| New scrapbooking ideas are a wonderful way to | | | | Salzburg Austria information site. |
| celebrate International Scrapbooking Day, March 4 in | | | | Foreign Food Sites |
| 2008. | | | | Everyone eats, of course, and incorporating pictures of |
| Scrapbooking ideas are always welcome, of course. | | | | food into your scrapbook can be a great change of |
| You love to add variety to your scrapbooking pages, | | | | pace. You may even want to use recipes from |
| but where can you find these fresh, new ideas? Once | | | | foreign countries when scrapbooking pages for a |
| you've visited all of the common scrapbooking sites | | | | cook. |
| online, where do you go for new ideas? | | | | Scrapbooking an Irish person's delights, for example, |
| Foreign Scrapbooking Sites | | | | might include Irish recipes. A photo of the completed |
| Brainstorming foreign websites can be exciting and | | | | dish, or of a collection of ingredients for the dish, might |
| rewarding. It can also be a fun way to celebrate | | | | also be used. Use spiced beef, potato fari, or Irish stew |
| International Scrapbooking Day. | | | | for scrapbooking that shouts an Irish origin. |
| A simple Google trick will help you find ideas from the | | | | Scrapbooking to commemorate your own visit to a |
| specific countries in which you are interested.o In | | | | foreign country can be spiced up by recipes and |
| Google, click "Advanced Search".o "Scrapbooking | | | | photos of food. What did you eat when you visited |
| ideas" should be entered in the first box.o Find "Region" | | | | that country? Did you eat octopus in Japan? |
| on the left side of the Google page, with "Search | | | | Incorporate that into your scrapbooking pages. |
| pages located in:" following it. "Any region" appears in | | | | Foreign Clothing Sites |
| the box to the right. Click the arrow, and select the | | | | Scrapbooking ideas with an international flavor can |
| country you want.o Ideas from Australia, for example, | | | | also be found by looking at the clothing or fabrics of |
| will be listed when you click on "Australia" in the | | | | different regions and nations. |
| drop-down list.o Ideas from Japan will be listed when | | | | Background pages, especially, are quickly designed |
| you click "Japan". Don't worry about whether you can | | | | from fabrics of different nations. African fabrics are |
| speak Japanese. Even without translation, many great | | | | not the same as those from Japan; Japanese fabrics |
| ideas can be gleaned by looking at photos. | | | | are not the same as those from Mexico; and so on. |
| Foreign Craft Sites | | | | These ideas are quickly and easily found by doing a |
| Scrapbooking ideas are not limited to those developed | | | | Google search on "African clothing", "Japanese |
| by other scrapbookers, of course. Truly creative | | | | clothing", etc. Or use the method described at the |
| people can get brainstorms from crafts - and on | | | | beginning of this article to search a region for "clothing" |
| International Scrapbooking Day, foreign crafts can | | | | or "fabric" that is typical to that nation. |
| spark exciting ideas for you scrapbooking pages. | | | | We did a quick search on the word "fabric" in the |
| We used the same Google trick discussed above to | | | | region of "Morocco" and discovered exciting |
| find beautiful inspirations from other nation's crafts. A | | | | possibilities for scrapbook background papers. We |
| French craft website had unusual crochet patterns | | | | wanted to see pictures rather than read words, so |
| that sparked delicate designs. A New Zealand site | | | | clicked Google's "Images" on the menu at the top of |
| showed how Japanese origami can provide amusing | | | | the page. A photo of a Berber carpet gave us a quick |
| "pop-up" designs. | | | | idea for scrapbooking paper. A wool and silk kilim |
| Movie or Television Sites | | | | provided inspiration for another scrapbooking paper. |
| Scrapbooking ideas themed around a movie can be | | | | Helpful Tip |
| exciting, too. An example that lends itself to a | | | | Scrapbooking ideas are plentiful around the globe, |
| celebration of International Scrapbooking Day is "The | | | | waiting for you to find them. Pick a region or nation |
| Sound of Music" set in Salzburg, Austria. Scrapbooking | | | | that interests you or the person for whom you're |
| pages can feature a background of scenes from the | | | | preparing the scrapbook, and go looking for pictures |
| movie as well as from Austria. Creative | | | | and embellishments that echo that interest. |
| embellishments can be found on websites such as the | | | | |