Do It Yourself Scrapbooking!

Making Your Own Scrapbooking Materials

We have moved our site, to allow for more images to be uploaded. Please update your bookmarks - our new address is http://diyscrap.freeservers.com This page will remain available at its present location through the winter months, to alert all visitors to our new location. *As always, I want to thank you all for visiting, and many, many thanks for your patience as I work on adding new sections, new pages, new links, and a whole lot more to our new location!*









A Note of apology: Several online stores have written recently to request that I link to their retail sites. This site is soon to become involved with a company which, in addition to local interests, will retail selected scrapbook and rubber stamp related merchandise online. It is for this reason that I cannot honor requests to link to retail sites. However, anyone wishing to list their personal web page should please feel free to contact me!
Included here are examples of handcrafted background papers, ideas for creating your own die cuts and stuff, and some other neat ideas. I am *always* in the process of adding more stuff, and appreciate your patience! If there's anything that's not here that you'd like to see, please let me know. At the bottom of this page there are options for e-mailing me privately or leaving a message that other visitors can read (there's a Guestbook button in the counter graphic that you can click on to leave a message like that).


Well, let's keep this informal... Here's a list of what you can find here as of right now:


Tips and Techniques

Rubber Stamping - New Section Under Heavy Construction. A hobby/art unto itself, rubber stamping deserves its own section here. You won't believe how well stamping goes with scrapping! Beware, though, it's addictive.... What you'll find here right now now is mostly a preview of what's to come, but the samples are viewable. *Some new stuff added 10/99*


Background Samples -

Die Cuts- This section is being completely redone and will be unavailable for some time. I am working on restoring it, with all new die cuts - in the meanwhile, if there is anything you need, feel free to contact me and I will see if I can help! I do have access to hundreds of custom dies.


Clip Art!


Scrapbook Pages - from my own albums. -- *New pages added 10/99*


Guest Pages - from the albums of friends.


Links - the links on this page will take you out of my frames, directly to the sites in question, rather than just give you "browsing ability", as with the links on other pages of this site.



Coming Soon! More Tips More Backgrounds Rubber Stamping Techniques and an especially big treat... See NYC kids at "work," learning to scrap in free workshops hosted by area churches, coordinated and taught by Mrs. Andrea Magett, and sponsored by your favorite manufacturers (and mine): ProvoCraft, Fiskars, Hot Off the Press, Highsmith, Leeco (Cropper Hopper folks), DJ Inkers, et al. This section will be available ASAP - the children have completed their starter albums, and the project is moving on to another church and another group of eager teens and preteens. I am eager to show you what has been accomplished by these terrific kids!


Enjoy browsing and creating, and check back here for more samples and other things, as they become available.
Happy Scrapping, Jess


Hey, we won! My thanks and appreciation to Stephanie for voting this one of the best scrapbook sites on the web. Be sure to click the award to visit Stephanie's site and check out the other winners, as well as Stephanie's own great scrapbook pages!

Here are a couple of other awards I'm especially proud of! Thanks to all the visitors who've made this site popular!






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