Posts Tagged ‘christmas scrapbooking’

Scrapbooking supplies can be used to make framed art for your home.  This can be a unique, customized gift for someone on your holiday list.  If you know what the colors and style of your friend or family member’s home, you can design a piece of framed art using scrapbooking papers and embellishments.

One of the best examples I’ve seen of this is the punch collage.  Ali Edwards posted this idea on her blog earlier this year. I loved this idea so much I made both the butterflies and the hearts for my guest room. It was extremely easy to make. The most difficult part of deciding on a color scheme.  You really don’t even have to have a color scheme.  You could just let the colors and patterns be random.

These punch collages are so quick to make and use very little supplies. It would take no time to make a few of them to give as gifts.

This 2011 planner workshop is next on my project list.  I love the idea of making my own planner for 2011.  I found this workshop on Creativity Prompt.  It’s a self-paced class to Make Your Own Planner for 2011.  Not only is this a great idea for your own planner, but these would make thoughtful holiday gifts.

The workshop is $12 and includes step-by-step instructions in video and written form.  I love that!  You receive a pre-designed planner kit in both jpg and pdf formats.  The planner pages are 4×6, and the completed planner can fit into your purse.  The planner includes:

• Monthly and weekly calendar pages
• Shopping List
• To Do List
• Information to remember page
• Page for sketching creative ideas

In addition, you can use the pre-designed pages to create your own sketch book, diary or list book.  Any of these ideas would also make terrific gifts for family and friends.  This digital kit uses very basic supplies that can be purchased at craft or office supply stores.

I hope you’ve enjoyed the Christmas scrapbooking gift ideas I’ve shared over the last week.  I’d love to hear your comments and feedback if you’ve tried any of these ideas.

Simple Scrapper is offering a free ebook called The Simple Guide to Holiday Memory Keeping.  I downloaded this 20-page workbook, and I love the tips she offers for simple memory keeping during the holidays.  This 20-page workbook will give you tips on:

1. Photographing the Holidays
2. Christmas Journaling
3. Time Management Tips
4. And Many More Scrapbooking Tips!

To receive your copy, you need to sign up for the Simple Scrapper newsletter, and you’ll find the download link in your first email.  Don’t just let this ebook sit on your hard drive.  It’s a quick read and full of helpful tips to make your holiday season memorable.

Calendars are always a welcome holiday gift.  Making calendars with scrapbooking supplies doesn’t even need a special kit or instructions.  However, there are several options that would save time when you are creating multiple scrapbooking calendar gifts.

Online Photo Printers

Online photo printers have many options for designing a calendar.  Sites like Shutterfly and Snapfish offer templates that all you need to do is upload your photos, create your calendar, and order multiple copies to be sent to your home.

Scrapbooking Calendar Kits

Local scrapbooking stores and craft stores sell calendar kits that include monthly calendar grids already bound and ready for your scrapbooking papers and photos.  These kits make it very easy to quickly put together holiday gifts.

Digital Scrapbooking Calendar Kits

Digital scrapbooking stories have template kits with everything you need to design your calendars and print them on your home printer.  You could still choose to send them to an online printer if you choose.  If you do print them at home, you’ll need to have some way to present them either by using rings or ribbons to bind the months together or by considering an option like the popular CD case calendar format.  The Daily Digi did a fantastic post on the many digital options available for 2011 calendars.

Scrapbooking supplies make it easy to create beautiful holiday calendar gifts.  You can choose a variety of sizes from 4×6 to 12×12 and just about any size in between.  You could also choose to do a one page calendar option with the entire year on a sheet.  You could frame the printed calendar as a gift.

Calendars also make an easy last minute holiday gift because they are so quick to put together.

Archivers Printers Tray Ideas

Decorating a printers tray as a home decor project has been extremely popular this year.  While you can hunt in flea markets and antique stores for one of these trays, you don’t have to spend your time doing that anymore.  7 Gypsies makes printers trays in a variety of sizes and configurations.  All you need to do is use your scrapbooking supplies to decorate them and you’ll have a one-of-a-kind holiday gift anyone on your list will love.

Printer Tray Themes

How you decorate your printers tray is an individual decision.  You can simply use coordinated scrapbooking papers and embellishments that match your home’s decor.  However, it’s becoming more popular to create a theme for your tray.  The most common themes are holidays.  For example, you can design your project with a Halloween, Valentine’s Day or Christmas theme.  Then, you display the tray during the appropriate season.  Other themes include newborn baby, wedding and gratitude.

Printer Tray Kits

To make your project even easier, you can use a pre-designed printer tray kit.  You don’t even need to be a digital scrapbooker to use these.  You just need a computer and a printer.  I absolutely love the kits from Kerri Bradford.  She offers a Halloween printers tray kit, as well as a gratitude theme kit.  I’m currently making the gratitude one, and I love how easy it is.

Kerri Bradford Gratitude Tray Kit

More Printers Tray Gift Ideas

Here are a few more printers tray home decor ideas from some of your favorite scrapbookers:

Paislee Press

Debbie Olson

Archivers

Ali Edwards

Free Printers Tray Home Decor Project Guide

Finally, from Archivers, you can download their free guide to making printers tray home decor projects which includes a measuring guide  for 3 different 7 Gypsies printers tray options.

Decorated printers trays make unique and personal holiday gifts.  You might also check your local Archivers store to see if they are offering their Deck the Halls workshop which guides you through creating a 7 Gypsies printers tray project.  Some stores also have the kit available for purchase without attending the workshop.

I hope you are enjoying these Christmas scrapbooking gift ideas.  Look for more ideas in the next few days.

It’s that time again when your list of things to do seems completely out of control.  The holidays mean more shopping, more baking, more parties, more time with family!  Even though my time is limited during December, I try each year to take advantage of a couple of the online scrapbook classes that not only teach me new scrapbooking skills, but also help me to reflect and enjoy this wonderful season.

There are so many online scrapbooking classes going on right now, it’s hard to choose only one.  I’m taking 3, which may sound a little crazy, but the awesome thing about these classes is there is no pressure.  I can do them at my own pace and finish them in January if I need more time.  I also try to keep them simple.   I try to focus on the experience with these projects, not necessarily a perfectly embellished product.

Here are just a few of my favorite online scrapbooking classes this December:

Jessica Sprague’s Inspiration Everywhere – This is a free class that runs from November 29-December 8.  It includes creativity prompts, printable projects and organization ideas.  You don’t need Photoshop for this class either.  Jessica is one of my favorite online scrapbooking teachers.  She’s awesome! (And she thinks you’re awesome too!)

Tiffany Tillman’s 25 Days of Templates: Holiday 2010 Edition – I’ve become a huge fan of Tiffany’s template classes.  This class is available for both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements and runs from December 1 through December 25.  Tiffany will be teaching photography tips for the holidays, journaling ideas, design techniques and digital skills.  This class is not a repeat of her previous template classes.  It features new templates, digital scrapbooking products, lessons and techniques. One of the highlights of this class is an exclusive holiday digital kit designed by Paislee Press!

Shimelle’s Journal Your Christmas – This is one of Shimelle’s scrapbooking classes that run each year, like her Learn Something New Everyday class.  Once you take the class, you get access to past year’s classes as well as ongoing registration in future classes at no additional cost.  It’s a great value!  Journal Your Christmas class begins December 1 through January 6, and includes 37 prompts that you receive by email.  There is a digital kit, and a class forum is included.  She also provides photography tips, crafting tutorials and a bonus workbook with holiday blogging tips for bloggers.  I love this class because she really keeps the journaling process simple and flexible.

Ali Edwards’ December Daily – Now this isn’t a class, but it’s an annual project that has become an Ali tradition.  She walks you through her process of creating an album for each day of December.  You can even go back and look at her albums from previous years.  If you need a shortcut for your December Daily album, she has created digital templates for your album available at Designer Digitals.  December Daily has become a holiday favorite throughout the scrapbooking community.

So, what holiday scrapbooking classes are you taking this year?

What’s your scrapbooking personality?  Is it the same as your scrapbooking friends?  I love this resource by Scrapbook.com that allows you to shop for gifts by scrapbooking personality.

Shop by Scrapbooking Personality

Just pick your scrapbooking personality type (or your friend’s), and it will give you gift suggestions for that type of scrapbooker.  Another great feature is the ability to email that page to your family and friends so they can shop for you!

So what is your scrapbooking personality?  Here are the personality types listed:

• Pink Princess
• Die Cutter
• Altered Artist
• The Fashionista
• The Frugal Shopper
• Diamond Diva
• Beginner
• Book Worm
• Cardmaker Extraordinaire
• Digi Geek
• Eco Scrapper
• Storyteller
• Tool Junkie
• Gift Giver
• Home Decorator
• Mobile Scrapper
• Professional Organizer
• Overlap Scrapper
• Shutterbug
• Stamp Addict

See yourself there anywhere?  Scrapbook.com gives you a description of each personality to help you choose.  I’d have to say that right now I’m a Shutterbug, leaning towards Digi Geek with some Fashionista thrown in as well.

So check out Shop by Scrapbooking Personality at Scrapbook.com and get some holiday shopping done today.  And don’t forget to email your Christmas wish list based on your scrapbooking personality to your family and friends.

I love using Prima flowers on my scrapbooking layouts.  They give a little something special to my page as well as texture and dimension.  Today (December 2, 2009) only, you can get a fantastic deal on the Prima Christmas Keepsake Ornament Box.  This makes a fantastic gift for the scrapbookers in your life too!

Regular price for these Prima flowers in a Christmas Keepsake Ornament box is $27.30.  Today only at scrapbook.com you can buy it for $7.99.  It’s a great deal for yourself and others on your holiday gift list.

Each Prima Christmas Ornament Keepsake box comes with 5 crystal plastic ornament bottles that come filled with Prima flowers and embellishments.  The Prima flowers come in red, mauve,  and cream poinsettias as well as triple paper leaves and holly sprigs.  You also receive red, green and gold metallic rick rack.  And finally, don’t forget the beautiful black and white striped keepsake storage tray.

You can attach an ornament hanger to the ornament bottles and fill them with whatever you like to hang them on your Christmas tree.  Or you can even give each of these as gifts.  That could make 5 gifts for $7.99!

The is a Deal of the Day at Scrapbook.com.  You need to act quickly, and use code primaornament434 at checkout to get today’s special price on this Prima flowers for scrapbooking gift idea.

Prima Christmas Keepsake Ornament Box

This is one of my favorite times of the year for shopping for Christmas scrapbooking supplies.  You can certainly shop for Christmas scrapbook supplies any time of the year, but this is the time when the scrapbooking manufacturers come out with their new Christmas scrapbooking product lines.  Even if you don’t need any new holiday scrapbooking supplies, you should still plan a trip to your local scrapbooking store just to see how beautiful these new product lines are!  Scrapbooking stores tend to have a better selection of these new lines than national craft store chains.  Sure you can look up these products online, but actually seeing them up close is sure to give you some great Christmas scrapbooking ideas and inspire you to create some holiday scrapbooking pages.  I especially love to see the color combinations they choose.  Christmas is no longer about just holiday red and Christmas tree green.

Here is just a sample of the new Christmas and holiday product lines from your favorite scrapbooking manufacturers:

Christmas by We R Memory Keepers
Fa La La Collection by Making Memories
Wassail by Basic Grey
Winter Wishes by Moxxie
Festive Collection by KI Memories
Believe Paper Collection by BoBunny
Christmas Magic by Sharon Ann Collection
Christmas Fancy by Prima