CONGRATULATIONS SDU GRADUATES!!

Congratulations to Vanessa, Karen, and Tracye for graduating from Scrapbook Design and You class!! All three ladies is a magnificent job learning how to scrapbook and completing pages for their albums.

Hope to see you all soon!

Organizing your Photos

There are only a few simple steps to get your photographs organized and ready to scrap. Once you have your photographs organized, scrapbooking those photographs is quick and easy. So, let’s get started.

First, gather all your photograph into one place. The living room floor or dining room table is a good place to start organizing. You will need a large space, some place to spread out with all those photographs.

Second, start sorting your photos. How ever your sort them is entirely up to you. Sort by date, event, person, holiday or vacation.

Third, now that you have your photographs grouped you need to sub-group them. So, if you have your photos sorted by year, now you can sub-group by event. (ie: Group 2006, sub-group - Easter, vacations, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, at the beach, snow much fun, etc.)

Fourth, add some tidbit journaling to your photos. As you are sorting these photos, little things come to mind, write them down. My suggestion is to put those tidbits on a sticky note and put it on the back of the photo. Never write on the back of a photo with a ball point pen. It will break the emulsion plus you will see what you wrote on the front. If you write on the back of the photograph, only use a photo safe marker, such as the Zig Photo Signature Pen. My suggestion though is to utilize the sticky notes for your tidbits because as you are working on your layout and adhere your photo to its mat and build your page if you have your tidbits of journaling on the back of your photo it’s gone. If you use the sticky notes, you can pull them off as you build your page and set them to the side to do your journaling with after your page is built and ready for journaling.

The final step is to store your photographs. How you store them is important. You want to store them as you have organized them. The envelopes that the developer put them in is a good choice. Other good options include photo boxes and photo organizers by Cropper Hopper and other manufacturers; just keep in mind that whatever you use it should be archival, PVC-free, acid free, lignin free and photo safe.

Now, get those photos organized!

Time Capsule Demonstration

Suzi will be doing a time capsule demonstration at Michael's in Whitehall, PA on Thursday, September 2 from 6pm to 8pm. This time capsule will be created using an acrylic pail and scrapbook supplies. Stop by and see how to create your own time capsule!

Paperbag Album Demonstration

Suzi will be doing a paperbag album demonstration at Michael's in Whitehall, PA on Wednesday, September 1 from 6pm to 8pm. Stop by and join the fun!

Scrapbook Demonstration

Suzi will be doing a scrapbook demonstration at the Michael's in Phillipsburg, NJ on Saturday, August 28 from 11am to 3pm. Stop by and see what's going on, play with the punches and make a border to take with you!

CROP NIGHT -- August 27

Suzi will be hostessing a Crop Night at Michael's in Whitehall, PA from 3pm to 8:45pm. A good time will be had by all at Crop Night. You will have access to all the classroom "toys" including the Cricut, Sizzix, Xyron, and a myriad of punches, decorative edge scissors! Bring your stuff and scrap to your hearts content! Best of all it's FREE!! See you at the Crop!!

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