Trying to make effective use of multiple shots of your little trick-and-treaters? Silhouette out each child (our micro soft-touch scissors are great for detailed cutting!) and make a collage out of all the cut outs. You'll have a crowd of ghosts and goblins that don't eat up pages and pages of your album. John and Carrie - Cut'N'Fun | |||||
Here's a fun way to make your own candy corn die-cuts. Using a circle cutter and acid-free paper, cut a large yellow, medium orange, and small white circle. Center and attach the white circle on the orange, and the orange on the yellow. Cut the circle into fourths. Use a corner rounder to round off all three corners of each piece of candy. John and Carrie - Cut'N'Fun | |||||
Use our small and jumbo maple or oak leaf punches to create a fun fall background. Use our nature die-cut theme pack or cut out a bare tree out of brown paper. Repeatedly punch different fall color papers with the leaf punches until you have a page full of fall leaves that need to be raked up. Arrange your pictures so they look like the leaves have fallen on them. John and Carrie - Cut'N'Fun | |||||
Remember to document all your unique fall traditions and activities. Create a fancy written description of the event using brilliant pigment ink pens such as our Zig Millenium or Calligraphy writers. Make the description of the event the central theme of a page and surround the description with photographs, drawings, or tokens of the activity. John and Carrie - Cut'N'Fun | |||||
With Christmas coming up, I've decided not to just hand our parents copies of the children's school photos. I'm doing up a 12 x 12 page with the photos, stickers, die-cuts and a little fancy lettering. Instead of putting the page in an album, I'm framing it. There are frames specially made for 12 x 12 paper and displaying your pages that are works of art. Then, next year, they will receive an album and a new page. This year's page will go into the album and the page that is made up for next year can go into the frame! (Just have to remind them to hang it up away from direct sunlight!) Sharon | |||||
You can use Christmas cards for accessories to any scrapbooking page! First make sure they are acid free. (done using a pH testing pen) then cut them up! Yep do it! Your friends and family will be so surprised and happy to recognize their cards in your albums, and those pretty images won't go to waste in a shoe box or trash somewhere. Julie Doornbos | |||||
While I was using part of pictures I'd taken of a Christmas tree I thought of using my small tree punch on the remaining tree sections to use as decorations for the page. They turned out pretty cute - looking like mini-Christmas trees. Kati DeLaurier | |||||
Are you just getting to your Christmas Pages and don't know what to do with all of those Christmas 'family picture' cards you got...don't just throw them away, or tuck them in a box! I took all of the pictures, cropped them and made pages titled 'Christmas 1998'. Now I have memories of family and friends as the years go by. Susie Taniguchi | |||||
For a fun holiday page layout, use our circle cutter to make several circles out of bright paper. Attach these randomly across a page or two in your album. Place a very small square piece of paper at the top of each circle. Instant ornaments! You can decorate each ball using strips of paper cut out with our fancy-edged scissors OR use the circle cutter again to neatly cut out pictures of your family and friends to fit inside each ornament. Use the guide on the circle cutter to cut out the pictures slightly smaller than the ornament. Decorate around each ball with drawings of tree branches, tinsel, or a simple line to hang the ornaments from the top of the page. John and Carrie - Cut'N'Fun | |||||
Remember to save a sample of the holiday cards or photos that you send out so you can include them in your album. During any event, it's important to always keep a look out for special momentums that you can include in your albums. John and Carrie - Cut'N'Fun December 1997 Newsletter | |||||
I begin my album with 'The Year that .... Page.' I put on it all kinds of things. Like the Titanic sticker with the year we saw Titanic. My business card with the year I started my business. A scissors picture with the year I cut 24 inches off my hair. I used the paint brush die cut with the year we remodeled our house and repainted. It is a fun way to start out the year. Kim Morris | |||||
After doing your pages, you always have leftover pictures. What I do, is at the end of the year, I make a two-page collage page of all the pics I didn't use. It is a great way to use pics that don't fit anywhere else in your books. Noelle Lipkowski - Whittier, CA | |||||
Looking for a fun New Year's page layout? A quick way to make a party is to use our Balloon Die-Cut Theme pack. After you have the die-cut balloons in place, use mini, small, and/or jumbo balloon punches to add to the festivities. Simple squiggles and dots with your acid-free pens add the finishing touch of confetti. John and Carrie - Cut'N'Fun | |||||
I always have left over pictures, like I know all of you fellow scrappers do too. And I usually have a great deal that are so-so (someone made a face just as the camera was snapped etc.). So I made a bloopers page at the end of my year. It was such a BIG hit with anyone who looked at my album, that I do it always now. Try it! Jules Pahos - Hueytown, AL | |||||
I end up with a lot of extra pictures. Two of one event, 2 of another, random ones my mom sends, but each is special. After my Christmas pages, I create an end of the year 2-page spread and put these pictures there. I often pick a random theme to unify the pictures (i.e. "Stars of 1996"). It is a fun way to look at the year past. Kristen Stone - Orlando, FL | |||||
Watch your family grow through the years by making a progressive scrapbooking album for the holidays. Create a page or two for each major holiday and keep these pages in a single album that you can add to year after year. After a few years, you'll have a wonderful record of fun events and loved ones. John and Carrie - Cut'N'Fun | |||||
The same techniques and supplies you use for your scrapbooking pages can be used to make a special picture frame for your sweetheart. Use some Melissa Neufeld or Gifted Line heart stickers, our heart die-cuts, heart punch-outs, or other heart shaped items to decorate a mat around a photograph. Place the special mat and picture in a frame and give your love a special memory for Valentine's Day. John and Carrie - Cut'N'Fun | |||||
If you go out on Valentines Day, remember to save some special memorabilia of the event...ticket stubs, champagne bottle label, rose petals. Choose anything that will help spark the memories of the special day. John and Carrie - Cut'N'Fun | |||||
Here's something I did recently with one of my pictures of my husband and 3yr old daughter. I took a circle cut of the picture, mounted it on a slighly larger circle of blue paper, then using another shade of blue put 12 heart shaped punches around the picture aligned as the numbers on the clock. I liked the depth of the framing the hearts provided. Trina Sorenson February 1998 Newsletter | |||||
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