Scrapbooking For Beginners

Learn To Do Beginner Scrapbooking
Scrapbooking is a type of popular craft where the history of either personal or family is preserved via the form of photograph pictures, printed media, contained memorabilia in albums which are decorated and etc.

Historically, the ingenious idea of collecting printed materials related to personal and family probably began after the invention of printing. It is somewhat similar to storytelling but with additions of visuals or photographic materials.

Here are some of the popular and interested beginner scrapbooking articles:

BASIC DO-IT-YOURSELF SCRAPBOOK MAKING TIPS

With so many arts and craft stores, hobby stores and bookstores now offering from entire scrapbook making kits to magazines dedicated to the art of scrapbook making and displays of completed scrapbooks, it is so hard not to be encouraged to join the bandwagon and take up scrapbook making as a hobby of your own.

Until you begin to start looking at the prices of each of the materials being suggested by the clerk that you will need to begin your scrapbook making hobby.

Even ready-to-us scrapbook making kits that would have all the basic things that you will need to begin your first scrapbook do not come in cheap. In fact, many beginners to the art of scrapbook making tend to be not only overwhelmed by the prices, but the amount of materials that can be used that oftentimes they do not know which ones to buy.

What Tools Are Needed For Scrapbooking

If you are just starting on scrapbook making, you only need a few basic tools and materials to start your first scrapbook project. These basic tools and materials include a strong album where you will store all the scrapbook pages that you have created, a few sheets of colored paper to paste your photographs and decorations on (template pages that would have areas where you can paste your photographs on would work best for beginners), glue, a pair of scissors, some colorful markers to write down details about the photographs and any mementos that you will also include in your scrapbook.

Just make sure that all the materials that you will be buying for your first scrapbook are acid-free and lignin-free. This is very important because acid and lignin materials and photographs do not go well with each other.

If you use these kinds of materials, it would cause the photographs that you will be using to fade away more quickly and reducing its quality. Remember, the main purpose for creating a scrapbook is to be able to preserve your memories.Using materials that would actually speed the process of their deterioration completely defeats this purpose.

Scrapbooking Supplies For Beginners
Do not get tempted with buying a lot of fancy materials and supplies unless you know that you will be using this on your scrapbook project. This is often the mistake of many beginners. With so many materials and supplies to choose from, beginners eagerly try to get their hands on each and every single tools and materials like a kid in a candy store. Oftentimes, you would need all of these materials and tools no matter how many scrapbooks that you have already created, making purchasing these to be a pure waste of money.

Instead, try investing on magazines about scrapbook making. While these are rather expensive, these magazines would provide useful information and tips that you can use while you create your scrapbook projects. Through the information that you will be able to get from these magazines, you will eventually develop your own style for creating your own scrapbooks.

For those beginners on scrapbook making who are on a budget, here are a few techniques that would come in handy as you begin your first scrapbook project.

EYELETS
Learning how to create eyelets is one of the most basic techniques that any person who would like to take up scrapbook making as a hobby should develop. By learning how to create eyelets, you can not only be able to create a unique border for your scrapbook pages, but you would also be able to create your own scrapbook from scratch in the future, without having the need to buy a ready-made scrapbook album.

To make an eyelet, mark the area where you would like to be placed and punch a hole using a puncher. Place the two parts of the eyelet setter on either side of the paper and secure this down onto the paper by gently hammering it using a hammer.

PAPER PIECING
To create a mosaic style design which you can use as a means of designing your pages, lay a piece of tracing paper over the pattern that you would like to use. Trace the pattern using a pencil. From here paste the pieces of paper within the pattern.

Basic Do It Yourself Scrapbook Making Tips
With so many arts and craft stores, hobby stores and bookstores now offering from entire scrapbook making kits to magazines dedicated to the art of scrapbook making and displays of completed scrapbooks, it is so hard not to be encouraged to join the bandwagon and take up scrapbook making as a hobby of your own.

Basic Scrapbook Essentials
The art of scrapbook making has now taken the country by storm. Once a simple hobby of just pasting photographs and keepsake objects onto pages of an album, it has now become a hobby fed by ready-made materials, tools and kits where you do not have to create your own paper, cut out and collect your own decorations and design the pages through drawings and beautiful handwritten captions.

Creating Scrapbooks From Magazines
There are many ways to tell a story through a scrapbook. The most common way of creating a page of a scrapbook is pasting a photograph on the center of the
paper with a caption describing the photograph. Mementos and decorative materials are then carefully pasted around the photograph to add more details about the photograph.

Creating Scrapbooks On A Budget
There is no doubt that scrapbook making has now become one of the most popular and well-loved hobbies in the country today. Many of those who have taken up the hobby are easily hooked to it because it allows you to achieve two things.

Creatively Enhancing Scrapbooks
The art of scrapbook making has been seen as a means of collecting different materials that would not seem to be connected with each other and yet would be able to tell one story when these materials placed together and viewed as a whole when going through the different pages of the scrapbook. All you need is just a little bit of imagination to make this happen.

Getting Your Kids Interested In Scrapbook Making
Whether it is a camping weekend with your family or a simple out of town with your boyfriend, these moments are always captured through the use of a camera.Why? This is because each of these events creates memories which people would want to look back to.

Great Scrapbooking Ideas Without Spending A Single Cent
Ask anyone who has taken scrapbooking up as a hobby as to why they did. The answer is usually the same: scrapbooking is a low budget pastime as compared to other more popular hobbies.

How To Properly Layout Scrapbooks
Although scrapbook making has been growing in popularity over the past few years, the art of scrapbook making by itself is not something new. In fact, this has long been a favorite past time for many decades and a means to put together photographs and mementos of a particular occasion or event, and decorated by scraps of materials and fabrics (hence the name) while allowing their creativity to run wild.

Preserving Your Stories In Scrapbooks
Just like a novel, a scrapbook is one that tells a story from start to end. The difference between the two is that scrapbooks do not use words. Instead, the pages are filled with photographs capturing the best of the memories lovingly preserved and immortalized to share and look back to, reliving the stories that tell more than words could ever describe.

Storage Ideas For Your Scrapbook Materials
The art of scrapbook making has become the best way to preserve all your memories through a fun and creative way, allowing you to personalize the pages making each page unique and make you to lovingly look back at them. So why is it then called a scrapbook?

what is scrap

Scrap is a term used to describe recyclable materials left over from every manner of product consumption, such as parts of vehicles, building supplies, and surplus materials.Often confused with waste, scrap in fact has monetary value.

how about scrapture? At Scrapture, i believe continuing in the manner is just loony.Just harvest landfill material from skips, tips, bins and industrial sites, imaginatively rebuilding it into unique, robust and beautifully-made furniture, sculpture and lamps.

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Phoenix Image Editor

From basic image retouching to complex effects, Phoenix delivers the key features of a desktop image editor with the simplicity and accessibility of a web-based application.

Flash-based webapp Aviary Phoenix is the most impressive image editing tool I've ever seen running in a browser. Free to try, you can do some amazing things with the features on offer, from photo compositing to retouching—the video demonstration embedded above and plenty of tutorials should give you an idea. While not an Adobe Photoshop replacement, if you're stuck with a machine that doesn't have anything better than MS Paint installed, it can be a lifesaver. For beginners, it's a great introduction to the kind of skills and tools available in almost any modern image editor, but with no download necessary. The founders created image editing contest site Worth1000, so you know the tools Aviary is developing will live up to pretty high standards.



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Video of Arabic Calligraphy (khat)

Unique Calligraphic (khat writing) Collections

The development of Arabic calligraphy led to the creation of several decorative styles that were designed to accommodate special needs or tastes and to please or impress others. The most outstanding of these techniques or scripts are Gulzar, Maraya or Muthanna, Zoomorphic, Siyaqat, and al-Khat al-Hurr.

Gulzar:
Gulzar is defined by Safadi (1979) in Islamic Calligraphy as the technique of filling the area within the outlines of relatively large letters with various ornamental devices, including floral designs, geometric patterns, hunting scenes, portraits, small script, and other motifs. Gulzar is often used in composite calligraphy where it is also surrounded by other decorative units and calligraphic panels.A Persian piece in "gulzar" calligraphy from the later 1800s "Iran, second half of the 19th century. Ink, gouache and varnish on cardboard. 12 1/2 x 18 1/4 in. Private collection. Falk (1985), 179, p. 192.

The beauty of the Arabic alphabet is entirely intrinsic. It can be appreciated for its formal and rhythmic qualities alone and needs no embellishment or decoration. But both Iranian and Ottoman tastes, particularly in the 19th century, put the Arabic alphabet through some strange contortions. Scripts were covered with representations of people, animals and even tiny scenes.

This script is called Gulzar, meaning "full of flowers." A good example can be seen here. It is part of a verse by the Persian poet Hafiz and says:

"We came this way searching for glory and power."

The script is decorated with animals, people and landscape in a griasille technique on a plain background. In his original verse, however, Hafiz wrote the opposite: "We did not come..."

The origins of Gulzar script are perhaps to be found in a technique known from the 16th century at least, whereby phrase such as the basmalah was filled with minutely written Qur'anic verses. Gulzar in the form shown here seems to have been practiced since the 17th century. There is a piece in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (Ms 11A:3) bearing the name of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan."

Maraya or Muthanna:
Maraya or Muthanna is the technique of mirror writing in which the composition on the left reflects the composition on the right.

Zoomorphic:
In zoomorphic calligraphy, the words are manipulated and structured into the shape of a human figure, a bird, an animal, or an object. Safadi notes that Thuluth, Naskh, and Nasta'liq scripts are extensively applied to create such calligraphic compositions.

Tughra:
Tughra is a unique calligraphic device that is used as a royal seal. The nishanghi or tughrakesh is the only scribe specialized in writing Tughra. The emblems became quite ornate and were particularly favored by Ottoman officialdom.

Siyaqat:
Siyaqat is another style developed and favored by the Ottomans; it was used in chancelleries and courts. Siyaqat has a close affinity with Kufic script where the lines are straight and heavy and relatively angular.

al-Khat al-Hurr:
Al-Khat al-Hurr may be the most modern calligraphic script and was developed in different parts of the Arab world in the 1980s. This free-style script does not follow a pre-set pattern but typically is elegant and highly stylized. It is excessively cursive, and the curves display marked contrast in line width. A curve might change abruptly from the heaviest possible line a pen can create to thethinnest possible line from the same pen.


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What is Khat writting?

Arabic calligraphy, unlike most culture, influences the style of monumental inscription.Islamic calligraphy or khat jawi writing is held in high regards as it is considered of great importance, especially in countries where Islam is practised.

Copying or rewriting the verses of the Al-Quran is considered a religious act, and the calligraphy is much esteemed because of its religious associations. In the Islamic world, calligraphy has traditionally been held in high regards.The praises recorded from the copying of the Quran, and the aesthetic energy that was devoted to it, have raised Arabic calligraphy to the status of an art.

There are four types of khat writing methods, which are commonly competed in the country, namely the Nasakh, Thuluth, Rik'aag and Dewani. Nasakh is commonly used in writing the verses of the Quran.

It originated during the reign of Sayyiddina Othman. Later, it was developed by Saudi Arabian calligraphy writers. Thuluth, meanwhile, is mainly used as decorative writings being displayed at mosques and suraus in the country. Rik'aag is a simple way of calligraphy writing, which is seldom practised in the country. Dewani is seldom used in the country but it is also considered as decorative writings and is difficult to understand.

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caricature

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What is the main difference between caricature and portrait?

The key difference between caricature and a portrait of someone is the intentional
distortion of the subject in caricature. This distortion is difficult because the features of the subject are what makes the subject recognizable, when you start fooling around with these features, then you run the risk of loosing the likeness of the subject.

The caricatures and cartoons are considered the same thing. The difference between the two is a caricature is simply a cartoon of someone or something that the viewer can recognize as a specific someone or something. As soon as someone known by the viewer is seen in a cartoon, it becomes a caricature.


Today, the art of caricature is still around, though nowhere near as prevalent as the "Golden Age" of the 20's and 30's. In recent years there has been a rise of amateur "On-the-spot Caricaturists" who can be found on street corners or fairs and will draw a quick sketch of anyone willing to pay their fee. The word "caricature" can also apply to a person or thing that displays behaviour or mannerisms that are ridiculously exaggerated and overly stereotypical.

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