How’s about this mushroom then?  I thought it definitely looked like something out of a fairytale!  I snapped it with my phone when out walking the dogs recently. 

It’s definitely Autumn and over here in the UK we are definitely experiencing the winds of November!!  In my part of the country (the bulge on the right [...]

I have posted a link to an article  (below) showing how to use a faded picture as a journaling block instead of a plain coloured background.  An example is pictured here.
This article refers to using Photoshop to make the block, but the same principle could apply to traditional scrapbooking. How..?
Well you can achieve a similar effect [...]