Father’s Day here in the US is this Sunday, June 21st. Even though the mailman (or Fedex guy) might not be able to deliver your gift by tomorrow, you can always make your Pop an online scrapbook and send it to him via email.
If you need some inspiration, I found these great scrapblog tributes to dear old Dad. Enjoy!
Check out this defender of his country, fishing, surfing, & down right incredibly FUN Dad.
Another daredevil Dad, who has clearly won the heart of his daughter!
Finally, go on an adventure with Father & Son as they travel to California.
Have you noticed anything new when you select “start with a theme”? If your answer is “no” you haven’t been paying attention! {giggle giggle}
Don’t feel too bad, we just launched it this week. We know that there are times when you want a jumping off point to fuel your creativity, but you’re not 100% up for starting with a blank page. We are trying something new with the themes, so let us know if you like it, it’s called “card template.” When you select the card template theme, you are getting a basic layout to build a fantastic card design using the content of your choice.
Think of these pages as a guide to help you create something when you are low on time or creative juice.
You start by selecting the backgrounds and stickers that you want to use. Often times I find myself looking at my photos to see what colors stand out as a starting point to choosing my stickers and backgrounds. However, I wanted to make a Father’s Day card, so I thought I’d see what I could do with this SUPER CUTE content from new store Posh Patterns. Could it be anymore adorable? I started by choosing some backgrounds.
Just like using any other template, I can add more stickers, change anything I want on the page, but if I decide not to, well - my card is still going to look unique and personal. The card template theme is a guide and a tool. You use it just like you would a ruler, to help you get to a finished card faster and with more precision. As you can see, I’ve added some matching stickers to complete the look of my card. Looks pretty different from that card template page, doesn’t it?
I repeat this process with the remaining two pages, adding text and changing a few things from the template design to accommodate my needs. Below is the finished scrapblog (shhh! don’t tell my Dad!). I’m extremely happy with the results! Let us know if you find this new card template helpful and if you would like to see more of this in the future!
Hello Fellow Scrapbloggers!
Recently, I was looking for a little party favor gift to hand out to some friends. After searching all around town and not finding anything personal enough, I came back to Scrapblog.
Being a crafter, I have a room full of crazy art supplies. Among the paper, ink, paint, & beads I remembered I had a pack of shrink film. A crazy fun project idea was born! You can print on shrink film from your home computer and printer and put it in the oven. It then shrinks to 1/3 it’s size and 9 times in thickness! The finished piece of plastic makes a great keychain.
Today, I’m going to share with you how I made this super cute personalized key chain. Before you begin this project, preheat your oven to the temperature recommended on the shrink film package.
Here’s the breakdown:
1. Create Your Scrapblog page - Add photos, your favorite stickers and text!
* keep in mind the page is going to shrink to 1/3 the original size and the colors will become more vibrant. Some stickers with fine detail may appear different in the finished keychain.
2. Save and Publish your page.
3. Export as a Jpeg - choose “Export as JPEG” from the File drop down menu in the upper left hand corner of the builder.
4. Print the Jpeg from your home computer onto the inkjet shrink film.
*Choose to print your photo as a 5×7 size, landscape. You can make it smaller, but you may sacrifice some detail.
5. Trim your printed photo removing the entire white border. I also rounded the corners using a corner rounding punch.
6. Using a standard hole punch, punch a hole for the keychain before you heat it in the oven!
7. Lay your page on a cookie sheet and cover it with a piece of parchment or wax paper.
8. Pop the cookie sheet in the oven per the instructions on the package.
9. Allow the heated piece to cool on a cooling rack until it’s cool enough to handle.
10. Add the hardware and your keys!
11. The finished product!
Enjoy making your own keychain. Let’s see the finished products! Make a scrapblog of your experience!
Hello fellow Scrapbloggers!
As Scrapblog continues to evolve, I’ve been noticing more things to teach some cool techniques discovered in Scrapblog. If you’ve been around here for at least a week, surely you’ve bumped into Little_M. Little_M has been a fixture in our community and she is the founder of creating tutorials. If you head over to her profile, she has gobs of cool tips and tricks to help you get started and she teaches some wonderfully creative advanced techniques too!
Before you head over to see all of Little_M’s goodies, I want to share with you some other quite useful and creative scrapblog tutorials created by other members of our community.
Norbert starts us off with a fun tutorial about getting past that creative block we can get sometimes when creating. I love his concept of “Three” - his insight helps us realize that we are only 3 pages away from adding something extra special to our scrapblogs.
Have you ever wanted to add a special character to the text in your Scrapblog? MommyVictory shares her secrets to adding accents to text in Scrapblog.
For those of you curious about an easy way to add layering to your pages, Roban has created an excellent technique showing how she created a beautiful page.
Show these scrapblogs some LOVE and share with us your tutorials!
Everyday we see more and more of you hopping on the Twitter train. We love seeing you share your scrapblogs using Twitter! I thought it would be fun to share with you a little project you can do. Put all that fabulous Scrapblog content to good use by making a custom Twitter background like this:
Step one: Create your Scrapblog page! *TIP* Leave the right side of the page blank of photos or elements because most of the right side will be covered by the main Twitter feed screen.
Step two: Save and Publish your page.
Step three: Export your page as a jpeg. Click File: Export as a Jpeg (see below)
Step four: Change your background on Twitter by choosing “settings” and then design:
Step five: Upload your Jpeg, you may want to try clicking the “tile” check box and click “save changes”
Have fun and show us what your Twitter background looks like!
