or a reading via e-mail!

There is even a huge home-study course that you can use to learn how to read tarot cards, and then you can use your new found skills to earn extra cash…but that is another article! Greeting cards…Tarot cards…my mind wanders…(sorry)

Well, here are a couple of great friendship quotes from historic people:

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.”

-Evelyn Waugh

So, that is what I wanted to say to you today and Thank You for reading this awesome website where you found this posting! They really know their stuff around here! Please be sure to read some of the other fantastic materials here!

Best Wishes and Many Blessings,

Father Time

Tara Baker asked:


Like many people, Jason Alford is rarely seen without his digital camera in hand.

“You just never know when you’re going to need it,” said Alford, a graphic designer from Atlanta, Georgia. “The technology has really made taking pictures easier and more convenient than ever.”

Alford uses the HP Photosmart M437 - an inexpensive digital camera he said is ideal for his casual, everyday use. Running as little as $75, the price tag on these devices has decreased while their popularity has increased, making the informal practice of digital photography commonplace in today’s society. Besides their affordability and high-quality imaging, digital cameras require no film purchase, and users always have the option of deleting “unflattering” snapshots - just some of the attributes that have added to the appeal of this technology.

“I honestly don’t know how I ever lived without my camera,” Alford said. “Although I’m not a professional photographer, the ease of use with digital cameras makes you feel like you are.”

While his digital camera was inexpensive, Alford said it also lacks a large enough memory to hold the multitude of pictures he takes. With 16 megabytes of space, no sooner does an image catch his eye than he has to find a method of preserving it, resulting in a mess of compact discs and files hogging up his hard drive.

“I don’t want to lose these images forever,” Alford said. “I’ve got some uploaded online, but that’s really hard to keep up with. I realize I’m not a professional photographer, but I took these pictures for a reason, and preserving them in some way is really important to me.”

For Alford, what used to be a challenge is now easier than ever after he discovered photo books. Ranging in sizes from 4×6 to 8 1/2×11, the professional appeal of the black-linen hardcover books makes a perfect display for his digital printouts.

“I like the PhotoBook Creator by Unibind, which is a binding machine that actually lets me make my own photo albums at home,” Alford said. “I use Kodak Photo Paper to print out the images I want to bind, although the machine works with any kind of paper, and the pages are literally bound in 90 seconds! It’s so easy, and it makes for an amazing catalogue of some of my favorite images.”

What was traditionally thought of as an expense is, according to Alford, quite a reasonable value. With an average cost of $10 per photo book, he said he now has an amazing collection of catalogues for the various trips, family gatherings and amazing sights he’s caught on camera. Besides personal fulfillment, the photo books he makes often go to loved ones as gifts or memoirs.

“Most people have a nice book on their coffee table, but I’ve got a portfolio of some of the best images I’ve ever taken,” Alford said. “Anytime someone comes to visit, it’s always a conversation starter. The ability to make high-quality photo books at home has ended up making me even more passionate about my hobby.”

Tara Baker is a freelance journalist and enjoys digital scrapbooking and making digital photo books.

Hannah Rosas asked:


Scrapbookers are social people who love nothing better than to get together and chat about the latest crafty gadget or gizmo or the latest scrapbooking techniques that’s being talked about in the magazines.  There are hundreds of scrapbooking mailing lists you can join to interact with other scrapbookers online, but unless you have money to attend crafting workshops, there isn’t much opportunity to meet up with other scrapbooking enthusiasts in person.  Unless, with the aid of an online free ad, you start your own!

Could you hold a scrapbooking club in your home?  If so, how many people could you have crafting there at one time?  The physical restrictions are the first thing you need to assess.  You could see if there’s a local church hall you could hire for a couple of hours every month if you get more interest from your online free ad than you anticipate; you’d need to know what this cost, and does the rental cost include cleaning up and use of a kitchen for refreshments or does this cost extra.  

You would then need to look at equipment.  Scrapbookers need a table top or bench space to work on.  If you were to hold the group at your home do you have enough working space?  If you’re booking a hall, do they have tables you can use?   Although you can request that anyone attending bring their own crafting equipment such as scissors, you should try to have a small equipment center set up that people can use if they’ve forgotten their own.

Approach your local scrapbook supplier to see if they will offer you any freebies in return for promoting their business at your group session.  You may get a small stash of end of line supplies that you can put out for anyone to use.  If your free online ad attracts enough attention you might even be able to get someone from the store to come along and demonstrate a particular technique to your attendees.  

Think about what format the group event could take.  There should be time for people to socialize as they work, time for refreshments, perhaps get people to contribute something as a prize and have some kind of competition each week.  Whatever you think would work well for the group you want to create, make a list and then design a poster that you can send to people who respond to the free online ad.

Set up a free email address for the group.  This will be what you’ll use as the contact information in the free online ad so that you don’t need to give your home phone number or address.  This means that you should think about what you’re going to call the group so that this forms the email address.

Write your free online ad in such a way as to promote the proposed club as a weekly (or bi-weekly/monthly) opportunity to get together with a group of likeminded scrapbookers.  Make sure that you have the contact email clearly stated on the ad as that will be the main point of contact you have, but remember to list your town/city on the ad so that people know where the group will be meeting.

Submit your free online ad and wait for the responses to come in.  Scrapbooking is a popular hobby so you need to be prepared for having more relies than you have space for.  You may even have to consider having more than one group!

kaewert asked:

Are you looking for an idea on how to organize your scraps? Check this out.

HSM3Channel asked:

High School Musical 3 Scrap Book. Stay tuned for more news and updates! ///Matilda.