Today's Tip: Pets

You love your pets and they love you, but try to get them at their best AND their worst.  How about:

• 
  Sleeping (where does it like to sleep the most?)
• Being naughty
• Playing
• Doing tricks
• Eating

Today's Tip: Mom

Adding your personal thoughts about your Mother makes your scrapbook more sentimental and a much nicer gift. Here are a few ideas on what to write about:

• Physical looks
• Hobbies
• Talents
• Special achievements
• Your Thoughts
• All the reasons you love your mom
• Things your mom does for you that you are grateful for
• Things your mom taught you

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's out there.  Hope you have a WONDERFUL day.

Did you MAKE a Father's Day card this year?  I did..... will post as soon as I can.

Today's Tip: Graduation

Personalize by adding journal pages or small quotes about your graduation thoughts. Here are a few to get started:

• How do you feel about graduating?
• What are your goals after graduating?
• What are your plans for graduation day?
• Who were your favorite teachers?
• What will you miss about school?
• What advice would you give to someone who is still in school?

Today's Tip: Baby Pages

Not sure where to start? Your child will love to someday see ultrasound photos or pictures of your growing tummy. How about:

• Doctor appointment cards
• Baby shower invitations
• Photos of the new nursery
• Your thoughts about your upcoming baby
• How you picked the baby's name
• The meaning of the baby's name
• Quotes about babies

Today's Tip: Wedding Ideas

A wedding scrapbook is a lot of fun to make and exciting for all your friends and relatives to look at for years to come because you can include special mementos from your wedding day.  A wedding scrapbook also makes an excellent wedding or anniversary gift.

Consider the size of scrapbook you wish to make and how many pages you want and plan accordingly.  You may wish to include photos and memorabilia from events leading up to the wedding, including the proposal (this may be photos, or may be in the form of a story or letter. Focus on the bride and groom individually and use photos and items to show:

• Decorations
• Engagement details
• First date details
• Friends
• Hobbies or sports
• How the bride and groom met
• Invitations
• Newspapper announcements
• Occupations
• Photos or notes of planning mishaps
• Right Before The Wedding
• Wedding Day Photos
• Wedding location and plans
• Wedding rehearsal

Don’t forget to include photos of:

• Best man
• Bouquet toss
• Bride
• Bridesmaids
• Champagne corks
• Confetti or rice
• Cutting the cake
• Decorated car
• Decorations
• First Kiss
• Groom
• Guests and relatives
• Honeymoon
• List of gifts recieved
• Napkins
• Place cards
• Pressed flowers
• Reception
• Relatives
• Rings
• The Toast
• Vows
• Walk down the aisle
• Walking out of the church
• Wedding Day Mementos
• Wedding favors

Today's Tip - Adhesives

When it comes to adhesives, the list of possibilities is virtually endless, but picking the right kind doesn't have to be complicated. As with anything intended to preserve your memories, you need to make sure it is acid-free.
It's also unlikely that you will end up with just one adhesive and picking the "right" one is part function and part personal preference. You may not like to use a Xyron machine, but it is a good resource for small die cuts. Some scrapbookers swear by glue pens, while others prefer double-sided tape and still others like craft glue

Some of my favorites include the following:

• A variety of tape runners.  These can be disposable or refillable, but provide nice even coverage without a gooey mess.  They are convenient and easy to use.
• Photo Squares are readily available and somewhat easy to use, but I reserve these for sticking down photos and photo mats as they sometimes come unstuck or shift a bit.  Once in an album, I've not had many problems.
• Glue Pens come in a variety of tips suitable for many project.  They are easy to use and very good for small embellishments and titles.
• Glue Dots are paper-thin (the 3-D version excluded) dots of adhesive. The regular dots come in small (3/16"), medium (3/8") and large (1/2") sizes. These are perfect for buttons and small embellishments. There are also 3-D dots, which are 1/2" wide and 1/8" thick. These are great for adding a little dimension to your page.

What are the benefits of repositionable vs. permanent adhesive?  Using repositionable adhesive will allow you to do things like paint over die-cut letters to make a reverse stencil, but still cleanly remove the die-cut.

By no means is this a complete list.  Do you use something different?  What's your favorite
TIP: Want to give some dimension to a sticker, but don't know how to keep it from sticking to the page? Use baby powder.

Today's Tip: Stickles!

101 Ways To Use Stickles

1. You can use Stickles to outline the letters in your titles.
2. You can use Stickles to outline the patterns, pictures & designs on your patterned papers.
3. You can add a little shimmer by spreading it around with your finger!
4. You can use Stickles on handmade cards.
5. You can use Stickles to make flowers glittery.
6. You can use Stickles to make "glitzy photo corners!"
7. You can use Stickles to make firework photos glittery!
8. You can use Stickles to make the "trails" from butterflies and dragonflies.
9. You can use Stickles to doodle dots and stitches. 
10. You can use the clear one which is AWESOME on stickers etc. to really make them look special.  The Basic Grey cardstock stickers become 3-D and really spectacular!! 
11. You can use Stickles to outline the veins in leaves. 
12. You can use Stickles to add to the clothing on Bella stamps to make the girls look ready for a night on the town! 
13. You can use Stickles to make brads sparkly!
14. You can use Stickles to make ribbon sparkly!
15. You can use Stickles to make icing on cupcakes and cakes shimmer.
16. You can use Stickles to make waves look 3-D.
17. You can use Stickles for making cherries/fruit shimmer as if wet. 
18. You can use the color Orange to make the "fire" on the end of a birthday candle! 
19. You can use Stickles to make rain drops or water drops from a watering can. 
20. You can use Stickles to make fairy dust around a fairy's wand. 
21. You can use Stickles to decorate your kids school supplies instead of buying designer stuff. 
22. You can use Stickles to cover entire cutouts.
23. You can use Stickles over the designs on grunge board. It looks great! 
24. You can use Burgundy Stickles as the perfect color to add blood droplets on your Halloween LO's.
25. To cover clear embellishments entirely and make them oh so sparkly! 
26. You can use Stickles under transparencies, to adhere them. Looks great for bubbles. 
27. You can use Stickles for decorating t-shirts. When they're worn down, ripped or you tired of them, cut out the design and scrap it. More mileage this way.
28. You can use dots made with Stickles to border a page!
29. You can use Stickles for slug trails.
30. You can use Stickles for snail trails.
31. You can use Stickles to decorate tennis shoes.
32. You can use Stickles to decorate buttons.
33. You can use Stickles to decorate ribbons.
34. You can use Stickles to make a spiderweb sparkle in a Halloween LO.
35. You can use Stickles on handmade tags.
36. You can use Stickles to add bling to hats or crowns.
37. You can use Stickles to make jewelry gleam! 
38. You can use Stickles to make belts shine!
39. You can use Stickles to add pizazz to purses & some shine to shoes! 
40. Add Stickles to all or any misc accessories! (whether it be in a LO or IRL...That's up to you! LOL!)
41. Add stickles dots to decorate lots of things, especially stamped swirls or flowers. 
42. You can use Stickles generally anywhere on your LO, just to add some bling!
43. You can use Stickles to highlight just one letter in a title and make it POP! 
44. You can use Stickles to make a circle or square of dots to frame closely in on a face or object in a photo. 
45. You can add Stickles to the center of flowers.
46. You can run Stickles along swirly-swirls!
47. You can use a line of Stickles to make a thin (or thick!) border around anything (or everything!) on your page. 
48. You can use Stickles to highlight the shadow on stamped letters. 
49. You can use Stickles to stamp with them! 
50. You can use Stickles to embellish concert LO's.
51. You can use Stickles to make flourishes on your flourishes and make them look embossed. 
52. You can use your Stickles to add bling to a star.
53. You can add them to flames to make them shimmer, glow & come alive! 
54. You can use the color Cotton Candy to enhance...Um, well, Cotton Candy!
55. You can use the Candy Cane Stickles for...Candy Canes!
56. You can use the Icicle Stickles for...Icicles... 
57. You can use Waterfall Stickles for...Water & Waterfalls... 
58. You can use Orange Peel Stickles for...Oranges...
59. You can use Stickles to make the lines of a shooting star! 
60. You can use Stickles on flowers to make them sparkle!
61. You can use Stickles as paint (dot a little then spread with paintbrush) 
62. You can use Stickles to make a proper Disco Ball!
63. You can tear paper snow for cards or layouts & run Stickles along the top edge of the snow.
64. Stock up on the white/frosty colored Stickles...Stickle the paper or the ghost shape flakes...You can also stamp snowflakes and put Stickles in the center of the snowflake. 
65. You can add Stickle to anything that you stamp!
66. You can use Stickles on paper piercings.
67. You can use Stickles on diecuts.
68. When using jewels, outline the jewel with Stickles.
69. You can use Stickles to outline a journal box.
70. You can use Stickles to decorate a cast.
71. You can use Stickles to decorate gift bags.
72. You can use Stickles to decorate wrapping paper. 
73. You can use Stickles on feathers for Mardi Gras or Las Vegas LOs.
74. You can use Stickles with a stencil instead of ink. 
75. You can print out stuff from Google, then add Stickles and top with Diamond Glaze to make homemade sparkly stickers! 
76. You can apply Stickles to the top of Thickers. 
77. When glitter comes off of stickers/paper, you can fill it in with Stickles to make it back to normal!...You can use Stickles to glue more glitter on top of the sticker! 
78. You can use Stickles to make the eyes on a Disney Princess cut with your Cricut.
79. You can use Stickles to create rays of sunshine!
80. You can use your Stickles to create a rainbow!
81. You can use Stickles to make a heart (or hearts) shine!
82. You can use Stickles to make stars glitter & shine!
83. You can use Stickles to make moonbeams shine!
84. You can use Stickles on diecut Christmas trees to make the bulbs sparkle & shine!
85. You can add Stickles to your own Christmas ornaments or Christmas ornaments as gifts!
86. You can use Stickles to add shine to a trophy.
87. You can use Stickles to a title block.
88. You can use Stickles to add sparkles to a Shamrock.
89. You can use Stickles to add sparkles to an Easter Egg.
90. You can use Stickles to add rays of light to a Christian cross.
91. You can use Stickles to create firework frame around something (For example, a name or an object!) 
92. You can use Stickles to make fish glimmer.
93. You can use Stickles to make water reflect (ocean, lake, waterfall, ripples, streams, fountain, aquarium, etc.) 
94. You can use Stickles to make a reflective mirror.
95. You can use Stickles to highlight Art Deco from the 60's, 70's, 80's or 90's found in the backgrounds of pictures.
96. You can use Stickles to highlight a monogram.
97. You can use Stickles on inchies.
98. You can use Stickles on tear bears.
99. You can use Stickles to add bling to automobiles.
100. You can use Stickles on your Disney Princess pages.
101. You can use Stickles on everything & anything & as long as you still have Stickles to use!

(source: KellyCali & all the wonderful & creative ladies from the sb.com General Scrapbooking board!)

Today's Tip - Color Scheme

Color schemes are an important aspect of scrapbooking, as they help to determine which colors you will use in your layouts. Some color schemes include monochromatic, analagous, complementary and triadic.

Color Wheel: A visual (circular) representation of the colors in the visual spectrum. A basic color wheel is composed of the three primary colors, three secondary colors and six tertiary colors.


CLICK HERE for more information on colors and the color wheel.

Today's Tip - Rule of Thirds

Like all visual arts, scrapbooking is based on some basic design principles such as:

• The Visual Triangle;
• Repetition;
• The Rule of Thirds; and,
• The Rule of Odds.

The rule of thirds makes use of a natural tendency of the human eye to be more strongly drawn towards certain parts of an image.  Imagine it as an imaginary tic-tac-toe board (grid) drawn across an image to break it into nine equal squares. The four points where these lines intersect are strongest focal points. The lines themselves are the second strongest focal points.


To use the rule of thirds you need to imagine the grid on your layout and work from these points and lines.  Which point, or line, you place your subject on does matter. While any of the points/lines will add emphasis to your subject, some are stronger than others.


When an object is alone in an image, the strongest position is the left hand line. An exception to this is for cultures where information is read right to left, in those cases the right hand line will be strongest.