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How Learn Something New can bring something special to your September 25 Aug 2013 | 02:21 pm
Every year, there are two classes that automatically appear on my class calendar: Journal your Christmas at the start of December, and Learn Something New Every Day at back to school time – September ...
Five Ideas for Creating with Circles by Jill Cornell 23 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Linear design and clean lines are traditionally how most of us scrapbook but I think it is a little bit exciting to incorporate something round to offset those square and rectangular shapes. Working w...
Two Tutorials :: No-Sew Collar and a Floral Scrapbook Page [4] 20 Aug 2013 | 03:12 pm
Two Tutorials is a series with two step-by-step craft projects: a non-paper project by Alice followed by a scrapbooking project by Shimelle. You can see previous posts here for further details. We hop...
Five Ways of Getting Creative with Confetti by Kasia Tomaszewska 16 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Confetti has been a huge trend and it doesn’t seem like it is going to fade away. We can see it showing out on traditional layouts, on cards and even in pocket scrapbooking projects. I love it as it i...
What You've Been Making! [1] 12 Aug 2013 | 04:50 pm
I can’t believe a week has gone already since we last looked at your responses! This week, let’s look to sketches seven and eight – Scrapbooking with a patterned paper you don’t want to hide and Makin...
Two Tutorials :: Floral Headbands and Paper Pinwheels [3] 11 Aug 2013 | 02:12 am
Today I’d like to introduce you to something and someone a little new. Way back when last December, I was making a masterplan for 2013, and I knew this was going to be a challenging year in terms of t...
Embrace the White Space:: A Scrapbooking Tutorial by Els Bestamped 6 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Not all of my layouts are as bare as the ones I’m showing you here today, but I often do love a good amount of white space on my layouts. Simplicity might be one of my trademarks when it comes to scra...
Sketch to Scrapbook Page :: A design for landscape and portrait photos [5] 5 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
There have been a few requests in both directions lately – some for simpler pages, some for more embellished examples. It’s a good challenge and I like trying a little bit from each direction to keep ...
Sketch to Scrapbook Page :: A gathering in 3x4 [6] 4 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
I’ve been tempted to photograph my stack of Project Life cards, but I’m a little afraid to show you right now. I’m not quite sure how I’ve managed to convince myself that I need quite so many when I w...
Sketch to Scrapbook Page :: A vertical design for smaller photos [6] 4 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
With Noell’s design leading me to work more on the vertical and then that idea staying with me through the next few projects, it made me laugh to come to sketch 28 and see that it was such a vertical ...