Spice Up Your Scrapbook With Stickers

There are many mediums in the scrapbooking world that are popular even among other industries. One of the most popular is the sticker. Stickers are used in many different craft mediums and also outside of the craft arena.

Another common use for stickers is embellishing scrapbooking pages. With the advent of this very popular craft, every type of sticker imaginable can now be found: acrylic, 3D, cardstock, epoxy, fabric, flocked, sparkly, paper, puffy, vellum and so much more. While in the earlier days of scrapbooking stickers were sold mostly on 2"x6" sheets, now 6"x12" and even 12"x12" size sheets are very common. ~ From Wikipedia

I have always loved stickers; they are fun and playful and a creative way of expressing your likes and even your dislikes. In the world of scrapbooking, stickers are a colorful, creative and very cost effective way to embellish your scrapbook.

Personalized stickers are anything from making stickers with your names on it or any designs that expresses your authentic self. Your uniqueness will radiate on each page and in the design you make.

Sticker makers, on the other hand, are so popular among scrappers since these can be manipulated to produce stickers of your own concept or of your own choice. This is best when you have a specific theme in mind and no commercial sticker satisfies your needs.

In scrapbooking, there would be times when too few ideas come to mind. In that case, you can try using stickers as your background. Again, you can buy them or make your own. Stickers can be layered to create a scene. You can simply attach the stickers on blank papers or cardstocks and spice up the design with other sticky buddies. This is normally used for concepts that portray scenes; like a floral design with lots of butterflies and blooming flowers on it.

Often, no matter how sure we are in placing stickers, we still might find flaws in doing them. Sometimes you misplaced your sticker on the page or layout. What then?

The first solution would be to carefully try and peel off the stickers by using adhesive removers or erasers. This solution might cause some damage on the stickers but with gentle operation, your layout would still be safe.

If you cannot remove the sticker with any other way possible, you might fix it by covering it by a larger one or an embellishment that would cover it entirely. Coordinating papers may work best for your misplaced stickers. The trick here is to make everything intentional.

Sometimes, it is from the mistakes that we create our best work. Who knows how many ideas may sprout from your misplaced sticker?

Now that you are done with your stickers, what do you do with the backing sheets? Don’t throw them out! It’s amazing how much you can do with those blank sheets. You can use them for templates, borders, tags, or acetate pockets, just to name a few.

Happy Scrappin’!

Tapping Into Free Scrapbooking Ideas

Ideas are valuable and a good idea can be hard to come by. Yet, you need ideas to fuel creativity. In scrapbooking, ideas are critical as to whether or not you create a memorable scrapbook. It is actually best that you come up with your own ideas. However, to give you a bit of help, there are free scrapbooking ideas out there.

Here are some places where you can get free scrapbooking ideas:

1) Other people. Of course, ideas come from people; however, you can ask people in conversations for scrapbooking ideas. If they also scrapbook, ask their favorites: layouts, album size, papers, adhesives, embellishments, etc. This can get your creative juices flowing and you can get some really great scrapbooking ideas.

2) The Internet. This is one of the biggest resources for all kinds of free scrapbooking ideas. There are literally thousands of sites that can give you free scrapbooking ideas. By accessing the Internet, you practically access the world. You can look up anything to do with scrapbooking, especially video tutorials. This is what stirred my interest and got my creative juices flowing. I would watch video tutorials and wanting to make what I saw, I also began to tweak ideas to create new ideas.

The Internet will also present what other people think of a particular idea, so you can determine what scrapbooking ideas can work for you. You also get a lot of advice as to how to implement a certain scrapbooking idea. Because of this, you will have an easier time and more creative time designing your own scrapbook.

3) Craft Magazines. Different magazines specialize in crafts and may offer you free scrapbooking ideas. By buying magazines like these, you gain access not only to free scrapbooking ideas, but ideas for other craft projects as well. Also, these magazines can give you various tips on what to do and what not to do when creating your own scrapbook.

What are some of the advantages of free scrapbooking ideas?

1) You save money, of course. By tapping into free scrapbooking sources, you can also make money. Ideas today, especially good ones, can lead to a very lucrative business venture.

2) You save on your effort. By availing of free scrapbooking ideas, you rid yourself the hassle of thinking up a theme or the design of the scrapbook. If you have some free scrapbooking ideas, you can actually just get on with making the scrapbook, without the hassle of coming up with themes or ideas. Check out those video tutorials, lots of them offer scrapbooking ideas based on the papers or the size of the album. This can save you a lot of effort.

3) You also save time by availing yourself of free scrapbooking ideas. With time saved, you have more time to make more scrapbooks!

Happy Scrappin’!

Scrapbooking?

Can anyone give me some good tips on scrapbooking? My siblings and I are planning to make a Family Scrapbook for our parents and none of us has ever made one before. We have the ideas, but we haven't done the first thing because we don't know what to do. Can any experienced scrappers help us? Appreciate the help.

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Even tho I notice 12x12 size album is recommended here, I personally prefer letter size, 8.5x11, for many reasons. While it is true that most scrapbook products you find are for 12x12, they can be resized smaller, whether paper or digital. One reason for my preference is supplies are far less expensive, far! You can buy a regular 3-ring binder and use it for your scrapping. I put absolutely everything in sheet protectors, and they are less expensive in the smaller size also. This keeps oopsies off of your pages.

Another reason is that you can move your pages in order and even move them from album to album. Since I started scrapping about 10 years ago, I've moved my pages many times, and I've changed my mind about how I want to organize them. You could do it by year, or by topic, or by family group or or or or - whatever you choose. Sometimes I want to extract a few pages of a particular subject and take them to show, and it is very easy to do in the smaller size. Once you put them in the larger albums, most of the time they are difficult to move, or maybe in some cases not even possible. Top loading - absolutely.

Some scrappers are also crafters. If you are, you have the opportunity of making some cute individualized covers for your three ring binders. Since they are inexpensive, you don't mind covering them.

I do think that before you do anything very permanent, you need to determine what size page you want.

Something I learned to do after I had been scrapping a couple of years was a better way to use sheet protectors. Say I went somewhere and picked up a postcard or other souvenir. Also I have a ticket stub, or maybe an airline boarding pass. I put these and any other memorabilia together in my protector until I'm reading to scrap. If I have to wait to get my pictures developed, this is a great way to hold like things together. Maybe I'll even jot down my journaling thoughts while I'm waiting to get the page scrapped. That way I don't forget what I want to say, even if I go back five years later to make the page. If I am using digital pix, I always print out a contact thumbnail sheet of the picture(s) and put it in the protector. Unfortunately, there have been times when I lost the pix on my computer and my little thumbnail is all I had for a picture. As bad as the quality is and as small as it is, it's still better than total wipeout.

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