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Adding a vertical or horizontal border to your scrapbook page can add a special overall look.  Using a border is a great way to reinforce or enhance the theme focus of your page.

Consider the inclusion of a border when do your layout to ensure space is allotted to this fun element.  Like most everything surrounding scrapbooking, you have a lot of freedom to be creative in this embellishment option.

Borders can be constructed with a plethora of items:  stickers, ribbon, die-cuts, buttons, stitching, contrasting paper, patterned paper, themed paper . . .  and the list goes on.  Use your own imagination and get those creative emotions on the move.

Consider a mosaic border made with blocks of scrapbook paper scraps  you might otherwise throw away.  Cut them in to even sized squares–the size you can determine for your particular page, but 1″ squares work well.  You can quickly cut these cubes using your trimmer.  Attach these pieces with an adhesive in the order you like–you may want to do a “dry layout” first.  If the pieces are close together, you can use a strip of adhesive tape: photo tape works well, but any adhesive will work.  An alternate design would be to cut your paper scraps into triangles and lay them point to base using different paper triangle pieces to create a different look.  You’ll need to start with a trimmed piece, and finish off the last piece by trimming.  You can see how imaginative and easy borders can be, and in these two examples you’re getting maximum use of the paper you purchase.

Your border creation can be exclusively decorative, or you may incorporate it with some useful or practical purpose.  A great place for journaling, adding a title to your page, and you can add additional pictures–perhaps small prints cut in fancy shapes.

All of the creative ideas, tools and supplies can be used in the making of a stunning border.  You are not bound by any predetermined rules.

Any treatment or embellishment you would add or use in the regular production of your scrapbook pages can be used in the construction of your border–just make it as a separate vertical or horizontal part of your scrapbook page.

Borders can be purchased in a pre-packaged form, but we recommend you add something to these store bought edgings–try chalking, adding some fiber or string, buttons or dots . . . you get the picture.  This adds a little flare of your own creativeness and personality.  The border package below can be found at Scrapbook.com.

The world of scrapbook stickers can sometimes feel shallow and bland.  Sticker manufacture’s have been going to great lengths to increase their selections available, and enhance their usefulness with creative offerings.  Their efforts are commendable, and we encourage them to continue, but this doesn’t diminish our ablility to be equally as creative in our use of their special products. 

One interesting and useful technique you can use to make your stickers more dynamic and exciting in your scrapbook efforts.  Lifting your stickers off the page, and/or layering them is a treatment you can easily employ in your page embellishment.

So, how do you lift or explode stickers off your scrapbook pages?  The process is simple:

• First, select the stickers you want to use on your page.
• While many stickers offered have been precision cut, there are still many that have a white order–which you need to trim off, unless the border adds to your layout.
• You will need pop dots or foam tape.
• The size of your sticker will determine whether you should use foam tape or pop dots.
• Select a sticker you wish to use.  Remove the the protective backing on the sticker. 
• Remove the protective backing on the pop dot or foam tape, and place in on your sticker–glue side to glue side.
• You need to neutralize the extra exposed adhesive on your sticker.  You can use baby powder, corn starch, or another white light powder. 
  • This neutralizing will help keep your sticker from rolling up or curling over your foam tape or pop dot, and stick to your scrapbook page.

Be creative and do some experimenting as you use this simple technique.  Layering stickers can have a special effect on your page.  One of the fun aspects of scrapbooking is the opportunity to be creative and inventive.  Expanding our horizons adds a distinctive personal flare to our pages.

Have fun!!!

One of the quickest and easiest ways to add a bit of flare to your scrapbook pages is with Stickers.  Beginning scrappers will find they require no artistic talent to paste them on their pages . . . thus, they have become the work horse for many scrapbookers.  The fact that they come in so many designs, styles and colors is certainly one of the prime reasons for their significant use.  Most stickers are precision cut, so you don’t have to do much more than peel and stick them where you want them.

So, if you just woke up from a deep sleep that has lasted for several years, you ask what are stickers?  They are self-adhesive embellishments you can add to just about anything.  A car’s bumper sticker might come to mind–not what you’d want to use in scrapbooks, but they are stickers nonetheless.

They can be made of just about any material: paper (plain or embossed), card-stock, vellum, plastic or metal. Stickers can provide you with titles, quotes, phrases, letters, design accents, borders, and frames. You will find them in matte, glossy, sparkly, glittery, pearl, gem stone or just about any finish you like.  Oh, and you can find 3D and motion stickers too.

Because of the myriad of sticker offerings they are so versatile.  Embellishing scrapbook pages becomes less a chore than decorating from scratch–making your own (not that we recommend against creating your own embellishments–they lend a special touch to pages, but can consume precious time, and when doing several pages at a time this can be a challenge).  They are especially great when you are focusing on a theme.  There is most likely stickers already made you can use for your themed page because sticker manufactures keep producing special design after special design.  You chore may be in making a decision about which sticker(s) you want to use, rather than trying to find a sticker.

Finding stickers you can use is less a problem than using them.  Most scrapbooking supply stores carry a good array or selection.  Not many carry all that are available.  Online stores offer a great opportunity to get what you’re looking for at a reasonable price–especially if they’re on sale.  You may want to get them when their less expensive for use a some later date.  Take a look at the selections at: JoAnn’s, ACherryonTop.com and Scrapbook.com as a start.

Get you some stickers and get “stickin!”

One word of caution: There are many stickers produced, not all of them directed at scrapbook use.  Be sure the stickers you use are “acid free,” just like most everything else you use in scrapbooking.

One of the real challenges we face as scrapbookers is to find books and albums to place our creative handy work into.  Some albums don’t allow the addition or reduction of pages . . . those that do means you have to purchase extra pages to add to your book.

Themed scrapbooks are the most difficult to deal with when it comes to finding a suitable album or scrapbook to use.  The PhotoBook is a great answer to this dilemma.   Now you can construct hardcover scrapbooks or photo albums you want with just the right number of pages.  This tool is very versatile in terms of the size of your scrapbook or photo book.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What kinds of paper can I use with the PhotoBook Creator?

You can bind any type of paper in the PhotoBooks.

What kind of software do I need?

The PhotoBook Creator comes with software that can help you design your pages for your PhotoBook. This software is formatted for Windows Only!

Alternatively, you can also use any desktop publishing or layout program such as Word, PowerPoint, Publisher, or PhotoShop Elements to create your pages.

How do I turn on the machine?

The machine is fully automatic, there is no ON/OFF SWITCH. Just plug in the machine and place the book on the heating element spine down to activate the machine.

After the light turns green, leave the book standing in the machine until it has fully cooled (60 seconds) to ensure the resin has hardened. This will prevent pages from slipping out.

What brands of covers can be used with the PhotoBook Creator?

PhotoBook Creator will only work with Covers made from Unibind.

How many times can the PhotoBook Creator be used?

The PhotoBook Creator binding machine can be used over and over again to produce PhotoBooks made by Unibind.

This is another of the great tools on the market you can use to create elegant and long lasting photo albums and scrapbooks.

Scrapbooking simply cannot exst without some use of adhesives.  GlueArts® has several products to help you in this regard.  Their Glue Glider PRO is one of their newest products to assist you as you create your scrapbook masterpieces.  This is what GlueArts® says about this wonder tool and product:

• Our new Glue Glider Pro allows you to apply a neat ¼” strip of adhesive exactly where you want it. The easy glide-on dispensing action, allows you to apply a small controlled amount or a continuous line of the best performing and most permanent adhesive ever offered. Our easy slip-in, disposable cartridges eliminate the worry of having to reload in the middle of a project. No mess, no fuss.There are lots of different types of adhesive runners but only GlueArts® brings you value and ease you can’t pass up. Easy glide-on dispensing action, allows you to apply a small controlled amount or a continuous line of the best performing and most permanent adhesive ever offered.
  Guaranteed

  Just easy application of pressure sensitive adhesive permanently adheres any item to any surface. When you add it all up, GlueArts® GlueGliders® are the most cost effective new adhesive solution available.

The adhesive is very sticky . . .  which could well be the solution to one of your adhesive application problems.  This is a refillable applicator that is easy to refill by simply snapping in a new adhesive cartridge.  There are four different types of adhesive you can use with this applicator–you may need to experiment with the one(s) that best suit your needs.  The adhisive goes on smoothly and easily.  The fact that this applicator is light weight is a plus too–easy on your hands and arms.   We recommend you give the  Glue Glider PRO a try.

Fathers get promoted to grandfathers.
Anon

I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather . . . Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.
Will Shriner

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo

The best place to be when you’re sad is Grandpa’s lap.
Anon

“Let’s go to the garden,” he said softly. “There may be a few things that this old man can show you yet.”
Dave Bachmann

Grandfathers are just antique little boys.
Anon

A child needs a grandparent, anybodies grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.
Charles & Ann Morse

When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes without moving. He said it was elevator practice.
Stephen Wright

Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance, you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.
Michael Dorris

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.
Joy Hargrove

Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things.
Anon

My grandfather and I,
We walk and talk
And watch the ants climb
The dry weed stalk.
Sometimes we stop and
Hunt four-leaf clovers
While Grandfather tells
Stories over and over.

Grandfather has hands
That are big and warm.
They soothe away hurts
And hold away harm.
My grandfather’s hands
Can build a sand castle,
Roll up a fat snowman,
Or make willow whistles.

Grandfather has time—
I guess that’s the reason
He’s a special person
Whatever the season!
by Mabel Jones Gabbott

A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart.
Anon

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I’m much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.
Louis Adamic

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity and patience.
Titus 2:2

A grandpa is someone you never outgrow you need for . . .
Anon

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people; those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was competition there.
Indira Ghandi

I’m going to be your grandpa! I have the biggest smile. I’ve been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.
Billy Crystal

Grandfathers are daddies on loan.
Cindy Trendler

I would have taken time to listen to my grandfather ramble about his youth.
Erma Bombeck (Erma’s Angel)

You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was pirate.
Bern Williams

My grandfather was a wonderful role model. Through him I got to know the gentle side of men.
Sarah Long

Grandma and Grandpa, tell me a story and snuggle me with your love. When I’m in your arms, the world seems small and we’re blessed by the heavens above.
Laura Spiess

My grandfather was a giant of a man . . . When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees. His hair caught the fire from the sun. His eyes were patches of sky.
Eth Clifford

I can talk to him about anything. He is so wise and so smart. He’s incredible . . . He says, ‘He’s just a man.’ He doesn’t see the different levels or positions of authority. He just sees everyone as equal. If he meets a president or a housewife, he reacts the same way.
Amy Pearce

He was gentle and kind, thoughtful, caring, considerate, practical and productive. A true gentleman at all times, and was the only person in the world I could describe as Stoic.
Cat Dugdale

Perhaps my love of motivation has been passed down from my Grandfather!
Catherine Pulsifer

It was Grandfather, of course. No one else would have been up this early. Sometimes he wondered if the old man ever slept.
Dave Bachmann

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
Job 12:12

A garden of Love grows in a Grandmother’s hear.
Anon

. . . as grandmothers we have a sacred responsibility to encircle our grandchildren in love.
Gordon B. Hinckley

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.
Anon

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
Lois Wyse

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Albert Einstein

A grandmother is a baby sitter who watches the kids instead of the television.
Anon

Grandmothers are just antique little girls.
Anon

Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from you grandmother – you’re not sure what you’ve got but you’re pretty sure you’re not going to like it.
Jeff Foxworthy

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all and the day was complete.
Marcy DeMaree

A grandmother is a mother who has a second chance.
Anon

A house needs a grandma in it.
Louisa May Alcott

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.
Lille Langtry

Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.
Edward H. Dreschnack

A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend.
Anon

When a child is born, so are grandmothers.
Judith Levy

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
Job 12:12

I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.
Gene Tierney

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
Pam Brown

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.
Phyllis Theroux

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
Erma Bombeck

I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It’s a bargain.
Gene Perret

My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, “Gramma, do you know you and God are alike?” I mentally polished my halo while I asked, “No, how are w alike?” “You’re both old,” replied.
Anon

. . . Church is where they are going. There will be a grandma there to answer her questions about cooking or nursing . . .
Boyd K. Packer

It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that’s why the world calls her grandmother.
Anon

Grandma serves kisses, counsel and cookies daily.
Anon

There’s no place like home except Grandma’s.
Anon

Grandmothers are the people who take delight in hearing babies breathing into the telephone.
Anon

It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.
Christopher Morely

. . . a dusty photograph bore silent witness that Grandmother is still concerned for her grandchildren and loves us even from beyond the veil. As Estella held that picture in her hands, she was filled with emotion as she remembered Grandmother’s love. I feel that same love whenever I remember my valiant pioneer grandmother.
Alma Yanira González

Grandmas don’t just say “that’s nice” – they reel back and roll their eyes and throw up their hands and smile. You get your money’s worth out of grandmas.
Anon

If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn’t have given us grandmothers.
Linda Henley

Most grandmas have a touch of scallywag.
Helen Thomson

Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.
Anon

Being a grandmother is our last chance to act like a kid without being accused of being in our second childhood.
Anon

If your baby is “beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, and angel all the time,” you’re the grandma.
Teresa Bloomingdale

Grandma’s kitchen . . . kids eat free.
Anon

A garden of Love grows in a grandmother’s heart.
Anon

A married daughter with children puts you in danger of being catalogued as a first edition.
Anon

If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.
Italian Poverb

Grandmas never run out of hugs and cookies.
Anon

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!
Hannah Withall Smith

Grandmother – a wonderful mother with lots of practice.
Anon

Sometimes our grandmas and grandpas are like grand-angels.
Lexie Saige

I have a warm feeling after playing with my grandchildren. It’s the liniment working.
Anon

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
Henny Youngman

Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.
Anon

Grandmothers and roses are much the same. Each are God’s masterpieces with different names.
Anon

A grandma’s name is little less in love than the doting title of a mother.
William Shakespeare

His grandmother had lovingly taught him to be responsible for his own happiness and not tobe dependent upon others to bring joy and happiness into his life.
Robert D. Hales

“But your grandmother sends you presents all the time,” she said. “All that furniture for your dollhouse, new games and clothes, and now a skateboard . . .”
“Sure, that stuff’s OK, but it’s not like having a real person who can be with you . . .”
. . . maybe Caroline did have a lot of things sent to her, but she didn’t have a grandmother who played checkers with her, guessed at her riddles, and always came to school for open house. She didn’t have a smiling grandmother to give her a warm hug every Thursday night.
Patricia L. Dombrink

Border Punches

Scrapbookers are always looking for ways to add that special touch to their pages.  Fiskars has a lot of the answers for you to draw from.  One of them is their line of Craft Punch Borders.  Below is what the company has to say about their line of Craft Punch Borders:

” Fiskars border punches have become a scrapbookers’ “must have” decorative punch. These punches allow you to create continuous, decorative borders on almost any paper.

Features include:

• Alignment grid for easy border creation
• Oversized punch lever
• Variety of designs

Fiskars® Craft Punch Border - Create perfect borders everytime! The punches come in a variety of designs; have an over sized lever which makes them easy to depress;  have an alignment grid and design silhouette so you can create a continuous border on any size paper.  This tool is perfect for paper crafts, scrapbooking and more.

View the Fiskars® Craft Punch Borders

	Fiskars Craft Punch Border Apron Lace
	Fiskars Craft Punch Border Boundary Waters
	Fiskars Craft Punch Border Diamond
	Fiskars Craft Punch Border Effervescence
	Fiskars Craft Punch Border Elegance
	Fiskars Craft Punch Border Flowers
	Fiskars Craft Punch Border Give It A Swirl
	Fiskars Craft Punch Border Hearts
	Fiskars Craft Punch Border Lace
	Fiskars Craft Punch Border Lacy Days of Summer
	Fiskars Craft Punch Border Leave It To Weaver
	Fiskars Craft Punch Border Rope
	Fiskars Craft Punch Border Scallop Sentiment
	Fiskars Craft Punch Border Sunburst
	Fiskars Craft Punch Border Threading Water
	Fiskars Craft Punch Border Upper Crust

Let’s face it—scrapbooking is a messy craft. Now that doesn’t make it bad. When you are
cutting, embossing, punching, etc. there is no way to keep your craft site clean. There are too
many little pieces of paper, etc. that get spread all over.

You do want and need as clean a work space as possible. You don’t need to be picking
unwanted pieces off your handiwork. Well, EK Success has a neat little tool to help you police
your craft work place to help keep it as clean as possible—The Craft Cleaner.

Here is what EK Success says about their hand held Craft Cleaner:

“Make keeping your workspace neat a snap with this handy tool. Simply run it along
your tabletop and it will pick up small paper scraps, glitter, or even embossing
powder. It has a sticky roller that catches the scraps and stores them in a small tray.
It can be easily cleaned with soap and water.”

Dimensions: Approximately 3” x 3”

Little things can be big things when you need them to be.  This is a little tool that can take care of the big job of keeping your craft space clean.  It sure beats trying to pick-up small things with your fingers.

Every once in awhile we come across a tool, process or product that may not have originally been intended for the scrapbooker in mind.   Provocraft® Yudu Personal Screen Print Machine definitely falls into that category.  However, the dynamics of its versatility makes this a tool that can add dimension and sophistication to many of your projects.  Those of you who specialize in card making may well find this to be a prized machine in your arsenal of tools.

This is what the company has to say about their extraordinary machine:

The Yudu™ screen-printing system is the easiest, cleanest way to let everyone know who you are—and how you see the world. Don’t settle for what everyone else is wearing or spend hours futilely trying to find a t-shirt that expresses the real you. With access to a computer and an ink-jet printer, you’ll be able to create and print your own designs not only for t-shirts or other apparel, but also for home decor, art prints, posters, cards, schoolwork, and much more! With this revolutionary personal screen printer, you can let your voice be heard today, no matter where you are or what you’re doing.
Unsilence yourself today with the Yudu Personal Screen Printer.

Hear are a few of the accessories for this machine:

	Yudu Inks
	Yudu Accessories
	Yudu Artwork

Don’t let your imagination run away with you as you think of the many possibilities this machine will afford–not only with your scrapbook projects, but other things as well.