Hmmm . . . Should I Take My Camera to the Crop?

My friend, Margo Walker, is a Creative Memories consultant.  She holds quarterly scrapbooking crops, and the last two have been at the Clarion Inn on West Kellogg.  I usually pay the fee for a 10' table which gives me lots of room to work.  Well . . . I have been known to spread out onto someone else's table if they leave early!

I am thinking very seriously about taking my Kodak Slice camera and tripod to the crop this weekend.  I have been wanting to photograph some of the pages I have been putting together for our 8 X 8 dog album.  I just haven't had room to set up my tripod and camera because I have been working on other things here at home.  I will share the pictures I take on my blog next week.  I hope to have some pics of other friends pages, too.

If you would like me to show off scrapbook pages you are especially proud of, just email them to me or upload them to Shutterfly or WalGreens and share them to me.

If you are in the market for a new camera, Sams Club has several cameras to choose from.  Check one of them out by clicking the link below.  This Nikon Coolpix L810 is equipped with a 26x optical zoom lens which would be great for taking photos at a distance.  They also have tripods to choose from.  You might want to check out the Manfrotto Compact Series Tripod Kit below.

Happy Scrapbooking!

Still Gathering Tools for the Crop

I'm thinkin' I had better take my Picture Mate Zoom to the crop this weekend.

One thing I like to do on my scrapbook layouts is to include smaller versions of some of my photos.  I bought the Zoom (made by Epson) a few years back, and it has been a great little printer for printing smaller photos.  It is fairly lightweight and very compact, so it will fit in a small cranny in my car.  It uses any 4" X 6" photo paper, but the directions say it is best to use Epson paper.  It also has a print cartridge that needs to be replaced now and then.  However, I have found that I get many more photos from a cartridge than what the directions say you can get.

I taught a scrapbooking class at Scrapbook Garden one time.  It was a birthday party, and in the class the kids made a little mini album.  I took pictures of the kids working, put the SD card from the camera in the Picture Mate, and printed the pics off for the kids to take home with them.  So the kids all got to go home with a small keepsake of the fun they had.

Some models come with a USB cable so that you can print right from your computer.  If you interested in a similar product, Epson now has newer, fancier models to choose from.

 Happy scrapbooking, everyone!

Two-day Scrapbooking Crop

I am getting very excited about a two-day scrapbooking crop coming up this weekend.  I need to get going on planning out what I want to work on.  My "work in progress" at the moment is an 8 X 8 album for my husband containing pics of our dogs over the years.

You'd think planning out a small page like that would be easier than planning a 12 X 12 size . . . NOT!  It must have something to do with the fact that I am so anal about making sure it looks right.  Well . . . MY idea of what it should look like!  Hee, hee!  I figure I'd better like what I end up with because years from now I don't want to have to look at a page and think, "I wish I'd done . . ."  That is pretty much my philosophy on any page I do, no matter what the size.

So . . . what am I doing to get ready for a fun time with other scrapbookers?
1.  Going through my photo boxes to gather more photos to scrap
2.  Looking at picture files on my PC and my laptop to gather more photos
3.  Ordering any pictures I need copies or reprints for
4.  Writing the name, place, and date on the backs of my photos
5.  Making sure I have enough supplies and scrapbook paper
     (My scrapbooking buddies would laugh at this.  I never use even a fourth of what I take with me!)
6.  Thinking about what tools I'll take:  my Cricut machine, my Quickutz tool, my Big Shot
7.  Deciding whether to take my copier and my scanner.
8.  Making sure I have digital copies of my pics on my laptop in case I need to resize and reorder.

I wonder if I've forgotten anything.  Oh well, if I have I only live about 20 to 25 miles from our meeting site.  I'll just go home and get it if I need it!

Time to take my hubby to a doctor's appointment!  Happy scrapping, everyone!

Celebrate Mother's Day with a Special Crop!

Hold a Mother/Daughter scrapbooking crop for your friends to celebrate Mother's Day!

Each mother/daughter pair could bring with them photos of a special event or trip they took together to create a special album together.  Another idea would be to create layouts for an album for another family member.  If working together on the same album doesn't suit, separate scrapbooks made by each would work.

Make sure to take pictures of your friends and their mothers and/or daughters as they make this special memory together.