Monday, March 23, 2009

Memories


NannyOne hopes you all enjoyed watching the last video, did you get any new tips that you can use in your own scrapbook designs.
In this next post I will be chatting about Memories. Now, when you are working on your pages, you are most likely going down memory lane with some of your photo's, as I did when scrapping my children's albums.
With their album's I started with photo's from before they were born up to their last years of school. Yes NannyOne had a few laughs and tears, on the whole, though a lot of great memories.
We all have our photo's collected in boxes, drawers and in albums ( this was like a scrapbook), showing them off to family and friends when ever they turned up. Today with new-age technology, new upmarket camera's, and computers, people are not wanting to sit for hours looking through photo albums. Photo's are downloaded onto the computer straight away, so sending them to family and friends is so much quicker and easier.
With these new ways of looking at your photo's, most times you are unable to capture the real feeling and story behind the photo. That is where scrapbooking comes into the picture.
Having these memories telling a story, makes browsing your photo's much more enjoyable. Passing these memories onto your grandchildren, having them telling their children about their heritage, with photo's and a story attached, will make looking at photo's, not a boring old task.
Until next time NannyOne catches up with all, I am signing off now, with another video for you to watch.


Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Building Pages


My, NannyOne had better get cracking on building more tips for my fellow readers.
Now that you have set up your work space and have have all your materials in order, you can then continue on your journey to accomplish your first Scrapbook Album. Once you have an idea of what you would like to add to your pages, then it is simply just cutting, sticking, stamping, writing your text (journal), and having FUN !!!
Some great NannyOne Building page tips are;
  • Do not over crowd your page,
  • Make sure your photo is the main attraction on the page,
  • Use the two sides of the one piece of cardstock, for 2 pages
  • Design your pages with a different layout, each time
Time is slipping by, so I would like to give you a little video that may be of interest, for building ideas for your scrapbook.