Make some effort to use your good digital camera this Fall. Now that everyone has a camera in their cell phone to many people are relying solely on cell phones for getting their photos. Cell phone cameras can come in handy on occasion when you don’t have your good camera, but cell phone cameras are not going to get you the best photos. Usually the lens are minimal and they don’t produce the photos that are amazing! I like to think of a cell phone shot, as a camera to use when the option is you will not have the photo otherwise.

So our biggest Photography tip today is DON’T use your Cell Phone Camera for your nature photographs, family photos or other serious photos where you want the quality to be higher.

Now you have gotten your good digital camera out and want to improve those photos too! So, here are a few tips to guide you to better Autumn photography!

Fall Photo Tips
(originally posted 10/28/09)

Now that Fall is here grab your digital camera and get out there and start taking photos!

Here are 6 photo tips to help you get the best photos this Fall

Tip 1: Take Fall Landscape or Outside Shots in Early morning or Late Afternoon. Outdoor or landscape photography work well from the early morning or late afternoon natural light. One Travel Photographer Susan McCartney says, “It’s best to photograph outdoors when your shadow is longer than you are.”

In the early morning, you might get some fog or mist that will provide a soft background with some long shadows. Morning can provide a great time to go out and take some wonderful Fall photos.

In the later afternoon or early evening the golden light just before sunset transforms not only leaves hanging on trees, but also the leaves that have fallen on the ground.

Tip 2: When taking photos in the middle of the day use backlighting to enhance the photos. When the sun is overhead, you can use backlighting to make leaves glow in your photographs.

For example, see in the example how the light showing through the leaves makes the colors bright and interesting.

Tip 3: Use a close up lens to get really close to the leaves. Go ahead, zoom in with your lens and then put the close up lens on to get even closer! This will give a better image if you want to turn it into a digital scrapbooking embellishment.

Tip 4: Vary the kind of day you take photos, take photos with different types of skies. Don’t always take photos on blue sky days, or don’t always take photos on cloudy days – vary the kind of days you take photos on for different effects. You can take a photo of the same leaf or tree with a different type of sky and have a totally different kind of photo!

Each type of lighting offers different opportunities. If it is a sunny day, you get the benefit of blue sky and strong light and shadow. However, when the sky is overcast or when clouds obscure the sun, you get the benefit of enhancing the colors of the leaves relative to the rest of the surroundings. Stormy skies can make subtle colors “pop.”

Tip 5: Start taking the photos as soon as the leaves in your area start to turn colors. When you see the leaves turn, start taking photos and then keep taking photos as long as you can. Then when the heavy frost comes along, or a big windy rainstorm, color can decrease in intensity, and the wind will rip the leaves from the branches. Don’t miss getting your precious photos by waiting to long before you start taking your Fall photos.

Need some good places to get Fall Foliage shots? Why not check out the this blog article that talks about Fall Scenic Drives: a Photographic Opportunity!

Tip 6: Don’t forget to take candid photos of people with Fall scenery. Fall can give you the opportunity for some great candid photos. Children playing leaves, and couples strolling down a lane with Autumn Trees in the background.

Use a telephoto zoom lens to shoot unobserved candid pictures from farther away. It is very nice to get up close and personal when taking good photos.

However, if you have a camera with a fixed lens then you would have to be so close to the people you are photographing that the shot might be influenced by you because you are now part of the action. Being further away lets the scene develop without people feeling self-conscious and often you can capture more intriguing intimate photos.

Check back for more Tips, Ideas and Helpful Hints!

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Have a nice day!

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The Fall Colored Leaves Digital Scrapbooking Kit is a full-featured digital scrapbooking kit filled with beautiful fall-inspired digital papers, embellishments, WordArt, and more! Even though you can’t hang onto Fall forever, you can hang onto special Fall memories with a coordinating autumn leaf colors kit! Paper size is 12×12″

With this Fall Colored Leaves inspired kit, you can create great Fall, Halloween, and even Thanksgiving pages and projects! This timeless kit is a wonderful way to begin creating beautiful digital scrapbooking projects for autumn!

Whether you are playing in the foliage or raking up the fallen leaves in your yard, this kit is great to use for your digi pages. Scrap a visit to a pumpkin patch, a hay ride, a corn maze, or just spending a day outside with the stunning fall foliage, take photos and scrap them using the Fall Colored Leaves Digi Scrapbooking Kit. Mix and match the digi papers and season-inspired digi supplies to create special seasonal scrapbooks of you and your family!

The Autumn Days Digi Scrapbooking Kit features a digital scrapbooking kit filled with beautiful autumn-inspired digital papers, embellishments, WordArt, bows, and more! Even though you can’t hang onto autumn forever, you can hang onto special autumn memories with a coordinating digital scrapbooking kit! Paper size is 12×12″

Whether you visit the pumpkin patch, go for a hay ride, or just spending a day outside with the stunning fall foliage, take photos and scrap them using the Autumn Days Digi Scrapbooking Kit. Mix and match the digi papers and season-inspired digi supplies to create special seasonal scrapbooks of you and your family!

With this Fall-inspired kit you can create great Fall pages and projects as this kit works for Autumn activities, Halloween Fun, and even Thanksgiving Events! This timeless kit is a wonderful way to begin creating classically beautiful digital scrapbooking projects for Autumn!

This adorable Pumpkin Patch Digital Scrapbooking Kit has the perfect look for all of your Fall or Halloween-festivities. Whether you want a project with images of you and your loved ones at the pumpkin patch, carving pumpkins, or just celebrating the fun of Halloween or Fall Activities, this pumpkin filled kit, can helps set the mood!

This beautiful Pumpkin Digital Scrapbooking Kit can create gorgeous pumpkin themed digital projects. Kit includes digital papers, frames, and tags. Perfect Digital Scrapbooking Kit for any true- Halloween and Pumpkin Lover!

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The Pumpkin Journaling Digital Scrapbooking Kit features a digital scrapbooking kit filled with beautiful pumpkin-inspired digital papers, embellishments, bows, journaling blocks, pen and more! Even though you can’t hang onto autumn forever, you can hang onto special autumn memories with this coordinating journaling digital scrapbooking kit! Paper size is 12×12″ This kit is great for Fall scrapbooking projects, and perfect for those that enjoy journaling with digital scrapbooking! This kit was specifically designed for large amounts of text with included journaling block embellishments, providing a wonderful outlet for you to include stories or memories of important moments within your digital scrapbooking projects. This kit is also designed so that you can have the pages face each other for a more continuous feel, if you are going to turn the digital scrapbooking pages into an album or book, and also included is a cover scrap page too!

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The Apple Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 (12×12″ papers) is a lovely kit that is dedicated to Apples! Use for those apple picking adventures, or apple pie baking recipe scrapbooks! Use this kit for Fall adventures, and even Back to School themed scrap pages! This kit comes with 12×12″ digital papers and several apple-themed digital embellishments! Also, this kit comes with 2 Digital Recipe Cards Embellishment for using to scrap all of those yummy recipes using apples!

Gather your fall photos you and use with this extra fun apple-themed digital scrap kit! First add photos of picking apples in the apple orchard, then eating them out in the farmers field, not to mention scrapping all the baking activities too using the included recipe cards in this kit!

The Apple Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 (12×12″ digital paper) is a great kit that is perfect for Digital Scrapbooking Pages dedicated to Apple picking adventures, apple pie baking, Fall adventures, and even Back to School themed scrap projects! Start thinking today about all the photos you could get in with apples as the theme! First, picking apples in the apple orchard, not to mention all the baking activities too! This kit comes with 12×12″ digital papers and several apple-themed digital embellishments! Also, this kit comes with a Digital Recipe Card Embellishment for recipes using apples!

Use this kit for school themed scrapbooking projects too! With these apple supplies start scrapping the school year, or special classes, or favorite school subjects, great teachers, and other school-related themes that could use an apple!

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It is always fun to photography fall leaves, but if it is too late for leaves in your area this year, take a note and make sure to see the colors next year!

As Fall approaches one of the wonders of nature is the leaves changing colors and making many spectacular shows of color here and there.

Everyone probably has a favorite place close to home that has some fun fall colors. I like to take the drive up a canyon near my home to see the yellow and orange leaves when the Fall hits Southern California …more like in December here in San Diego! But never the less, when those leaves turn color, I want to be there with my digital camera!

Sometimes it is fun to plan a trip to an area that has a dramatic fall color show.

According to Fine Living Travel here are 8 Great Fall Drives one must take. They are:

• VERMONT: Route 5
• WISCONSIN: Cranberry Highway
• PENNSYLVANIA: Lehigh Valley
• GEORGIA/NORTH CAROLINA: Great Smoky Mountains
• TEXAS: Lost Maples State Park
• UTAH: Guardsman Pass Scenic Backway
• CALIFORNIA: Yosemite National Park
• ARKANSAS/OKLAHOMA: Ouachita Mountains

These might be some places you could go to see some wonderful displays of fall foliage and dramatic color!

This is a great time of year to get beautiful pictures of scenery, so don’t forget your camera! Images so brilliant, that you might want to come home and frame them. Also it could be a great time to get some wonderful family photos – ones that you would want to digitally scrap and turn into family scrapbooking albums or gifts like a mouse pad or puzzle! And don’t forget that fall leaves make fantastic embellishments for digital scrapbooking projects so take lots of close-up leaf shots because the really make great digital scrapbooking embellishments!

Have a colorful fall and don’t forget to take time to look at the changing foliage and take a few photos while you are at it!

Cheri

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The Autumn Days Digital Scrapbooking Kit features a digital scrapbooking kit filled with beautiful autumn-inspired digital papers, embellishments, WordArt, bows, and more! Even though you can’t hang onto autumn forever, you can hang onto special autumn memories with a coordinating digital scrapbooking kit! Paper size is 12×12″

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This special Fall Digital Scrapbooking kit has digital recipe cards for scrapbooking Fall or Thanksgiving cooking or dinners. This kit is good for scrapping visits a pumpkin patch, or going for a hay rides, or just spending a day outside with the stunning fall foliage! Take Autumn or Thanksgiving photos and scrap them using this Digi Scrapbooking Kit. Mix and match the digi papers and season-inspired digi supplies to create special seasonal scrapbooks of you and your family!

Also see the The Fall Colored Leaves Digital Scrapbooking Kit is a full-featured digital scrapbooking kit filled with beautiful fall-inspired digital papers, embellishments, WordArt, and more! Fall memories with a coordinating autumn leaf colors kit! Paper size is 12×12″ Whether you are playing in the foliage or raking up the fallen leaves in your yard, this kit is great to use for your digi pages. Scrap a visit to a pumpkin patch, a hay ride, a corn maze, or just spending a day outside with the stunning fall foliage, take photos and scrap them using the Fall Colored Leaves Digi Scrapbooking Kit. Mix and match the digi papers and season-inspired digi supplies to create special seasonal scrapbooks of you and your family!

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I love Fall but sometimes I need some ideas to get started scrapbooking or taking photographs.

As a scrapbooker and photographer I am always trying to look for new scrapbooking and photo ideas, if you are like me then check the list below for lots of great ideas! Once you have an idea you can be on the look out for taking photos or getting scrapbooking supplies that match!

November is a wonderful month for getting photos for great digital scrapbooking pages and projects!

When you think ahead of some of places to look for photos, then you can be more prepared to get great photos for your digital scrapbooking projects. So grab your camera, and look for those perfect scrapbooking photos!

Here are some ideas to keep in mind so you have a camera ready for the perfect shot or also so you can prepare and have the right digital scrapbooking supplies on hand for making wonderful fall digital scrapbooking projects.

November Ideas to get you started. Take Photos and Digitally Scrap these Events:

• Apple Picking and Baking
• Pumpkin pies
• Visiting Grandparents
• Baking Cookies
• Hot coco or Apple cider
• Fireplaces and families gatherings
• Thanksgiving activities and preparations
• Thanksgiving decorations
• Thanksgiving and people at the table
• Thanksgiving recipes
• Thanksgiving leftovers
• Family dinner, watching TV, playing board games
• Family in fall clothing
• Leaves changing color
• Raking up leaves
• Kids and Grown-ups jumping into leaves
• Sports Events and family members watching “the game”
• The first snow fall
• Family Photos for Holiday Cards
• Dogs and Kids playing in the snow
• Family gatherings
• Visiting Friends
• Helping others and community services projects
• Shopping events and after Thanksgiving Sales!
• Nature changing
• Birds flying south
• Water freezing

These are just a few November ideas to get you thinking about some of the fun things you can take photos of and then turn into wonderful digital scrapbooking projects!

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These beautiful Antique Autumn Colors with this Old Fall Digital Scrapbooking Kit can create a gorgeously weathered, aged-looking digital project. Kit includes digital papers, wordart, bow, frames, and tags. Paper size is 12×12″

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This adorable Pumpkin Patch Digital Scrapbooking Kit has the perfect look for all of your Fall or Halloween-festivities. Whether you want a project with images of you and your loved ones at the pumpkin patch, carving pumpkins, or just celebrating the fun of Halloween or Fall Activities, this pumpkin filled kit, can helps set the mood!

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The Fall Foliage Digi Scrapbooking Kit 1 features a digital scrapbooking kit filled with beautiful autumn leaf-inspired digital papers, embellishments, and WordArt! Even though you can’t hang onto the fall leaves forever, you can hang onto special autumn memories with a coordinating digital scrapbooking kit! Paper size is 12×12″. This size of paper is great for large scrapbooking albums

This special Fall Digital Scrapbooking kit has digital recipe cards for scrapbooking Fall or Thanksgiving cooking or dinners. This kit is good for scrapping visits a pumpkin patch, or going for a hay rides, or just spending a day outside with the stunning fall foliage! Take Autumn or Thanksgiving photos and scrap them using this Digi Scrapbooking Kit. Mix and match the digi papers and season-inspired digi supplies to create special seasonal scrapbooks of you and your family!

The Pumpkin Journaling Digital Scrapbooking Kit features a digital scrapbooking kit filled with beautiful pumpkin-inspired digital papers, embellishments, bows, journaling blocks, pen and more! Even though you can’t hang onto autumn forever, you can hang onto special autumn memories with this coordinating journaling digital scrapbooking kit! Paper size is 12×12″ This kit is great for Fall scrapbooking projects, and perfect for those that enjoy journaling with digital scrapbooking! This kit was specifically designed for large amounts of text with included journaling block embellishments, providing a wonderful outlet for you to include stories or memories of important moments within your digital scrapbooking projects. This kit is also designed so that you can have the pages face each other for a more continuous feel, if you are going to turn the digital scrapbooking pages into an album or book, and also included is a cover scrap page too!

The Fall Pumpkin Digital Scrapbooking Kit features a digital scrapbooking kit filled with beautiful pumpkin-inspired digital papers, embellishments, bows, flowers, a recipe card and more! Paper size is 12×12″ Great kit for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Fall Activities, Fall Baking and Pumpkin Pie recipes! This timeless kit is a wonderful way to begin creating classically beautiful digital scrapbooking projects for Autumn!

With this Pumpkin-inspired kit you can create great Fall pages and projects as this kit works for lots of Fall activities, like Halloween or Thanksgiving events. Whether you visit the pumpkin patch, go for a hay ride, or just spending a day outside with the stunning fall foliage, take photos and scrap them using the this Pumpkin Journaling Digital Scrapbooking Kit. Mix and match the digi papers and season-inspired digital supplies to create special seasonal scrapbooks of you and your family!

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Anyway, I think it is fun to have a Halloween themed dinner on Halloween night or for a Halloween party and it seems extra fun to cook in a pot that look like a cauldron and then scrap and share the recipes with family and friends!

Top Secret to Halloween Cauldron Cooking!….ssh, don’t tell anyone!

Here is the secret.. start with a black cast iron pot (cauldron) and then cook any one pot meal like: soup, chicken, beef roasts, stews, jambalayas or casserole recipe!

Any of these things should work in this type of pot and magic happens when you just call it a bubbling Halloween Cauldron Recipe! What you say about it makes it special! But don’t tell!

So if you like just start out with a black cast iron pot, your recipe, cook it, photograph it and then scrap the recipes!

Cauldron Cooking for Halloween:

To get started here are a few recipes and Scrapbooking ideas!

Halloween Creamy Shrimp & Tomato Cauldron Chowder

Ingredients:
2 stalks celery, chopped (1 cup)
1 medium onion, chopped (1/2 cup)
1 Tbsp. olive oil
2 14.5 oz. cans diced tomatoes with basil, garlic, and oregano spice
8 oz. medium peeled cooked shrimp
1/2 cup whipping cream
1/2 cup water
Ground Black Pepper
Slivered fresh basil
Focaccia wedges or other bread

Directions:
In a large saucepan, or Cast Iron Cauldron pot; cook celery and onion in hot oil just until tender. Stir in tomatoes; heat through. Add shrimp, whipping cream, and water. Cook over medium heat just until hot. Season to taste with pepper.
Ladle chowder into bowls; top with basil Serve with focaccia wedges. Serves 4 (1-1/2-cup servings).

How about this Cauldron Curry Recipe?

How about having a whole dinner that matches the theme of the of your Halloween party? A dish cooked in a Dutch oven or cast iron cauldron is special Halloween dish that keeps the mood too!

One dish you might want to try is this Cauldron Curry from MarthaStewart.com. Then after you have made it scrap it too!

This dish is extra fun if you serve it in a cauldron looking pot!

Add this Squeamish Squash with Rice dish with the Cauldron Curry for an extra exciting Halloween dinner!

What child could resist such a very special and fun holiday dinner?

Here is another recipe you might want to try and then scrap:

Bubbling Soup Cauldron Recipe

INGREDIENTS:
1 pound ground beef
1 can (10.75 ounce size) condensed cheese soup
1/2 soup can water
1 package (16 ounce size) processed cheese with jalapeno peppers, cubed
1 can (15 ounce size) kidney beans, rinsed and well drained
1 can (15 ounce size) pinto beans, rinsed and well drained
1 can (15 ounce size) black beans, rinsed and well drained
1 cup medium or hot salsa
6 medium round loaves dark rye bread or wheat grain bread, unsliced

DIRECTIONS:
Brown the ground beef in a soup pot, or cauldron: over medium high heat until no longer pink, about 5 to 7 minutes. Drain off fat. Add cheese soup and water and bring to a very gentle simmer. Add the cubed cheese, and stir until melted. Remove from heat.

Stir in beans and salsa and bring back to a simmer.
Evenly slice off tops of each loaf of bread, and reserve for later. Carefully hollow out center of each loaf leaving 1 1/2-inch shell. Spoon soup into hollowed out bread, allowing some to spill over top of bread cauldron as if bubbling, and replace top of the loaf.

Serve hot. For a creepier effect, use Halloween cookie cutters and cut out scary shapes from slices of American cheese.

Place on top of the individual bubbling soup bowl. You can also use different colored cheeses and create spiders, flies, and so forth, and place them on top of the soup.

Cauldron Chili with Spider Bread:

Or how about this recipe by Pillsbury? ~ Cauldron of Chili with Spider Breads

Top a steaming bowl of chili with a friendly (and edible!) breadstick spider.

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Add a little extra fun at your house this Halloween season, and make lots of memories by making some Halloween Cauldron meals, and scrapping the fun too!

Happy Halloween and Happy Scrapping too!

Here are a few scrapbooking kits that you can use to make to scrap the Halloween recipes too.

Halloween Digital Scrapbooking Supplies:

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The Halloween Spider Book Digital Scrapbooking Kit which is a digital scrapbooking kit that features 12 Halloween Spider-inspired digital papers, and lots of Halloween embellishments!

Get creeped-out with the super-spooky Halloween Spider Book Digi Scrapbooking Kit! Filled with digi-spiders and cobwebs, this kit is great for journaling and scrapping holiday festivities! Paper size is 8.5×11″ which is perfect for home printing!

Create your own web of digi-masterpieces with a spider-inspired Halloween kit! This kit was made especially for journaling all the excitement of Halloween! It?s filled with tons of places to add spooky stories and creepy captions! Also, you can write down your Halloween recipes and make a digital scrapbooking Halloween recipe book too!

The Halloween Fun Digital Scrapbooking Kit, is a digital scrapbooking kit that features 10 beautiful fall-inspired digital papers and includes a FREE bonus set of “spook-tacular” digital Halloween embellishments! Paper size is 12×12″

Get into the Halloween spirit with digital papers that are perfect for digitally scrapbooking photos of your favorite trick-or-treaters! Use these holiday-inspired papers to add photos to this year’s Halloween activities.

When you buy this kit, you also get a bonus: A Halloween-inspired digital embellishment kit too! Add some adorable Halloween-detail your pages and projects with digital embellishments! This kit is filled with Halloween-essentials that can add a little excitement to holiday projects, from scary spiders with sticky webs, to a haunted house filled with spooky ghosts, and even a few holiday pumpkins too!

Or take a look at this Halloween Digital Scrapbooking Kit:

The Halloween Spider Book Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 with 12×12″ paper is a digital scrapbooking kit that features 8 Halloween Spider-inspired digital papers, and lots of Halloween embellishments! Buy this super-spooky Halloween Spider Book Digi Scrapbooking kit for all your digi Halloween projects!

This Kit is filled with digi-spiders and cobwebs, and is a Halloween kit that is great for journaling and scrapping holiday festivities! Paper size is 12×12″ – which is perfect for your large digi scrapbooking needs!

Create your own web of digi-masterpieces with a spider-inspired Halloween kit! This kit was made especially for journaling all the excitement of Halloween! It’s filled with tons of places to add spooky stories and creepy captions! Also make a large digital scrapbooking Halloween photo album too!

Get into the Halloween spirit with digital papers that are perfect for digitally scrapbooking photos of your favorite trick-or-treaters! Use the frames in the kit to slip your photos underneath for your Halloween digital scrapbooking pages!

Get other Halloween Digital Scrap Kits – Buy this Halloween Kit too!

This adorable Pumpkin Patch Digital Scrapbooking Kit has the perfect look for all of your Fall or Halloween-festivities. Whether you want a project with images of you and your loved ones at the pumpkin patch, carving pumpkins, or just celebrating the fun of Halloween or Fall Activities, this pumpkin filled kit, can helps set the mood!

This beautiful Pumpkin Digital Scrapbooking Kit can create gorgeous pumpkin themed digital projects. Kit includes digital papers, frames, and tags. Perfect Digital Scrapbooking Kit for any true- Halloween and Pumpkin Lover!

With a Pumpkin Fall-inspired Digital Scrapbooking Kit it is easy using a graphics program such as Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to create a gorgeously Fall or Halloween looking digital projects.

The Pumpkin Journaling Digital Scrapbooking Kit features a digital scrapbooking kit filled with beautiful pumpkin-inspired digital papers, embellishments, bows, journaling blocks, pen and more! Even though you can’t hang onto autumn forever, you can hang onto special autumn memories with this coordinating journaling digital scrapbooking kit! Paper size is 12×12″ This kit is great for Fall scrapbooking projects, and perfect for those that enjoy journaling with digital scrapbooking! This kit was specifically designed for large amounts of text with included journaling block embellishments, providing a wonderful outlet for you to include stories or memories of important moments within your digital scrapbooking projects. This kit is also designed so that you can have the pages face each other for a more continuous feel, if you are going to turn the digital scrapbooking pages into an album or book, and also included is a cover scrap page too!

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Get out the camera, grab a apple basket and go to Julian (or your local apple orchard)!

One special activity to do in the Fall is apple picking, then bring home for apple baking the sweet and tart treat!

If you are in San Diego this Fall take a drive to Julian about 50 miles from San Diego city, but worth the drive; as the road meanders scenic country with cows and horses grazing in fields. By the time you get to the orchard you feel relaxed and probably have already got several inspiring photos already.

If you have a nice place to pick apples close to you then take a drive and get some apples for baking, and take time to enjoy fall while you take the time to get some good photos that you can use for digital scrapbooking too! This is the perfect weekend! Need more inspiration? Then check out these article!

Read these articles to get inspired:

Article: Fall Harvest and Apple Season Digital Scrapbooking time!

Article: Make a Fall Apple Digi Scrap Recipe Book

Article: Fall Apple Pies and Digital Scrapbooking Recipes

Looking for those great fall photos, apple orchards and apple activities can make for a great family time, and give a wonderful opportunity photos for digital scrapbooking projects!

Get Lots of Apple Photos this Year!

Enjoy your apple picking, apple photography, and apple digital scrapbooking projects this year!

Get lot of great photos and make lots of great family and friends memories to treasure for years to come.

Enjoy!

Have a very happy fall!

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The Apple Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 (12×12″ papers) is a great kit that is perfect for Digital Scrapbooking Pages dedicated to Apple picking adventures, apple pie baking, Fall adventures, and even Back to School themed scrap projects! Start thinking today about all the photos you could get in with apples as the theme! First, picking apples in the apple orchard, not to mention all the baking activities too! This kit comes with 12×12″ digital papers and several apple-themed digital embellishments! Also, this kit comes with a Digital Recipe Card Embellishment for recipes using apples!

Use this kit for school themed scrapbooking projects too! With these apple supplies start scrapping the school year, or special classes, or favorite school subjects, great teachers, and other school-related themes that could use an apple!

The Apple Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 (12×12″ papers) is a lovely kit that is dedicated to Apples! Use for those apple picking adventures, or apple pie baking recipe scrapbooks! Use this kit for Fall adventures, and even Back to School themed scrap pages!  This kit comes with 12×12″ digital papers and several apple-themed digital embellishments!

Also, this kit comes with 2 Digital Recipe Cards Embellishment for using to scrap all of those yummy recipes using apples!

The Apple Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 (8.5×11″ or 11×8.5″ papers depending on orientation) is a lovely kit that is dedicated to Apples! Use for those adventures in orchards like picking apples! Scrap apple recipes and apple pie baking recipe books! Use this kit for Fall adventures, and even use for Back to School themed scrap pages!  This kit comes with 5 digital papers and several apple-themed digital embellishments! Also, this kit comes with 3 Digital Recipe Cards Embellishment for using to scrap all of those yummy recipes using apples! These digital papers are perfect for home printing, calendars, recipe books and more!

See these Fun Apple Themed Quick Page Kits

See all the Quick Page Kits at the Scrap Shop

The Apple Quick Page Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 is a digital scrapbooking kit that features 4 apple-inspired digital scrapbooking Quick Pages. Quick Pages are the easy way to do digital scrapbooking, just slip a photo underneath and you are done! Yes, it is that easy! The paper size for this kit is 12×12″ – which is perfect for your large digi scrapbooking albums!

This Quick Page Kit is a great kit that is perfect for Digital Scrapbooking Pages dedicated to Apple picking adventures, apple pie baking, Fall adventures, and even Back to School themed scrap projects! Included in this Kit is 4 FREE Bonus WordArt!

The Apple Quick Page Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 is a digital scrapbooking kit that features 4 apple-inspired digital scrapbooking Quick Pages. A perfect way to make Digital Scrapbooking Pages dedicated to Apple picking adventures, apple pie baking, Fall adventures, and even Back to School themed scrap projects!

Quick Pages are the easy way to do digital scrapbooking, just slip a photo underneath and you are done!  The paper size for this kit is 12×12″ – which is perfect for your large digital scrapbooking albums! Included in this Kit is 4 FREE Bonus Embellishments! Plus one of the embellishments is a digital recipe card, making this a great kit to use to scrap all those apple recipes too!

The Apple Quick Page Digital Scrapbooking Kit 3 is a digital scrapbooking kit that features 5 apple-inspired digital scrapbooking Quick Pages. This kit is wonderful to use when making a a recipe book, or photo album. This kit is design to make it easy! Quick Pages are the easy way to do digital scrapbooking, just slip a photo underneath and you are done!  The paper size for this kit is 8.5×11″ – which is perfect making digital scrapbooking albums or recipe books that you can print out on home printers! Included in this Kit is 3 FREE Bonus Embellishments!

More Apple Inspired Digital Supplies

The Apple Colored Digital Scrapbook Papers Kit 1 is perfect for apple picking, apple pies, fall and school themed projects! Use this paper kit when ever you need fall colored papers! This Paper collection includes 5 different 12×12″ papers. Comes with 4 Bonus Embellishments too! The large 12×12″ size is great for any traditional size digital scrapbooking project.

This kit includes 5 different colored digital 12×12″ papers created at 300 dpi. Comes with 4 Bonus Embellishments too!

The Apple Scrapbooking Embellishment Kit 1 is great for adding details to your Fall Events, Back to School activities and Apple themed scrap pages, as well as other digital scrapbooking projects! Create a apple-inspired digital scrapbooking project or album, by adding adorable details using this embellishment kit! Filled with bows, tags, borders, paper clips, brads,  flowers and more! This kit has embellishments that go great with apple-themed pages, school events, Fall activities, or other everyday memories that want to be preserved. Don’t forget this kit is great for scrapping apple picking adventures and baking yummy pies, use the included 2 digital recipe cards to scrap the apple baking recipes! This kit is great for many fall scrapbooking projects like Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas too! Great to use these embellishments anytime apples are involved!

Digitally scrap all of your Fall and Back to School activities with the Apple WordArt Kit 1 for Digital Scrapbooking. Use the Apple WordArt Kit 1 to add extra detail and complete your pages with Apple-inspired sayings! Includes 8 different WordArt Embellishments, perfect for adding pretty detail to digi-pages. Use for baking apple dishes and making recipe books. Use for Back to School or class scrapbooking pages! Use for all the fall activities that apples are used in!

See, The Gardening 2 Digital Scrapbooking Kit is an adorable, country-style garden-themed kit, great for digitally scrapping gardening, fall activities like apple picking and other nature themed projects! Use this fun, earth-tone kit to scrap your favorite photos! This kit comes with 11×8.5″ digital papers and several digital embellishments!

You can get other Garden or Fall Digital Scrapbooking kits for all you Apple Picking adventures or Fall Digital Scrapbooking Projects!

November is a wonderful month for getting photos for great digital scrapbooking pages and projects!

When you think ahead of some of places to look for photos, then you can be more prepared to get great photos for your digital scrapbooking projects. So grab your camera, and look for those  perfect scrapbooking photos!

Here are some ideas to keep in mind so you have a camera ready for the perfect shot or also so you can prepare and have the right digital scrapbooking supplies on hand for making wonderful fall digital scrapbooking projects.

November Ideas to get you started. Take Photos and Digitally Scrap these Events:

• Apple Picking and Baking
• Pumpkin pies 
• Visiting Grandparents
• Baking Cookies
• Hot coco or Apple cider
• Fireplaces and families gatherings
• Thanksgiving activities and preparations
• Thanksgiving decorations
• Thanksgiving and people at the table
• Thanksgiving recipes
• Thanksgiving leftovers
• Family dinner, watching TV, playing board games
• Family in fall clothing
• Leaves changing color
• Raking up leaves
• Kids and Grown-ups jumping into leaves
• Sports Events  and family members watching “the game”
• The first snow fall
• Family Photos for Holiday Cards
• Dogs and Kids playing in the snow
• Family gatherings
• Visiting Friends
• Helping others and community services projects
• Shopping events and after Thanksgiving Sales!
• Nature changing
• Birds flying south
• Water freezing

These are just a few November ideas to get you thinking about some of the fun things you can take photos of and then turn into wonderful digital scrapbooking projects!

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Get Fall Digital Scrapbooking Kits too!

These beautiful Antique Autumn Colors with this Old Fall Digital Scrapbooking Kit can create a gorgeously weathered, aged-looking digital project. Kit includes digital papers, wordart, bow, frames, and tags. Paper size is 12×12″

With this aged Fall-inspired kit you can create a gorgeously weathered, antique-looking digital project. This timeless kit is a wonderful way to begin creating classically beautiful digital scrapbooking projects!

This adorable Pumpkin Patch Digital Scrapbooking Kit has the perfect look for all of your Fall or Halloween-festivities. Whether you want a project with images of you and your loved ones at the pumpkin patch, carving pumpkins, or just celebrating the fun of Halloween or Fall Activities, this pumpkin filled kit, can helps set the mood!

This beautiful Pumpkin Digital Scrapbooking Kit can create gorgeous pumpkin themed digital projects. Kit includes digital papers, frames, and tags. Perfect Digital Scrapbooking Kit for any true- Halloween and Pumpkin Lover!

With a Pumpkin Fall-inspired Digital Scrapbooking Kit it is easy using a graphics program such as Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to create a gorgeously Fall or Halloween looking digital projects.

Buy  These kits now at our Scrap Shop  – www.shop.digitalscrapbooksandmore.com

The Fall Foliage Digi Scrapbooking Kit 1 features a digital scrapbooking kit filled with beautiful autumn leaf-inspired digital papers, embellishments, and WordArt! Even though you can’t hang onto the fall leaves forever, you can hang onto special autumn memories with a coordinating digital scrapbooking kit! Paper size is 12×12″. This size of paper is great for large scrapbooking albums

This special Fall Digital Scrapbooking kit has digital recipe cards for scrapbooking Fall or Thanksgiving cooking or dinners. This kit is good for scrapping visits a pumpkin patch, or going for a hay rides, or just spending a day outside with the stunning fall foliage! Take Autumn or Thanksgiving photos and scrap them using this Digi Scrapbooking Kit. Mix and match the digi papers and season-inspired digi supplies to create special seasonal scrapbooks of you and your family!

See the other Fall or Thanksgiving Digital Scrapbooking Kits, Thanksgiving Brushes, Fall Quick Pages or other Holiday Supplies!

During that day trip I saw some perfect places to take photos of pumpkins, like the image to the left!

The colors and a varieties of pumpkins amazing!!

I love to visit local places and get photos of pumpkins in the fall.

You can use them to make digital scrapbooking paper, or digital supplies, or just use the photos to enhance the scrapbooking projects!

See some other great places to get the perfect pumpkin photos in this updated article below:

The Pumpkin Patch for the Perfect Photo! by Cheri Barlow

Last weekend my husband and I went up in the country and picked our Halloween pumpkins from our favorite pumpkin patch which is at Bates Nut Farm.

I love going to this pumpkin patch that we use to take our children to when they were young. I have lots of fun photos of them picking their Halloween pumpkins right in the pumpkin field! It was fun to see so many families doing the same thing this weekend, and the digital cameras were snapping like crazy! Children and pumpkins everywhere!

Taking your children on a fun outing to get their Halloween pumpkins is so fun and a great time to get some wonderful photos for your digital scrapbooking projects too.

Two of my Favorite Pumpkin Patches – Check them out if you can! (And if you go there take lots of photos to remember the event!)

Bates  Nut Farm: This place reminds me of how Knott’s Berry Farm must have started out! It is an old fashion farm with lots of charm!

The photo to the left is a picture of this pumpkin patch I took last week! You can see how rustic and natural this pumpkin patch is!

Ps. here is a little trivia – the digital scrapbooking kit and digital frames at the bottom of this article were made from photos from the pumpkins found at Bates Nut Farm!

More Info: Bates Nut Farm is the premier pumpkin patch in San Diego but it doesn’t have to be Halloween for you, your children and your grandchildren to enjoy an exciting day. The 100-acre farm has a petting zoo, picnic tables,  and sometimes a tracker hay ride in a beautiful setting.  The market is full of mouthwatering foods from candies, homemade fudge and so many nuts.

Your children or grandchildren will get a kick out of the peanut butter machine as it whips fresh peanuts into creamy peanut butter right before their eyes.

There is also an enormous gift shop featuring home and garden items, stationery, jewelry, candles collectibles and so much more. Keep in mind that Bates is known for their seasonal activities so expect bigger crowds then. Check out their events calendar online.

Bates Nut Farm Website
15954 Woods Valley Road
Valley Center, CA 92082

My Next Favorite pumpkin patch!

Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Patch: I remember the first time I saw this pumpkin patch was when we were driving to San Francisco and we turned a bend to see a large pumpkin patch with fog everywhere! It was the spookiest and most beautiful sight at the same time! If you get a chance you should go – plus the pumpkins are really big there!

The coastal climate in Half Moon Bay, about 30 miles south of San Francisco, is perfect for pumpkins because they typically like warm daytime temperatures and cool nights. They also host the Annual Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival and World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off contest. For example one winning pumpkin tipped the scales at more than 1,500 pounds!

Here are some places to check out at Half Moon Bay if you happen to be in the area at this time:

Farmer John’s Pumpkin Farm
850 N. Cabrillo Highway, Half Moon Bay
Open daily — Website

October 16 & 17
Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival
Downtown Half Moon Bay
http://www.miramarevents.com/pumpkinfest/

See the Video of Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Below:

An autumn outing to the pumpkin fields around Half Moon Bay and the charming seaside town’s world-famous Art and Pumpkin Festival is a popular annual tradition.

Spread out along State Highways 92 and 1, the patches offer pumpkins in a wide variety of colors, shapes, and sizes, and in a variety of beautiful rural settings.

For a comprehensive guide to pumpkin patches, farms, and farm stands in San Mateo County (with downloadable PDF files), visit the San Mateo County Farm Bureau website at: http://sanmateo.cfbf.com/pdf/PumpkinPatchGuide.pdf 

Take lots of Pumpkin Photos!

Once you have found your perfect pumpkin patch or even pumpkins at the farmers market make sure and scrap the fun!

Digital Scrapbooking Kits for Pumpkin and Halloween fun!

This adorable Pumpkin Patch Digital Scrapbooking Kit has the perfect look for all of your Fall or Halloween-festivities. Whether you want a project with images of you and your loved ones at the pumpkin patch, carving pumpkins, or just celebrating the fun of Halloween or Fall Activities, this pumpkin filled kit, can helps set the mood!

This beautiful Pumpkin Digital Scrapbooking Kit can create gorgeous pumpkin themed digital projects. Kit includes digital papers, frames, and tags. Perfect Digital Scrapbooking Kit for any true- Halloween and Pumpkin Lover!

With a Pumpkin Fall-inspired Digital Scrapbooking Kit it is easy using a graphics program such as Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to create a gorgeously Fall or Halloween looking digital projects.

Get other Halloween or Fall Digital Scrapbooking Kits at the Scrap Shop today!

Take time to visit a Pumpkin Patch this month and take lots of photos for digital scrapbooking projects too!

Have a Happy Halloween!

Cheri

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Get Digital Scrapbooking Supplies to Make your Halloween Digital Scrapbooking pages and projects:

Save your families Halloween memories, and the perfect pumpkin photo by turning all your digital photos into digital scrapbooking pages by using Halloween Digital Scrapbooking Kits and Supplies like the Halloween Fun Digital Scrapbooking Kit. This Halloween digital scrapbooking kit  features 10 beautiful fall-inspired digital papers and includes a FREE bonus set of “spook-tacular” digital Halloween embellishments! Paper size is 12×12″

You can get your all you Halloween scrapbooking supplies by visiting Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Scrap Shop.

Check out the Holiday Kits to get a look at some nice Halloween digital scrapbooking kits or Halloween Quick Pages!

The Halloween Spider Book Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 with 12×12″ paper is a digital scrapbooking kit that features 8 Halloween Spider-inspired digital papers, and lots of Halloween embellishments! Buy this super-spooky Halloween Spider Book Digi Scrapbooking kit for all your digi Halloween projects! This Kit is filled with digi-spiders and cobwebs, and is a Halloween kit that is great for journaling and scrapping holiday festivities! Paper size is 12×12″ – which is perfect for your large digi scrapbooking needs! Create your own web of digi-masterpieces with a spider-inspired Halloween kit! This kit was made especially for journaling all the excitement of Halloween! It’s filled with tons of places to add spooky stories and creepy captions! Also make a large digital scrapbooking Halloween photo album too!

I remember that we used to get all the seeds from our pumpkins and squash. We would clean them and roast them for a special treat. It was such a fun family tradition, and I still have warm memories whenever I see pumpkin seeds!

Start a New Family Tradition with Roasting Pumpkin Seeds

This Fall or Halloween when you are eating squash or carving your pumpkin  don’t throw away the seeds! Gathering up the pumpkin seeds and roasting them is a nice family activity.

Here are a few roasting pumpkin seed basics to get you started on this fun family activity

Basic Pumpkin Seed Recipe

Rinse pumpkin seeds under cool water and pick out the pulp and strings. (This is easiest just after you’ve removed the seeds from the pumpkin, before the pulp has dried.)

Hot Spice Pumpkin Seeds: Add 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce and 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon chili pepper.

Sweet Pumpkin Seeds: Add 1 tablespoon sugar, 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, and 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice.

Cheese Pumpkin Seeds: Add 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese and 1/2 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning.

Scrapbooking Ideas

Scrap Hint: Roasting pumpkin seeds can be a wonderful photo and scrapbooking opportunity.

Go to the pumpkin field and take photos of your child selecting the pumpkin or show your child picking the squash right from your garden!

Take pictures of your child scooping out the pumpkin or squash seeds. Take more photos of  cleaning them and baking the seeds.

Take a photo of the completed carved pumpkin and then eating the special roasted pumpkin seeds. 

Another scrap ideas is to make a special Fall or Halloween recipe Album! Include photos and recipes of your roasted pumpkin seeds, and your adventures getting the seeds and baking them!

You can even start a special Halloween Recipe book before Halloween and put photos the Recipes for Roasting Pumpkin Seeds in the digital scrap recipe book and email it to your family and friends early in the season so they can enjoy the fun too!

This year cook up your own special pumpkin seed recipe – you can use the basic recipe or get fancy with seasonings, then scrap it!

Try one or more of these recipes and take photos of the experience and make a Halloween digital recipe book to share with your family and friends!

Have a wonderful Fall!

Cheri

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Want to use the same digital scrapbooking supplies for your Halloween Recipes? Then take a look at the Halloween Spider Book Digital Scrapbooking Kit which is a digital scrapbooking kit that features 12 Halloween Spider-inspired digital papers, and lots of Halloween embellishments!

Get creeped-out with the super-spooky Halloween Spider Book Digi Scrapbooking Kit! Filled with digi-spiders and cobwebs, this kit is great for journaling and scrapping holiday festivities! Paper size is 8.5×11″ which is perfect for home printing!

Create your own web of digi-masterpieces with a spider-inspired Halloween kit! This kit was made especially for journaling all the excitement of Halloween! It?s filled with tons of places to add spooky stories and creepy captions! Also, you can write down your Halloween recipes and make a digital scrapbooking Halloween recipe book too!

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The Fall Foliage Digi Scrapbooking Kit 2 features a digital scrapbooking kit filled with beautiful autumn leaf-inspired digital papers, recipe cards, frames, bows, tags, and other embellishments!

This kit is loaded with lots of great digital scrapbooking resources to digitally scrap clear from September to the end of November! Even though you can’t hang onto the fall leaves forever, you can hang onto special autumn memories with this digital scrapbooking kit! Paper size is 12×12″. This size of paper is great for large scrapbooking albums

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Also, if I want to get more Garden specific Kits for digital scrapbooking then see kits that focus on the garden like the Garden 1 Digital Scrapbooking Kit.

This kit it is great because the papers work with garden and fall colors, and can be used for other fall scrapbooking projects as well!

Want more  Digital Supplies or Training? Then visit the Scrap Shop

Everyone probably has their favorite apple recipe too!

For example, my favorite apple pie recipe includes fresh apples, cranberries, brown sugar, spices and pecans! This is such a earthy yummy pie and makes everyone excited when they get a chance to eat it. It creates great memories as the house fills with the wonderful smell of the spices and apples cooking in the oven.

Fall is wonderful for apple baking because some of the best apples for baking are on the market. You might even want to pick your own apples off the tree for baking – see this blog about Start Planning for Apple Picking, A perfect time to Create Memories and Get Digital Scrap Photos!

Many bakers believe that a tart apple makes one of the best for baking.

Something tart, yet sweet and firm works very well in most apple recipes. My very favorite Fall apple for both eating and baking is the Jonathan Apple – both tart and sweet, middle of the road on firm and by far is a great hit in my apple pies! Usually the Jonathan apple only comes out in the Fall too – so you have to really watch for it’s appearance at your local store or farmers market or you will miss getting this apple!

Fall is so great as there really is so many ways to use apples too!

I am always on the look out for a good recipe! Or a unique way to use the fall apples! However, I am always losing my recipes after I use them! This year I want to make an Apple Scrap Recipe Book!

After I had gathered some basic apple recipes and several very interesting recipes, then I decided to scrap them and make a digital recipe book!

I thought that I could keep a copy of the digital recipe book on my computer, and print one out to keep in the kitchen every time I want to make apple dishes, also, I thought I would email my family a copy too!

Make Family Memories from Baking Apple Dishes!

Is your apple pie recipe or apple dish from your grandmother, mother, friend or your own creation?

Wherever you have gotten your apple pie (or dish) recipe or even if you are just starting out, it is a great idea to record the process by making a digital scrapbooking page.

This way you can share it with family and friends or keep it for you children so they can have the recipe too!

Make your Own Recipe Book in 4 Easy Steps!

It is easy to make your own recipe book or page. Here is what you need.

1. A graphic program like Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Also, you will need good digital scrapbook training for Photoshop or Elements.
   • See the image below it is Photoshop Elements and a Scrap Recipe page I am making!
2. Next you need digital photos of your apples, family, pie – or even the pie making process
3. Get some great Digital Scrapbooking supplies to make the basics of the scrap page, and to combine with your digital  photos. In my scrap recipe example I took Apple Themed Kits and Supplies because they had great fall colors with Apple Designs, and came with  recipe cards I could use to type my apple pie recipe on!
4. Print or send by email to friends and family – yes, it is that easy to make great digital scrapbooking recipes pages or books! If you want to learn how to turn your digital scrapbooking pages into a PDF digital album that you can email to family and friends, then check out this training – Make a PDF Scrapbooking Album using Photoshop Elements.

Make an Apple Recipe Book could be a great Holiday gift idea too! I could add my apple pie recipe page, along with the other apple dishes would be a great to make into a recipe album and give as gifts!

If you are not sure how to do digital scrapbooking it is so easy to learn just by taking the Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Getting Started in Digital Scrapbooking Series for Photoshop Elements or Photoshop.

Once you know how to do digital scrapbooking you can scrap all your recipes and more!

Also, don’t forget to pick up some great digital scrapbooking kits for Fall Digital Scrapbooking projects at Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Scrap Shop!

Baking Apple Pies this Fall is a wonderful way to make great memories and fill the house with yummy smells and making your recipes into a digital scrapbooking page will make sure that the great recipe you used will be remembered and enjoyed for years to come!

Below are more apple pie resources to get you started!

Enjoy, Cheri

Apple Pie Resources:

Here are some apple pie recipes:
Recipe 1: Basic Apple Pie and Crust Recipe
Recipe 2: Martha Stewart Deep Dish Apple Pie
Recipe 3: Food Network (Bobby Flay) – Apple Pie
Recipe 4: Basic Apple Pie Filling – Gluten Free
Recipe  5: Basic Apple Pie Crust – Gluten Free

See Step-By-Step Video or Slides of How to Make a Simple Apple Pie:

Are you new to Pie Making? Maybe never made a Apple pie before? Then watch this video with step-by-step directions – How to Make an Apple Pie

Slides and Training for making a Gluten-Free Apple Pie: Step-By-Step Guide – How to Make a Gluten Free Pie Crust

Check out Apple Digital Scrapbooking Kits and Supplies for scrapping your Apple Baking Recipe Books:

Get Special Digital Supplies that Celebrate the Apple Season!

The Apple Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 (12×12″ papers) is a great kit that is perfect for Digital Scrapbooking Pages dedicated to Apple picking adventures, apple pie baking, Fall adventures, and even Back to School themed scrap projects! Start thinking today about all the photos you could get in with apples as the theme! First, picking apples in the apple orchard, not to mention all the baking activities too! This kit comes with 12×12″ digital papers and several apple-themed digital embellishments! Also, this kit comes with a Digital Recipe Card Embellishment for recipes using apples!

Use this kit for school themed scrapbooking projects too! With these apple supplies start scrapping the school year, or special classes, or favorite school subjects, great teachers, and other school-related themes that could use an apple!

The Apple Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 (12×12″ papers) is a lovely kit that is dedicated to Apples! Use for those apple picking adventures, or apple pie baking recipe scrapbooks! Use this kit for Fall adventures, and even Back to School themed scrap pages!  This kit comes with 12×12″ digital papers and several apple-themed digital embellishments!

Also, this kit comes with 2 Digital Recipe Cards Embellishment for using to scrap all of those yummy recipes using apples!

The Apple Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 (8.5×11″ or 11×8.5″ papers depending on orientation) is a lovely kit that is dedicated to Apples! Use for those adventures in orchards like picking apples! Scrap apple recipes and apple pie baking recipe books! Use this kit for Fall adventures, and even use for Back to School themed scrap pages!  This kit comes with 5 digital papers and several apple-themed digital embellishments! Also, this kit comes with 3 Digital Recipe Cards Embellishment for using to scrap all of those yummy recipes using apples! These digital papers are perfect for home printing, calendars, recipe books and more!

See these Fun Apple Themed Quick Page Kits

See all the Quick Page Kits at the Scrap Shop

The Apple Quick Page Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 is a digital scrapbooking kit that features 4 apple-inspired digital scrapbooking Quick Pages. Quick Pages are the easy way to do digital scrapbooking, just slip a photo underneath and you are done! Yes, it is that easy! The paper size for this kit is 12×12″ – which is perfect for your large digi scrapbooking albums!

This Quick Page Kit is a great kit that is perfect for Digital Scrapbooking Pages dedicated to Apple picking adventures, apple pie baking, Fall adventures, and even Back to School themed scrap projects! Included in this Kit is 4 FREE Bonus WordArt!

The Apple Quick Page Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 is a digital scrapbooking kit that features 4 apple-inspired digital scrapbooking Quick Pages. A perfect way to make Digital Scrapbooking Pages dedicated to Apple picking adventures, apple pie baking, Fall adventures, and even Back to School themed scrap projects!

Quick Pages are the easy way to do digital scrapbooking, just slip a photo underneath and you are done!  The paper size for this kit is 12×12″ – which is perfect for your large digital scrapbooking albums! Included in this Kit is 4 FREE Bonus Embellishments! Plus one of the embellishments is a digital recipe card, making this a great kit to use to scrap all those apple recipes too!

The Apple Quick Page Digital Scrapbooking Kit 3 is a digital scrapbooking kit that features 5 apple-inspired digital scrapbooking Quick Pages. This kit is wonderful to use when making a a recipe book, or photo album. This kit is design to make it easy! Quick Pages are the easy way to do digital scrapbooking, just slip a photo underneath and you are done!  The paper size for this kit is 8.5×11″ – which is perfect making digital scrapbooking albums or recipe books that you can print out on home printers! Included in this Kit is 3 FREE Bonus Embellishments!

More Apple Inspired Digital Supplies

The Apple Colored Digital Scrapbook Papers Kit 1 is perfect for apple picking, apple pies, fall and school themed projects! Use this paper kit when ever you need fall colored papers! This Paper collection includes 5 different 12×12″ papers. Comes with 4 Bonus Embellishments too! The large 12×12″ size is great for any traditional size digital scrapbooking project.

This kit includes 5 different colored digital 12×12″ papers created at 300 dpi. Comes with 4 Bonus Embellishments too!

The Apple Scrapbooking Embellishment Kit 1 is great for adding details to your Fall Events, Back to School activities and Apple themed scrap pages, as well as other digital scrapbooking projects! Create a apple-inspired digital scrapbooking project or album, by adding adorable details using this embellishment kit! Filled with bows, tags, borders, paper clips, brads,  flowers and more! This kit has embellishments that go great with apple-themed pages, school events, Fall activities, or other everyday memories that want to be preserved. Don’t forget this kit is great for scrapping apple picking adventures and baking yummy pies, use the included 2 digital recipe cards to scrap the apple baking recipes! This kit is great for many fall scrapbooking projects like Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas too! Great to use these embellishments anytime apples are involved!

Digitally scrap all of your Fall and Back to School activities with the Apple WordArt Kit 1 for Digital Scrapbooking.  Use the Apple WordArt Kit 1 to add extra detail and complete your pages with Apple-inspired sayings! Includes 8 different WordArt Embellishments, perfect for adding pretty detail to digi-pages. Use for baking apple dishes and making recipe books. Use for Back to School or class scrapbooking pages! Use for all the fall activities that apples are used in!

Digital Scrapbooking Kits for Fall Baking Projects:

The Gardening 3 Digital Scrapbooking Kit is great for digitally scrapping – gardening, fall or baking projects! The Kit has adorable, country-style themed paper and embellishments, great for digitally scrapping garden, fall and baking pages! This kit comes with 8.5×11″ digital papers and several digital embellishments – even a recipe card!  The paper orientation is made especially to make it easy to print in a home printer, and put in a recipe binder that takes 8.5 x 11” paper!

Other Fall Kit you might use to scrap your apple pie recipes is:

The Fall Colored Leaves Digital Scrapbooking Kit is a full-featured digital scrapbooking kit filled with beautiful fall-inspired digital papers, embellishments, WordArt, and more! Even though you can’t hang onto Fall forever, you can hang onto special Fall memories with a coordinating autumn leaf colors kit! Paper size is 12×12″

With this Fall Colored Leaves inspired kit, you can create great Fall, and even Thanksgiving pages and projects! This timeless kit is a wonderful way to begin creating beautiful digital scrapbooking projects for autumn!

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Depending on the area where you live, apples are in season from now through November.

Looking for those great fall photos, apple orchards and apple activities can make for a great family time, and give a wonderful opportunity photos for digital scrapbooking projects!

Find out more about Fall Apple Season and digital scrapbooking in the following article:

Apple Picking a Digital Scrapbooking Opportunity
(originally posted 10/6/2009 by Cheri Barlow)

What says fall better than wandering through a lovely apple orchard with friends and family, picking apples, and taking precious autumn pictures?

Apple picking is a great opportunity to get fun photos for your digital scrapbooking pages, or capture some great shots of nature itself to turn into digital scrapbooking embellishments or supplies! If you missed the apple picking season in your area or you can’t get out to pick apples from a tree yourself, not to worry, you can still have a lot of fun by making a quick visit to your local farmers market.

Taking photos of selecting apples at the farmers market make for great photos! Something as simple as a bag of apples can make an interesting photo on a digital scrapbooking page.

Don’t forget that you can take some photos of your apples, family, and friends at home! The images don’t always have to be of whole apples either! Preparing apple-based recipes, baking apple pies, eating them, and so forth, are great apple-photo opportunities too!

I also like to have my apples pose for photos that I can turn into future digital scrapbooking supplies! I like to take photos of the apples in baskets, posing alone in the window, and the list goes on….

So, get out your camera and start taking photos of apples!

Once you have your digital pics, decide if you are going to use the photos for scrapping into a page or album or if you want to use the images to make digital scrapbooking supplies!

In this case, I think a digital scrapbooking page would be nice for my apple season photos!

I used the Gardening 2 Digital Scrapbooking Kit above to combine the Apple Photos and make a great fall digital scrapbooking page!

I used the Apple Kits and Supplies below for the other scrap pages in this blog! Check out all the great Apple supplies you can use for Fall!

I also found a apple picking poem by Robert Frost that I used in my digital scrapbooking projects. I think it is nice to add poetry to digital scrapbooking projects when I can.

In case you are also doing some digital scrapbooking projects that include apple picking this year, here is the poem for you to use as well!

After Apple Picking – by Robert Frost

My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still.
And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn’t pick upon some bough.
But I am done with apple-picking now.
Essence of winter sleep is on the night,
The scent of apples; I am drowsing off.
I cannot shake the shimmer from my sight
I got from looking through a pane of glass

I skimmed this morning from the water-trough,
And held against the world of hoary grass.
It melted, and I let it fall and break.
But I was well
Upon my way to sleep before it fell,
And I could tell
What form my dreaming was about to take.
Magnified apples appear and reappear,
Stem end and blossom end,
And every fleck of russet showing clear.
My instep arch not only keeps the ache,
It keeps the pressure of a ladder-round.
And I keep hearing from the cellar-bin
That rumbling sound
Of load on load of apples coming in.
For I have had too much
Of apple-picking; I am overtired
Of the great harvest I myself desired.
There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch,
Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall,
For all
That struck the earth, No matter if not bruised, or spiked with stubble,
Went surely to the cider-apple heap
As of no worth.
One can see what will trouble
This sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is.
Were he not gone,
The woodchuck could say whether it’s like his
Long sleep, as I describe its coming on,
Or just some human sleep.

Get Lots of Apple Photos this Year!

Enjoy your apple picking, apple photography, and apple digital scrapbooking projects this year!

Get lot of great photos and make lots of great family and friends memories to treasure for years to come.

Enjoy!

Have a very happy fall!

Cheri

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If you liked the scrap kit used in this blog, then you can buy it at the Scrap Shop.

See, The Gardening 2 Digital Scrapbooking Kit is an adorable, country-style garden-themed kit, great for digitally scrapping gardening, fall activities like apple picking and other nature themed projects! Use this fun, earth-tone kit to scrap your favorite photos! This kit comes with 11×8.5″ digital papers and several digital embellishments!

You can get other Garden or Fall Digital Scrapbooking kits for all you Apple Picking adventures or Fall Digital Scrapbooking Projects!

Get Special Digital Supplies that Celebrate the Apple Season!

The Apple Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 (12×12″ papers) is a great kit that is perfect for Digital Scrapbooking Pages dedicated to Apple picking adventures, apple pie baking, Fall adventures, and even Back to School themed scrap projects! Start thinking today about all the photos you could get in with apples as the theme! First, picking apples in the apple orchard, not to mention all the baking activities too! This kit comes with 12×12″ digital papers and several apple-themed digital embellishments! Also, this kit comes with a Digital Recipe Card Embellishment for recipes using apples!

Use this kit for school themed scrapbooking projects too! With these apple supplies start scrapping the school year, or special classes, or favorite school subjects, great teachers, and other school-related themes that could use an apple!

The Apple Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 (12×12″ papers) is a lovely kit that is dedicated to Apples! Use for those apple picking adventures, or apple pie baking recipe scrapbooks! Use this kit for Fall adventures, and even Back to School themed scrap pages!  This kit comes with 12×12″ digital papers and several apple-themed digital embellishments!

Also, this kit comes with 2 Digital Recipe Cards Embellishment for using to scrap all of those yummy recipes using apples!

The Apple Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 (8.5×11″ or 11×8.5″ papers depending on orientation) is a lovely kit that is dedicated to Apples! Use for those adventures in orchards like picking apples! Scrap apple recipes and apple pie baking recipe books! Use this kit for Fall adventures, and even use for Back to School themed scrap pages!  This kit comes with 5 digital papers and several apple-themed digital embellishments! Also, this kit comes with 3 Digital Recipe Cards Embellishment for using to scrap all of those yummy recipes using apples! These digital papers are perfect for home printing, calendars, recipe books and more!

See these Fun Apple Themed Quick Page Kits

See all the Quick Page Kits at the Scrap Shop

The Apple Quick Page Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 is a digital scrapbooking kit that features 4 apple-inspired digital scrapbooking Quick Pages. Quick Pages are the easy way to do digital scrapbooking, just slip a photo underneath and you are done! Yes, it is that easy! The paper size for this kit is 12×12″ – which is perfect for your large digi scrapbooking albums!

This Quick Page Kit is a great kit that is perfect for Digital Scrapbooking Pages dedicated to Apple picking adventures, apple pie baking, Fall adventures, and even Back to School themed scrap projects! Included in this Kit is 4 FREE Bonus WordArt!

The Apple Quick Page Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 is a digital scrapbooking kit that features 4 apple-inspired digital scrapbooking Quick Pages. A perfect way to make Digital Scrapbooking Pages dedicated to Apple picking adventures, apple pie baking, Fall adventures, and even Back to School themed scrap projects!

Quick Pages are the easy way to do digital scrapbooking, just slip a photo underneath and you are done!  The paper size for this kit is 12×12″ – which is perfect for your large digital scrapbooking albums! Included in this Kit is 4 FREE Bonus Embellishments! Plus one of the embellishments is a digital recipe card, making this a great kit to use to scrap all those apple recipes too!

The Apple Quick Page Digital Scrapbooking Kit 3 is a digital scrapbooking kit that features 5 apple-inspired digital scrapbooking Quick Pages. This kit is wonderful to use when making a a recipe book, or photo album. This kit is design to make it easy! Quick Pages are the easy way to do digital scrapbooking, just slip a photo underneath and you are done!  The paper size for this kit is 8.5×11″ – which is perfect making digital scrapbooking albums or recipe books that you can print out on home printers! Included in this Kit is 3 FREE Bonus Embellishments!

More Apple Inspired Digital Supplies

The Apple Colored Digital Scrapbook Papers Kit 1 is perfect for apple picking, apple pies, fall and school themed projects! Use this paper kit when ever you need fall colored papers! This Paper collection includes 5 different 12×12″ papers. Comes with 4 Bonus Embellishments too! The large 12×12″ size is great for any traditional size digital scrapbooking project.

This kit includes 5 different colored digital 12×12″ papers created at 300 dpi. Comes with 4 Bonus Embellishments too!

The Apple Scrapbooking Embellishment Kit 1 is great for adding details to your Fall Events, Back to School activities and Apple themed scrap pages, as well as other digital scrapbooking projects! Create a apple-inspired digital scrapbooking project or album, by adding adorable details using this embellishment kit! Filled with bows, tags, borders, paper clips, brads,  flowers and more! This kit has embellishments that go great with apple-themed pages, school events, Fall activities, or other everyday memories that want to be preserved. Don’t forget this kit is great for scrapping apple picking adventures and baking yummy pies, use the included 2 digital recipe cards to scrap the apple baking recipes! This kit is great for many fall scrapbooking projects like Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas too! Great to use these embellishments anytime apples are involved!

Digitally scrap all of your Fall and Back to School activities with the Apple WordArt Kit 1 for Digital Scrapbooking.  Use the Apple WordArt Kit 1 to add extra detail and complete your pages with Apple-inspired sayings! Includes 8 different WordArt Embellishments, perfect for adding pretty detail to digi-pages. Use for baking apple dishes and making recipe books. Use for Back to School or class scrapbooking pages! Use for all the fall activities that apples are used in!