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Soccer Love

Scrapbooking the sports your child participates in can be fun and easy. Use the jersey colors as a starting point for your color choices if you are stumped or use a wild and crazy coordinating pattern for fun. There are also many sports specific themed papers too.

Altered Clipboard

This is a great teacher's gift. I had a lot of fun making this from items I already had at home.

First Lost Tooth

Happy New Year

Now is the perfect time for doing your own calendar. Personalize one for yourself. There are many different types of calendars forms to choose from. Pick your favorite and customize your own calendar.

Happy 2009!

Mini Scrapbook Albums

This is an album I made for my daughter and 3 of her closest friends. Each album was slightly different but they were all made from the same coordinating papers. The front cover and the circle tage are made from chipboard and covered in paper. The rest of the cover is embellished with ribbon, stamps, distressing ink, stickers, a brad, and chipboard letters. I made the pages out of 9" white envelopes with the flaps cut off. Some of the pages were cut at an angle on one side to show that they all made pocket pages and show some interest inside the book. I also Included a package of coordinating stickers in each girl's book so she could embellish the pages herself.


The edges of the covers and each individual page is distressed with ink to add more interest.

You can use this idea for several different varations to fit your own needs.






One of the most precious gifts you can give is a scrapbook full of treasured memories. You can make your scrapbook gift even more personalized by creating your own mini album. Mini albums are fun and express your own creativity. Creating your own mini album allows you to choose the shape and size you want. Mini scrapbook albums are perfect for theme type albums.
There are a vast amount of choices in scrapbooking papers, embellishment, and other supplies to choose from. If you are pressed for time you can even choose to purchase a plain scrapbook and then decorate the outside cover to make it more interesting. If you decide to make your own scrapbook covers you can use the 5.5" x 9" envelopes for pages and just cut off the flaps. This would create pocket pages which would hold other memorabilia or tags used as pull outs for additional space to hold pictures. You could even make an entire mini album out of tags with ribbon adorning the top of each tag. Another option would be to purchase a CD tin and include a circle album inside. CD tins are great for sports theme albums because you can decorate the outside of the tin to look like a basketball or baseball or any other sport you are scrapbooking.
Mini albums are a great gift for any occasion. You can even create a scrapbook for your child and each of his or her closest friends. This is a wonderful surprise to everyone involved especially when presented on the last day of a school year. They will have a treasured keepsake of the year's memories with their friends tucked inside the mini album. You can purchase mini albums in a variety of shapes and sizes. A mini album is a wonderful gift for the bride to be. Mini albums can even be used as decorative recipe books to hold the famly's most prized collections. Mini scrapbooks can be found in the shape of circles, flowers, hearts, and stars. They are easily found at most craft stores ready to be decorated. Just use one of the pages as a template for the paper you are going to adhere to each side. Try making your own mini scrapbook album.


Original design by by Audrey Key, CTMH Consultant

Trunk or Treat

Pumpkin Patch Scrapbook Layout

Using a simple layout can make for some of the most interesting scrapbook pages. This Pumpkin Patch layout has clean lines and its simplicity is appealing.

This layout was created by using one sheet of printed paper and a coordinating sheet of card stock. Two 5x7 photo's fit perfectly between the words which create a fitting title for the layout.

The following page contains three 4x6 photo's and is bordered with contrasting ribbon. Leaf punches and a cricut pumpkin cutout help to embellish the negative space. You could add a journaling pull tab behind the pictures for additional space.

Using Scapbook techniques for Unique Ornaments

Have you been searching for an idea to do family or classroom ornaments on a budget? Making CD photo ornaments is the perfect project. It requires very few tools and supplies.
First you will need to take pictures of the subjects you are wanting to create the ornaments for. If you want to get really creative, you can manipulate your photos for a different look. One suggestion might be to turn a photo into a black and white and then highlight one color or subject in the photo. An example of this might be to take a picture of a child wearing a red Santa hat and turn the photo to black and white and then highlight just the red portion of the hat. This can be done with many photo editing softwares, such as Photoshop, and is very simple with a little practice. The resulting picture is unique and impressive.
Second, you will need to take the pictures to your local photo lab, or print your own 5x7 prints if you have a quality printer. If you print your own pictures, you have the ability to experiment with different types of paper to see which outcome you like best. There are a variety of different papers from heavy weight matte, semi-gloss, glossy, and portrait paper. After your pictures have been printed they will need to be cut down to a 4.75" circle to fit on the CD. If you have a circle cutter this step is very easy. Circle cutters are very inexpensive and can be purchased from most craft stores. If you do not have a circle cutter, just take a CD and trace around the outside edge and then cut with scissors. Adhering the photo to the CD is quite simple. You will need a photo safe acid free glue stick. Using the colored glue sticks that dry clear are helpful in seeing where more glue is needed on the CD. Just cover the CD with glue and adhere your photo being careful to make sure it is centered. It is best to wait at least 30 minutes before handling the CD's once you have adhered your photo's.
The next step involves punching a hole in the top of the CD for the ribbon hanger. Many scrapbookers already have a handy tool called a Crop-a-dile. If you own one of these, punching the holes in the CD's will be effortless. Crop-a-dile tools may be purchased at craft stores for approximately $20 and have a variety of uses. Just set the punch to the desired distance using the 3/8' hole and squeeze down on the CD. Using this tool helps prevent the CD from cracking while punching the hole.
If you do not have a Crop-a-dile, a sharp object or awl will be useful for you. You will have better results if you heat your tool prior to punching a hole through the backside of the CD. Once you have your hole punched, just thread some ribbon through the hole and your ornament is complete. These can be further personalized by writing a message or the year on the back using paint pens. This is wonderful idea for preserving the handwriting of a child. You now have a personalized ornament to hang on your Christmas tree.
Mendy Warwick