http://www.busy-moms-online.com Busy Moms Online is a resource for every busy mom. You will find helpful product reviews, links, and other resources to help you on your busy journey. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:14:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 http://www.busy-moms-online.com/1165/winter-scrapbook-layouts/ http://www.busy-moms-online.com/1165/winter-scrapbook-layouts/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:30:52 +0000 admin http://www.busy-moms-online.com/?p=1165 Winter is a wonderful time for scrapbooking.  It’s a great activity for those cold days when you’re curled up next to the fire.  And with all the snowy fun and holiday festivities going on, you should have plenty of pictures to work with. Coming up with great winter layouts can be a bit of a challenge, [...]]]> http://www.busy-moms-online.com/1165/winter-scrapbook-layouts/feed/ http://www.busy-moms-online.com/1149/scrapbooking-fall-photos/ http://www.busy-moms-online.com/1149/scrapbooking-fall-photos/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:30:43 +0000 admin http://www.busy-moms-online.com/?p=1149 Scrapbookers often find ideas for their albums in the changing seasons.  In the fall, the shapes and colors of the falling leaves, harvest crops and blooming flowers provide lots of great ideas that we can incorporate into our scrapbooks.  Here are some ways you can work the season into the various elements of your page. Colors Orange [...]]]> http://www.busy-moms-online.com/1149/scrapbooking-fall-photos/feed/ http://www.busy-moms-online.com/875/scrapbooking-with-black-and-white-photos/ http://www.busy-moms-online.com/875/scrapbooking-with-black-and-white-photos/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:28:24 +0000 admin http://www.busy-moms-online.com/?p=875 Black and white photographs have a certain timelessness to them, whether they were taken fifty years ago or last week. They may be missing the element of color, but they more than make up for it with the nostalgia they evoke. It’s no wonder that despite the advances in photo technology, many photo buffs still [...]]]> http://www.busy-moms-online.com/875/scrapbooking-with-black-and-white-photos/feed/ http://www.busy-moms-online.com/806/scrapping-green-earth-happy-scrapbooking/ http://www.busy-moms-online.com/806/scrapping-green-earth-happy-scrapbooking/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:45:09 +0000 admin http://www.busy-moms-online.com/?p=806 One of the disadvantages of paper scrapbooking is that it requires a substantial amount of material. Each page requires a piece of paper or card stock for the background, plus paper used for die cuts, frames and other embellishments. Then there are the non-paper embellishments, and let’s not forget the scrapbook cover. The finished [...]]]> http://www.busy-moms-online.com/806/scrapping-green-earth-happy-scrapbooking/feed/ http://www.busy-moms-online.com/597/scrapbooking-ideas-for-your-kids-artwork/ http://www.busy-moms-online.com/597/scrapbooking-ideas-for-your-kids-artwork/#comments Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:21:53 +0000 admin http://www.busy-moms-online.com/597/scrapbooking-ideas-for-your-kids-artwork/ If you are like me, you have lots of great pieces of artwork your kids created espacially for you. And while you’d love to keep them all, they are just too hard to store. If this sounds like you, it’s time you devised a plan to incorporate all of them into one neat and compelling [...]]]> http://www.busy-moms-online.com/597/scrapbooking-ideas-for-your-kids-artwork/feed/ http://www.busy-moms-online.com/569/holiday-scrapbook-preserves-your-memories/ http://www.busy-moms-online.com/569/holiday-scrapbook-preserves-your-memories/#comments Tue, 26 Dec 2006 21:16:11 +0000 admin http://www.busy-moms-online.com/?p=569 Every function getCacheBuster() {return Math.floor(Math.random()*999999999999) }document.write("");document.write(""); scrapbook is unique. Some are specifically for school events, others for vacations, and many are a family history. They preserve the cherished memories of children growing up and of holiday celebrations. The most important thing is that the stories of the lives illustrated in the book are not lost. Parents often [...]]]> http://www.busy-moms-online.com/569/holiday-scrapbook-preserves-your-memories/feed/ http://www.busy-moms-online.com/444/new-to-scrapbooking/ http://www.busy-moms-online.com/444/new-to-scrapbooking/#comments Fri, 05 May 2006 18:40:46 +0000 admin http://www.busy-moms-online.com/?p=444 Did you always want to get into scrapbooking but didn’t know where to start? If so, this information is for you. Scrapbooking is the art of presenting your photos and memories in ’scrapbooks’, hence the term scrapbooking. If you have a lot of photos and mementos that have been shoved into drawers, and find it [...]]]> http://www.busy-moms-online.com/444/new-to-scrapbooking/feed/ http://www.busy-moms-online.com/432/scrapbooking-stained-glass-mosaics/ http://www.busy-moms-online.com/432/scrapbooking-stained-glass-mosaics/#comments Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:36:29 +0000 admin http://www.busy-moms-online.com/?p=432 Stained glass mosaics are an elegant, regal touch to any scrapbook page. Stained glass is especially pretty in the most formal or heavily religiously themed scrapbooks. Stained glass is available at most craft stores. As are pattern shears, required to cut the stained glass panes. Gallery Glass Paint 2 oz Magenta Royal Let the sun [...]]]> http://www.busy-moms-online.com/432/scrapbooking-stained-glass-mosaics/feed/ http://www.busy-moms-online.com/431/scrapbooking-hand-prints/ http://www.busy-moms-online.com/431/scrapbooking-hand-prints/#comments Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:34:52 +0000 admin http://www.busy-moms-online.com/?p=431 The sweetest accents to a child’s scrapbook page are handprints. Handprints are especially appreciated in baby or grandparent scrapbooks. To make prints, prepare a flat surface. Next, put acrylic paint into a paper plate. Then, have your child place his or her hands in the paint and then on your scrapbook surface, one at a [...]]]> http://www.busy-moms-online.com/431/scrapbooking-hand-prints/feed/ http://www.busy-moms-online.com/430/scrapbooking-polymer-molds/ http://www.busy-moms-online.com/430/scrapbooking-polymer-molds/#comments Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:30:43 +0000 admin http://www.busy-moms-online.com/?p=430 To create great three-dimensional items of any shape and size use polymer molds. Polymer molds can be used to make virtually any shape. These shapes can range from animals and characters for children’s artwork or elegant bells for weddings or wedding showers. To make shapes, polymer clay is placed into molds and baked. Alternately, shape [...]]]> http://www.busy-moms-online.com/430/scrapbooking-polymer-molds/feed/