From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Basic Grey CHA Winter 2010

28 January 2010

Some readers may have noticed I’m not entirely impartial to a bit of Basic Grey loveliness, although in general being a scrapbooking manufacturer groupie is not really my thing. (No offence intended toward any manufacturer groupies who may be reading. )
Basic Grey has several brand new collections up on their website including:

Green At Heart [...]

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Sale-A-Bration At Trace’s Craft Time

28 January 2010

Trace’s Craft Time along with Stampin’ Up!® is celebrating the launch of Sale-A-Bration.
For every $100 purchase receive a free stamp set from the Sale-A-Bration catalogue. If you join up as a demonstrator during Sale-A-Bration you will receive a free stamp set of your choice from the idea book & catalogue.
Call Trace to place an order [...]

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Video Of The Week 27th Jan

27 January 2010

This week I’ve enjoyed watching a video from Shimmerz demonstrating a technique called “monoprinting” to create a scrapbooking page background. The technique involves dripping various paint colours onto a transparency (or acetate) sheet. A second transparency sheet is then placed over the top of the paint droplets. The top sheet is pressed down to “squish” [...]

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Manufacturer Watch 26th Jan

26 January 2010

The scrapbooking manufacturers are full of everything CHA at the moment. If you’re looking for all the latest products from CHA, visit our CHA Winter 2010 Sneak Peeks page. (I think my fingers are bleeding from typing all the updates. )
Fortunately there was at least some non-CHA related news this week:

Studio Calico features a [...]

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Recommended Blog: The Hybrid Chick

22 January 2010

Today I thought I’d recommend one of my newest favourite blogs – The Hybrid Chick. For anyone who may not know, the term “hybrid” refers to the use of both of digital and traditional techniques in a project. If you’re not a digital scrapper (I only dabble), don’t necessarily be put off. There’s plenty of [...]

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Top 6 Reasons We Don’t Scrap

21 January 2010

I have a confession to make. I was once a scrapper. Note the past tense. I can hardly claim to be a scrapper in the true sense of the word these days when I probably haven’t completed a page in the last 6 months. I can also count the number of pages I’ve completed in [...]

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Product Release At Craft Queen

19 January 2010

Craft Queen has recently released some new products including buttons (above), crochet flowers and ribbons.
Here’s a look at some of the ribbons (below)…

Here’s a close-up view of a few of the new designs (below)…

You can see more designs at the Craft Queen blog here and here.
For further details, visit Craft Queen at: www.craftqueen.com.au.
To get your [...]

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Manufacturer Watch 18th Jan

18 January 2010

First up, if you’re searching for CHA Winter Sneak Peeks, look no further than our dedicated page: CHA Winter 2010 Sneak Peeks. I’ve been updating the page overnight, so there’s LOTS links to follow there.
In other manufacturer news:

Basic Grey has launched its new look website (pictured). More excitingly, they’ve gone DIGITAL. Yep you can now [...]

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Cuttlebug Dies In A Sizzix Machine

16 January 2010

This post is a response to a reader question asked via the comments section of the blog.
Karen H asks:
“I am just about to buy a sizzix and have been told two stories that is can cut cuttle bug dies and others say no… do you know anything about that?”
The short answer is YES you can [...]

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Organising Digital Photos

16 January 2010

How do you organise your digital photos? Or perhaps I should ask first IF you organise them at all?
January 2010 marks a decade of my owning a digital camera. This milestone naturally led to me thinking more seriously about my digital files and how I should organise and protect them better. In today’s post, I’m [...]

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