Tutorial Round-Up 6th Apr

6 April 2010
Thumbnail image for Tutorial Round-Up 6th Apr

For those who’d like to learn something new today, here’s a few scrapbooking tutorials I’ve found floating around at the moment.

At Zutter you’ll discover how to recycle toilet rolls (yes you read correctly) into a mini album project. Surprisingly the mini albums look great!
Banana Frog demonstrates how to make some fabulous looking paper bows (pictured). [...]

Read the full article →

Scrapbooking Sketches April 2010

4 April 2010
Thumbnail image for Scrapbooking Sketches April 2010

Firstly, let me just say Happy Easter! Did you have chocolate for breakfast? My kids did. Oh dear!

Whilst I was downloading True Blood (Season 1) from iTunes last night I had a look at the scrapbooking sketches available in April 2010:

Pencil Lines has Sketch #180 for one photo.
CISter’s Stylish Sketches offers up a [...]

Read the full article →

Video Of The Week 3rd April

3 April 2010
Thumbnail image for Video Of The Week 3rd April

The video I’m sharing today is a tutorial from Helmar USA on faux stitching. No doubt you’ve seen faux stitching before, perhaps using a paper piercing tool to make the holes. This is a slight variant on the same idea, except using a serrated tracing wheel to make indentations on the paper prior to drawing the [...]

Read the full article →

Design Team News 3rd April

3 April 2010

A little bit of design team news for those that are interested:

Helmar USA is looking for design team members to serve a six month term beginning 1st June 2010. They don’t specify how many people. Call closes 15th April and new DT members will be announced on 28th April. Read all the requirements here.
Graphic45 announced [...]

Read the full article →

Scrap Space Envy 2nd April

2 April 2010
Thumbnail image for Scrap Space Envy 2nd April

Happy Good Friday to you all (or whatever it is you say on GF).
I was going to share a video with you all today (and I still might), but instead I found a number of scrap rooms to share. Or rather, they found ME. (Ok Universe…I get the hint already.) If you’d like [...]

Read the full article →

Kaisercraft Tea At Elsie’s Utopia Collections

1 April 2010
Thumbnail image for Kaisercraft Tea At Elsie’s Utopia Collections

Manufacturer, Kaisercraft, has announced two new collections – Tea At Elsie’s and Utopia.
I’m thinking I like Utopia (pictured) the better of the two right now.
Kaisercraft also has its newest Workshop Magazine (April 2010) available. It’s downloadable here or here (size 12mb). Unfortunately, I’m having trouble downloading it, so I can’t tell you what’s [...]

Read the full article →

Scrapbooking Store Says Don’t Waste Our Bandwidth!

31 March 2010

Yay! My computer is well again. Touch wood.
An online scrapbooking store has apparently requested that site visitors (and presumably by definition potential customers) stop “idly” viewing pages of images on their website due to the store being in danger of exceeding bandwidth limits imposed by its webhost.
Um…say what? Seriously?
As a website owner myself, this [...]

Read the full article →

More On Scrapbooking Planning & Goals

29 March 2010

I just wanted to let readers know I’m having a little computer trouble at the moment. My main computer (laptop) has been hit with malware and it’s proving difficult to eradicate. Thus it’s been a little quiet here on the blog over the past few days. I’m using hubby’s pc right now (shhh don’t tell [...]

Read the full article →

Two Sketch Blogs

24 March 2010
Thumbnail image for Two Sketch Blogs

I’d intended to write an entirely different post today, but alas the universe placed these two sketch blogs in my path. I don’t want to offend the universe by ignoring them.
1. Skissedilla
The first one is not a new sketch blog, it’s just new to me. It’s a Norwegian sketch blog called Skissedilla. (I have no [...]

Read the full article →

Book Review: 52 More Scrapbooking Challenges

22 March 2010
Thumbnail image for Book Review: 52 More Scrapbooking Challenges

Introduction
As promised, here is my review of 52 More Scrapbooking Challenges authored by Elizabeth Kartchner. For those who are not already aware, Elizabeth won the “Scrapbooker Of The Year” contest in 2007. She also maintains a blog here.
Description
52 More Scrapbooking Challenges is 162 pages long and it sports a soft cover, glossy pages and lots [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →