Hanukkah or Chanukah is also known as the the Festival of Lights. It is a celebration of the victory of the Maccabees and the rededication of the Jerusalem Temple. It also commemorates the miracle of the oil that burned for 8 days.

Here is some information about Hanukkah:

Every year between the end of November and the end of December, Jewish people around the world celebrate the holiday of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights. Hanukkah begins on the 25th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev, but the starting date on the western calendar varies from year to year. The holiday celebrates the events which took place over 2,300 years ago in the land of Judea, which is now Israel.

Each night during Hanukkah a candle is lit in a special candelabra called a Menorah. The center candle, called the Shamash, is always the first candle placed in the Menorah and the first candle to be lit each night. The remaining candles are placed and lit in a specific order depending on the night of the celebration.

The dreidel is one of the best known symbols of Hanukkah. A four-sided top with a Hebrew letter on each side, the dreidel is used to play a fun Hanukkah game of chance.

The letters on the dreidel, Nun, Gimmel, Hey and Shin, stand for the Nes Gadol Haya Sham, which means A Great Miracle Happened There.

The dreidel is used to play a fun Hanukkah game of chance

To play the game of dreidel, two to four players each get a handful of pennies or chocolate money. The remainder of the pot is left in the middle. The youngest players spins the dreidel and depending on what letter the top lands on, they do the following:

NUN - Lose his turn, the top passes to the next player.

GIMEL – Win all the pot.

HEY – Win half the pot

SHIN (or PEH) – Lose all of his coins

The dreidel continues to be passed around the circle until one player has won everyone’s coins. The word dreidel comes from a Yiddish word meaning to turn.

According to some historians, Jews first played with a spinning top during the rule of the Greek King Antiochus’. In Judea, Antiochus had outlawed Jewish worship, so the Jews would use a game with the spinning top as a ruse to conceal that they were secretly studying Torah.

Have a very Happy Hanukkah

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The Hanukkah Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 is in beautiful blue tones to celebrate Hanukkah. Celebrate the winter season or use when you need a blue themed kit!

Celebrate “the festive of lights” with this digital Scrapbooking kit made especially for Hanukkah! Scrap with a Menorah, or decorate your holiday projects with a spinning dreidel! 

This kit is easy to make into a calendar page, scrapbooking album, recipe book or Holiday Journaling project using pages especially friendly to home printers! (8.5×11″ paper size).

This Kit comes with 5 holiday scrapbooking papers, WordArt embellishment, tags, bows, pen, and recipe cards for that special Hanukkah dish!

Do you like the scrapbooking kit used in this blog?

If so you can get it (Blue Ice Polka Dot Scrapbooking Kit) and others at the Scrap Shop.

The Blue Ice Polka Dot Scrapbooking Kit is sprinkled with beautiful, blue polka dots! Decorate your favorite moments of the past year with a kit that stands-out with its’ blues, and soft metallic silvers; filled full of digital papers, frames, tags, and embellishments.

Celebrate Hanukkah, the winter season or use when you need a blue themed kit! Use the Blue Ice Polka Dot Scrap Kit to remember lighting of the Menorah, Spinning the dreidel. Or use it for winter parties, celebrations, or chilly activities enjoying the snow!

Also check out the Hanukkah Embellishment Kit with 9 Embellishments or WordArt words to celebrate Hanukkah.

Design your Hanukkah digital scrapbooking pages with a menorah, a dreidel, Hebrew text, a tag that says Happy Hanukkah and more!

You can get both the digital scrapbooking kit and the Hanukkah Embellishment set at the Scrap Shop today!

Use this Embellishment Kit to Scrap Holiday Recipes too!

With the Hanukkah Embellishment Kit and other Scrapbooking supplies make a record of Holiday Recipes

Digital Scrap Kit used in the scrap page above: “Let it Snow!” Scrapbooking Kit is a digital scrapbooking kit full of snowflakes for Winter Scrapbooking! Includes digital papers, frames, embellishments, and Alphas!

Celebrate this year’s winter festivities with the “Let it Snow” Digital Scrapbooking Kit! Turn your holiday photos and special memories into a digital scrapbooking pages! This digital scrapbooking kit is filled with beautiful digital supplies to make all of your  moments look fabulous!

The Hanukkah Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 is in beautiful blue tones to celebrate Hanukkah. Celebrate the winter season or use when you need a blue themed kit! Celebrate “the festive of lights” with this digital Scrapbooking kit made especially for Hanukkah! Scrap with a Menorah, or decorate your holiday projects with a spinning dreidel! 

This kit is easy to make into a calendar page, scrapbooking album, recipe book or Holiday Journaling project using pages especially friendly to home printers! (8.5×11″ paper size).

Kit comes with 5 holiday scrapbooking papers, WordArt embellishment, tags, bows, pen, and recipe cards for that special Hanukkah dish!

This Hanukkah, snap lots of digital photos and make special holiday projects  to celebrate the oil that burned for eight days.

Within this special scrap kit, you can decorate your Hanukkah scrap pages, albums and gifts with style!

Scrap Ideas: Include your  favorite Hanukkah recipes on the recipe cards, or include instructions for a special holiday craft! Even use cards for journaling notes or other scrapbooking text!

Mix and match the digital papers and holiday-inspired digital supplies to create special scrapbook of you and your family!

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• Let it Snow Digital Scrapbooking Kit – ~ Click Here.
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As you digitally scrap all of your Hanukkah traditions this year, use the Hanukkah Embellishment Kit. Decorate your holiday pages with embellishments and WordArt for Hanukkah scrapbooking pages and projects

This Hanukkah, snap lots of digital photos and make special holiday projects to celebrate the oil that burned for eight days. Within this special embellishment kit, you can decorate your Hanukkah albums and gifts with style! The Hanukkah Embellishment Kit also includes WordArt where Hanukkah is spelled two ways: Hanukkah and Chanukah.

Read these articles:

Article: Hanukkah and Digital Scrapbooking Resources

Article: Celebrate Hanukkah

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Like these digital scrapbooking kits below —-

The Blue Ice Polka Dot Scrapbooking Kit is sprinkled with beautiful, blue polka dots! Decorate your favorite moments of the past year with a kit that stands-out with its’ blues, and soft metallic silvers; filled full of digital papers, frames, tags, and embellishments.

Celebrate Hanukkah, the winter season or use when you need a blue themed kit! Use the Blue Ice Polka Dot Scrap Kit to remember lighting of the Menorah, Spinning the dreidel. Or use it for winter parties, celebrations, or chilly activities enjoying the snow!

 Digital Scrap Kit used in the scrap page above: “Let it Snow!” Scrapbooking Kit is a digital scrapbooking kit full of snowflakes for Winter Scrapbooking! Includes digital papers, frames, embellishments, and Alphas!

Celebrate this year’s winter festivities with the “Let it Snow” Digital Scrapbooking Kit! Turn your holiday photos and special memories into a digital scrapbooking pages! This digital scrapbooking kit is filled with beautiful digital supplies to make all of your  moments look fabulous!

Have a Happy Hanukkah!

So, here are some resources to help you start scrapbooking your special memories.

First, read this article: Celebrate Hanukkah

Then, take lots of photos.

Next, look for good scrapbooking supplies to scrap your family’s traditions:

Like these digital scrapbooking kits below —-

Do you like the scrapbooking kit used in this blog? If so you can get it (Blue Ice Polka Dot Scrapbooking Kit) and others at the Scrap Shop.

The Blue Ice Polka Dot Scrapbooking Kit is sprinkled with beautiful, blue polka dots! Decorate your favorite moments of the past year with a kit that stands-out with its’ blues, and soft metallic silvers; filled full of digital papers, frames, tags, and embellishments.

Celebrate Hanukkah, the winter season or use when you need a blue themed kit! Use the Blue Ice Polka Dot Scrap Kit to remember lighting of the Menorah, Spinning the dreidel. Or use it for winter parties, celebrations, or chilly activities enjoying the snow!

Also check out the Hanukkah Embellishment Kit with 9 Embellishments or WordArt words to celebrate Hanukkah.

Design your Hanukkah digital scrapbooking pages with a menorah, a dreidel, Hebrew text, a tag that says Happy Hanukkah and more!

You can get both the digital scrapbooking kit and the Hanukkah Embellishment set at the Scrap Shop today!

Use this Embellishment Kit to Scrap Holiday Recipes too!

With the Hanukkah Embellishment Kit and other Scrapbooking supplies make a record of Holiday Recipes

Digital Scrap Kit used in the scrap page above: “Let it Snow!” Scrapbooking Kit is a digital scrapbooking kit full of snowflakes for Winter Scrapbooking! Includes digital papers, frames, embellishments, and Alphas!

Celebrate this year’s winter festivities with the “Let it Snow” Digital Scrapbooking Kit! Turn your holiday photos and special memories into a digital scrapbooking pages! This digital scrapbooking kit is filled with beautiful digital supplies to make all of your  moments look fabulous!

Have a Happy Hanukkah!

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If you are trying to introduce the digital scrapbooking and photo editing hobby to a teen, you might start with the Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Digi MakeOver Madness Photo Editing Tutorials (available at the Scrap Shop). Each MakeOver tutorial is pretty short, most are only a few minutes long, but teach fun virtual makeup lessons. These videos might be very encouraging for teens if they struggle with acne or other teenage-issues that make them shy away from the camera! With some easy training, and a few clicks on the keyboard, they can feel confident smiling at the camera and making quick tweaks to pics to feel comfortable in their photos (which means you can send family photos to family and friends again without your teen feeling embarrassed or putting up a fight!). Go directly to these photo editing tutorials to learn more!   Each tutorial is only $1.99 or less, making it affordable on any kind of teen-allowance!

With Photo Editing or Digital Scrapbooking, you will need a graphic program, such as Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. But if you are not sure if your teen will stick to this new hobby or not, then you might want to start with the FREE 30 Day trial of Photoshop or Photoshop Elements at Adobe.com before actually buying and investing in the software. At the Adobe website you can get a trial-version of Photoshop or Photoshop Elements and then evaluate if your teen would really use the software after a month of playing with the trial-version.

After your teen has tried a few simple photo fixes, such as removing blemishes from a photo, then they might be interested in really developing  their creativity and self-expression and looking forward to learning more about diving into digital scrapbooking.

The Digital Scrapbooks and More digital scrapbooking training teaches all about using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements in artistic ways. It can show a teen how to manipulate pre-made graphics, and in more advanced training,  they can learn to make their own graphics!

A great training program to get started in Digital Scrapbooking is the Getting Started Series for Digital Scrapbooking in either Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. This training program was created for many types of learners, as it has the auditory and visual, hands-on training videos; the Step-by-Step guides with pictures and detailed instructions; as well as the text-based Cheat Sheets for a quick lesson reference!

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The Getting Started Series is different than other brands because it has an entire introduction chapter lesson which reviews the must-know basics of the software (Photoshop or Photoshop Elements), and then dives immediately into learning digital scrapbooking!

Once your teen has these photo editing and digital scrapbooking skills, the sky is the limit and it is all up to their imagination as to what they can create! Who knows, learning photo editing and digital scrapbooking as a teen may inspire them to go into a graphic design-type career when they get older! And you might be surprised by learning photo editing an digital scrapbooking can help all kinds of careers! Read this article:  Could Digital Scrapbooking Help Your Career?

After your teen knows how to digitally scrap, they might be interested in getting some digital scrapbooking kits and supplies. Digital Scrapbooks and More has plenty of easy-to-use and affordable kits and supplies (take a look in our Scrap Shop for Digital Scrapbooking Kits and Supplies) that range from about about $1.99 to $5.99, and you can often find many items on sale for even less!

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Getting your teen started in a life-long hobby is a great gift a parent can give to their child.

Having a way to express feelings and experiences helps teens feel happy and more confident in their abilities.

If you have a teen, you too might want to consider introducing them to Photo Editing and Digital Scrapbooking! You might even want to try it out yourself for the same reasons!

If you have a teenager  you might want to check out these blogs and get more ideas!

Blog Article 1: What Graphic Program is the best for Photo Editing and Digital Scrapbooking – Photoshop vs.. Photoshop Elements

Blog Article 2: How to Become More Photogenic: 5 Tips for Improving Your Digital Photos

Blog Article 3: 5 Tips for Creating Personalized Teen Binder Covers and Friendship Books

Blog Article: 4: Picture-Perfect Pretty with Nothing But Pocket Change

Blog Article: 5: Get Kids Excited for Back to School: 6 Tips for Adding Fun Design to Lockers!

Blog Article 6: 4 Steps to Make Digital Scrapbooking Pages into School Locker Magnets!

Blog Article 7: Six Tips to Taking Your Own School Photos

Blog Article 8: Keeping Starving Students Fed: 6 Tips for Digitally Scrapping Your Recipes!

Take some time and check out these  blogs and see what creative things you or your teenager can do with digital scrapbooking and photo editing!

Have a wonderful holiday and give your teenager a lasting gift of creativity this year!

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At sunset yesterday evening Hanukkah began here. Hanukkah or Chanukah is also known as the the Festival of Lights. It is a celebration of the victory of the Maccabees and the rededication of the Jerusalem Temple. It also commemorates the miracle of the oil that burned for 8 days.

Here is some information about Hanukkah:

Every year between the end of November and the end of December, Jewish people around the world celebrate the holiday of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights. Hanukkah begins on the 25th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev, but the starting date on the western calendar varies from year to year. The holiday celebrates the events which took place over 2,300 years ago in the land of Judea, which is now Israel.

Each night during Hanukkah a candle is lit in a special candelabra called a Menorah. The center candle, called the Shamash, is always the first candle placed in the Menorah and the first candle to be lit each night. The remaining candles are placed and lit in a specific order depending on the night of the celebration.

The dreidel is one of the best known symbols of Hanukkah. A four-sided top with a Hebrew letter on each side, the dreidel is used to play a fun Hanukkah game of chance.

The letters on the dreidel, Nun, Gimmel, Hey and Shin, stand for the Nes Gadol Haya Sham, which means A Great Miracle Happened There.

The dreidel is used to play a fun Hanukkah game of chance

To play the game of dreidel, two to four players each get a handful of pennies or chocolate money. The remainder of the pot is left in the middle. The youngest players spins the dreidel and depending on what letter the top lands on, they do the following:

NUN - Lose his turn, the top passes to the next player.

GIMEL – Win all the pot.

HEY – Win half the pot

SHIN (or PEH) – Lose all of his coins

The dreidel continues to be passed around the circle until one player has won everyone’s coins. The word dreidel comes from a Yiddish word meaning to turn.

According to some historians, Jews first played with a spinning top during the rule of the Greek King Antiochus’. In Judea, Antiochus had outlawed Jewish worship, so the Jews would use a game with the spinning top as a ruse to conceal that they were secretly studying Torah.

Have a very Happy Hanukkah

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Do you like the scrapbooking kit used in this blog? If so you can get it (Blue Ice Polka Dot Scrapbooking Kit) and others at the Scrap Shop.

The Blue Ice Polka Dot Scrapbooking Kit is sprinkled with beautiful, blue polka dots! Decorate your favorite moments of the past year with a kit that stands-out with its’ blues, and soft metallic silvers; filled full of digital papers, frames, tags, and embellishments.

Celebrate Hanukkah, the winter season or use when you need a blue themed kit! Use the Blue Ice Polka Dot Scrap Kit to remember lighting of the Menorah, Spinning the dreidel. Or use it for winter parties, celebrations, or chilly activities enjoying the snow!

Also check out the Hanukkah Embellishment Kit with 9 Embellishments or WordArt words to celebrate Hanukkah.

Design your Hanukkah digital scrapbooking pages with a menorah, a dreidel, Hebrew text, a tag that says Happy Hanukkah and more!

You can get both the digital scrapbooking kit and the Hanukkah Embellishment set at the Scrap Shop today!

Use this Embellishment Kit to Scrap Holiday Recipes too!

With the Hanukkah Embellishment Kit and other Scrapbooking supplies make a record of Holiday Recipes

Digital Scrap Kit used in the scrap page above: “Let it Snow!” Scrapbooking Kit is a digital scrapbooking kit full of snowflakes for Winter Scrapbooking! Includes digital papers, frames, embellishments, and Alphas!

Celebrate this year’s winter festivities with the “Let it Snow” Digital Scrapbooking Kit! Turn your holiday photos and special memories into a digital scrapbooking pages! This digital scrapbooking kit is filled with beautiful digital supplies to make all of your  moments look fabulous!