Basic Color Theory Scrapbooking Ideas
author: Jay Moncliff
     Remember the color wheel? Colors arranged in a circle, similar to a rainbow, and all of the colors related? Red combines with yellow to make orange, yellow and blue combine to make green, and red and blue make purple, remember? Visit your local [...]

Scrapbook Brads
To apply your brads you will need a craft knife or eyelet hole punch and a self-healing mat. Place your paper onto the mat and make a slight slit or punch where you want the brad to be placed. Poke the prongs of the brad through the [...]

Paper Piecing
Paper piecing is the art of placing pieces of paper together to make shapes, animals, and scenes. There are many places to find patterns. You can make your own, copy from a children’s coloring book, buy a paper piecing book or the most popular…download from free online sites. Good patterns [...]

Scrapbooking Step-by-Step
Interested in learning how to scrapbook, but not quite sure how to begin? The following guide will help you get started with this fun and rewarding hobby. The guide explains how to organize your scrapbook photos, plan your scrapbook project, select your scrapbook album, create your album pages [...]

Crumpling and Wrinkling
Crumpling or wrinkling is a very easy scrapbook technique.  It ads a 3 dimensional appearance and also some antique-like charm.  Some uses are to back embellishments, frame pictures or as journal blocks.
It is nothing more than wadding up your paper or cardstock into a ball and flattening it out [...]

Choosing a Scrapbooking Theme
Author: Susie Cortright

The scrapbooking industry has taken papercrafting to an entirely new level in recent years, and that means there is an amazing amount of tools, papers, textures, and embellishments to choose from.
But all of these choices can make even the most inspired scrapbooking [...]