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Neighborhood News: Saluting Dr. Seuss in Lake Ridge

Neighborhood News: Saluting Dr. Seuss in Lake Ridge
It’s time for a birthday event in memory of children’s author, Dr. Seuss, and CRIBS will sponsor such an event on Saturday at Canterbury Wood Center in Lake Ridge, from 1 to 5 p.m

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Putting Together Your Scrapbook

So you have decided to create your own piece of work of art. Here is the step-by-step process you can follow to creating a one of a kind scrapbook. . . ·    Shopping. Yes, the best part of everything. It is as exciting as your birthday celebration. And no one can resist it. Shop for the supplies you need. Shop for the essentials such as the album, album refill, adhesives, card stock, embellishments, papers, pens, punches, stamps, embossing, stickers, a pair of scissors and everything you need for your scrapbooking. Tip: Buy only acid-free adhesive, permanent marking and non-fade pens and inks. Your aim is to preserve memorabilia for years. These things will save you from messing up with your scrapbook. ·    Gather your memories. Get as many photos as you can. Depending on your theme and the aim you want to achieve, you can sort them according to their relations to one another. For example, you can make a bibliography through scrapbook, then, you grab pictures from your childhood up to now. Sort them out according to the year they were taken. Tip: If you are grabbing old photos, make sure that your hands are clean. Old photos can easily be destroyed with oil and dirt from your hands. Old photos are also brittle so you may want to handle them with extra care. Another tip: If you want to preserve old photos, you can scan them to your computer and make a copy. Doing this would also let you edit the quality of the photo or crop the particular portion you only want to have.  One more tip: If you want to take some recent photos, use digital cameras. In this way, you can take as many photos as you could without wasting film. Upload all the photos you have taken, then, print the ones you have selected. ·    Gather your suppliesLet your imagination takes you anywhere. From the supplies you have, create a scrapbook that is truly yours. Decorate the front page of the album with your chosen general theme. A delicate combination of colored papers, pens, photos and creativity would let you create a good front page. On the inside, decorate each page with distinct designs. For additional decorations, you can consider using paper trimmer, punches, circle cutter, decorative rulers, paper rolling ball glue pen, or putting on some templates, stickers, computer clipart, rubber stamps, and colorful decorations you can find on magazines. Use the right adhesives to secure what you have placed on your scrapbook. There are several of these: double-sided adhesive dots, photo tape, glue pens, photo corners, non-permanent glue, squares or strips, glue sticks, and bottled glues. ·    Putting them all togetherThe most difficult part of the whole scrapbook making is putting all the stuff together, so here are some of the tricks:Your options are more flexible if you are using photocopied pictures. You can cut them in to different shapes and sizes or you can decide the picture’s size. Placing them to the pages is easier if you keep the space free, then decorate it afterwards. The best way to cut papers and photos would be using this trick: think twice and cut with no hesitation. Use a sharp pair of scissors. Exploring your creativity in cutting would give better impact to every page of your scrapbook. ·    JournalingAdding some handwritten text also involves creativity. Putting some captions, names, dates by your hand would let give some personal touch on each page. The use of templates and paper cut outs would also be great. When using pens, make sure that they are acid-free to avoid degrading the scrapbook’s image. Use different colors for each page. You can ask your friends and family members to help you write something on the pages. ·    Finishing touchesPut some additional decorations for final touches. Stickers, handwritten shapes, and paper cut outs are some of the things you can add as your final touches. Compile the pages carefully and share it with friends. Now that your have your own scrapbook, you can add pages anytime you want to and you can keep your memories alive for as long as you keep your scrapbook alive.

Scrapbooking Ideas and Solutions – Muddy Layouts

Mud, wonderful MudThis time of the year, most people are scrapbooking with a snow theme for Xmas.   Well here in South Africa, we get zilch snow, so we will just have to use mud as a scrapbooking idea and solution. Why mud you ask, it’s brown and sticky, and actually quite ugly, but somehow kids seem to love it.   Very few of them can resist jumping in a puddle, or squishing their hands around in it.   So you see there are just as many photo opportunities for rain and mud as there are for snow.   It is a joy to capture a child just having pure fun getting all dirty and muddy.  When scrapbooking your photo’s, try to find card stock with a muddy, brown or weathered and distressed look and feel to it.   You are bound to find one or several to suit the mood of your photo’s. When you are matting your photo’s, you can try giving the layout a muddy feel in the following ways: Try dipping a scrunched up kitchen roller towel into a small try of brown or walnut ink.   Squeeze out the excess ink and carefully unfold and allow to dry flat.   The ink will spread through the towel in a random way forming rivulets of ink, as if mud has been splattered on it. You can also paint or use the heliographic technique to create your own mats for your photo’s in mottled browns. Crumpled brown paper (the sort that you use to cover books) can also be used behind your photo’s to accentuate and lift them up slightly. You could also try using hessian sacking material on your layout.   This can be used either behind your photo’s or behind your journaling for added effect. The scrapbooking shops at the moment are filled with wonderful embellishments in browns made out of chipboard, or wood of other types that you can use.   Cotton twill is also cheap to buy at your local haberdashery shops.   You can also try dipping your twill into your brown ink, and it will have a great muddied look to go with your layout.   You can then stamp your journaling onto the twill once it is dry and paste it onto your layout.   You could also use chipboard lettering for your journaling, which is found in most good scrapbooking shops. So there you have it, you can have great fun with those pictures of your grubby kids.   So let’s go get muddy!For more fun scrap booking ideas and solutions, visit my blog at:  http://scrapbookideasandsolutions. blogspot. com

How To Add Sparkle To Your Scrapbook

Scrapbooking is more than just sticking pictures on paper. In addition to pictures and memorabilia, embellishments will really make your scrapbook sparkle. Embellishments are added not for function, but to be pleasing to the eye. You will find that the paper isle in the local scrapbook shop or craft store will have a complete section just dedicated to embellishments. You will come across a sizable and diverse choice of embellishments when you go shopping for them. As for the most well-liked type of embellishment, you will find that that stickers are the most common. These aren’t like the gold stars you got in primary school; stickers now come in just about any shape and size. You will find that the letter sticker will be a very handy kind of sticker to make use of in the scrapbook. These come in sheets featuring the entire alphabet so you can make use of them to create titles on your page. This works especially well for scrapbookers who don’t like their own handwriting. You can even utilize 3d stickers in your scrap book. No doubt your pages are most likely themed, the most conventional way to buy stickers is by theme as well. A convenient way of coordinating papers and stickers is to buy them in kit form. This will make it easier for you to put a scrap book together. You may find that, whereas the store may not offer you what you would like, a kit can. If you would like to have an effect that is simpler, then why not use die cuts? These paper cutouts look great on the page alone, or can be used for matting or journaling. One of the most complicated form of die cuts are paper dolls.   These are not dissimilar to the paper dolls you may perhaps have played with as a child, but are meant to be glued to the page when you are finished dressing them. Paper dolls are obtainable in any nationality and with any hair color. There are a lot of scrapbooks like to create paper dolls as a subject or focal point. They will dress them with outfits that you can find in numerous stores. As for other embellishments, you will want to get some ribbons and strings to attach to the paper. You can purchase any ribbons or strings individually, but you can also obtain a kit that includes various colors and varieties. Ensure they are suitable for scrapbooking because they must be acid free.

You will want all of your supplies to be acid free as well. Very nearly anything can be used as an embellishment, although it needs to be safe for your pictures too. If you are looking for inspiration in the design of your many future pages, why not browse through local stores and look for embellishments. You will be shocked by all of the new additions that you will fancy for your scrap-booking inventory.