Making Your Own Greeting Cards

Written by Flora Tan


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stamp withrepparttar black inkpad and stamp onrepparttar 105552 other piece of white cardstock. Colorrepparttar 105553 stamped image and trim aroundrepparttar 105554 black outline. Now attachrepparttar 105555 colored image ontorepparttar 105556 front ofrepparttar 105557 single-fold card with double-sided foam tape. Place it inrepparttar 105558 middle ofrepparttar 105559 top portion ofrepparttar 105560 card. And finally, write a greeting belowrepparttar 105561 stamped image. And voila ... your first handmade greeting card.

Now make more of these cards. Put them in C6 size envelopes and send them to your friends. Let them know how much you love and treasure them and their friendship.

Flora Tan is a passionate cardcrafter who spends most of her time making beautiful handmade cards. To find out more about card making, just visit her Card Making website: http://www.making-greeting-cards.com


Easy Steps to Scrapbooking with Young Kids

Written by Fion Lim


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If possible, it's a good idea to get your child to write outrepparttar answers in his or her handwriting. Then another piece of your child's uniqueness would be retained onrepparttar 105551 pages.

The basic idea is for you to help your child scrapbooksrepparttar 105552 page, butrepparttar 105553 words would have to come from your kid. This would not only put your child's originality intorepparttar 105554 page, but would let others glimpse into your child's own perspective onrepparttar 105555 event or topic.

Many times, you'll realize that thoughrepparttar 105556 two of you experiencedrepparttar 105557 same event, but would form vastly different impressions ofrepparttar 105558 same experience. You may be touched byrepparttar 105559 loads of affection exchanged between your daughter and her best friend. But it's how she finally hadrepparttar 105560 chance to order her first Oreo cookies ice-cream cone, which leftrepparttar 105561 sweetest memory on her mind that day.

Having your child's stories onrepparttar 105562 pages will reinforcerepparttar 105563 self-esteem in your child. How? Your child will begin to understand that what he or she has to say means something.

There are some general prompts that you can ask your kids to guide them in weaving their stories:

- What are your favorite ....?

- Why do you like about ...repparttar 105564 best?

- What do you like to do with it?

- What is so special about ... ?

- What would you like to do when you ...?

- Can you describe .... and what do you know about it?

- What are your likes about ... ?

- What are your dislikes about ... ?

- What have you learned from ... ?

- What have you learned about ... ?

- What do you admire about ... ?

- What makes a good ... ?

- What'srepparttar 105565 funniest thing that happened on ... ?

- Where and how did you meet ... ?

- What do you do when you meet ... ?

- What do you talk about when you are with ... ?

- Can you draw a picture on ... ?

By combining efforts with your kid, and with little prompts, meaningful scrapbook pages can be achieved.

In this way, you can capturerepparttar 105566 early growing phases of your child on those pages forever. And these scrapbook pages are bound to light up your kid's and your faces overrepparttar 105567 years.

"Discovery consists of looking atrepparttar 105568 same thing as everyone else and thinking something different." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Happy scrapping with your kid!

Fion Lim is the creator of Everything-About-Scrapbooking.com - Here's your how-to-guide to learning about scrapbooking. Find free online scrapbooking ideas, tips, inspirations, articles and resources to quotes, poems and fonts right here.

http://www.everything-about-scrapbooking.com


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