I am making a scrapbook for my boyfriend for his birthday. I love to scrapbook, but I keep making it look too girly and then having to redo the pages. Now they just look blah. Any suggestions?

Head to your crafts store and find fun stickers or embellishments that are "manly". Is he into sport- use stickers of sporting goods.

Use darker colors- blues, greens, black instead of light colors and write on the pages with light colored markers of pens (white on black looks awesome).

You could also make your background for your pages out of magazines featuring things he likes such as sports or outdoor type scenes.

Just try to think about the things he likes and use the pages you create to reflect his personality!

Good Luck.

I want to take my picture on the 1st of every month, and document my measurements, but I don’t know what else to add to it. This is my first scrapbook. Any ideas for a great, inspirational weight loss scrapbook?

Lots of starter kits out there, especially at Michael’s and Joann’s craft stores. As for inspirational things to put inside:

Quotes about Perseverance, pictures of clothes you want to fit into. Pictures of yourself laughing while you are exercising. Have some friends write some "cheering" comments during your journey. Physical things you want to accomplish like walking up several flights of stairs without stopping or a certain amount of miles walked in a specific amount of time tracked throughout your scrapbook. Do you have your eye on a marathon? Breast Cancer Walk-a-thon?

Pictures of you in clothes that don’t fit anymore as you lose your weight and what you did with the clothes like donating them to a local women’s charity/shelter.

My friend is due at any time really, early this June. I bought a cute pink gingham scrapbook that I put her baby’s initials on. I already have pages in it like first steps, etc.
What kind of personal touches can I put in it so that it’s not your general everyday baby scrapbook?

Please, Thankyou and Godbless you for any help
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In my daughter’s scrapbook I have a page that is all about the day she was born. What movies were popular, what songs were popular, who was the president, how much gasoline costed, and other important things like that. I also have a calendar that has each month for one year and says height and weight. Each month I take her measurements and record them on the calendar.

I’m competing in scrapbook this upcoming weekend. The theme of our book is "Road Trip". So far we have done the membership pages which have each member on a "License" with maps as backgrounds. I using those green signs with the name of the city in how many miles as the content page, and a billboard as the title page. I need help with what to do on the officer pages, and service and activity pages. The activity pages and service pages are basically pictures and captions, I just need theme ideas. Thanks so much! We really want to win!

Route 66 with its vintage signs, the 50 states, do a convertible with everyone’s picture collages into the seats, a junk food page/spread (you know like Funyuns and truck stop burritos), National monuments or places people take road trips to like the Grand Canyon or from the snow country to the south.

Hope that helps.

I’ve seen several ways to display pictures in a scrapbook to save pages–a flip book, folding pages vertically/horizontally and even in one of those paper game fortune tellers kids play with (with numbers or colors). Any other ideas? I’ve been trying to look on sites but I’m not sure what to search under.

http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/shows_scb/0,2044,DIY_14332,00.html has TONS of scrapbooking ideas, plus there’s a tv show that you can watch that does some of the ideas on the website.

I have to make a five page scrapbook for English. I’m open to any ideas.

I love scrap booking and I took a course on it so I will help you.

First you need a whole lot of pictures. Write captions under the pictures. Go to get fancy background paper that kind of tells a story about the book. Make it really detailed not just by words, by decorative stuff! ♥

I wish I could have assignments like this in school. Good luck and hope I helped you.

I was wondering if anyone had any unique/cool ideas for a baby scrapbook. I already have some basic ideas, but I was wondering about some more. Thanks!

I echo the idea on the wrapping paper. For one of my showers for my first, a lady gave me a homemade hooded bath towel wrapped in bathtime wrapping paper. I took the paper and just used if for the page layout and used pics from that shower to decorate. It was very easy… no ironing needed.

Another thing I really love is preprinted pages. I know you might be thinking – how un-unique is that!! BUT it saves you a ton of time and you can still embellish them to whatever degree you choose. The brand I love is Aimee J Inc. I tend to go way overboard when it comes to the number of pics I want to include resulting in a huge number of pages. The printed pages help to keep things going and focused so I don’t lose track of what I wanted to accomplish.

I’m going to try this idea myself… take a bunch of pics of your baby’s eyes, ears, toes, fingers, hairline… etc. memories you want to capture and make them into 1-2 in. squares to form a chunky border on your 12×12 page then put a full baby pic in the main area of the page and embellish as you like. I waited for Michael to fall asleep and tried this. Hint – make sure your flash is off – my pics came out better without it. Have fun!!!

I wanted to have friends come over & scrapbook. I’m not sure how to word it.

What you want to do is let your friends know what to expect at your home. Let them know what time you’ll be cropping, if you will be teaching them something or making a small project together. You should let them know what supplies & tools they should bring & what you will have to share. Also, if you are doing games, swaps, etc, you can let them know ahead of time. If you are doing a theme, like pajama crop, let them know. If you’ll have food or want them to bring some, let them know. Here is an invite that I would use:

70’s Cropping at My House!
Friday night, from 6 pm until midnight.
Please wear some groovy threads & prepare to disco out while cropping!
Light snacks & sodas will be provided.
Please bring basic tool kit & projects to work on. We’ll make a Mother’s Day Card with alcohol inks. (I’ll have supplies).
I’ll have to share: Quickutz & dies, Wishblade, computer for journaling, Sizzix & dies, paints, craft iron, rubber stamps, trimmers, and all my idea books.

Also, DIY scrapbooking had a segment on this awhile back, and had lots of good general ideas. Here is some info from them:

* Invitations – Use your scrapbooking know-how to create an invitation inspired by your crop theme. Creating the invitation is your opportunity to set the tone for the crop. Be sure to inform croppers of items they’ll need to bring, or what supplies will be available. If crop time will be limited, be sure to specify crop party times on the invitation.

* Creating a Festive Atmosphere – Themed decor, food and music work in tandem to create a jovial event. Tip: Music should be played at low volume to avoid distracting the croppers.

* Favors – A themed party favor for your guests — like a sticker packet — heightens guests enjoyment of the crop and provides them with an inexpensive supply that can be enjoyed afterwards.

* Games and Prizes – A little friendly competition can add to the fun. Gerbrandt suggests weighing croppers’ bags as they arrive, then awarding a prize to the cropper who brings the most (or least) supplies. Alternately, croppers can be challenged to create as many borders or page elements using one tool or supply.

* Photo Op – Finally, don’t let the opportunity for taking great photos pass by! Record the evening’s fun and friendship on film.

* Organize supply stations to manage traffic flow for a larger groups. Have participants label any supplies brought to the crop.

* Create an "Information Station" where croppers can peruse magazines and books for new page ideas.

* A swap basket facilitates easy supply trading. Croppers simply put in items they no longer need, then search for new items to take home.

* Consider providing a kit to participants, or take a collection up to buy needed supplies for the crop.

* Contests are a great way to stimulate creativity and add to the fun of any crop. Croppers can create clever centerpieces, quick pages or paper dolls.

Happy cropping!

I want it so that when my teacher opens the scrapbook project it will sing! But How can I do this? I have the audio thing that is in inserted into the card out of the card and the scrapbook ready, I just need to know!

most I have seen would require you to push a button, not play when the album is opened.

You may have to rig up a tap that is pulled for the music to start. just like it is pulled when the card flap is opened.
I don’t’ see how you can do it so it plays automatically when a page is opened

I have a pseudo-scrapbook with some already framed spots for photos, but I have no idea how to attach the pictures to the pages. What do I use? Thanks.

You can use double-sided tape, glue stick, a tape runner or glue dots, just make sure whatever you choose is acid and lignin free and photo safe. If it doesn’t specifically say that on the package, don’t use it. If it’s not acid free, it can discolor and eventually destroy your pictures and the pages!