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Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking In April

Imagine the strange and jazzy layouts you can make celebrating some of these wild, wacky and unusual holidays. These have been collected and compiled from various sources over the years of my teaching and we celebrated many of them in the classroom. Celebrate them with your children and family and create fun and wacky layouts! The Month of April Keep American Beautiful Month Mathematics Education Month Month Of The Young Child National Garden Month National Humor Month Pets Are Wonderful Month First Week of April is: National Reading a Road Map Week National Straw Hat Week Egg Salad Week Second … Continue reading →

Biggest Scrapbooking Mistakes – Shapes

The fad of cutting everything and anything on a layout into shapes, has long since past. However, if you’ve been scrapbooking for any length of time, you probably have albums full of layouts that contain shapes throughout. It wasn’t like the shapes were limited to squares and rectangles either. Oh no, we had ovals, and circles too. But what was worse was the stars and hearts and other odd shapes we felt the need to crop our precious photos into. Of course not everyone cropped just their photos. Often scrapbookers used special shapes for their journaling, using special templates. Journaling … Continue reading →

Biggest Scrapbooking Mistakes – Shapes

The fad of cutting everything and anything on a layout into shapes, has long since past. However, if you’ve been scrapbooking for any length of time, you probably have albums full of layouts that contain shapes throughout. It wasn’t like the shapes were limited to squares and rectangles either. Oh no, we had ovals, and circles too. But what was worse was the stars and hearts and other odd shapes we felt the need to crop our precious photos into. Of course not everyone cropped just their photos. Often scrapbookers used special shapes for their journaling, using special templates. Journaling … Continue reading →