subject: How You Online Scrapbooking Might Be An Affordable Alternative [print this page] Scrapbooks are something people who have creative tendencies and artistic flair create to remember loved ones or special situations by. It may be a great way to showcase something or someone special and let them know just how much you care about them. Use online scrapbooking to embellish a simple landscape that might be a treasured memory of a special trip.
There are so many different ways you can set up a scrapbook page, but you need to rely on your tools to get the job done. In many packs there are things like backgrounds that you can place your pictures on and begin building. Sometimes you can get frames to put on your pictures. Brushes, overlays and tubes can help add a bit of ambiance to break up the background. Word art can have some cute phrases for your page, or you might use the alphas to create your own. Layouts are a great way to set up your page, often they can help you place your photos. Each one of these are usually compatible with multiple different art programs.
Many of these resources are found online in forum communities or blogs. Occasionally your local scrapbook store could have a website where they offer some resources to get you started. Some you have to pay for others you can get for free and occasionally you will need to register to places to get some of the free things. There are even pre-made pages that some talented people have created for you to just place over your photo.
You may discover just how relaxing this hobby can be. Quite a few people create things for their children, significant others, relatives and friends to reminisce about the good times they had. Even a new baby or a school function, or landing that job contract at work might be something to make a page over. Perhaps you just saw something interesting that you would like to try.
Kits are available to be purchased and sometimes found for free, these contain things like elements, brushes, textures alphas and other miscellaneous items. However these are usually based around color schemes or a set theme. You are definitely allowed to mix and match, as sometimes it may only be one thing in the package that you want to use on your page.
Some forum sites offer challenges to compete in where the winning entry gets a package for free, or if you attend one of their chat room sessions you would get this special set. Sometimes they offer tutorial nights where you might come visit and learn just how they did that. Of course at that point its just teaching you the techniques, you would have to creatively apply it yourself.
Card stock can get to be pretty expensive and cannot be reused once you had cut it or poked holes through it. Textures pay for themselves being that they are continuously re-usable. You can do without the acid-free inks with tubes and brushes they can end up doing the same job and do not have to be replaced. A simple adjustment in your art program and they can become similar to the expensive embossing powders that you can buy in the stores and you would not even need the heating tool.
Your pictures can be altered and changed without the damage from cutting them or punching them that regular scrapbooking would require. You could simply scan them or load them into your computer through a digital camera. Be sure to save the original formats some where safe so that they will not be lost forever. Sometimes it is all to easy to accidentally save an image over the file.
