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In keeping with the “Back to School” theme, here are some fun papers for bookin’ back to school layouts. I have recently bought the grade school stack. I haven’t yet used any of the papers, but they are really cute. I made each picture a link so you can see all the different papers that come in the stack. I really enjoy using the Die Cuts with a View papers. I have several different themed stacks. Usually I cut up the different parts of the papes, so what I’ve started doing is getting the 8×8 papers even though I scrapbook 12×12. Then I use just part of it and can see most of the pattern, or if I want it to span the whole page, I can cut it and piece it together. It also saves money.  

So, check them out and don’t forget the Monthly Bookin’ Challenge on the forums. I can’t wait to see the layouts you create! 

Happy Bookin’!

Sorry for the extended downtime the site had the past few weeks. Server issues, but all has (hopefully) been cleared up. So, let’s start new, for the new school year!!!

Welcome to MyBookinOnline! This blog is a gateway to the bookin’ forums.  On the blog I will post several times a week about tips and techniques related to scrapbooking, scrapbooking products, scrapbooking freebies, and examples of things I (or others) have made on online scrapbook template sites.  If you want to be a part of the fun, please register on the forums. There are many ways to contribute. Tell us a great tip or technique and you could be featured on the blog page. Participate in the Monthly Challenge and your work could be shown on the blog page. Tell us why you like your favorite scrapbook tool or product and you could be featured on the blog page.  Create a SmileBox or a Scrapblog and put the link in the forum yours could be featured on the blog! So, get involved, tell all your bookin’ friends and let’s get this party started!!

Happy Bookin’!

I’ve had this eyelet setter for several years. Before this I had the regular tool kit that had the small hammer and eyelet setter tool that you had to bang on….loudly… several times to make a hole and then bag again…..even louder…. to set the eyelet. It just didn’t work for me. For one thing, even though I mostly do all my bookin’ outside of my home, I’m with a group, and would have to remember to call out “hammering!” every time I wanted to set an eyelet, or else I would either upset the lady sitting at the same table with me as she’s trying to do her handwritten journaling and I’m hammering away, or startling nearly everyone else in the room! If I try to do my bookin’ at home, it’s nearly always after my daughter has gone to bed, and I don’t want to wake her up with the hammering. So, I invested in the Instant Setter by Making Memories. While not “silent” it is quieter than hammering. One (slightly loud) click to make your hole and one (at the most two) clicks to set the eyelet. It usually doesn’t result in an eyelet back that is “perfectly” spread, but one usually hides the back of an eyelet anyway, so no biggie to me. You can adjust the tension on it, so if you have an especially soft eyelet, make it hit less hard and just do it a couple of times to get it as flat as you like. It’s easy to change setter heads, just slip in a new one and it’s magnetically held in place until you take it out. It’s a little on the hard side to clean out the puncher tool as you can’t stick a needle straight in, but there is a hole on the side to do the job, it just takes a bit of doing.

All in all, a great tool for eyelet setting.

Do you have a favorite tool? Let us know over at the Bookin’ Forums!

Happy Bookin’!