Free Scrapbooking 3

Poway is located just 20 miles from San Diego. Cool Scrapbook Stuff is located on Poway Blvd. The store is over 3500 square feet. They carry products from over 200 vendors; that s a lot of different product to look through.

Their website speaks of over 450 colors of scrapbook paper. Can you imagine? Each of my scrapbook albums is about 30 pages. It would take 15 albums to try every color that Cool Scrapbook Stuff sells.

In 2005, Cool Scrapbook Stuff added new products to their sales floor every single day. This is very impressive.

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Scrapbooking has never been as easy as it is now!

Creating scrapbook pages is one of America’s favorite hobbies. What’s not to love about documenting the lives of the ones we love and capturing their very special memories? Even those who are not scrapbookers themselves love to look at finished scrapbooks - oohing and awing over the photo’s, cute embellishments and the neat papers used to create these one of a kind keepsakes.

And now there’s a new way to scrapbook that arrived on the scene a few years ago and it’s really taking off! Digital scrapbooking, or as it s sometimes called computer scrapbooking, is catching on fast. And traditional paper scrappers as well as those who

have never scrapbooked before are loving it.

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Yep, I called you all designers . That is because each time you create something, you ARE the designer. Maybe you don t think you have an ounce of scrapbooking designer in you and you have to borrow (scraplift) ideas from others. Or maybe you are so fabulous that you probably could be published in next month s issue of Creating Keepsakes or Simple Scrapbooks. Either way, we all want our pages to look great.

Recently I have been using sketches to create my pages. What is a scrapbooking sketch? It is an outline of how to layout your scrapbooking pages. Sometimes a sketch just tells you where to

put a title or pictures. Other times, it gives you everything you need (including scrapbooking supplies), except the photos. Now that I have begun using sketches, I am loving how my pages and projects turn out! Oh, and another thing I love, you can get these sketches for free all over the internet.

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I have decided to devote this issue to all of us out there who need scrapbook space. Yep, that s right, a place of our own to create our scrapbooking convections. Now I ll admit that I am not the one who would make my kids share a room just to have my own space. But I do think there is something to be said for people that are able to keep all of their scrapbooking stuff together and “out” so that a page layout or card can be made even in you only have a half hour.

You have probably seen some fabulous spaces out there. I think it is time to create your own fabulous scrapbook space.

The space needn t be huge or even a room in itself. Find a place in your house that will work - under the stairs, an unused attic or bonus room, a corner of a tv room, or even in the garage (you would be surprised how many women have had to resort to this space). I realize that some of us will always be “mobile” scrapbookers (scrapbooking at each other s houses or at stores), but I think we all eventually need some space to call scrapbook home.

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Why is it that nearly all scrapbook enthusiasts are women? It’s not as if we don’t like taking photographs, is it? If you’re on holiday and someone barges into you while they’re trying to line up a family shot, it’s not going to be Mum standing there apologetically!

We also love collecting things, though that’s more to do with not wanting to throw stuff away. It’s not that we’re not in touch with our past either. You show me a guy who’s never played with any of his son’s toys. You don’t see many women queuing up to relive their greatest ‘Barbie’ moments, do you? So what have guys got against scrapbooking?

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