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My layout published on pg 67 of the Sept 09 issue
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Quick Way to Create Bracket Shapes for Scrapbook Pages and Cards

Here is a quick way to make bracket shaped pieces of paper and card for your Scrapbook Pages, your Cards and anything else you may want them for.
First, cut a piece of scrap paper slightly larger than the size of bracket shape you want.
Then, fold in half, turn 90 degrees and fold in half again so that [...]

Mini Album - Scrapbook By The Pool

In the last article I showed you what limited supplies I had when on holiday abroad (Majorca) and managed to make a mini album.  Well here is the album! This is a Hybrid Scrapbook Album as the papers I have used are from the Colourful Beauty Kit of downloadable papers  (Click on the pictures for an [...]

Page Tour Video - Interactive, and Cost Saving Elements

This is a Scrapbooking Page I made a while ago, but I wanted to show you some elements from that page because they are useful ones.
In the Page Tour Video below I show you the interactive element of this page (flip up picture with hidden journaling), what the background is made from and if you have kids [...]

Page Tour Video - multi-photo 8×8 Scrapbook Page

I mave made another Page Tour Video of an 8×8 Scrapbook Page, and this time it’s an interactive one with no less than 4 photographs on one page! (Video at the end of this post)

If you use interactive items such as mini books, in this case a mini concertina (or accordian) album, you can cram in [...]

Photocopying material for Scrapbooking Backgrounds and a Scallop TIP

I thought I would show you some of my recent experimenting!  I photocopied a piece of material, which is something I have done a few times before, but this piece was not only a silk (and therefore had a sheen to it) but it also had embroidery on it too.
I wanted to see how it would [...]

Page Tour Video - Finding Free Scrapbooking Supplies

I’ve uploaded a video here to show you a couple of 8×8 scrapbooking pages.  Both pages were made with items I have collected around the house, such as a jar label, a drink can ring pull, string and “back of the draw” buttons!

As much as I love proper scrapbooking stash, I do enjoy the satisfaction [...]

A great use for those Green flowers!

Here is a little tutorial from CheekyMagpie.com about making use of green flowers from your stash.  Basically it is a case of making “3D” flowers using more usual petal colours and then using the green flowers last to make the sepals.  A good idea for making delicate little 3D embellishments for a scrapbooking page or [...]

Making a Masked Page Accent Area on a Scrapbook Page

Following on from the article showing the techniques used on the right hand scrapbooking page of the “Arrrrrhhh” double page layout, I thought I would share with you how I made the Page Accent Area on the left hand page.  Here is the double page layout, just to remind you…

So… here is the page accent [...]

Don’t get Hung Up with Themes

I have come across many an ‘over-themed’ scrapbooking page in my time.  I mean those pages which, say, are about a most loved pet dog, and which are just overflowing with images of dog bones, kennels, collars, food bowls… and on and on.
I’m sorry, but some people can just go over the top! And I’m not [...]

Scrapbooking Page Tour Video by SundayL “Laugh Together”

Here is another “Scrapbooking Page Tour” Video!  The first Video Page Tour about a page entitled  ”Curls”  is HERE.
This is about the page I made to show a “Patchwork style” scrapbooking layout, called “Laugh Together”. 
There is a tip for getting “scroley” (is that a word, lol ?) titles on a page and I explain more about [...]