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Why I scrapbook….

Today, we’re bringing you the first post from our new author, Jennifer Creek. I met Jennifer when she was a fairly new digiscrapper, and have seen her grow into an experienced and talented artist! She’ll be posting here from time to time on various topics, I think you’ll find she has a slightly different take on things than I do, and you’ll enjoy her
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Yearbook or No? Why you should buy your kids’ yearbook

I came across this blog post lamenting the demise of the traditional printed yearbook, and it reminded me of the arguments I get all the time from parents on the yearbooks I edit. I have done books for 2 different elementary schools (with some mom help) and 1 middle school (with student help). We work hard to keep the cost of the book very
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5 Things I Don’t Miss About Paper Scrapbooking

Today I stumbled across this post about not missing film photography which got me to thinking… I don’t miss paper scrapping.  Simple Scrapper had a post the other day on how digital scrappers can do a little paper scrapping and thought… but why? 5 Things I Don’t Miss – since going digital: Buying stuff – I love, still love, looking at all the goodies
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Telling Our Stories in Scrap Part 2 – The Images

There are four basic ways we get information visually – whether it’s from a newspaper, website, comic book or scrapbook.  We get information from images, from progression, from text and from symbols. We will look at each of those aspects and how we can use them in our scrapbooking to help us tell our stories! 1. What is a picture worth? If not a
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From Paper to Digital – Telling our Stories in Scrap: Part I

This is the first in a short series of posts on understanding how we tell our stories using both words and pictures. It is based on a series of Visual Literacy workshops I offer for teachers and students in middle and high school. A LITTLE HISTORY We’ve been telling stories with pictures for centuries, but in the 19th and 20th centuries scrapbooking became a
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