Premade Disney Scrapbooking Pages - Scrapbooking With Disney, the Perfect Summer Activity

Erik Birkeland 

 

Have you been looking for activities to do with your children? Now that summer has arrived and schools are letting out this is a great time to spend time with your kids. One activity that really stands out as a bonding experience with your child is scrapbooking. To get started with this you should take a look at premade Disney scrapbook pages. These will allow you to get going quickly and make beautiful scrapbooks.

To get started you should pick out the Disney characters you would like to work with. You can choose from Winnie The Pooh, Snow White, Sleepy Beauty, Belle, Jasmine, Mickey Mouse just to name a few. If you want your child to be really excited about the project let them pick out the character.

If you are looking to do a project that will be fun and not take a whole lot of artistic talent then take a look at getting a scrapbook kit. These come with everything you are going need to make the scrapbook. They'll have the premade Disney scrapbook pages, embellishments, accents and stickers. If necessary get a pack of words and titles you can use with the scrapbook. These are normally hard to think up. A pack of words and titles will make your scrapbook look that much better.

Of course the idea with this is to not only immortalize your memories but also spend time with your child. All to often we as parents just don't spend enough time with our children. Use the experience of making the scrapbook to connect with your child at a deeper level. You'll find this much more fulfilling than watching TV or a movie together. The premade Disney scrapbook pages will remove the up front work in getting started in making your scrapbook and will interest your child in the experience right from the start. Don't get me wrong making any kind of scrapbook with your child is great but doing it with Disney characters will hold their attention more than if you didn't use them.

Don't pass up the moments of time you have with your children. After all they eventually grow up. Seize the time you have with them now and put together a scrapbook you will enjoy for years to come. Happy scrapbooking.

If you would like to learn more about scrapbooking with Disney thems then visit my site at http://www.freeprintablescrapbooking.com/premade-disney-scrapbook-pages.html Erik Birkeland writes on business and family related issues. To read more about scrapbooking and how to enhance your experience with it then visit http://www.freeprintablescrapbooking.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Erik_Birkeland

When Words Fail You - Quotes and Ideas For Scrapbooking

Alecia Lehmann

Let's face it: It's not always easy to come up with witty, heartwarming or eye-catching quotes or ideas for other "wordy" scrapbooking elements. But scrapbookers creating their art in the Internet age are in luck! There is a goldmine of resources for quotes and ideas online.

The words on a scrapbook page carry a heavy responsibility. They grab the viewer's attention, they convey emotion, they establish the page's theme, and they fill in the details of the stories told by the photos. That's a heavy load to bear! And although only you know the details of what your photos depict, looking for quotes and ideas for scrapbooking from sources other than your own brain can be an inspiring way to springboard your page into something fantastic.

Quotes can come from anywhere. Are you creating a baby scrapbook? Consider using quotes from your child's favorite bedtime story, or even one of those "darndest things" that come from your wee one's own mouth.

Are you doing a heritage page, full of time-worn sepia photos and trinkets from great-grandma's jewelry box? Perhaps a song lyric from grandma's day might suit. Or how about one of those pearls of wisdom that your grandmother always used to dole out? They just might be the perfect, personalized quote for such a scrapbook page.

Quotes and ideas gleaned from books, magazines, online, or the world around you need not even appear on the page in order to influence the design. Perhaps you are stuck for a layout idea for pictures of your daughter's first trip to the beach? Check out a quote directory site (like quoteland.com, or quotationspage.com, to name just two), enter in "beach" or "ocean" or "swimming" or "summer" or any other keyword that comes to mind when you look at the photos. What you find may inspire your journaling, your embellishment or paper choices, or even the mood of the layout.

Using the keyword "summer," for example, will likely garner the Henry James quote "Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language." Although this quote may be a little cumbersome for your page, you may be inspired to journal about what you love about summer, or even about what you think the most beautiful words in the English language are.

There are both an abundance of sources for and myriad ways to use scrapbook quotes as inspiration for and components of your pages. Look beyond simple titles and journaling to the ways in which the words of others can spark your own creativity. You are sure to create something great.

Alecia Lehmann is a Scrapbooking enthusiast! Her articles are designed to help scrapbookers enjoy one of the world's fastest growing hobbies using very cheap (in most cases free) ideas and suggestions. If you enjoyed this article, make sure you sign up for "The Ultimate Scrapbooking Ezine" at http://www.megascrapbooking.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Alecia_Lehmann

Creating a Summer Camp Scrapbook

Audrey Okaneko 

 

When my daughter goes to camp, she knows I'll be asking her 100 questions when she comes home. This past summer she was gone for an entire month and I'm certain my questions numbered over 100.

Prior to digital cameras being so popular, I always would buy many disposable cameras so that she was able to capture photos of everything she did and everywhere she went. Even today, in the age of digital photography a disposable underwater camera is a wonderful investment.

We discovered the camp my daughter attended this past summer through her attending a one week program earlier in the year. When she attended the one week program the camp gave the kids their summer camp information. We saved those brochures for the beginning of her camp scrapbook.

As the months progressed, we began getting both postal mail and email from the camp about the summer ahead. We saved all of those communications so they could be copied onto acid free paper.

Each week my daughter was gone, the camp leader sent parents an email update of what the kids had done that week. There were also photos added to the camp website that parents could download. On my end, I was saving all of this for inclusion in the summer camp scrapbook.

Meanwhile my daughter was taking photos of the places she visited and the people she was with. She also kept a small journal so she could answer my countless questions when she returned.

In addition to taking photos of the other kids she was with, my daughter also took photos of the many counselors and other camp staff that supported the program while she was there.

For younger children attending day camp, ask if you can spend a bit of time taking photos. I know one of our local camps has a teen counselor who takes photos daily and uploads them to the camp website so the parents can download them for their personal use.

Camp is a lot of fun for kids. Capture that fun through photos and a camp scrapbook!!

Audrey Okaneko has been scrapbooking for several years. She can be reached at audreyoka@cox.net or visited at http://www.scrapping-made-simple.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Audrey_Okaneko