So, you’re best friend is making you feel guilty because you don’t scrap. She’s preserving her family’s memories in pink-and-blue borders with ballooned quotes with catchy subtitles for candid photos taken at every juncture of her children’s lives. Her camera costs more than your car, and her bookcases are filled with scrapbooks categorized by each child’s birth year, vacation destinations, and first-day-of-school photo comparisons.
You, on the other hand, are lucky to print out the photos you take. You lost that cheap digital camera (though it is probably in one of those heaps in the closet and one day you’ll dig …read more

My daughter gave me the coolest Valentine (we celebrated early this year for many reasons).  Of course, it came via my wife, since the munchkin is only 10 months.
As you can see, the ladybug is has some translucent wings–but what you probably can’t tell is that they are made from tracing paper that I cut to the wrong size.  Instead of throwing it out, I gave it to my wife to put in with her scrap-booking stuff.
Little did I know that she would use it to cover my daughter’s card to me.  What a double cool card, don’t you think?
(The wings …read more

 
Something I do often is use scraps of paper–especially photo paper.  Several years ago I printed pictures on 8.5 x 11 sheets of photo paper, but didn’t need the last 2.5 inches from the bottom.  I spent more than I wanted to on paper, so I wasn’t about to throw it out.
The above bookmark illustrates what I do with the scraps (you could easily use pieces of scrapbooking paper and/or card stock).  It is important to figure out how small of paper your printer will print on, or you may not be able to use your computer.  Hand drawn bookmarks are sometimes …read more