[Nfb-krafters-korner] scrapbooking

[Terry Knox]

Valerie,
This scrapbook sounds wonderful and even being limited in the things you
could do, it sounds like you did a really great job with it and I think the
person you made it for was thrilled. I made one for my daughter when she
turned 18 and it was great fun, I discovered a lot, like the embossing tool
I have been speaking of. Anything made with a heart of love is always a
great gift.
Terry K

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Hi, I would love to know more about scrapbooking.  Recently I put together a
book for a relative, kind of a history of her life from baby up until today.
I didn't make up the book myself as I wasn't sure how to do that, creating a
cover etc, but instead bought an album and bought themed scrapbook cardboard
pages to insert that almost decorated it without much more work.  I did the
book in peach and blue colours, blue and white dotted cardboard sheets,
checkered peach and white coloured sheets as well and bought strips of
pearls, tiny silver stars and  silver flowers to glue in place.  As I had no
vision to correctly place anything, I was however, able to put the stars and
flowers into corners of the pages and the pearl strips were not too hard to
place as I levelled them with the edges of the page.  I did need help to
locate the photos and diary entries so they were straight on the pages.  It
was so much fun choosing at the scrapbook store amazing how many themes you
can choose from.  I also used the computer to print out stories about her
childhood happenings and inserted those too.  I enjoyed doing the whole
project.  If a scrapbook session came along, I'd love to know more and
especially what is out there to decorate pages with and how to do certain
things that vips can manage.  I'm sure there would be heaps of other things
we could do to decorate books, the above are only just simple things, but I
did not have many other ideas. 

 I found a pair of wrist length red gloves that my cousin wore way back in
the 1950's she had worn them to a teenagers ball dance: I tucked them into
the book too. 

Cheers Valerie 

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Behalf Of Lillie Pennington via Nfb-krafters-korner
Sent: Wednesday, 23 July 2014 12:23 PM
To: Terry Knox; List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] scrapbook embossing machines

Please let me know about any paper crafts and scrap book success. I am
interested in this myself.
Thanks

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> On Jul 22, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Terry Knox via Nfb-krafters-korner
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> 
> Hey Jill,
> Good to hear from you. Sorry I do not have the answers you hacve been 
> looking for but I also would be interested in knowing these things also.
> What I do know is I use a hand embosser and I like it a lot. This is a 
> simple tool, in case you are not familiar. It looks like a long pipe 
> hair dryer, with a folding metal leg. By using a stamp pad and a 
> rubber stamp, I complete the design and then sprinkle embossing powder 
> over wet stamp and using this tool I blow the air over it and it turns 
> design the color of the powder I am using. The tool costs about $18 
> and the powders run from a couple of dollars to $10 but there is lots 
> of extra powder that I place back in the jars for another use. This is 
> a nice extra and easy to use, but I do not know about cutting machines.
> Terry K
> 
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 1:46 PM
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have recemtly been interested in trying out some paper crafting.  
> Does anyone have a embossing or dy cut machine?  Ifso which ones and 
> how easy is it for a totally blind person to use?
> 
> 
> 
> Jill Rossiter
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