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Making your own Scrapbooking Page Kit - Limiting Supplies

I posted a video a while ago about how to make your own page kit from your own scrapbooking supplies (Own Scrapbook Kit Article) The video has been included in this post below.
Recently I had a comment left on the video at my You Tube channel, and I copy it here as it illustrates a common [...]

Mini Pocket Album Video Tutorial

In a previous video I showed you how you can quickly make double sided paper by stamping the back of a single sided piece.
Well in this video I show you how to make a mini pocket scrapbook album using the paper from the demo.
These mini albums make great little gifts for people, just add some [...]

Make single sided paper, double sided!

I have made a quick video showing how you can use your stamps to create a complimentary design on the back of single sided scrapbook papers to make it double-sided paper.
Not ground-breaking in news, but this has caused a number of “ah ha” moments in people when I have explained it!  [as the first comment [...]

How to make Wet Crumpled Paper Flowers

Recently I showed you a birthday card on which I had put some “Crumpled flowers”.  I made them using the “wet” technique.  Here is a closeup of one of the flowers (before I put it on the card).

They are great for using on greetings cards and for scrapbooking, because they can actually end up no deeper [...]

Video Tutorial - Sewing using Templates on your Pages and Cards

Stitching, using fibres such as embroidery threads, can add a lovely touch to scrapbook layouts and, indeed greetings cards.  There are companies that make templates for such a technique, but of course you are limited to their designs.

You can print out any image, keeping it simple of course, and use that as a simple template.  [...]

Video: Make a Scrapbooking Sketchbook with free download

You know how when it’s your birthday, and you go into the office (assuming you work in an office by day, or have done so at one time) strangely it’s You who is expected to “get the cakes in”?!  Well in the spirit of that tradition… although it is the birthday of the SimplyScrapbookingNow Newsletter… [...]

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 [...]

Accordion Spine Mini Scrapbook Album Tutorial

At the July ScrapBuddies Crop (last weekend) I demonstrated how to make an Accordion Spine Mini Album.  In fact it was a bit of a workshop as we all did it together step-by-step.  Here are some of the finished albums, which have 4×4″ pages (the covers are slightly larger).

All the albums have Cardstock covers, but [...]

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 [...]

Ripped Paper Technique - Baby Girl Card

Here is a card I made recently for a couple who had a baby girl a week or so ago.  I have used the Ripped Paper Technique to create the flower (link to more Tutorial and Video below), and drawn on stitches to give it a hand stitched look.

I also added some buttons and the words [...]