This article, Rebecca's Favorite Free Stuff for Scrapbooking, shows you where to go on About.com Scrapbooking to find free embellishment patterns, free paper piecing patterns, free downloadable word art, and free scrapbook page sketches - everything you need to create fantastic scrapbook pages on a tight budget.

This new article, Scrapbooking with Friends - From Week Night Crops to Scrapbook Cruises,  gives you ideas for getting together with friends to scrapbook no matter what your budget. Last weekend, I had the wonderful opportunity to get together again with friends and spend two whole days doing nothing but scrapbooking. One of my scrapbook page designers, Jennifer Schmidt, and I were able to put together some great pages and create some new free patterns that we are excited to share with you over the coming weeks. Read this article for ideas for planning your own scrapbook get-away or time with friends.

Scrapbooking can be a balm for the soul. In the new movie, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock, a young boy is dealing with the grief of losing his father and trying to make sense of a loss that doesn't make any sense. As he goes on a quest to maintain a feeling of contact with his father, he creates an art journal scrapbook. In this article, I show you the three main types of Tribute and Grief Scrapbooking to help you decide if one of them might be right for you.

Being organized helps us get more scrapbooking done because we can find everything quickly and easily. You can spend a lot of money on very pretty and very useful scrapbook organization systems, however this new article is all about getting organized without spending hardly any money. This step by step article, Scrapbook Supply Organization with Recycled Materials - Jars Hanging Storage, will show you how to use recycled jars with lids to make beautiful and useful hanging scrapbook storage.

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I had a blast working with the Family Tree Year in Review Free Sketch and Tree Patterns. The scrapbook page turned out to be a treasure and the patterns are so versatile that I will be able to use them on other scrapbook pages, greeting cards, and paper crafting projects. This week, I wanted to share with you some tips that I learned while working on this scrapbook page. In this week's new article Rebecca's Family Tree Year in Review Scrapbook Page, I give you some ideas that will help you create and assemble your own layout. In the article, be sure to scroll down to read my 3 Quick Tips for putting it all together.

These 6 Quick Tips for Making Hand Cut Flowers from Floral Print Scrapbook Paper will help you make very inexpensive flower embellishments for your scrapbook pages. When I began working on my Family Tree Year in Review scrapbook layout, I realized that I would like my tree to be a flowering tree. This article shows you how I made lots and lots of flowers for my layout with just one sheet of patterned scrapbook cardstock weight paper.

Year in review scrapbook pages are perfect for the busy scrapbook because just 1 two-page spread can cover the events and memories of an entire year. Challenge yourself this month to create a year in review scrapbook page using this free family tree themed scrapbook page sketch and free paper piecing patterns. When you have completed this page come and share it with other About.com Scrapbooking readers and tell us about your page and about your experience using the sketch and patterns. When you have this scrapbook page done you will be on track to keeping your scrapbooking resolutions for 2012!

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This week's new article, Scrapbooking with Patterned Paper, shows you 10 ways to use up that huge stash of paper that you have been saving for a rainy scrapbooking day. Dig into all those stripes, dots, paisleys, and florals to create beautiful scrapbook pages with these 10 articles about using patterned paper. The articles include ideas for combining patterned papers on scrapbook pages, using patterned paper with chipboard, making mini books and much more.

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Many scrapbookers are also cardmakers. This is understandable since the same basic paper crafting supplies are used for both hobbies. If you need a quick idea for a special last minute Christmas card this year, then this list of articles, Hand Made Christmas Card Ideas, is sure to have exactly what you need. Each article in this listing has been selected to give you the resources and inspiration that you need to start making Christmas cards today.

Learn to make beautiful and unique 3-D Poinsettia Christmas Cards by following these step by step instructions.

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