You might not consider a collection that is mostly pastels for your winter pages, but if you think about it, what better palette but frosty colors to document your frosty photos? Most of us work from our photos to choose …
5 Tips to Create 2-Page Spreads
When working with the Mosaic Moments® System, we generally start with a single-page pattern. However, many of us prefer two-page layouts in our albums, so these patterns must be converted to a spread. The key to creating that two-page spread …
Purposeful Plans for Photos
2021 has arrived with some of the leftover baggage of 2020. As such, the days ahead just might continue to disrupt what we once considered normal and continue to interrupt our hoped-for plans of travel and plans for adventure. While …
11 Ways to Create a Two-Page Spread with Coordinating Dies
Turning two single-page layouts into a two-page spread is easier than you may think. In addition to using the same pattern paper and cardstock colors on each side, you can also use dies from the same collection. The dies do …
Scrapbooking the Year 2020
2020 has been a monumental year. For starters, we dealt with a life-altering pandemic that turned our worlds upside down. But, many of us also expanded their families, took amazing vacations, and grew closer together. As this year finally draws …
Tell Your Story: The Holidays
As we approach the holidays, we look forward to the celebrations before us and it often brings us memories of holidays past. No doubt you have a few favorite stories about Christmas when you were growing up, or maybe when …
10 Easy Holiday Scrapbook Layouts Ideas with Level One Dies
Level One, or Explore Dies, are those that take the least amount of time to use. While perfect for those new to Mosaic Moments®, they are also great when you want to get your holiday pictures in your albums quickly. …
4 Quick Holiday Tips
I have a few quick holiday tips for scrapping because if we’ve learned anything about our scrapping it helps to do pages close to the events in order to remember all the details. However, the rush of the holidays, so …
10 Reasons to Use Page Kits for the Holidays
We love using Mosaic Moments® Page Kits all year long, but they are especially useful during the holidays. Here are some reasons why we use holiday page kits, and some ideas for you as well. Note: Most of the page …
Christmas with Non-Traditional Colors
Traditional colors of reds and greens are usually our go to colors for scrapping the Christmas season, but each year a multitude of non-traditional colors make their way into our cards and ornaments. I considered several color options for this …
20 Non-Traditional Holiday Moments to Capture
Article By Candy Spiegel Each year, we seem to take the same photos for the holiday season, like the kids on Santa’s lap, the neighborhood’s holiday lights, or the tree with all the presents piled underneath. This year, we are …
Christmas in your Pocket
The Nested Pocket Dies have been a great tool for making one of our family traditions, a Countdown to Christmas or an Advent celebration calendar, a part of our yearly holiday makes. It’s a way to prepare the kids for …
13 Ways to Embellish Your Holiday Scrapbook Pages
Mosaic Moments® is a photo-centric system of scrapbooking where embellishments are not needed. But, sometimes it can be fun to add embellishments to a layout — especially during the holidays. Here are 13 ways to add embellishments to your layouts. …
A Thanksgiving Memory
Memories of Thanksgiving past flood our thoughts as this year for many, Thanksgiving will be different. It might be a good time to go back and scrap those memories as a way to count our blessings. How do you tell …
Design Principle 8: Repetition
The final design principle we are talking about is repetition. In design, repetition is repeating one or more elements on your layout. This gives your scrapbook page unity and consistency. Repeating the elements (such as color, shape, etc.) goes hand-in-hand …
Ten Cards for Christmas
We’re going to look at ten cards for Christmas this week. Christmas will soon be upon us and part of getting ready for the big day is sending greetings to friends and family with an annual Christmas card. Most years …
6 Holiday Photography Tips & Tricks
Article By Candy Spiegel Holidays are a wonderful time for capturing beautiful moments. Everything is decorated, holiday lights and fires help to light up the evenings, and, there could be a beautiful winter wonderland outdoors. But, getting that perfect shot …
Quick and Easy Page Kit
This page kit, Favorite Season Kit, is perfect for adding journaling in different spots. I have made mine in the large center spot as I decided handwriting would be a good touch this time. I also inked the edge with …
6 Easy Tips For Creating Two Page Scrapbook Layouts with Page Patterns
Page patterns, and most sample layouts, in the Mosaic Moments® System are single pages, so they are easier to see. However, they can easily be made into two-page spreads. We have put together six basic rules, with lots of additional …
Crop to Improve Your Pics
I have two main choices when printing my photos. I can print as shot usually giving me a 4×5 photo or crop it to 4×6 and print it out. I usually can go further in cropping to size for the …