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Sex Pistols Singer-Songwriter Johnny Rotten Talks Scrapbooking

 

1/28/2011

Sara Buchanan

John Lydon's latest noise

Music is in the background, but the former Sex Pistols singer has stories to tell.

"The scrapbook is a really friendly approach.... It's mistakes, warts and all, but free-form, as I truly remember a thing," said Lydon. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

“It’s mistakes, warts and all, but free form, as I truly remember a thing…True feelings and relationships with the people I’ve worked with. I tell it as it is,” British punk artist John Lyndon said.

John Lydon, known to many as Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols, has not released a full-length album in 15 years but instead has begun selling autobiographical scrapbooks, reports The L.A. Times.

“Mr. Rotten’s Scrapbook” is a limited edition publication full of drawings, paintings, photographs, poems, and notes that sells for about $750.

“It’s mistakes, warts and all, but free form, as I truly remember a thing…True feelings and relationships with the people I’ve worked with. I tell it as it is,” John Lyndon said.

He describes his first autobiography, “Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs,” as “boring, straightforward facts a bit, not getting into the personality of me-self, for instance, or anyone else I’m involved with.” Lydon explains that “the scrapbook is a really friendly approach- and, oddly enough, more accurate.”

Lydon seems to have transformed his creative outlet from music into a new medium. The artwork is colorful and original, the writing is stream-of-consciousness, and every piece in the scrapbook tells a little bit about his fascinating life as one of the most influential members in the history of popular music.

eScrap App makes scrapbooking easier for iPhone users

Posted on January 25th, 2011 | Filed under: Apple

Scrapbooking can be fun, but with considering the hectic lifestyles we lead today, devoting much time to it has become almost unfeasible. With this in mind, 300dpi has come up with the eScrap App precisely for iPhone users. This app was developed with a view to provide digital scrap bookers with the ability to make various pages while on the move.

This new iPhone app enables users to create captivating scrapbook layouts on their phones. The app comes equipped with many striking features such as 50 different backgrounds, novelty embellishments and designer elements for users to select from. Users can easily upload or click photos using their phone, while simultaneously rotating or resizing them for that desired effect.

This app additionally lets users build a page from scratch with the aid of various backgrounds, fonts and elements available. Users can also add diverse filters to their photos. The app features 5 varied fonts with an assortment of colors to pick from, for adding that extra personal touch. The App’s quick pages come with an easy drag and drop attribute. Users can save these pages in their phone, email them to their friends or the best of all directly post them on their Facebook and Twitter accounts within few minutes.

The eScrap App can be bought through the iTunes store at an introductory price of $1.99.

5 Fun Winter Scrapbook Layouts

Article by  Amber Neely

If you're into scrapbooking, be it digital or traditional, it's always fun to see what scrapbooking layouts you can find. With the holiday season just around the corner, you might be in the market for some nice winter scrapbook layouts, and this article is here to show off five of the best.

The winter holiday season is just around the corner, and you're big into digital scrapbooking. What do you do? You look for winter scrapbook layouts, of course! In this article, I'll showcase some of my favorite free digital scrapbook layouts for the holiday season, that way you can get your Holiday pictures organized in no time flat!

What is Digital Scrapbooking?

Free Quips & Sayings for Scrapbooking

 

 

Free Digital Scrapbooking - Charming Christmas & Christmas Time

Free Digital Scrapbooking includes two great mini-kit winter scrapbook layouts. The first is a very cute traditional scrapbook setup called "Christmas Time". You get a few different graphics in this pack, including a Christmas tree, some great backgrounds, and various embellishments.

 

 

The second pack is called "Charming Christmas" which includes 19 different pieces, ranging from stockings and Santa hats, gingerbread men to wreaths, and of course a bunch of different backgrounds!

 

 

Both kits are available straight from the Scrapbooking Mini Theme Kit page. I highly recommend this site for anyone looking for starter digital scrapbooking elements.

 

 

 

Christmas Confections by Computer Scrapbook

Christmas Confections by Computer Scrapbook is a set of four packs that include some stunning digital paper, as well as some of the cutest elements I've seen. This is a very modern feeling scrapbooking set that still feels very home made and includes all the classic Christmas bits, including trees, ornaments, presents, stockings, snowflakes, candy canes and more! You'll enjoy the work of artist Correen Silke as you sit down and organize your work with these great (and free) mini-kits. Worried about printing? Don't be! These kits include high quality PNG format images and are 300ppi, perfect for printing!

 

 

Winter Blues by Computer Scrapbook

Winter Blues by Computer Scrapbook is another absolutely fantastic kit that you'd hate to miss! Not unlike their other kits, this one includes both papers and elements, including all your favorite winter things. Artist Rachel Dickson has included a ton of different snowflakes, icicles, and all your favorite tags, alphabet sets, frames, and borders. This set has a stunning blue and white theme and can be applied to anything winter themed that you would like to include in a digital scrapbook.

 

 

Teal Tranquility

I feel like I have to include a very classic, not necessarily winter scrapbook layout, but I feel that this could easily be used for anything winter themed. For those of you who like your scrapbooks to be simple, yet very eye catching, Teal Tranquility by Computer Scrapbook is fantastic. A beautiful, cool, icy teal and soft antiqued/grungy feel adds a chilly feeling to this scrapbook set that will be welcomed by scrapbooks of all ages. The embellishments include tags, buttons, paperclips, corners, frames, and borders.

Scrapbook Journaling Ideas
7 Easy-to-Apply Ideas

 

Want some fresh scrapbook journaling ideas? Want to break away from the the standard journalistic approach you've been using on your scrapbook pages?

Journaling using the standard 5Ws of Who, What, Where, When and Why will no doubt leave you very well-covered with the factual information. But there are other interesting journaling ideas you might want to try out for your scrapbook layouts to spice things up a little.

Release some exciting and juicy details of your life events into your scrapbook layout. How?

Put aside the usual no-nonsense journaling approach and dive into the world of gotta-try journaling approaches listed below:

 

 

Scrapbook Journaling Ideas #1
Journaling from the Heart

Do you splash out your loving hopes and wishes for your baby on your baby layouts?

Do you write about loving thoughts that will soon flee from your memories unless you try to capture them down in your scrapbook album?

Write simply. Use words to paint a picture of your thoughts. Give your heart a voice to be heard by others.

These will be words your loved ones will cherish and never get tired of reading. Because they are spoken from the depth of your being.

 

 

Scrapbook Journaling Ideas #2
Significant "Invisible" Issues

It's unlikely that you'll have a photo for every significant moment or event that happened in your life. OK, maybe you might now arm yourself with a digital camera wherever you are for those "just-in-case" moments.

Still, some of the most impromptu and important moments struck before you can hit the camera's button.

Go ahead and create a scrapbook layout revealing your joy, your triumphs, your failures and the good and bad bits of such moments, without the photos. Don't get stuck marrying photos to every layout.

You can always use a photo from another event for such a layout. Alternatively, simply skip the photo part and let your journaling take the center stage.

Let your memories play full out in words.

 

 

Scrapbook Journaling Ideas #3
Little Care Instructions

Create a scrapbook sharing little care instructions for your little boy and little girl. I got this idea from Creating Keepsakes' founder, Lisa Bearnson.

Such a scrapbook containing care instructions can prove to be a life savior in times of emergencies. When mommy isn't around for awhile, daddy or the temporary caretaker can have an "instruction manual" to refer to.

Flipping through the little care instruction scrapbook, the temporary caretaker can quickly know what is your girl's favorite doll that soothes her, what TV program is a must-watch every afternoon at 2pm for your boy, and what's their nap time.

 

 

Scrapbook Journaling Ideas #4
Future Events

Do you want to pass on your values, your advice, and your experiences to your children and future generations?

Write them down in your scrapbook album and pass on these valuable lessons to your kids.

Scrapbook can be a wonderful place to hold these information for your children to learn about what you value as a person, and what you deem as important qualities to cultivate.

Another approach is to look into your "crystal ball" and "predict some future events". For example, imagine what kind of careers your kids might take on in the future and compare notes in future. See whether you're spot on or absolutely way off in your predictions!

 

 

Scrapbook Journaling Ideas #5
Qualities of Your Loved Ones

Your scrapbook can be a great place to inspire and encourage your spouse and your children.

Include layouts that highlight the special qualities and talents that you spot in the VIPs of your life. Remind them of how unique they are, how loved they are, how special they are to you, and the great qualities you've seen in them.

These are expressive layouts that will keep your VIPs reminded of their unique qualities as a person, and inspire them on days when they aren't so confident about themselves.

 

 

Scrapbook Journaling Ideas #6
Snippets of Conversation

You don't have to write down chunks of information. Sometimes, snippets of conversation adds a very interesting angle to your pages.

The "voices" of the main characters immediately draw the reader into the situation of the moment.

For family members, they can identify the speakers right away. For others that don't know the main characters well, they'll be able to catch glimpses of the character's personality.

 

 

Scrapbook Journaling Ideas #7
All-Time Favorite Top 10 Lists

Ah... the ever popular top 10 lists. Well-written lists are very engaging and have a magnetic pull over the readers.

Lists are popular because they quickly zoom into the most interesting, most colorful, most exciting, most whatever of things.

Lists are fun and the bullet points make the readers sit up and pay close attention.

Don't forget to apply some top 10 lists to your scrapbook pages.

 

Now that you have 7 journaling ideas to experiment with, see what you can come up with on your next scrapbook layout!

Scrapbooking Layouts

Easy Scrapbooking Layouts Tips

Many scrapbook starters would find it difficult to create a layout. If you are one of them, then you may have to read the following to get some easy ideas on what are the different types of scrapbook layouts you can use.

· Patterned paper layout

When using patterned paper as a scrapbook page layout, you should follow the following rules: Never use a paper with a pattern larger than the smallest photographed head; patterned papers are secondary to the photos so never give too much concern if you cannot find the right photos to go on the pattern; and, use plain paper over the pattern as a journal box.

· Nameplate layout

Use large letter tiles to make bold effect on the layout. You can use stamps to put your name on the page. Stencils would also be a great way to do this. Other methods such as using all sorts of embellishments to spell a name, embroidering the name on the page or using fonts like calligraphy would be great. 

· Handprint layout

Whether you are an artist or not, handprinting the page would give you unique layout. Use acrylic paints, colored pens, watercolors, or crayons to do this.

To come out neat, you can concentrate the large handprints around the borders of the page. Smaller handprints can come in between.

· Newspaper layout

Create a page that would relatively look like a newspaper’s front page. This would work best if you intent to make a page that focuses on the significant event. Use an Old English font as a heading; somewhat similar to the heading of a newspaper. Then, use a large text for the headline. A Times New Roman font is for the story. Place a photo on the side or at the middle of the page.

· Rub-on Transfers layout

Using rub-on transfers is both easy and tricky. It is easy in the sense that all you have to do is to rub-on and you have an instant layout. It is tricky in the sense that you have to practice in order to achieve a perfect transfer. If you are using rub-on transfers for the first time, then you might as well start on a smooth surface. Once you get the hang of it, move on to the next level and use the transfer on surfaces such as metal, mesh, ribbon, and glass.

If you prefer to use rub-on transfers to these surfaces, make sure that they are adhere enough to make permanent contact. Some brands are stickier than the other.

· Z pattern layout

Arrange all the materials you have on a Z pattern. Meaning, the arrangements should start on the top left of the page and move on a Z pattern.

· Focal point layout

Use one photo as a focal point and move outwards. The focal point can be a large photo. This would give the viewer a starting point on where to begin looking. If you are using 3 or more photos, try to make some arrangements. You can use 3 different photo sizes arranged diagonally, with the focal point on the largest photo. You can also use one large photo with 2 small photos on each side. Or, you can use 3 photos of the same size and make arrangement to highlight a certain point.

· Aging paper layout

Weathering a paper is a popular technique on creating a layout. There are several ways to do this. One is by damping the paper and ironing it to dry. This would create all sort of weathered look to the paper.

Another way of aging the paper is by rolling it into a ball to make it look wrinkled. Then, sand it with a finest grained sand paper you can find.

There are more scrapbook ideas you can use but these would be sufficient enough to finish your scrapbook. If you want to make other types of layouts, you can combine 2 or more mentioned types of layouts to make one unique layout. The thing is, use your imagination and creativity to make a good layout and you can assure yourself that what you have made is truly yours.

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Scrapbook Layout Ideas – Five Unexpected Places to Find Inspiration

Ask any artist – writer, painter, or scrapbooker — where she finds inspiration, and she’ll answer, “All around me!” It’s true that we can get direct inspiration for our scrapbook pages from scrapbooking magazines and online galleries. But for unique pages, look outside the box. Here are some of my favorite places to go to fill my creative well and get ideas:

1. Print ads. From magazine advertisements to billboards, print advertisements are a fantastic place to begin your scavenger hunt for ideas. Graphic designers and advertising execs have been paid big bucks to come up with attractive, eye-catching images. Why not benefit from their expertise and adopt their designs? Look at how they position images and blocks of text, and translate it to your scrapbook page for a clean, professional look.

2. Children’s books. A trip to the kids’ section of the library or your favorite bookstore should have you rolling in ideas for fun, graphic pages. For kids, pictures are a huge part of the storytelling process, so look at how page designers incorporate text and titles with images. Also, many children’s picture books use repeating elements across the entire page (think about the cricket in the “Li’l Critter” books). This technique would be a fun thing to add to a mini-album. You could add a repeating sticker or punch on each spread of your album as a way to unify the pages.

3. Magazine layouts. When you’re looking at your magazine ads, check out the article spreads, too! Just as with the advertisements, someone was paid big bucks to layout each and every page of the magazine, and you can pick up some great tips and design ideas by seeing what they do. This is a particularly great way to find ideas for two-page spreads, since many article layouts stretch across several pages.

4. Greeting cards. Greeting cards can give you ideas for your card-making, but try adapting the designs to your pages. Cards typically have just a few words on the front, so use that as positioning for your title, and work your journaling in.

5. Store windows. While store windows won’t give you a ready-for-the-page design, they can provide inspiration for color and accents. Window designers are on the cutting edge for trends, so see what color combinations and fashion styles are coming your way, and change them up for your scrapbooking page. If the mannequins are wearing crocheted scarves and neutral colors, you can easily find a way to imitate them for your layouts.

For more ideas about creative scrapbooking ideas and inspiration, visit Lain Ehmann’s blog at http://www.layoutaday.com. Through scrapbooking videos, tutorials, projects and inspiration, Lain helps her readers make their scrapbooking fun, fast and fabulous!

In honor of this being my 100th post on ScrappinCabinet I am posting my list of 100 Scrapbooking Things I Want to Do:

1. Start my Book of Me album.
2. Finish my Book of Me album.
3. Get my photos organized. (Oh, that’s a BIG one!)
4. Attend at least one scrapbooking major event.
5. Get 100 visitors per day to ScrappinCabinet.
6. Then get 200 visitors per day… (and so on…)
7. Create 1000 posts here. (I’m 1/10 there already=:)
8. Do my Friends album.
9. Get my digital photos organized.
10. Get a Memorabilia Book from Cropper Hopper and see if it really works.

11. Try out the Pages By Design system before I buy it.
12. Create my Seasons albums (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter)
13. Figure out what to do with all my scrapbooking magazines.
14. Find a replacement adhesive I like as much as I used to like CM photo splits.
15. Use more patterned paper.
16. Take Angie Pedersen to lunch.
17. Add my daughter’s voice to an album.
18. Try out that new Xyron personal cutting system.
19. Do #18 and still love all our Sizzix alphabets!
20. Get our Alaska Cruise into an album (do #9 first!)

21. Write a press release about ScrappinCabinet and get it out.
22. Post more photos here on my blog.
23. Despite my skepticism that I will like it, do a paper bag album.
24. See a DIY Network Scrapbooking show to see if I should upgrade my satellite package to get it all the time.
25. Buy scrapbooking stuff from QVC.

{Geez, I should have done this post in honor of my 25th post - not 100th!}

26. Alter a sarabinder book.
27. Journal about all my favorite Christmas ornaments.
28. Journal using computer fonts at least once - without getting addicted and giving up hand journaling.
29. Attend a scrapbooking industry trade show.
30. Get caught up with my daughter’s school album.

31. Be a better journaler in my scrapbooks.
32. Create a Family History album that shows my genealogy research.
33. Interview my grandma about her life and write down her stories.
34. Interview my husband’s grandma about her life and write down her stories too.
35. Finish this list of 100 things…
36. Make more gift albums.
37. Design a USA album documenting my love for our country.
38. Build a Reading album – log the books I read and what I think of them.
39. Produce a My Goals album to inspire me.
40. Use yarn in a layout.

41. Use ribbon in a layout.
42. Watch someone else use walnut ink in a layout.
43. Create a layout of my favorite song lyrics.
44. Create a layout of my favorite movie quotes.
45. Create a layout of the reasons I Love Nancy Drew.
46. Create a layout of Phone Calls that Changed My Life.
47. Create a layout of TV Moments I Can’t Forget.
48. Create a layout of Blogs I Read Every Day
49. Try a monthly scrapbook club.
50. Be a Design Team member at least once.

51. Go on a blinkie downloading binge and scrapbook all that I find worthy of saving.
52. Journal about what I believe about life and make my Believe page.
53. Take a class on digital photography.
54. Do one layout with the one giant picture theme.
55. Scraplift from a magazine.
56. Get rid of all the colors of paper I know I will never use.
57. Give them to my daughter so when I change my mind I know where they are.
58. Finish that purple Tribute album I got at my first hotel suite crop.
59. Download a ton of fonts.
60. Use the aforementioned fonts.

61. Make a year’s worth of birthday cards for family and friends.
62. Get my albums embossed on the covers.
63. Get a replacement piece for the missing spine of our honeymoon album.
64. Have a Make a Tag day and make a bazillion tags to use.
65. Do the layout from the big snow storm of 2003 where we got 3 feet of snow.
66. Ditch work one day and scrapbook all day.
67. Ask my friends to share things about themselves for my Friends album.
68-99. TBD
100. Think of 32 more Scrapbooking Things I Want to Do and come back later to fill them in. =:)

What are the top 3 scrapbooking things you want to do?

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My Photo Book Ideas PLUS Free Greeting Cards

Hi Friends! I’m so excited to get caught up with you after taking a little break . Things seem to be calming down a bit around my house and I am finding more and more time for crafty projects these days – yippee!!

I’ve made some great Shutterfly photo books I’d love to share with you – just click on the image of the book to be taken to my Shutterfly share site if you want to peek inside .

This Creating Keepsakes pre-made scrapbook called The ABCs of You turned out to be a super fun birthday gift for Gabe – and it was easy to put together too! TIP: There are several extra layouts available to add to this book, in case you want more than one page for some letters.

Here is the HUGE 12×12 Memory book I put together with all my favorite photos from 2009. I was short on time (during the holidays, with a new baby) so I just used Shutterfly’s classic everyday layout style which really put the focus on my photos. TIP: To give my photo book a beautiful, yet simple cover, I uploaded a digital scrapbook paper by Shabby Princess to my Shutterfly album to use as my custom photo cover!

This is one of my favorite photo books – I made digital scrapbook pages using Photoshop and a beach-themed kit by Shabby Miss Jenn, then I uploaded them to make a Shutterfly Digital Scrapbook!

I also made three photo books about our trip to England last fall to send as gifts. The great thing about making photo books through Shutterfly is that once you make a book, it is saved in your account so you can easily order duplicates or even save a book as a new project and make changes to customize the book for a specific person, as I did for my England trip memory books.

Last but not least, I wanted to share some real – life photos of another Shutterfly book I made a while back.

I had promised to share pics of what the finished product looked like with my digital layouts which spanned the gutter (where the pages meet in the center at the binding). Here are a few examples:

I created these layouts in Photoshop as one continuous image, then split it into two pages, which I uploaded into Shutterfly and added to the photo book.

As you can see, some of the image gets lost in the center where it folds into the binding, which is why you shouldn’t put key text or images in that area.

I think in these examples, though, it is worth losing a little of the image to have the effect of a large image spanning the two pages – I was happy with the result!

Shutterfly has a 20% off sale on photo books going on right now, along with lots of other great deals, including three free greeting cards (use this coupon code: SUMMERCARDS by September 1st). Here are the custom cards I just ordered !

Well, it’s GREAT to be getting back into scrapbooking – I have tons of wonderful new photos to use so I hope to be blogging much more often! Please leave a comment to say “hi”, I can’t wait to hear from my fellow scrapbookers – I miss you !!

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Today’s free iPhone app at FreeAppADay.com is Photo Wall Pro – Collage App, from Naman Singhai.

This is, obviously, one of the rare cases in which the free app isn’t a game. Instead Photo Wall Pro works as a sort of collage or scrapbooking application on your iPhone. You’ll be able to import your favorite pictures, and add them to a variety of themed backgrounds. From there, you can add borders, change the colors of backgrounds, change the width of dividers, add custom text, and even crop photos to suit the nature of your collage.

Multiple pictures can be placed on the same “page,” or you can feature just one image, with the supporting text also being customizable in terms of font style, text alignment, and color. You can make collages with either a portrait or landscape orientation, with multiple aspect ratios: 4:3, 3:2, or 16:10.

The app has been updated for the iPhone 4, allowing for resolutions of up to 2048 x 1536, and for up to 1600 x 1200 on iPhone 3GS. Once you finish your project, you can export your new collage by uploading it directly to Facebook, sending it through an email, or saving the collage back to your photo library (Camera Roll).

Make sure to download Photo Wall Pro while the app is free today.

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