Miscellaneous

Scrapbooking

• Food is the center of many family celebrations. When scrapbooking your photos of a celebration, include recipes used for that special meal. Great Aunt Gertie's green bean casserole, Uncle Albert's baked ham. Take a photo of the help in the kitchen cleaning up. Recipes handed down generation after generation become famous!



• Scan greeting cards to make photo mats. You can use holiday cards like Christmas and Easter, birthday cards or even sympathy cards for memorial pages.



• Don't do your heritage or wedding photos first. Looking back at the first albums you did, you will find that your style changes and improves so start on holiday photos, children as you will have many of those, seasons, etc. We tend to want to start at the beginning which is wedding and heritage.



• Making a family tree page? Well, find a nice big tree with lots of branches and up you go! Do this at a family reunion and perhaps have each branch of the family pose in the tree. The elderly members stand at the base of the tree.



• Sew acidfree doilies right onto your scrapbook page to make a decorative pocket to hold love letters or cards. Use a large stitch so the paper doesn't tear. Sew on three sides making a square pocket. If using a large heart shaped doily just stitch on the two straight sides.



• A great memory-saving tip I found on the net from Vonnie, PA:
  
  

  With so many magazines, its hard for me to remember which ones had which information in I wanted to use. Now I just photocopy the first page inside each magazine which tells me what is in the entire magazine and keep that in a notebook for fast lookups.

• Another tip if you have trouble removing pictures from magnetic albums...slip a thin spatula under the edge of the picture and heat the spatula carefully with a blowdryer. It will gradually loosen the adhesive so that you can gently work the picture off the page.



• In so many families Mom is the photographer. Always be sure to ask someone to take a photo of yourself at important events and family gatherings. So often Mom is missed because she doesn't like photos taken of her. It should be done for historical purposes. Here is a quote I found somewhere on the net which really speaks the truth!

  Make sure you get YOU into the pictures and the scrapbook even if you're too old, ugly, fat, skinny and gray. Let someone else take the pictures and get some of you having fun, cooking the turkey, falling in the lake! Ten years from now you'll be older, uglier, fatter, skinnier, more wrinkled and grayer and will think back at what a fine spring chicken you were then! Dee, ID

• Fold a small doily to use as a small pocket for a special note, dried flower or a small trinket.
  
  
• Need a musical theme? Cut out large musical notes 2-3" across, either in black or colored paper. Cut your photos into circles to fit inside the round part of the note.



• Make your own paper for frames or mats for nostalgic, heritage photos.
  Check out The Scrapbooking Idea Network for instructions on how to make your own paper. Be sure to use just acid free paper scraps.



• Everyone has photos where someone made a face just as the camera was snapped, tongues stuck out, top of heads cut off, etc. Make a bloopers page!



• Use a swatch of flannel fabric to buff off smudges and fingerprints from glossy photos.



• Use a bag sealer to seal the photo sleeve exactly to the measurements you need.



• Test paper lace in various colors with PH pens to see if acid free. Can give a nice feminine look to wedding or heirloom pages. Look in craft stores.



• Make your pages special by personalizing them. Make a page from Mom, Dad, Grandma or Grandpa and have them write a letter or note. Be sure to sign and date it.



• To remove something from a page (picture, die cut, stickers, etc.) try dental floss. A hair dryer set on low for just a few seconds also works but be very careful.



• Aside from using pictures use programs, ticket stubs, ribbons, etc.



• After cutting a picture with scissors into round or oval shape, turn it over to check for irregularities. For some reason it is easier to see them on the backside.



• Write down what's in a name. How did you pick your child's name?



• To place page protectors on completed pages use wax paper. Cut and fold in half over finished page.



• Use a scanner to copy some items such as tax returns, programs, tickets, etc. onto acid free paper. Once imported, you can adjust the size of the image and print it on acid-free paper.



• For a formal layout where you want the page of your scrapbook to look professional, use only two colors of paper, preferably the two main colors of the event, and double mat your photos. Keep mounting in a square or rectangle shape. It adds elegance and importance to the photos and the event.



• When you are on your family vacation save all of those brochures you receive. Take two to make sure that you can use both sides. Also use the ticket stubs from various events you went to. You may want to use protective pockets.



• Include in your scrapbook a map of your city and or province showing your house, baby's first house, young married's house, etc. along with a picture of that house.

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